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Staff Engagement And Training In Supported Addiction Recovery Program For Adults With Intellectual Disabilities, Hannah Carlson Jurewicz Jan 2020

Staff Engagement And Training In Supported Addiction Recovery Program For Adults With Intellectual Disabilities, Hannah Carlson Jurewicz

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The prevalence of substance use disorder (SUD) is similar among individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities (ID/DD) and the general population, yet there is a disparity between treatment and outcomes for these two groups due to a lack of appropriately adapted treatment and staff training. The purpose of this case study was to examine how leaders in a behavioral health organization understand the engagement and training experience for staff who provide substance abuse treatment for individuals with ID/DD. Governance and operational data were collected and analyzed from internal archival sources and organizational leader interviews. Themes identified from coding indicated that …


Strategies Health Care Leaders Use To Implement Strategic Change Initiatives Successfully, Sophia F. Brown Jan 2020

Strategies Health Care Leaders Use To Implement Strategic Change Initiatives Successfully, Sophia F. Brown

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Health care organizations lose a significant competitive edge when leaders fail to align strategic change initiatives with necessary operational activities. Health care leaders who struggle to maintain a competitive edge are at high risk for failure. Pettigrew and Whipp's content, process, and context strategic change management and Hoshin Kanri (HK) program deployment models constituted the composite conceptual framework for this study. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies health care leaders use to implement strategic change initiatives successfully. The participants comprised of 4 strategic change leaders from 2 health care organizations in Manhattan, New York, …