What is PARedu?
No, we did not become a university overnight. However, we are here to educate! PARedu will offer a combination of educational trainings, development programs and informative webinars, organized by PAR, that are available to PAR members and non-members. We believe that training and development for our industry presents prime learning opportunities to expand one's knowledge base in various subjects which in turn strengthens the capacity of your team.
Click here for a list of past trainings.
Interested in becoming a part of the PARedu lineup? Fill out the below PARedu Proposal Form.
UPCOMING EVENTS
What do you Mean I'm not in Charge?
Tuesday // July 23
9:30 - 11:30 am EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
Managing is one of the most challenging responsibilities one can have! It seems easy, but when you are in the middle of “managing,” it feels daunting. Today, the new generation employee brings exceptional challenges but also exceptional opportunities to the workplace and to their supervisors. Staff (41%) say the lack of appreciation and poor supervision is what drives them to leave their jobs. So how do we deal with the most frequent staff behaviors calling for intervention and what are the specific strategies one can use for these?
Learning Objectives
- Identify the six (6) most frequent staff behaviors calling for intervention.
- Learn two (2) specific management strategies.
- Learn two (2) major positive approaches to improve their workplace environment.
HRCI and SHRM CEUs will be offered for this training.
This training will be recorded and shared with all registrants. The recording will be valid for 30 days!
Equity in Hiring
Wednesday // July 24
9:00 am - 11:30 am EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
It is no secret that there is a Direct Support Professional crisis across the country. Agencies and people self-directing their services are struggling to find long-term stable staffing support to help people achieve their needs and goals. Raises alone are not solving the direct care workforce shortage. There have been promising outcomes in creating career paths for Direct Support Professionals either through NADSP or state specific initiatives. Another piece of this solution is looking at the demographics of the direct support workforce and ensuring that we are, in true person-centered fashion, ensuring they have what they need to be successful. Most direct support professionals are women from black or brown communities, making less than $20.00 per hour which in most states is not enough to afford stable housing. This training focuses on how agencies can create and implement equity focused recruitment, hiring and onboarding processes that are reflective of the DSP workforce and their needs to be successful in an employment setting.
Learning Objectives:
- Define Equity
- Demonstrate parallels between equity, person centeredness, and hiring
- Understand state of DSP workforce
- Understand DSP workforce demographics
- Identify stages of the hiring process and how to imbed equitable principles at each stage
- Recruitment
- Interviewing
- Hiring
- Onboarding
- Understand how to use an equity in hiring framework within agency that supports the state of PA Residential Performance Standards
- Tools and resources to support implementation of framework within agency
Tangible resources training participants will retain: Equity in hiring framework, onboarding template, interview guidelines/questions
HRCI and SHRM CEUs will be offered for this training.
Management Success in 2024
Thursday // August 1
9:30 - 11:30 am EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
Agencies ask “How do we recruit and keep staff?” What we hear from staff during exit interviews is that one of the major reasons they leave is the QUALITY of their Managers and lack of feeling valued. This begs the question of how Managers have been trained – usually not well or at all. Do your Managers have the basic skills and training to help minimize turnover and deal with the myriad issues they face or have they been “thrown” into their positions with little training?
This presentation will focus on 50+ Management tidbits for new Managers to use and existing Managers to consider. These tidbits will assist developing the skills necessary to improve staff morale, facilitate positive communications and help with accountability and having difficult discussions with challenging staff.
Learning Objectives:
- The importance of Communication Style
- The importance of Expectations and how to create them
- How to use a Positive Actions Log
- How to use reinforcement/praise appropriately, it’s SIC
- Why reinforcement does not work at times
- The four steps of reducing conflict situations
- The four steps of dealing with challenging staff behavior
- Five (5) Management “No, No’s”
- Five (5) Management “admonitions to heed”
- Ten (10) positive management tips
HRCI and SHRM CEUs will be offered for this training.
This training will be recorded and shared with all registrants. The recording will be valid for 30 days!
Leveraging Social Capital To Improve Quality of Life
Wednesday // August 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST // Virtual
Speaker: Rebecca Kasey, The Council on Quality and Leadership (CQL)
Social Capital involves the connections people create and the resulting trust, reliance, and reciprocity that comes out of those relationships. Especially in the human services system, there are distinct benefits for supporting people with disabilities to build social capital in their life. Through Personal Outcome Measures® data, we find that only 38.8% of people with disabilities had outcomes related to Social Capital present in their lives, including areas like community, relationships, friendships, social roles, etc. This session will help you in understanding, identifying, and improving Social Capital. Attendees will leave with specific strategies to support people in establishing connections, nurturing relationships, and living better lives. We’ll also share examples of people moving beyond being in the community, to actually being a part of the community.
Creating an Internal Compliance System
Thursday & Friday // August 22 & 23
9:30 am - 12:30 pm EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
You know the rules, and your team is trained on the expectations; but your organization still struggles with compliance. There are too many panic moments, too much chaos, and internal and external audits reveal errors. How can this be?
The problem is that you don’t have an effective internal quality assurance system.
With an effective internal QA system, you will:
- Catch errors quickly…before they become big problems.
