Every year, National DSP Appreciation week is in September. It was Sept. 8 – 14 this year. We always appreciate our employees, but we try to show them some extra appreciation each year during this week. This year, our Human Resources team with the help of Kristen King our Community Engagement Coordinator planned a fun event for each day of the week. Some examples include watching Forrest Gump at the Starlite Drive In, laser tag, pub trivia, and cookies and canvas. Additionally, they hosted an employee awards banquet and collected nominations for employee awards. We had so many great nominations, it was difficult to choose only one person to receive the award in each category. Pictured above, Hailey Clark (from our Human Resources team) is presenting DSP of the Year (1-4 years) to Jessica Conway.
Jessica is just one example of the many outstanding employees that we’re fortunate to have working with us. Here’s what her nominators had to say about her:
“Jessica always goes above and beyond for her clients and puts them first. She puts a lot of effort into working with her clients and has significantly helped one person increase his communication skills. For this particular client he really doesn’t use speech to communicate, so that is a huge deal. His increased skills have helped him to communicate his needs and wants, and reduced the need for him to act out in desperation. It is evident that his happiness level has increased because of her dedication and efforts to teach him alternative communication skills. The amount of thought she puts into how she can work better with him is very impressive. You can tell she truly cares about him and her job. She is reliable and always at work when she’s scheduled. She’s also willing to help in any way she can.”
Other award winners for 2019 were: Braden Kinser (DSP of the Year <1 year), Laurie Norton (DSP of the Year for >5 years), Erin Thurston (Administrator of the year)
We’re so grateful to all of our employees for the time and effort they put into their careers at LIFEDesigns. To see open positions with LIFEDesigns, go to our careers page.