BIP Capacity
Description
Conversations and strategies around capacity are critical to the work we are all engaged in. What is capacity? How do we know when we're at, below, or beyond it? More specifically, how can we identify the source of the issue? Capacity issues can stem from a variety of things like policy/procedural gaps, staffing/funding/resource concerns, and sometimes it's an individual employee performance concern that needs to be handled individually. How can we tell the difference?
As leaders and staff we need to be able to evaluate on an individual, departmental, and organizational level when we are below, beyond, or at capacity and what that looks like in our agencies. Our individual program and collective agency capacity (or lack thereof) can have either positive or negative impacts for clients. Naturally, reaching or going beyond capacity has implications for workforce development, program space, policies & procedures, job satisfaction, supervision, and so much more!
Let's discuss together how we define capacity and how we can support our staff in sustainable equitable ways through engaging in conversations around capacity.
Facilitator
David Garvin serves as the Director of Battering Intervention and Systems Response for the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence. David has been directly involved in the anti-domestic violence movement since 1986 when he founded the Alternatives to Domestic Aggression (ADA) battering intervention program. David was named the 2009 National Association of Social Workers-Michigan (NASW-MI) Social Worker of the Year. David’s work in the movement to end domestic violence was featured in the book Gender-Based Perspectives on Batterer Programs: Program Leaders on History, Approach, Research and Development, by Edward W. Gondolf, 2015. In 2017 David was awarded the Glenn R. Winters Award (renamed the Nachtigal Award in 2018) from the American Judges Association. David is a co-founder and current Chair of the Battering Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan (BISC-MI: https://www.biscmi.org/).
This conversation will be focused on BIP capacity. We are encouraging supervisors, managers, executive directors, as well as BIP staff to attend.