- Quickly return to your QA system after an emergency or crisis. (Never get permanently derailed again.)
- Use a straightforward system of checks and balances to maintain compliance and catch errors, instead of just relying on 1 or 2 key personnel.
- Practically eliminate the new staff learning curve that inherently creates risk for your agency.
- Meet the compliance requirement of having an internal compliance system.
In this training participants will map out a high-level compliance blueprint that can easily be adapted for each agency’s unique needs.
This training is designed for frontline supervisors, managers, directors, compliance officers and executives.
HRCI and SHRM CEUs will be offered for this training.
Frontline Supervisor Training
Wednesday & Thursday // September 11 & 12
9:30 am - 12:30 pm EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
You’ve just received a big promotion, a new set of keys, access to approve timesheets, and an eager team to supervise, educate, support, and lead. Problem is, nobody’s shown you how. As a frontline supervisor you are a pivotal link in the service delivery chain and the key to your organization’s effectiveness. (No pressure.) You are now completely responsible for the performance of your team, regulatory compliance, translating instructions from upper management, and staff development, all while performing a multitude of administrative tasks and helping to ensure the health and welfare of those we serve. Chances are, you could use a few new tools in your management toolbox. In these two half-days of hands-on training with Sara Sherman, supervisors will:
- Learn the 10 Fundamentals of Supervision
- Discover the secret to finding and addressing the root cause of performance issues
- Identify their own supervisory strengths and vulnerabilities
- Understand two of the most challenging employee personality types, and learn how to stop them in their tracks
- Leave with a written Supervisory Success Outline
This training is a 6 hour training split over two days. Attendees should plan on attending both days of this two-day, two-part training.
This training is designed for current and future frontline supervisors.
HRCI and SHRM CEUs will be offered for this training.
Boomer Said What? How to Manage, Motivate, and Communicate with Diverse Generations
Tuesday // September 17
9:30 - 11:30 am EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
"Boomer said What?" Attendees will discover the defining characteristics of different age groups, master effective communication strategies tailored to each, and learn motivational techniques that transcend generational divides. This session promises to dismantle age stereotypes, fostering enhanced team collaboration and cooperation in a fun, interactive setting.
Learning Objectives:
- Dismantling age centered stereotypes.
- Enhance team collaboration.
- Improve communication between generations.
HRCI and SHRM CEUs will be offered for this training.
This training will be recorded and shared with all registrants. The recording will be valid for 30 days!
How Understanding Communication Styles Can Support DEI
Wednesday // September 25
9:30 am - 12:30 pm EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
While many organizations are committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work, leaders often struggle with buy-in from all their organizations to move forward. One of the most common barriers is a lack of trust, and according to global DEI Expert, Lily Zheng, "Trust is the currency of change". Understanding communication styles can help build trust, improve interpersonal relationship skills, and support DEI work. In this session, leaders will learn the T.E.A.M. Communication Styles® framework and discover ways to support their DEI initiatives. Attendees will:
- Learn why understanding communication styles are crucial for organizational success
- Strengthen interpersonal relationship skills such as understanding motivations, active listening, and giving and receiving feedback.
- Apply these skills to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategies
HRCI and SHRM CEUs will be offered for this training.
How to Create a Years Worth of Meaningful Activities on Just a Few Interests
Wednesday // October 9
9:30 am - 12:30 pm EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
Is everybody a little bored?
Does it seem like the individuals you serve end up doing the same activities week in and week out?
Is it a struggle to come up with new ideas to keep life fresh and interesting for the individuals you serve and keep your DSPs busy and creative?
It’s not easy to come up with new ideas day in and day out, but with a little know-how it is possible to leverage an individual’s likes and hobbies to create a robust list of things to do.
In this hands-on session supervisors and managers will learn how to:
- Turn just a few interests of the individuals you support into a full calendar year of meaningful activities.
- Use an individual’s interests to naturally connect to the community
- Empower DSPs to take the reigns in planning, organizing, and implementing these activities.
- End “same old, same old” forever.
This training is designed for trainers, frontline supervisors, managers, directors, executives and other stakeholders.
Overcoming Resistance: Learn How to Get out of Your Own Way and Achieve the Success You and Your Organization Desire
Tuesday // October 22
9:30 - 11:30 am EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
"Overcoming Resistance" is a powerful presentation designed to guide attendees on a journey of self-discovery, teaching strategies and cultivating the mindset needed to transcend personal and organizational barriers. Learn to navigate through internal resistance to achieve success in any endeavor.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn what “resistance” is.
- Learn strategies to overcome resistance.
- Learn strategies to persevere to achieve your goals.
HRCI and SHRM CEUs will be offered for this training.
This training will be recorded and shared with all registrants. The recording will be valid for 30 days!
