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Introducing Caring Careers Start Here: the leading resource for Minnesota job seekers to explore careers in aging services and tools to create meaningful connections with employers. A career in caregiving is more than just a job – it’s work that gives back to employees and the communities they serve. Supported by a Minnesota Department of Health and a CDC grant, Caring Careers Start Here highlights resources and employer matching tools to help Minnesotans discover a career in caregiving. Get started at CaringCareersStartHere.com. #CaringCareersStartHere

This #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth, we highlight the importance of supporting the emotional well-being of first responders. Watch to see how Seattle 9-1-1 employees prioritize self-care to stay resilient and better serve their community: https://lnkd.in/gaZPjYfM #SelfCare

For me, ‘early intervention’ conjures a kind of urgency. I imagine special forces descending to fix a situation. It feels alarmist. There’s a time and place for early intervention. Like if a fire threatens to engulf a building. But I prefer to use the term with care. It’s not so much the term that is inherently problematic. It’s more how and when it’s applied. To intervene in something means to come between things in order to modify a result. A river is at risk of flooding. Residents in low-lying homes intervene with sandbags. But what about when it’s applied to people? For example, when it’s recommended for young children with developmental differences. What I hear is, ‘Quick! You need to do something now so this kid doesn’t become too <add your developmental difference of choice>’. This is not to say children and their families don’t need support. They absolutely do. But this seems like a poor, and even frightening, choice of words. Especially when the delay to get this assistance can be months or even years. In an article on the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth website, Dr Rebecca Goodhue suggests replacing early intervention with ‘early engagement’. Instead of intervening in people’s lives like ‘so many medical colonialists’, Dr Goodhue says health and wellbeing professionals should engage with the people they aim to assist. ‘In all areas of life, best results are obtained when people feel they have a say, when they are part of the team making the decisions, rather than being treated as an object to be fixed, and a source of profit,’ she writes. ‘As such, the word and concept of intervention is outdated, medicalised and contradicts what we actually need to be doing.’ Read Dr Goodhue’s full article: https://lnkd.in/g5xuHqQz What do you think? Image description: Two Special Forces officers descend a helicopter on fast ropes. Overlaid on the image are the words ‘early intervention’. At top right is a white semi-circle shows a person's silhouette with multicoloured ribbons flowing from their head. Bottom left reads ‘Words to Think About’ and shows the Tanya Hollis Writes logo. #EarlyIntervention, #InclusiveLanguage, #WordsToThinkAbout, #KindAndCarefulContent, #CommunicationSpecialist

In 2023, the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Increasing Access to High-Quality Care and Supporting Caregivers recognized the shortage of direct support professionals (DSPs) as a crisis and directed federal agencies to collaborate to mitigate it. Explore a new LEAD Center memo memo, “Attracting Direct Support Professionals: Advancing Career Pathways with Job Quality in Mind,” for policy and practice recommendations to help federal policymakers and stakeholders increase the recruitment, retention, and career progression of DSPs. https://lnkd.in/gQ7FqZTT

IPS Grow have released a report on ‘Equity and effectiveness of IPS in clinical practice’ – conducted in South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, the report sheds light on the real-world impact of IPS on the lives of individuals accessing support. Here’s what we learned: · 46.2% of participants gained or retained employment or were supported in education. · The median time to gain employment was 132 days (4.3 months). · 84.7% did not require time-unlimited in-work support, receiving assistance for a median of 146 days (4.8 months). · No significant differences in job outcomes were found regarding diagnosis, ethnicity, age, or gender at this service. This report is a reassurance that IPS empowers participants for long-term success, regardless of background.

💭 We asked adult social care stakeholders how they’re using our workforce data to make informed decisions and drive improvements in the sector. Discover how #DataDrivesChange to shape the future of care. 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eWkPizkB

💭 We asked adult social care stakeholders how they’re using our workforce data to make informed decisions and drive improvements in the sector. Discover how #DataDrivesChange to shape the future of care. 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eWkPizkB

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"The IPS model of Supported Employment is grounded in research showing the transformative power of employment as a path to recovery." -- That's what I've been talking about! Good to see this model of supported employment for persons with significant needs for mental health services and supports. SAMHSA developed this evidence-based toolkit to provide state administrators, communities, clinicians, policymakers, and others with the information and tools to implement IPS, an evidence-based Supported Employment, for persons with mental illness to find and keep employment. Through IPS, people with mental health conditions are empowered to find and sustain competitive, meaningful work, fostering a greater sense of purpose and community. LINK: https://lnkd.in/gSWpEm93

Here are five ways ways we're making teen behavioral healthcare a better experience at Havenwood Academy *And we're doing this in one of the highest acuity long term residential programs in the country* 1. We're doing video calls interviews with over 50% of potential guests prior to admission. This builds trust with the guest, and helps us make better admission decisions. You might not think this is possible - but a surprising number of teens are game for this. 2. Fewer than 15% of our guests are arriving at our program via third party transport. It improves the process if the parent or guardian is present at admission. My personal experience is that the biggest predictor of who uses transport is financial means, not safety concerns. 3. When the guest does arrive via transport, their parents are present for admission on the Owl Labs webcam. This gives them a 360 degree view of the room and a more interactive admission experience. 4. Where appropriate, our guests are assigned Gabb smart watches. This gives them communication access to their families that is unusual in this field. They're able to continue communication with their families without the risks of social media and with defined time frame and contact list boundaries. 5. We have 130 employees to support 40 guests. This permits us the flexibility to run high staff ratios and assign 1:1 staff where needed. These staff members are trained on our guest's trauma history to cultivate empathy and understand how to best support. They still don't want to be at Havenwood. That might never change. But we're doing our best to make them feel comfortable and cared for nevertheless.