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Finding Great
DSPs:
Putting
Recruitment
Strategies
into Action
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Finding Great DSPs:
Putting Recruitment Strategies
into Action
Barbara Kleist, MEd, JD
Claire Benway, MA
University of Minnesota
Institute on Community Integration
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• Learn about recruitment tools available in the Direct Support Workforce Toolkit.
• Identify recruitment tools to use in your organization to recruit direct support professionals.
• Develop an action plan to target recruitment efforts in your organization.
Learning Objectives
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Cliff Poetz,
Self Advocate Leader
• We want staff who show up on
time and help us get the stuff
done we need to get done
• We want people who are .
enough to stay so they like
what they are doing.
• We want people who respect
us and are respected for what
they do and the pay they earn.
DSP Recruitment:
A Self-Advocacy Perspective
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Estimated over 4 million workers in 2015
Size of the Direct Service Workforce – U.S.
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Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute www.PHInational.org
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By 2020 it is estimated that:
• 640,000 individuals will need supported employment services
• Almost 700,000 individuals will be
receiving services in their family home
The Care Gap – National Level
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• Deinstitutionalization
• Community based settings
• Smaller in size
• Increase in variety and difference in places
• Geographic dispersion of service delivery location
• Implications
• DSW roles requiring greater skill, judgment,and accountability
• Greater autonomy and responsibility
• More independent problem-solving, decision-making
• Need for adequate supervision and co-worker interaction
Growth of Community Based Services
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DSP Workforce
• In 2016 there will be demand for more
DSPs (4 million) in the U.S.
– Teacher K-12 (3.8 million)
– Law enforcement and public safety
(3.6 million)
– Fast food workers (3.5 million)
– Registered nurses (3.1 million)
Source: Dorie Seavey, PHI 2009
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• Direct Support Professionals
• personal care attendant
• direct care worker
• direct support staff
• community living specialist
• job coach
• employment specialist
• Etc
Who Are We Talking About?
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• High Turnover / Low wages
• Poor access and utilization of benefits
• Limited access to training and education
• Increasingly absent or ineffective supervision
• Status and Image
DSP Workforce Challenges
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Turnover
What are the DSP turnover rates
in your organization?
• Under 20%
• 21-30%
• 31-40%
• 41-50%
• 51-60%
• over 61%
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• Recruitment & Selection• Targeted Marketing• Realistic Job Previews• Structured Interviewing• Status and Awareness (PSAs)
• Retention• DSW Competencies• Education and Training• Credentialing and Career Paths• Recognition• Membership and Networking
Building & Strengthening the DSP Workforce
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(ANCOR, 2017; Hewitt and Larson, 2007)
Traditional candidate pool is shrinking
Economy improving – more competition
Multi-generational workforce
Estimated cost of hiring and training new DSPs
is estimated at $4,200-5,400 per position
DSP vacancy rates result in increased stress on
the remaining workforce
The Challenges & Costs of Recruiting
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Recruitment Strategies and You - Self Assessment - Handout Page 1
• Public Service Announcements • Targeted Marketing• Realistic Job Previews
• Hiring Bonuses / Incentives
• Behavioral Interview Questions
What have you tried to recruit DSP’s?
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The Arc’s DSP Workforce Tools for
Recruitment
• Targeted Marketing
Flyers & Job
Announcements
• Ready-made PSA’s
• Realistic Job
Preview for DPS’s
• Structural Behavior
Interview Guide for
Hiring DSP’s
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Customizable Marketing Materials
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Target Marketing
How can you use targeting marketing
to improve recruitment?
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• Component of recruitment campaign
• Raise community awareness of DSPs
• Celebrate profession
• Combine with annual DSP national week
PSA – Public Service Announcements
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Public Service Announcements
How can you use public service announcements
to improve recruitment?
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Realistic Job Previews (RJP)
Present non-distorted
information to job
applicants
• about the job
• and the organization
• before a job offer has
been made
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Realistic Job Previews
Who
• Potential Recruits
• Job Candidates
When
• Job Fairs
• Recruiting Events
• Workforce One Stop Centers
• Interview Process
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Benefits of Realistic Job Previews
Candidates understand job expectations before
they start the job
Candidates make informed decision
Candidates can self-select out
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Realistic Job Previews and Retention
• RJP’s improve retention rates by 9% - 17%
• RJP’s increase retention of workers
• 12% for agencies with annual retention
rates of 50%, and
• 24% for agencies with annual retention
rates of 20%
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Realistic Job Preview
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Realistic Job Previews (RJP)
How can you use RJP’s to improve recruitment?
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• The best predictor of future behavior is
past behavior in similar circumstances
that was recent or that reflected long--
standing behavior patterns
• Ask candidates to describe situationsthey have faced and how they handledthem.
• Situation, Behavior, Outcome
• Based on NADSP Competency Areas
Structured Behavioral Interviews
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Structured Behavioral Interviews
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Sample Questions:
Competency area 1: PARTICIPANT EMPOWERMENT
Describe a situation when you assisted an individual recognize
that he or she had several choices in how to handle a difficult
problem. What was the situation, what did you do, and what was
the final outcome?
Competency area 4: COMMUNITY & SERVICE NETWORKING
Please describe some community resources you have had
contact with in your own neighborhood. How might those
resources be used by a person with a disability?
Structured Behavioral Interviews
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Structural Behavioral Interviews
How can you use structural behavioral interviews
to improve recruitment?
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• Carrier Paths and Lattices
• Referral Bonuses
• DSP and FLS Competency Sets
Competency Based Training
• Agency Policies and Procedures
Other Tools Influencing Recruitment
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The Arc DSW Toolkit
Check out these recruitment tools and more
at the Arc’s DSW Toolkit
http://www.thearc.org/nce/tools-and-resources
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Additional University of Minnesota
Resources: rtc.umn.edu
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http://directcourseonline.com/
College of Direct Support
College of Employment Services
College of Personal Assistance &
Caregiving
College of Recovery & Community
Inclusion
DirectCourse is a collaboration between Elsevier and theUniversity of Minnesota's Research and Training Center on Community Living
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Leaving in Action
Recruitment Action Planning – Handout Page 2
• Review your self assessment.
• What did you learn?
• What is missing?
Table Talk: Share ideas for some action steps you
can take in the next few weeks.
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Contact Information:
Barbara Kleist [email protected]
Claire Benway [email protected]
Research and Training Center on Community LivingInstitute on Community Integration (UCEDD) University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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