SCIETT UPDATE: Florida Provider Network

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SCIETT UPDATEFlorida Provider Network

• 2007

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National News UCP Inclusion Survey

• How well do states utilize Medicaid for community
  inclusion for people with developmental
  disabilities?

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Florida Provider Networkhttp//www.flse.net/flpro
vidernetwork/fnp.asp
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Shared Data
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Services

• All eight responding agencies report serving
  people in supported employment
• Seven of eight provide ADT services.
• The average number of people in ADT per agency
  was 103, and the average in Supported Employment
  was 85
• skewed by three organizations that have large
  ADT centers.

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Services

• The median size is 106 for ADT, and 30 for
  Supported Employment.
• In total, FPN respondents served 719 individuals
  in ADT and 676 in Supported Employment.

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Staffing

• The median job coach staffing was 5.5 per
  organization.
• Range from 1 to 32, with a total of 64 job
  coaches among the eight agencies.
• Four agencies utilized a separate position for
  job development.

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Turnover

• In the last six months, eight agencies reported
  eight job coaches had left their employ, or
  approximately a 16 turnover rate semi-annually.
• Translates to a 32 annual turnover rate.
• There were three reported turnovers in job
  developers.

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Salaries

• There was a wide range of reported salaries for
  job coaches and job developers.
• Average job coach entry-level salary was 20,173,
  with the media being 22,380.
• The maximum job coach average salary was 25,900,
  and the median for the maximum was 26,791.

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Salaries

• Job developers on average earn more, with the
  average entry salary being about 5000 more than
  job coaches.
• The maximum job developer salary was 32,468,
  about 6500 more than job coaches.

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Salaries
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Salaries
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Caseload

• Caseload refers to how many people are being
  served per each job coach.
• The average caseload in supported employment was
  17.5
• Range from a low of 10 to a high of 25.

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Hiring Practices

• What attributes were most important when hiring a
  new community employment staff as a Job Coach ?

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Job Placements

• Placed 497 individuals in community jobs in the
  last six months.
• About 100 job losses over the same period, or
  approximately a semi-annual rate of 20 job loss
  per total placements.
• The median job placement rate per agency was 11,
  and the median job loss rate per agency was 3.
• (Note this number does not refer to the
  expected annualized job loss of the entire pool
  of place workers it just compares job placement
  rates to job loss rates.)

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Training Needs
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Florida Provider NetworkNewsletters (Mail and
PDF)
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Florida Provider NetworkNewsletters (Mail and
PDF)
http//www.flse.net/flprovidernetwork/newsletters.
html
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Florida Provider NetworkEmail Bulletins
22 Bulletins sent
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Florida Provider NetworkRSS News Current Feeds
on Disability and Employment - Refreshed Daily
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Florida Provider Network Web Training Center
http//www.flse.net/flprovidernetwork/training.asp
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Florida Provider Network Online Event Calendar
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Accessible Database

• SE Providers
• Project Training Participants
• Staff name
• Staff email
• Training topic(s)
• Date(s) trained
• Trainer
• Method
• Agency
• Completion
• Staff status (active, non-active, registered,
  enrolled, retired)

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Accessible Database

• Search Function
• Authorized Users Can Logon and Search for
  Trainee/Agency Information and Training Status
  Based on Various Types of Content

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Discussion Board

• http//www.flsupportedemployment.com8080/phpbb/
• 214 Registered users