Evidence Based Employment Focused Workshops and Conference for Human Services - March 24-27, 2015 - New Orleans, LA, USA

Strategy and Tactics for Durable Sustainable Outcomes 

When: March 24-27, 2015

Where: New Orleans, LA, USA

* Teams - take advantage of group rates

Join us in historic New Orleans, LA for four (4) days of comprehensive evidence based and strength centered conference and workshop sessions designed for the serious justice, human and social services professional.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

 

 

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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 thats 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 the push to address this deficiency through training, education and performance evaluation initiatives. Join us in historic New Orleans, LA 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. Some workshops co-occur.
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 New Orleans at the newly renovated and unusually spacious Hilton Hotels property, the Hilton Garden Inn Convention Center. 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!

Plan now to join us New Orleans. We made it easy to bring a team. I look forward to seeing you there.

Sobem Nwoko

President, Joyfields Institute

PROGRAM OUTLINE

Select 2-Day, or stay all 4 days and save  * Workshops are comprehensive.  Some workshops co-occur

Interface and network with top experts and peer professionals committed to the evidence based movement. Earn up to 26 CE Training Hours.

AT-A-GLANCE

Days 1 & 2 - March 24-25, 2015

Employment Focused Workforce Development: Core Skills for Evidence Based Approaches

Evoke and strengthen capabilities individuals already possess. This workshop is a comprehensive employment focused program to help workforce teams obtain skills for helping their clients become gainfully employed even if they have severe barriers. 

Days 3 & 4 - March 26-27, 2015

Select One (1) Comprehensive 2-Day Workshop

Advance Skills for Employment Focused Workforce Development: Performance Measures & Accountability

When agencies work in a model of accountability results are higher while engagement and customer satisfaction increase. This accountability model will provide your team with the path, tools and resources to deploy a world class employment focused framework. 

Motivational Interviewing (MI): Core Skills for Durable Behavioral Change

Teams perform like the pros they are using Motivational Interviewing skills. MI is proven to be fully compatible with various approaches as a method that helps people resolve ambivalence toward change through discovery of intrapersonal fuel by placing complete responsibility for change on the individual. Its a must have method in your tool kit.

Employment Focused Workforce Development: Core Skills for Evidence Based Approaches

Evoke and strengthen capabilities individuals already possess. This workshop is a comprehensive employment focused program to help workforce teams obtain skills for helping their clients become gainfully employed even if they have severe barriers.

With an orientation toward getting clients ready for skills that are currently demanded by area employers, it also works to expand the range of resources available for meeting the job search and job retention needs of clients.

PROGRAM OUTLINE

The typical workforce system, by design of the federal government, includes a tiered approach to entering employment. Core services or self-directed job search is through a universal access system open to the public. This self-directed model may work for some, howver it presents immense challenges for the hardest to employ.

The program trains participants on the skills for providing their clients with supported and structured case managed navigation through the career exploration, job search, job placement, and job retention processes. In cases where the client or recipient of services does not possess key skills to complete self-directed job search that lead to gainful employment a more intensive job search and placement assistance services are needed. It will teach participants to identify and seek out various funding sources to assist the job placement, TANF and Justice Involved included.

Participants will learn various approaches for addressing situations should employment barriers remain and need to be addressed with education or talent development. They will learn skills for referring to training services through various Workforce and Career Services remedies that can be provided. This tiered approach is designed to assist those who are in need of more progressive support in their employment endeavors.

Participants will learn to work collaboratively with community partners to provide a one-stop environment for customers to address their employment needs.

LEARNING GOALS AN OBJECTIVES 

Participants will learn evidence-based workforce development, job creation and workshop facilitation skills: 

• Alignment of Agency Key Results

• Workshop Outcomes and Goals

• Alignment of Program Outcomes

• Implementation of Programming

• Workforce Remedies

• Create Timelines

Days 3 & 4 - March 26-27, 2015

Select One (1) 2-Day Workshop

Advance Skills for Employment Focused Workforce Development: Performance Measures & Accountability

When agencies work in a model of accountability results are higher while engagement and customer satisfaction increase. This accountability model will provide your team with the proven path, tools and resources to implement a solid employment focused framework.. This program is a hands-on workshop designed to help agencies develop and taylor a plan specific to their agency that will enable exceptional client results, staff engagement, employee retention and agency transparency.

