Becoming An Evidence-Based Organization - March 10-13, Miami, FL, USA

Core and Advance Skills for Leadership

When: March 10-13, 2015

Where: Miami, FL, USA

** Bring your team and take advantage of group rates

Many have danced around it for too long!  Now its time to lead.  Your people are dying to be led!  Become evidence based for real because you want to and should - not strung along, prodded, cajoled or made to.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE 

 

Peter Orszag, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) once remarked, “less than 1 percent of federal spending goes to programs and activities that we have any evidence they work.” The number is less clear for other funding entities and elsewhere. So there is much catching up to do and evidence based approaches are becoming the requirement for anything that is getting funded.

For our 11th year Joyfields Institute, working with the EBP Society and some of the best experts and practitioners committed to the evidence based movement, continues effort to address this deficiency through training, education and performance evaluation initiatives. Join us for four (4) days of comprehensive evidence based conference and workshops designed for the human services practitioner. We are really excited about this year's program designed specifically for the Justice, Human and Social Services professional. This year as you asked, gives you our customers more flexibility.

We bring you comprehensive evidence based A-to-Z workshops chuck full of what you need to get your program on the right footing and be confident what you are doing works. Select a 2-Day workshop only, or stay all 4 days to get the most out of your participation and also save.

For what you would spend on a 3 day program we have added an extra day of training, education and real life case examples and activities you can use immediately you return home.

But wait! This event is in the great city Miami!  How else can we make it such fun to, (a) get away, (b) get some real RNR, and (c) get the training you can't afford to miss!

Get it all in 4-Days, or select the 2-Day workshop only. Either way you will be on your way to being evidence based. Plan now to join us. And we made it easy to bring a team too. I look forward to seeing you there.

Sobem Nwoko
President

AT-A-GLANCE

Days 1 & 2 - March 10-11, 2015

Becoming An Evidence Based Organization: Leadership for Capacity Building & Sustainability

Evidence-based programs, practices and policies are becoming key approaches required of organizations to sustain them and their initiatives. According to research, the benefits from implementing evidence-based approaches vary widely based on organizational characteristics.

Days 3 & 4 - March 12-13, 2015

Becoming An Evidence Based Organization: Advance Skills for Planning and Implementation

This workshop is a follow up to the Core Skills workshops on “Becoming an Evidence-Based Organization (EBO)” designed to provide support for those participants and agencies that previously completed a one or two day EBO workshop and would like assistance with EBO planning and implementation.

PROGRAM DETAILS

DAYS 1 & 2 - MARCH 10-11, 2015

BECOMING AN EVIDENCE BASED ORGANIZATION: CORE SKILLS FOR LEADERSHIP IN CAPACITY BUILDING & SUSTAINABILITY

Evidence-based programs, practices and policies have become key approaches required of organizations to sustain them and their initiatives.  According to research, the benefits from implementing evidence-based approaches vary widely based on organizational characteristics.Overall, Evidence-based Organizations(EBO's) consistently demonstrate the ability to achieve desired outcomes through effective problem-solving and informed decision-making. In doing so, they use research evidence and data to drive decisions and to develop innovative approaches to delivering services. Their overall goal is to increase the likelihood of your agency and its clients achieving desired outcomes.

The upcoming workshop lays the foundation for realizing the greatest promise these approaches hold both for achieving enduring client outcomes and for consistently reaching, and exceeding expectations of stakeholders who support and fund them. 

PROGRAM OUTLINE

I. The case for evidence-based reform

1. Increasing accountability
2. Declining resources, increasing cost
3. Increasing offender populations; ongoing recidivism
4. Expanding technology
5. Expanding evidence-based knowledge

II. Knowledge and use of evidence-based “nuts and bolts”

1. Evidence-based policies, programs, and practices
2. Evidence-based principles
3. Evidence-based management
4. Evidence-based organizations

III. Demonstrating effective leadership 

1. Qualities of effective leaders
2. Leadership versus management
3. Empowering staff
4. Leadership philosophy 

IV. Understanding organizational culture and assessment

1. Organizational culture in practice
2. Characteristics of effective organizations
3. Staff of effective organizations
4. Organizational assessment: Why, how, and by whom?

V. Engaging in strategic planning and performance measurement 

1. Ineffective and effective strategic planning
2. Linking organizational vision and mission to agency activities and outcomes
3. Using data for problem analysis and needs assessment
4. Accountability for results through performance measurement
5. Ensuring program fidelity and continuous quality improvement
6. From performance measurement to program evaluation

VI. Enhancing organizational capacity and sustainability 

1. Building internal and external support
2. Use results early, often, and in multiple ways
3. Ongoing role of leadership and management
4. Adapt and reassess over time
5. Marketing your success
6. Strategic funding and grant writing

DAYS 3 & 4 - MARCH 12-13, 2015

BECOMING AN EVIDENCE BASED ORGANIZATION: ADVANCE SKILLS FOR PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION

Having learned the framework for becoming and Evidence Based Organization (EBO), now lets move to the next stage and become it. Join us to plan establish your own framework for implementation.

For years many tinker with becoming evidence based and strength centered.  Yet they have very little or nothing to show for it, suggesting a lack of leadership when people want, and are dying to be led.  We encourage you to finish the job.  Plan and implement now.  You can do it in-house if you like and we will be there to help.

