This event, designed especially for middle managers, will enable you to gain renewed insight and skills into the challenges of providing effective experiences for youth and families in need.
The retreat will take place at the Forrest Hills Mountain Resort and Conference Center, located 1.5 hours north of the Atlanta Airport. For more information on the resort and activities available in the area, please visit www.forresthillsresort.com
Registration is limited to 17 participants, in order to maximize your networking and learning experience. Event rates are per person based on double occupancy.
Retreat Agenda
May 7, 2008
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Arrival and check-in
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
General Session I
Empowerment and Engagement
Inspiration and lessons from “The Children’s March”.
Participants will understand organizing principles of grassroots movements; identify essential elements of youth/ adult partnerships; and, prioritize and implement empowerment strategies with program youth and employees at their agencies.
3:30pm – 5:30 pm
General Session II
Employee Engagement
This session will be an examination of the changing workforce landscape and a study of successful strategies for fostering high levels of employee retention and satisfaction.
Participants will discuss generational considerations in regard to employee engagement and identify action steps towards sustaining employee interest and commitment; examine successful models of engagement and motivation from the public and private sectors; and, collaborate to identify opportunities to increase employee support through social enterprise and community partnerships.
6:00 pm
Dinner
8:00 pm
AmeriCorps Project Site Managers (PSM) Meeting
May 8, 2008
7:00 am - 8:00 am
Breakfast
8:00 am – 10:00 am
Climb for Kids - Amicalola Falls Great Staircase Challenge
Beginning just after sunrise participants will climb 607 steps, that’s over 720 feet, ascending through the tallest cascading waterfall east of the Mississippi river, the stately Amicalola Falls.
Participants will raise funds for youth who have special needs outside the scope and ability of program funding; conduct a personal inventory of health and wellness activities and commit to positive self-nurturing; and, celebrate the unique role of middle management in establishing continuity within their agency and positive communication between multi-leveled organizational structures.
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Workshop Session II
(Participants may choose to attend one 4-hour session (Improve Outcomes) or two 2-hours sessions)
ImProve Outcomessm
(open to all TAPP participants)
Facilitated by Doug Tanner of New England Network
Many youth serving agencies, already overwhelmed by the demands of the day-today operations, are facing mounting pressure to demonstrate that their programs really do make a difference for young people at risk. In today’s climate of dwindling funding and increasing scrutiny, data management has become something that all human service providers need to do, and do well.
ImProve Outcomessm was established by New England Network (NEN) to answer a compelling need among child-and youth-service agencies for an easy, integrated, and efficient way to collect and organize information about client and program outcomes.
Participants will:
· Learn how to create outcomes, objectives and incremental indicators of success that are consistent with the mission statement of your program(s).
· Use objectives and indicators to measure outcomes that make sense for your agency or collaboration.
· Combine this method with database technology to measure and analyze the incremental changes and accomplishments your programs facilitate in the daily lives of program participants. NEN will provide an ImProve Outcome Tracking Tool that uses a Microsoft Access application to easily track the outcomes and indicators you develop as a result of ImProve Outcomes training and consultation.
· Improve your ability to analyze programs, prove effectiveness, highlight the best work being done, compete for funding, and mobilize public support.
· Learn about a technique that can be used effectively in individual case management work as well as on a program or agency level.
Workshop Session II - Parts A and B
In the Middle and Moving Up
Participants will articulate specific barriers to advancement in the field of youth and family services; brainstorm solutions to specific barriers and learn about available resources; and, create a self-development plan for their long-term professional goals.
Gen X and Gen Y: Today’s Worforce Challenges
Participants will identify unique work styles characteristics of Generation X’s and Generation Y’s; and, identify training and supervisory strategies to increase effective work practice of Gen X’s and Gen Y’s
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - ?
Networking
May 9, 2008
7:00 am – 8:00 am
Breakfast
8:30 am – 11:30 am
Workshop Session III
The H.R. Dr. Is In: Employee Troubleshooting – The Discussion Continues…
Participants will review current best practice of Human Resources policies and procedures; learn effective intervention methods for resolving inter-agency disputes; explore ways to implement a culture of care which supports individual needs and promotes a self-sustaining conflict resolution environment; and, work with peers and mentors to adopt strategies to address current human resource-related concerns.
Advanced ImProve Outcomessm
(for pre-identified ImProve Partners only)
Participants will apply previous Improve session to tailor specific outcome tool and framework for their selected project. They will build an implementation strategy for their project.
11:30 am
Closing