This model will provide training, tools and resources to help participants engage all levels of staff in a collaborative model of accountability utilizing a 360 approach.

LEARNING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Participants will among other things be in a position to; 

• Understand the Accountabiity Model design
• Review of various accountability models and how they can be integrated in your agency.
• Learn how to benchmark your programs. The Pros and Cons of accountability models. How to modify an accountability model to meet the needs of your organization.
• Create and utilize 360 performance reviews for all levels of your organization to increase staff performance, agency outcomes and customer satisfaction.
• Conduct effective staff performance reviews
• Create and implement staff work plans that are in alignment with agency outcomes while giving staff the needed expectations for their success.
• Understand how to engage the customer
• Learn to utilize the latest tools in customer satisfaction tools to gage, review and implement needed changes for customer satisfaction. How to track and utilizes customer voice.

Participants will get access to enterprise class software tools for data gathering, measurement and evaluations which they can utilize following the training.

Motivational Interviewing (MI): Core Skills for Durable Behavioral Change

Teams perform like the pros they are using Motivational Interviewing skills. MI is proven to be fully compatible with various approaches as a method that helps people resolve ambivalence toward change through discovery of intrapersonal fuel by placing complete responsibility for change on the individual.

Its a must have method in your tool kit.

PROGRAM DETAILS

Enduring client change is achievable through Motivational Interviewing (MI). MI is the powerful evidence-based method for engaging intrinsic client motivation. Clinical trials on use of MI in all areas of treatment abound with substantial outcomes for creating sustainable change in maladaptive behaviors far beyond compliance.

MI is proven to be fully compatible with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Moral Reconation Therapy, Therapeutic Community, and various other approaches as a method that helps people resolve ambivalence toward change through discovery of intrapersonal motivation by placing complete responsibility for change on the individual.

With public and private agencies under increased scrutiny to deliver on promises through evidence based practices, executives must evaluate practices, techniques and programs to improve results and financial outcomes. Motivational Interviewing has applications in various settings giving staffs skills to help their clients succeed through appropriate evidence based practices.

“When I was first asked to attend this training, I thought to myself, 'Not another training! Now am glad I came. It's the best training I have attended in a good while!”

PROGRAM OUTLINE

This program teaches foundational concepts, strategy and techniques involved in MI and how it can be developed and utilized dynamically in targeted settings. It is excellent for staffs with little or no knowledge of the MI approach as well as those already implementing the model. Joyfields Institute MI programs are taught through presentations, video examples, instructor modeling, and practice breakout activities. Participants will recognize that many of the techniques are part of their current practice. With that recognition and the training, they will be able to begin using the techniques with more effectiveness and added fidelity to the model.

Day 1

History of Motivational Interviewing

Comparison of Strength Based Strategies with Deficit Based

Examples of Strength Based Strategies and Stages of Change

Three components of Motivational Interviewing

Spirit
Fundamental Principles
Techniques

Three components of the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing

Autonomy
Collaboration
Evocation

Four Principles of Motivational Interviewing

Roll with Resistance (Practice Exercise)
Express Empathy (Practice Exercise)
Develop Discrepancy (Practice Exercise)
Support Self Efficacy (Practice Exercise)

The Four Techniques of Motivational Interviewing

Open Ended Questions (Practice Exercise)
Affirmations (Practice Exercise)
Reflections (Practice Exercise)
Summary (Practice Exercise)
Video Example

Participants will use the OARS coding sheet to track techniques used by the counselor in the video
Discussion of participants observations will follow the film
Practice Breakout – Triads with speaker, counselor, coder

Groups of three will alternate roles. Coders will use OARS coding sheet to give feedback on techniques used in 5 to 10 minute practice session. All three members of each group will perform each role.
A discussion of the experience will follow the practice breakout session

