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NSDTA
is committed to contributing to the ongoing development of training
staff through dissemination of new training products and
information.
This page is intended to grow and evolve based on the feedback from
our members. We intend to keep expanding these resources over
time. If you have anything to contribute to this list of resources,
please contact us. Currently,
we have information on NSDTA Publications
and APHSA's
Organizational Effectiveness Frameworks located here, and as well
as links to Related Web Sites, and
the APHSA
Affiliates.
Check
out the new web site
resources, added in March 2005.
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NSDTA Publications
Please contact
Beki Lockery, NSDTA Boar
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Competency
Guides for Human Services Roles
Competent, qualified
professional and clerical personnel are key to the success of an
effective staff development and training program.
What Guides are available?
Based upon a review
of the literature and discussions with leaders in the field, the
committee identified nine major roles. The following competency
models are available:
- Administrative Support
- Communication Specialist (Available
on CD only)
- Evaluator/Researcher
- Human Resource Planner (Available on
CD only)
- Instructional Media Specialist
- Instructor/Trainer
- Manager
- Organizational Development
Specialist
- Training Program and Curriculum
Designer (Available on CD only)
What can I use these guides
for?
- Human Resource Planning
- Developing Job Descriptions
- Career Pathing
- Recruiting/Selecting Applicants
for a Position
- Strengths Inventory and
Professional Development
- Performance Management/Appraisal
- Curriculum Development
If you want to learn more about the competencies needed
within the Human Services training and staff development environment
for each of these roles, order these guides today! NSDTA has recently
compiled all nine competencies, along with the competency matrix, on
a CD. This CD is now available for sale.
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The NSDTA
Code of Ethics for Training and Development Professionals in Human
Services
In 2000, NSDTA Conference participants
attending a workshop on Ethical Issues in Human Services Training and
Development recognized the need for a national dialogue on ethical
issues in human services training and development. They also recommended
that the workshop leaders approach the NSDTA Board to request further
development in the ethical arena by establishing a committee with the
charge of pursuing the development of a code of ethics for human
services training and development professionals.
Initial committee meetings focused on a review of the ethics
literature, including an analysis of existing Codes in both human
services and training and development fields. Ethical principles
from both areas were ultimately integrated into the NSDTA
Code.
In 2001, members of the Ethics
committee updated interested NSDTA members of the progress of the
initiative including a draft list of core values at the Denver
national institute. A draft NSDTA Code of Ethics was developed
during the next year and presented to the NSDTA Board and membership
for feedback at the 2002 Institute in Nashville, TN. A final
draft version of the Code was presented to the NSDTA Board for
adoption in 2003 at the national Institute in Anaheim, CA. The
code was then adopted, and is now available.
Examples of compliance and
noncompliance to each of the Code's principles have also been
developed as part of supplementary materials for "teaching the
Code." The Code and these Case Scenarios and Training
Implications were given out to attendees of the 2004 Institute in
Chicago
,
IL
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The NSDTA
Code of Ethics for Training and Development Professionals in Human
Services is available as a free download.
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Training and
Development in Human Services: The Journal of the National Staff
Development and Training Association
Training and Development in Human Services is the
journal of the National Staff Development Training Associations (NSDTA),
an affiliate of the American Public Human Services Association. The
mission of NSDTA is to build professional and organizational capacity
in human services through a national network of membership, sharing
ideas and resources on organizational development, staff development,
and training. The primary goal of NSDTA’s Journal is to provide a
venue for both human services training scholar and practitioner to
contribute the to knowledge base and advance the field of human
services training and development.
This publication is structured in a way that
encourages the "traditional" conceptual and empirical
journal articles that contribute to advancement of the field. The
journal also provides very practical compositions that can be
immediately applied by training and development practitioners. It is
divided into four areas:
- State of the Field
- Learning Activities
- Instrumentation and Methodology
- Conceptual and Empirical
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A Key to Success: Guidelines
for Effective Staff Development and Training Programs
This guide is currently being revised.
A workshop at the 2008 Professional Development Institute in Atlanta,
GA will be conducted to introduce and market the new guide.
The new guide will be available by the end of 2008.
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Training
Evaluation in the Human Services
Evaluation of training serves many purposes.
Agencies may conduct training evaluation to show improvement in staff
knowledge and skills or increased progress toward agency goals; to
secure employee commitment to agency values and mission; to provide
feedback to improve the content, structure, or delivery of the
training itself; or even as a reward for good performance. Well
planned training evaluations often serve multiple purposes and answer
multiple questions for a variety of stakeholders.
Training evaluation is most productive when the
evaluation design and methods follow directly from carefully defined
organizational needs, clearly articulated job requirements, and a
competency-based, job-related curriculum. Training evaluation needs to
be seen as an integral part of the training process and as part of a
cycle of continuous quality improvement.
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Organizational
Effectiveness Frameworks
Organizational Effectiveness:
Extraordinary Outcomes
Public human services agency
training directors are seeking ways to more positively influence and
impact their organizations, towards improved performance and
outcomes for the children, families, and communities that they
serve. Accordingly,
APHSA has been developing a set of frameworks and tools that were
shared with its National Staff Development and Training Association
(NSDTA) members at their annual Institute in November 2004.
These tools are being designed to define and put into
practice the principles of Organizational Effectiveness (OE), an approach to aligning and
advancing an organization’s strategic direction, available
resources, relationships, practices and accountabilities.
Phil Basso, Director of Leadership
and Practice Development at APHSA, has recently written an article
that describes the OE model and its value.
Read the complete article at Strategic
Return-on-Investment: Putting the Horse before the Cart.
Also available at this time is a high level visual representation, Strategic
Framework for ROI, of the OE framework described in
Phil’s article. Last,
a Glossary
of Helpful Terms has been created for your use.
This
work is still in its beginning stages. When more information on the
frameworks becomes available, this site will be updated.
If you have any questions related to Organizational
Effectiveness, please contact
us.
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NSDTA is an affiliate of the American Public Human Services Association.
Last updated on
02/16/2008
If you have any questions about this website, please contact
Beki Lockery at 920-465-7738 or email at blockery@kaisergrp.com
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