“Meeting so many other direct support professionals who are passionate about making changes that are necessary to benefit the DSP workforce, and getting to know them over the course of the week, was very inspiring for me,” says Bridget Siljander of the Voices Institute. “And I learned so much about community organizing, coalition building, fundraising, [...]
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Institute Gives Worker Leaders a Powerful Boost
Posted on 29 May 2008.
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Free Dementia Care Guide Now Better than Ever
Posted on 29 May 2008.
A dementia care guide that has been helping direct-care workers since 2006 is now better than ever. Knowledge and Skills Needed for Dementia Care: A Guide for Direct Care Workers in Everyday Language helps direct-care workers determine whether they have the skills they need to deliver person-centered dementia care — and where to go for [...]
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Reports Outline Effective Approaches, Resources
Posted on 29 May 2008.
“Offering affordable health care coverage is an effective way of improving the quality of long-term care services by improving the quality of direct-care jobs. I’m glad to see this strategy getting more recognition from researchers and policymakers,” says Carol Regan, Director of PHI’s Health Care for Health Care Workers campaign. Regan wrote one of the [...]
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Bronx Strike Attracts National Attention
Posted on 29 May 2008.
A three-month strike for health care benefits at a nursing home in New York’s west Bronx has drawn the attention of a couple of national heavy hitters: Presidential candidate Barack Obama and the New York Times. According to a May 26 article in the Times, Kingsbridge Heights Rehabilitation and Care Center stopped paying health insurance [...]
America Faces Caregiving Crisis: One Million New Direct-Care Workers Needed by 2016
Posted on 27 May 2008.
Download Release as PDF PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release America Faces Caregiving Crisis: One Million New Direct-Care Workers Needed by 2016 National Health Care Worker Advocacy Group PHI Reports on Rapid Growth in Demand for Direct-Care Workers Bronx, NY, May 27, 2008— By the year 2016, America will need 1 million additional direct-care workers to [...]
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AAHSA Chief calls DCWs “The Cornerstone of Quality”
Posted on 27 May 2008.
“Direct-care staff members are the cornerstone of quality. There should be two types of nursing homes: the excellent and the nonexistent. Staffing makes the difference,” says Larry Minnix in a letter to the editor of the New York Times. The letter comments on an article about a recent Government Accountability Office report (pdf) on the [...]
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