Staff turnover in youth-serving organizations runs as high as 40 percent per year. Most administrators treat this as an HR problem — a cost to manage, a vacancy to fill, a disruption to program continuity. The research says it is something more serious than that. For youth in your programs, particularly those such as foster…
Kids Who Carry More: What Foster Care Month Means for Your Organization May is National Foster Care Month. For administrators and direct-service staff of youth-serving organizations, it is worth treating this observance as something more than a social media post. It is an invitation to ask a practical question: does your organization understand the foster…
A landmark 12-year longitudinal study reframes what your organization can do—and why it matters. Many staff members and leaders in youth-serving organizations carry a quiet tension. They engage with the ACE research, they understand the cumulative weight of adverse childhood experiences on the children and youth they serve, and they wonder whether the damage already…
You’ve read through every page of the independent report and appreciate that the investigator identified clear paths forward. But here’s the next difficult question for you: How do you ensure these recommendations don’t simply become another binder on the shelf? In my previous post, I emphasized that recommendations from an independent investigator must become an…