Open AccessTransforming Impossible into Possible (TIP): a bottom-up practice in workforce development for low-income jobseekers
Author(s) -
Philip Young P. Hong
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
environment social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2424-8975
pISSN - 2424-7979
DOI - 10.18063/esp.v1i2.51
Subject(s) - transformative learning , workforce , transformational leadership , workforce development , agency (philosophy) , process (computing) , work (physics) , psychology , closure (psychology) , top down and bottom up design , knowledge management , business , public relations , sociology , social psychology , economic growth , political science , engineering , pedagogy , economics , computer science , mechanical engineering , social science , law , operating system , software engineering
This paper discusses an evidence-informed bottom-up transformative social work practice model that holistically encapsulates multi-system levels of practice. Based on 12 years of empirical evidence on psychological self-sufficiency (PSS), the Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) program was developed to focuses on the ‘process’ of human agency development that leads to economic self-sufficiency (ESS) ‘outcomes’. It attempts to bring together various modalities of social work practice into a transformational leadership development framework that reflects a bottom-up, participant-centered approach to empowering individuals to impact larger systems. In workforce development practice, it is being regarded that constructs reflected in TIP improve both employment and retention outcomes.