Reducing Paraprofessional Employee Turnover

Last week I wrote about the high cost of paraprofessional turnover, both in terms of dollars, and in terms of diminished quality of care (see The High Costs Of Paraprofessional Employee Turnover – Sizing Up The Challenge). It is clear that no behavioral health care organization will withstand the transition to more in-home and community-based care without successfully tackling the challenge of recruiting and retaining the paraprofessional work force. How to do this?

As a behavior analyst, I look at staff performance challenges in terms of “response effort” and “contingencies of reinforcement.” In other words – how difficult is it . . .