Session Description: This session offers a comprehensive toolbox for measuring and addressing organizational (in)stability. With over 30 years’ experience designing and implementing innovative labor solutions, Dr. Strouse will share specific strategies proven to increase provider margins and direct support professional wages and improve payroll and benefits. He will discuss unique approaches for front/back scheduling and vacancy coordination. Attendees will receive impact data from 12 case studies where GoodLife U’s labor solutions were analyzed.
Learning Objectives:
Identify and describe the causes of agency-inflicted workforce instability.
Use existing resources to increase DSP pay more than $2.00 an hour, lower OT, improve schedules, increase time off, and lower vacancies.
Reduce reliance on part-time positions to increase consistency and improve the capacity of DSPs to work extra.
