The Social and Health Policy Center examines new solutions to our nation's social and public health problems, as well as best practices in program management and innovative funding strategies to ensure their performance-based reporting, continuity and effectiveness. The center works to identify and disseminate the learned lessons and leading innovations in youth and adult workforce development and performance measures and program strategies for public health services. It is also committed to achieving permanency and outcome goals for youth and family services programs such as Head Start, child care, foster care, adoption, homelessness, and early childhood education.
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The Performance Institute has developed a comprehensive social services training program designed exclusively for government managers.
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The Performance Institute’s expert social service managers and advisors provide a variety of social support services available to government agencies.
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| Institute Research & Analysis |
|  2005 Foundation and Nonprofit Performance Conference
At The Performance Institute's 2005 Foundation and Nonprofit Performance Conference, Paul Light, Professor at NYU and the Brookings Institute, delivered the keynote address on The Impact of Performance Measurement on Nonprofit Service Organizations Today.
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Fostering Community Acceptance of Affordable Workforce Housing
Recently at The Performance Institute's 2005 Workforce Housing Summit, Elissa Giambastiani, Board Member of the Marin Workforce Housing Trust, delivered a presentation on Fostering Community Acceptance of Affordable Workforce Housing, discussing how the development of affordable housing is often a contest between conflicting assumptions, interests and fears among community members.
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The Staffing Crisis in Social Service Organizations
On August 8-9 the Performance Institute ran its annual Recruitment and Retention of Social Service Professionals Conference in Arlington , VA. As a result of today's competitive job market, human service organizations continuously struggle to recruit and retain qualified services providers. Low salaries, high caseloads.Click Here to View Presentation
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Establishing Effective Youth Councils and Encouraging Youth Leadership Development
What makes for an effective and sustainable youth council? How do prevention program s tap into the insight of young people, and develop, structure, and support youth decision making and ownership around community. Click Here to View Presentation
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 NP Software Works’ ExecuVantage: A Key Tool for Nonprofit Human Service Organizations
We’ve heard over and over again that now, more than ever before, nonprofit organizations must assure the judicious use of resources through more efficient operations and measure outcomes to demonstrate programmatic effectiveness. To address these mounting and compelling needs, NP Software Works has developed ExecuVantageTM for Nonprofit Human Service Organizations, an Internet-based, easy to set up and use, inexpensive executive management software package designed specifically for nonprofit executives and foundation managers.
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| In Maryland , School Says No to Gangs of the Past
Students at Nicholas Orem Middle School in Hyattsville , MD are seeing bright colors splashed upon their school hallways-only this time, it's not from graffiti. It's brightly colored paintings and murals, created by more than 100 students in a summer school. |
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Creates Performance Center Database
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) has created a Performance Center database. The center utilizes performance measures and analysis to improve productivity and ensure accountability of its program s. Designed to support the Department's desired end outcomes. |
The WorkKeys Program: Improving the Quality of America 's Workforce WorkKeys is a job skills assessment system which measures "real world" skills that are believed by employers to be critical to job success. The WorkKeys program enables educators to identify the gaps between student skills and employment needs to boost students' success in entry-level jobs in industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, law enforcement, and other high-growth training industries. WorkKeys offers assessments to measure various foundational workplace skills such as teamwork, writing and listening skills, applied technology, etc.
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Electronic Health Records Underway in Arizona
Arizona has recently created a top-level committee charged with the goal of making electronic health care a reality by 2010, four years earlier than the federal goal . According to Napolitano , Arizona already has much of the infrastructure in place, and will vastly improve the quality and reduce cost of health care in the state.
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Events: |
Biotech Workforce Development Summit
February 15 - 16, 2006 | San Diego, CA |
Affordable Housing & Community
Redevelopment Summit
February 1–3, 2006 | Arlington, VA |
Georgia State Grants Summit
March 1-2, 2006 | Atlanta, GA |
National Summit on Recruiting and Retaining Quality Teachers
March 6-7, 2006 | Arlington, VA |
2006 One-Stop Career Center Summit
March 27-28, 2006 | Arlington, VA |
2006 Education Grants Summit
April 24–25, 2006 | Arlington, VA |
2006 National Conference on Health Care Workforce Development
May 4-5 , 2006 | Arlington, VA |
2006 National Summit on Gang Violence
May 10-12 , 2006 | Chicago, IL |
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