TACAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE Ft. WORTH, TX (MAY 22-25, 2023)

Stressed about cost allocation? Discover practical solutions to staying in compliance with cost allocation under Federal and State guidelines. Lessons learned from past mistakes and ideas to make your process simpler will be shared by the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of Rolling Plains Management Corporation. Prepare for cost allocation challenges facing the Community Action agencies, especially during monitoring and audits, that are driving financial practices without getting stressed.  

In order to stand out as a highly effective human service professional they need to consistently demonstrate specific skills. This training provides attendees with a variety of behaviors and skills that will set them apart from others to effectively meet client needs as well as promote an environment of professionalism and high performance. This training provides the foundation for exceptional performance for human service workers.  Ideal for human service professionals (i.e. case managers, coordinators, etc.).

In order to stand out as a highly effective human service professional they need to consistently demonstrate specific skills. This training provides attendees with a variety of behaviors and skills that will set them apart from others to effectively meet client needs as well as promote an environment of professionalism and high performance. This training provides the foundation for exceptional performance for human service workers.  Ideal for human service professionals (i.e. case managers, coordinators, etc.).

Compassion fatigue or burnout? Individuals in the helping professions are faced daily with the task of being someone’s sounding board, saving grace, and life line. This position often requires you to think outside of yourself and put the thoughts, feelings, and needs of others at the forefront. Those in the helping professions experience a large amount of vicarious trauma while in the field that often goes unprocessed and unnoticed. This workshop will assist you with defining compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout. You identify symptoms of compassion fatigue, how to recognize it, and how to engage in effective behaviors to counteract maladaptive behaviors and emotions.

The labor market is in a very interesting period of flux, so it is important to keep these data updated and prioritized as events and trends change.

These 2 consecutive sessions will cover how to be prepared for a Department monitoring. We will cover why the monitoring process exists, the required monitoring cycles, how to submit the requested testing samples, common mistakes to avoid, issues that can trigger additional monitoring activity, and how to respond to monitoring reports. Time permitting, we will work on network program production and trends.