Employment and Community First CHOICES Workforce QuILTSS Initiative Survey 2019: Year Two Report

The Institute on Community Integration (ICI) at the University of Minnesota worked in collaboration with TennCare and Tennessee Community Organizations (TNCO) to develop and administer the Employment and Community First CHOICES QuILTSS Workforce Initiative 2019 Survey, analyze the data, and report the results.

For more information about University of Minnesota’s efforts on the QuILTSS Workforce Initiative, please contact dsp-tn@umn.edu.

This survey is part of a larger project in which TennCare is collaborating with Tennessee Community Organizations and the ICI at the University of Minnesota to address workforce challenges for direct support professionals (DSPs). In this comprehensive effort, the University of Minnesota conducted an annual statewide survey about the direct support workforce in Tennessee. Participating organizations received a profile about the direct support workforce in their organization. They also received training and technical assistance to identify and address at least one key challenge that their organization faces and to improve their direct support workforce turnover and retention rates.

Project technical assistance team from the University of Minnesota includes: Barbara Kleist, Sarah Hall, Claire Benway, Laurie Tschetter, Julie Kramme, MacDonald Metzger, Mark Olson, and Amy Hewitt. 

Suggested citation:

Pettingell, S., Hall, S., Kramme, J., Kleist, B., Eschenbacher, H. J., Hewitt, A. (2020). Employment and Community First CHOICES Workforce QuILTSS Initiative Survey 2019 Year Two Report. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, Research and Training Center on Community Living.