Alberta Community Disability Services

Best Practices in Recruitment and Retention

The challenges we need your help to overcome

Like many other industries, many service providers in the field of community disability services are also facing human resource challenges, especially labour shortages. These struggles are forcing service providers to be creative and adaptive in recruiting and retaining their staff.

There is good news though! There are many strategies that can help you and others like you plan for the sustainability of your workforce and overcome these shortages. On this website we are highlighting recruitment and retention strategies that organizations are using.

Employer of Choice in Calgary

On July 31, 2008 the HUB Team for the Employer of Choice officially began our "Framework for Collaboration" for the Employer of Choice Initiative. The six agencies involved are very excited with this initiative and would like to share our learning's and progress within the Community Disability Service sector.

Attached is the introduction to the Employer of Choice Initiative and the Employer of Choice "Framework for Collaboration". We believe this would be a great opportunity for all service providers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the Employer of Choice Initiative. Click here for more information.

It's My History, Too!

Calgary´s Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute (VRRI) is spearheading the creation of a museum exhibit that will feature influential Albertans who have made significant contributions to the lives of people with developmental disabilities. In 2009, the project team hopes to incorporate this exhibit for a four month term into Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta, a new permanent exhibition at Calgary´s Glenbow Museum. In the fall of 2005, Jeanette Coombe had the idea of showcasing the history of persons with developmental disabilities in Alberta. Inspired by a Smithsonian exhibit on the U.S. disability rights movement (see the website http://americanhistory.si.edu/disabilityrights) and Mavericks, Jeanette and co-worker Annaléa Sordi thought that a museum exhibit would be a very public and innovative way of telling this "uniquely Albertan history."

View the complete article in our IN THE LOOP newsletter - ISS 02 Summer 2007