Organizing Your Team to Advance DEI
Monday // October 28
9:30 am - 12:30 pm EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion continue to remain a priority for organizations across all industries. However, many organizations still struggle to empower all their team members to get buy-in to their DEI vision and goals. Everyone has a role in addressing these issues, which means everyone has a role in DEI work. But everyone does not have to have the same role. In this session, we will explore how you can utilize assessments like T.E.A.M. Communication Styles® to help the employee identify their strengths, choose a DEI role best for them, build their professional capacity, and help organizations strategize and implement DEI work. By embracing a strengths-based approach talent development professionals can motivate leaders to take DEI action, empower them with skills to execute strategies, and enable their organization through transformative change. For this workshop, attendees will:
- Learn how to help their teams identify their strengths and choose the best DEI role
- Discover how to develop their DEI roles based on their communication styles
- Identify how to enable change in organizations with tools and resources
HRCI and SHRM CEUs will be offered for this training.
On-Going Training Techniques
Wednesday // November 6
9:30 am - 12:30 pm EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
One of the biggest challenges providers face as they work to maintain regulatory compliance is to ensure staff receive continual and ongoing training. The challenge is further compounded because employees are spread across service settings, counties, have differing schedules, and often work alone. Lack of ongoing training can be key reason for citations and regulatory non-compliance. Creativity and innovation are required in order keep staff on their toes and stay in compliance with requirements. In this online interactive session with Sara Sherman, supervisors and leaders in your organization will learn:
- The tools and techniques to implement ongoing staff training, even across multiple and diverse service locations.
- The biological barriers that make learning new information a challenge, and how to surpass those challenges.
- How to create a work culture that expects and strives for compliance.
- Methods to measure and track progress and identify shortcomings for quick remediation.
This training is designed for trainers, frontline supervisors, managers, directors, executives and other stakeholders.
HRCI and SHRM CEUs will be offered for this training.
How to Effectively Navigate Confrontation
Thursday // November 7
9:30 - 11:30 am EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
A not so secret, secret – CONFLICT permeates our lives! From mild disagreements to “finger pointing” hostility, we deal with conflict all the time. Most persons avoid conflict like the flu or a root canal, yet conflict can be constructive, informative and manageable! Are there ways to positively deal with conflict and can we manage it – YES, THERE ARE, AND YES, WE CAN!!!!
Learning Objectives:
- What conflict is and what it is not!
- The three (3) types of disagreement.
- To identify conflicts in their present positions.
- How to respond objectively and positively to conflict.
- Five (5) general conflict concepts.
- How to use the four (4) steps of conflict resolution!
- Five (5) tips when managing conflict situations.
- Three (3) strategies to use to reduce/prevent workplace conflict.
HRCI and SHRM CEUs will be offered for this training.
Designing an Effective DEI Planning Process
Thursday // November 21
9:30 am - 12:30 pm EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
Organizational strategic and action planning is not just process, but a mindset. Pausing to plan is difficult, but crucial to solving DEI issues with limited resources. This causes organizations to get stuck and not sure where to go next. Nonprofit leaders can use the Equity Warrior Strategic Process to develop a DEI planning mindset. In this workshop, attendees will:
- Understand how to develop a DEI Planning Mindset
- Learn the Equity Warrior Strategic Process and how to implement that process using
- Discover organizational tools, such as T.E.A.M. Communication Styles®, for planning success
HRCI and SHRM CEUs will be offered for this training.
Frontline Supervisor Training
Tuesday & Wednesday // December 3 & 4
9:30 am - 12:30 pm EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
You’ve just received a big promotion, a new set of keys, access to approve timesheets, and an eager team to supervise, educate, support, and lead. Problem is, nobody’s shown you how. As a frontline supervisor you are a pivotal link in the service delivery chain and the key to your organization’s effectiveness. (No pressure.) You are now completely responsible for the performance of your team, regulatory compliance, translating instructions from upper management, and staff development, all while performing a multitude of administrative tasks and helping to ensure the health and welfare of those we serve. Chances are, you could use a few new tools in your management toolbox. In these two half-days of hands-on training with Sara Sherman, supervisors will:
- Learn the 10 Fundamentals of Supervision
- Discover the secret to finding and addressing the root cause of performance issues
- Identify their own supervisory strengths and vulnerabilities
- Understand two of the most challenging employee personality types, and learn how to stop them in their tracks
- Leave with a written Supervisory Success Outline
This training is a 6 hour training split over two days. Attendees should plan on attending both days of this two-day, two-part training.
This training is designed for current and future frontline supervisors.
HRCI and SHRM CEUs will be offered for this training.
Appreciology
Thursday // December 5
9:30 - 11:30 am EST // Virtual
Speaker Bio
Nearly 40% of staff report leaving their jobs because of feeling “underappreciated!” The old styles of leadership are no longer effective given a new staff generation, new technologies and new issues never before encountered. Through a seriously humorous presentation Mr. Speaks and Dr. Greg will discuss the art and science of appreciation which will assist in expanding your LEADERSHIP TOOL KIT!
Learning Objectives:
- The six (6) principles of appreciation.
- Four (4) practical ways to demonstrate appreciation.
- How to hold staff accountable while using appreciative techniques.
- How to appreciate and assist with recruitment, retention and agency reputation.
HRCI and SHRM CEUs will be offered for this training.
This training will be recorded and shared with all registrants. The recording will be valid for 30 days!
PARedu Trainings are an initiative of Pennsylvania Advocacy and Resources for Autism and Intellectual Disability, a 501(c)3 organization.
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