This program follows behind the Core Skills workshops on “Becoming an Evidence-Based Organization (EBO)-1” to provide support for participants and agencies that previously completed the one- or two-day EBO workshop and would like to implement their action plan in-house.  Through out the workshop you will get the help you need to develop your agency-specific strategy and action plans for becoming an EBO, complete with tools and resources for assessing where you are and what to do next. 

Agencies are encouraged to attend as teams as this will help accellerate the agencies adoption and transition toward becoming a bonafide evidence based organization (EBO).  Participants will be in a position to develop agency-specific strategic plans and action plans for becoming an evidence based organizations themselves (EBO).  Participants will be guided and will collaborate as a team to produce strategic and action plans that will focus on the five major components of EBO development:

• Knowledge and use of evidence-based policies, programs, and practices
• Demonstration of effective organizational leadership
• Understanding of organizational culture and use of organizational assessment
• Utilization of effective strategic planning, performance measurement, and program evaluation
• Ongoing efforts to enhance organizational capacity and sustainability

Participants will use workshop time to develop their agency-specific strategic and action plans.  It is recommended that 4 to 5 workshop participants attend from each attending agency. Prior knowledge of the five major components of EBOs is expected; participants should bring along previous EBO workshop materials and have at least one laptop computer available for group use.

LEARNING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

This workshop will address the common problems associated with moving from a training environment to the implementation and evaluation of evidence-based organizational change efforts.

Participants will be given the opportunity to develop strategic and action plans for EBO development, containing:

• An EBO vision and mission

• Organizational goals and objectives, centered on the 5 key aspects of EBO development

• Action steps to be taken to carry out the strategic plan. These action steps will specify responsible individuals, timeframes, and resources needed.

• In completing the above, participants also will spend time considering:

  • Intended target population(s)

  • Program(s) being offered

  • Logic and research support for existing program(s)

  • Data being collected and outcomes being assessed

  • Use of performance measurement and performance management

  • Use of scientifically rigorous program evaluation

  • Growing and sustaining an evidence-based environment

Daily Agenda

* Program content and Faculty subject to change without notice 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

KEY REASONS YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES SHOULD ATTEND A JOYFIELDS INSTITUTE PROGRAM

CERTIFICATE & CONTINUING EDUCATION TRAINING HOURS

David L. Myers, PhD., Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Author, "Becoming An Evidence-based Organization (EBO)"

Dr. David L. Myers, PhD, first joined the faculty at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) in 1998. He earned his PhD in 1999 from the University of Maryland, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and previously received a Master of Science in Administration of Justice and a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Shippensburg University.

Dr. Myers has taught more than 20 different courses at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels, specializing in classes on research methods and quantitative analysis, juvenile justice and delinquency, and criminal justice policy, planning, and evaluation. From 1999 to 2002, he served as the criminology master’s program coordinator; from 2002 to 2008 he served as the criminology doctoral program coordinator; and he currently is serving as criminology internship coordinator. He has supervised the teaching and research of dozens of doctoral students and has advised a variety of student organizations and community groups.

Dr. Myers has published three books (most recently Becoming an Evidence-Based Organization: Demonstrating Leadership and Organizational Growth, Joyfields Institute for Professional Development, 2013) and over 30 journal articles, book chapters, or other scholarly works. He also has presented more than 50 papers at national and regional conferences and is currently the Editor of Criminal Justice Policy Review (a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal published by Sage Publications).

He has received several grants to support his research and previously served as the Director of the IUP Center for Research in Criminology.

Dr. Myers also has served as the Dean’s Associate in the IUP School of Graduate Studies and Research; the Interim Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies at IUP; the Interim Executive Director of the IUP Research Institute; and the Interim Director of the IUP Murtha Institute for Homeland Security. In the community, he has served as Chairperson of Indiana Area Communities That Care; President of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Indiana County; and Advisor to Kids on Campus of Big Brothers Big Sisters.

 

ACCOMMODATIONS, REGISTRATION FEE, INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS

Our host hotel for the programs is the beautiful full service, all-suites Hilton Hotels property;

Embassy Suites Miami - International Airport

3974 NW South River Drive, Miami, Florida, 33142

Tel: +1-305-634-5000

This hotel property is conveniently located one-half mile from Miami International Airport and just minutes from Downtown Miami, the Miami Convention Center, world famous South Beach and many other Miami attractions. It offers a free roundtrip airport shuttle service as well as complimentary shuttle service to restaurants within a 2 mile radius. Your stay includes complimentary breakfast, high speed wireless internet access and a nightly manager's reception.

We have negotiated a Group Room Rate of $179 per night plus taxes and fees. This room block expires Feb. 9th.

How to reserve your room: Participants are responsible for making own accommodation arrangement. Please make your reservations by contacting the hotel directly (Details to follow soon).

• Telephone: Please Call the hotel directly at (800) 362-2779. Mention the Group Code "Joyfields" to take advantage of the negotiated rate.

• Online: Click here to make your reservations online, or copy over the following entire link onto your browser;
  http://embassysuites.hilton.com/en/es/groups/personalized/M/MIASPES-JOY-20150306/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG

* Ample discounted on premises hotel parking available if you plan on commuting or rent a car during your stay in the city.

If you need immediate assistance, please contact our office at +1(770)409-8780 or, send email with details to yvette@joyfields.org.  Thank you.