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Everyone is aware of the roadblocks providers are incurring with the shortage as well as the retention of direct support professionals.  Sometimes just a simple discussion among other providers who directly face this problem can bring forward ideas and ways to help you as an agency move forward.  East Tennessee has always presented a great desire and effort to participate in and initiate topics to enrich the lives of people supported. At the top of the list: DSP’s who are stable, caring and dependable. Given that the EPPC and TNCO are collaborating toward providing agencies the opportunity to share valuable information Agency to Agency (A2A), this first event offers the first of many series of meetings in which providers will be able to share what is working and not working in their respective agencies. 

 The East Tennessee Policy and Planning Council (EPPC) and Tennessee Community Organizations (TNCO), with assistance from the East Tennessee Regional Office (ETRO) and Central Office, will be hosting a World Café Friday, September 21, 2018 from 10:00 AM through 12:30 pm in Knoxville at the DHS location 2700 Middlebrook Pike Ste 100, Knoxville, TN 37921

 Your agency may have attended the successful World Café ETRO held in 2017.  Using the same format, the topic will be Staff Recruitment and Retention. The East PPC has taken this critical problem as our 2018 focus in collaboration with TNCO.   

 Upon signing in at the Café, Provider agency representatives will be handed a card with different color indicators corresponding to different tables.  Each table will have a host from EPPC or ETRO, who will keep the discussion on target related to a question asked from the facilitator.  Time will be limited at each table and then participants will move onto the next table for a different question.  Afterward, the top three topic items will be gathered, evaluated and assessed based on the level of change needed and sent back to the EPPC.  Additionally, the notes and suggestions from this Café will be compiled and sent to all participants to include the sharing discussions from all tables.

The 3rd quarter Planning and Policy Council meetings are coming up in July.  Mark your calendar and make plans to attend the meeting in your area.

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