We know
many of you are using DS in your work. We have heard
from some of you about your particular DS activities
and would like to hear from more. Let us know what you are
doing with DS so we can share it in this newsletter. Simply
e-mail your story to ds@highline.edu.
“ DS Making Impact at Kitsap
Community Resources”
Ginny Sackett, Community Jobs Employment
Counselor/Facilitator, Kitsap Community Resources, recently
wrote that her agency
is busy incorporating Dependable Strengths into its programs… with
results! Here’s what she wrote:
“Currently, all staff of the
Employment and Education Division, are either trained as
a DS Trainer (3 of us to
date, with our director scheduled for the June workshop)
or have attended an all-day DS training (facilitated by VernaRae
Oraker, Charmaine Scott and myself).
Dependable Strengths is currently
used in our five day Community Jobs Orientation Program.
Although we do not teach all the
steps, we teach a significant number of them (at this time
we do not teach the "job magnet" procedure). We
ask participants to write a DS Report, use their DS Report
description in their resume, write a sample cover letter
and "60 second sell" (which highlight their dependable
strengths), and use their dependable strengths when writing
their "Individual Development Plan". We
have documented a 35-40% increase in the participants’ ability
to identify and prove their dependable strengths both to
themselves and to a potential employer (based on participants’ self
evaluations from a pre and post test done at Orientation).
We are also teaching DS to participants
of the "Parenting
to Employment" program and hope to incorporate DS in
the parenting classes”.
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