The Workforce Innovation and Development (WID) Collaborative
Workforce Innovation & Development (WID) Collaborative is an open forum through which new and promising approaches to behavioral health, developmental and intellectual disabilities workforce challenges and opportunities can be designed, implemented and evaluated and existing strategies can be adapted and improved.
About the WID Collaborative
Vision:
Vision of WID Collaborative is that the Kentucky behavioral health, developmental, and intellectual disabilities sectors will collaborate to explore, design, implement, and evaluate workforce practices that support service delivery that promotes the health, safety, and wellbeing of all Kentuckians.
Mission:
The mission of WID Collaborative is to establish an open, participatory, and productive collaborative that enables the review, design, implementation, and evaluation of policies and practices intended to improve recruitment, advancement, retention, performance and satisfaction of the behavioral health, developmental and intellectual disabilities workforce. The Collaborative will employ strategies to promote effective and efficient brainstorming, coordination and communication among key implementers as well as alignment with related initiatives.
Goal:
The overarching goal of WID is to increase access to quality care by strengthening capacity of the behavioral health and intellectual and developmental disabilities workforce.
Framework:
JOIN THE WID COLLABORATIVE TODAY!
Our meetings are open to all who register.
Please email vivian.pleasant@ky.gov if you would like to be invited to all WID meetings.
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Meetings and Events
Thank you for your interest and participation in the KY Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities’ Workforce Innovation and Development (WID) Collaborative. Session recordings and meeting materials can be found via the below calendar link.
Contact KDBHDID Executive Advisor Dr. Tena Robbins, Vestena.Robbins@ky.gov, and Workforce Consultant Beth Kuhn, elizrkuhn@gmail.com, for more information and see below for past meeting materials and recordings.
