Professor Temple University Philadelphia, PA, United States
This presentation focuses on current crises in the human service workforce resulting from neoliberalism. Interviews with 78 human service staff inform delineation of current concerns of and response to these challenges. Given the predicted shortage of practitioners, discussion centers on preparing the next generation in light of the workforce crises.
Learning Objectives:
To identify the impact that neoliberalism has had on the human service sector, its agencies and workforce, specifically austerity measures, privatization, and devolution.
To articulate the specific human service workforce crises, such as low pay, chaotic agency cultures, and efficiency performance metrics, that are leading to job, agency, and profession exit behavior.
To determine educational strategies that will prepare the next generation of practitioners to understand, navigate in, and challenge current workforce conditions and mitigate human sector workforce crises.
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