• Formerly the PbS Learning Institute, Inc.

Attracting and Keeping the Right Staff

Recruiting new staff to work for juvenile justice agencies has become a bit easier over the past year, according to about 70 professionals who gathered recently for the Performance-based Standards (PbS) Learning Institute’s 2023 Agency Coordinators Training. But attracting the right staff and keeping them remains a challenge.

As a follow up to the Strategies for Staff Recruitment and Retention resource from the 2022 training, this brief shares tips from the PbS Agency Coordinators and shares Staff Climate Survey results from the April 2023 data collection. Attracting and Keeping the Right Staff

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Kim Godfrey Lovett

Kim is the executive director of the PbS Learning Institute. Kim was hired when CJCA incorporated in 1994 and has worked since it's inception to create the PbS system of continuous improvement to help facilities and agencies raise the quality of life and better conditions of confinement in youth facilities nationwide. She earned two master’s degrees: in journalism (Northwestern University) and criminal justice (Northeastern University.) She worked as a newspaper reporter for seven years prior to joining CJCA.

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