End Day 1

Day 2

Review Day 1

Exercise to increase sensitivity to strength based versus deficit based approach

Video Example of probation officer using deficit based approach (monitoring for compliance)

Video Example of probation officer using Motivational Interviewing

Phase I Eliciting Change Talk

Four levels of Change Talk
10 Evocative Strategies for Eliciting Change Talk
Practice Breakouts using evocative strategies/exercises
Strengthening Change Talk

Emphasizing Choice and Control
Decisional Balance
Readiness Ruler
Transitioning to a Change Plan

Summary
Key Question
Developing a Change Plan

Stage-wise interventions
Writing a Change Plan
Practice Breakout

Rolling with resistance

Five types of Resistance
Stage-wise Interventions
End Day 2

Program content and faculty subject to change without notice

Daily Agenda

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

CERTIFICATE & CONTINUING EDUCATION TRAINING HOURS

Approved for 26 CE training hours

Joyfields Institute CE: Upon completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate as evidence of your accomplishment and status as a practitioner who has acquired specific new skills.   Many licensing/certification bodies accept this designation.  Please check with your licensing body.

Licensed Alcohol & Drug Counselors: Joyfields Institute is an approved education provider by National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)/National Certification Commission (NCC) Provider #745.  Many licensing/certification bodies accept this designation.  Please check with your licensing body.

Social Workers: This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers, Approval #886636664-2159 for Social Work continuing education contact hours.

Substance Abuse Counselors: Joyfields Institute is an approved education provider by National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)/National Certification Commission (NCC) Provider #745.  Many licensing/certification bodies accept this designation.  Please check with your licensing body.

California LMFT, LEP, LCSW, LPCC: Joyfields Institute courses meet the qualifications for CE credits in CA as required by CA BBS. Joyfields Institute is
an approved education provider by CA BBS, license number PCE 5522.

Professional Counselors: Joyfields Institute is an approved education provider by the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)/National Certification Commission (NCC) Provider #745.  Many licensing/certification bodies accept this designation.  Please check with your licensing body.

California State Standards & Training for Corrections: Joyfields Institute is a approved California State Standards and Training for Corrections (STC) education provider

For assistance, call +1(770)409-8780.

LOCATION & ACCOMMODATION

All workshop activities take place at our host hotel, the;

Hilton Garden Inn, New Orleans Convention Center

1001 South Peters Street, New Orleans, LA 70130.  Telephone: (504) 525-0044

This newly renovated "larger-than-usual" Hilton property is located within walking distance from the famous French Quarter attractions, restaurants and New Orleans blues and jazz entertainment.

Walk or ride the streetcar to the Riverwalk, Harrah's Casino and the gateway to the French Quarter and Bourbon Street. The cruise ship terminals, Mercedes Benz Superdome and New Orleans Arena are also steps away. Superb New Orleans restaurants specializing in southern coastal and Creole cuisine are nestled in every block along with unique galleries and shops. The Garden District is just a streetcar or carriage ride away.

Our special negotiated rate is $139 per night of the program, plus applicable taxes and local fees.

How to reserve your room: Participants are responsible for making own accommodation arrangement.  To make your reservations please contact the hotel directly.

• Online: Click here to make your reservation online, or copy over the following entire link; http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com/en/gi/groups/personalized/M/MSYGIGI-JOYFLD-20150323/index.jhtml

• Telephone: Please call the hotel directly at 1-877-STAY-HGI (1-877-782-9444).  You must mention the Group Code, JOYFIELDS INSTITUTE to take advantage of the negotiated rate by February 19th.

If you need immediate assistance, please contact our office at +1(770)409-8780 or send email to [email protected].

REGISTRATION & FEES

Team attendance is highly encouraged.  See group pricing below.

The registration fee covers;

• All training sessions
• Comprehensive Program Manual
• Earn CE training hours allocated for this particular program
• Breakfast daily with refreshment breaks
• 10% member discount to future Joyfields Institute sponsored programs

 * Get  EBP Society Membership and save additional 10% now.