IHS uses a process consultation model in all its work
Process consultation is based on the assumption that challenges in organizations can be met more effectively if managers and staff acquire the assessment and problem solving skills to direct their own change initiatives. Consultants apply their expertise to help find and implement the best solutions.
In process consultation, the consultant does the work “with” the client – not “to” the client. Engaging organizations to participate with consultants, from diagnostics through implementation, empowers them to discover and implement effective solutions themselves, and also helps to sustain changes. (Schein, 1987).
Process consultation is based on the assumption that challenges in organizations can be met more effectively if managers and staff acquire the assessment and problem solving skills to direct their own change initiatives. Consultants apply their expertise to help find and implement the best solutions.
In process consultation, the consultant does the work “with” the client – not “to” the client. Engaging organizations to participate with consultants, from diagnostics through implementation, empowers them to discover and implement effective solutions themselves, and also helps to sustain changes. (Schein, 1987).
Training System Development
A well-trained staff is essential to achieving best practice in any organization. Our Comprehensive, Competency-Based In-service Training (CCBIT) model provides everyone in an organization with the knowledge and skills they need to ensure best practice. CCBIT engages the “right people” to participate in the “right training” at the “right time” to stimulate and support practice change.
CCBIT relies on time-tested methods of competency development, training needs assessment, curriculum development, trainer preparation, and training evaluation. We deploy a variety of on-site and virtual learning options, such as workshops, self-directed learning, coaching, seminars, and strategies to promote transfer of learning to the job.
Training Needs Assessment
Our system of individual training needs assessment (ITNA) enables us to identify the highest priority training needs in a service system and ensure individuals get to the right training, at the right level, at the right time.
Direct Training
We provide competency-based training for managers, supervisors, caseworkers, caregivers, and adoptive parents in child welfare and protection, and adult protective services. Training topics range from foundational to highly specialized.
Curriculum Development
Our approach to curriculum development is competency-based and incorporates a variety of training methodologies, including classroom, learning labs, guided application and practice, coaching, and tools for just-in-time learning.
Trainer Development
We identify content experts with solid child welfare practice experience and hone their training skills through a comprehensive trainer development program.
Transfer of Learning
We use multiple strategies to ensure that the knowledge and skills acquired by learners through training are actually used in their day-to-day work.
Coaching for Skill Development
One-on-one feedback and support from a coach is necessary for learners to develop proficiency in newly acquired knowledge and skills.
Training Evaluation
We integrate evaluation into all aspects of our work, both to ensure continuous quality improvement, and to identify training system outcomes.
A well-trained staff is essential to achieving best practice in any organization. Our Comprehensive, Competency-Based In-service Training (CCBIT) model provides everyone in an organization with the knowledge and skills they need to ensure best practice. CCBIT engages the “right people” to participate in the “right training” at the “right time” to stimulate and support practice change.
CCBIT relies on time-tested methods of competency development, training needs assessment, curriculum development, trainer preparation, and training evaluation. We deploy a variety of on-site and virtual learning options, such as workshops, self-directed learning, coaching, seminars, and strategies to promote transfer of learning to the job.
Training Needs Assessment
Our system of individual training needs assessment (ITNA) enables us to identify the highest priority training needs in a service system and ensure individuals get to the right training, at the right level, at the right time.
Direct Training
We provide competency-based training for managers, supervisors, caseworkers, caregivers, and adoptive parents in child welfare and protection, and adult protective services. Training topics range from foundational to highly specialized.
Curriculum Development
Our approach to curriculum development is competency-based and incorporates a variety of training methodologies, including classroom, learning labs, guided application and practice, coaching, and tools for just-in-time learning.
Trainer Development
We identify content experts with solid child welfare practice experience and hone their training skills through a comprehensive trainer development program.
Transfer of Learning
We use multiple strategies to ensure that the knowledge and skills acquired by learners through training are actually used in their day-to-day work.
Coaching for Skill Development
One-on-one feedback and support from a coach is necessary for learners to develop proficiency in newly acquired knowledge and skills.
Training Evaluation
We integrate evaluation into all aspects of our work, both to ensure continuous quality improvement, and to identify training system outcomes.
Policy Development
We work in collaboration with other child and family advocacy organizations to identify the most critical issues and dilemmas facing the child welfare/child maltreatment field today. We do extensive research to clarify the issues and the current state of evidence, and we synthesize our findings into policy statements, white papers, amicus briefs, and other vehicles to promote national and international policy change to support best practice.
Primary partners currently include the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the New York Foundling, and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD). Visit the Center for Child Policy to learn more.
We work in collaboration with other child and family advocacy organizations to identify the most critical issues and dilemmas facing the child welfare/child maltreatment field today. We do extensive research to clarify the issues and the current state of evidence, and we synthesize our findings into policy statements, white papers, amicus briefs, and other vehicles to promote national and international policy change to support best practice.
Primary partners currently include the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the New York Foundling, and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD). Visit the Center for Child Policy to learn more.
Organizational Development
Organizations can’t succeed if their structures and operations are not set up to advance and support the work. Even highly skilled and motivated professionals can be thwarted by organizational and systemic barriers. We deploy multiple strategies to set strong organizational foundations to meet goals.
Our services include organizational and environmental assessments, strategic and operational planning, setting effective policies, procedures, and staffing patterns; resource allocation; team development; program implementation and evaluation; and the hiring and ongoing professional development of staff.
Organizations can’t succeed if their structures and operations are not set up to advance and support the work. Even highly skilled and motivated professionals can be thwarted by organizational and systemic barriers. We deploy multiple strategies to set strong organizational foundations to meet goals.
Our services include organizational and environmental assessments, strategic and operational planning, setting effective policies, procedures, and staffing patterns; resource allocation; team development; program implementation and evaluation; and the hiring and ongoing professional development of staff.
International Capacity Building
From day one, IHS has been committed to a global vision of promoting the safety and well-being of at-risk children and families. A primary focus of our work is helping countries develop family-based alternatives to the institutionalization of homeless and vulnerable children, through stronger community support and prevention services and family-based alternative care.
From day one, IHS has been committed to a global vision of promoting the safety and well-being of at-risk children and families. A primary focus of our work is helping countries develop family-based alternatives to the institutionalization of homeless and vulnerable children, through stronger community support and prevention services and family-based alternative care.