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[wpyt-post]J2pd8xvs5sU[/wpyt-post] Tuesday night at the Democratic Convention in Denver, I saw a special speaker take the floor around 6:15. Her name is Pauline Beck, and she is a home care worker in Oakland, California. A year ago, Barack Obama spent a day on the job with Pauline, as part of the SEIU’s Walk a Day in My [...]

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Tapping the Power of Peer Mentoring This is the second in a series of PHI Expert Interviews, which bring you insights from four senior PHI staff. They’re an impressive group – among the nation’s leading experts on long-term care’s direct-care workforce – and collectively they’ve spent decades studying the challenges facing the workforce and how [...]

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[wpyt-post]veHT-I543eY[/wpyt-post] ANCOR continues its advocacy work for direct support professionals (DSPs) with two announcements this month: It has selected the winners of its 2008 DSP TV Online video contest, and it has won the unanimous support of the U.S. Senate for its National Direct Support Professionals Week. The six DSP TV Online winners — all both [...]

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There were no speakers and no breakout groups — just a fun time for all on a beautiful, sunny day at our June 14 celebration of the founding of the Virginia Association of Professional Nursing Assistants. The pictures are of our the board of directors — and our birthday cake. Seeing all those direct-care workers in the [...]

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“There is now a consistent pattern of data showing that homecare workers receiving benefits have a lower rate of attrition and, therefore, a higher rate of stability,” says the latest report from the Los Angeles County In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program. Impact of Health Benefits on Retention of Homecare Workers: Analysis of the IHSS Health [...]

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Recommendations for Establishing a Credentialing System for Iowa’s Direct Care Workforce, (pdf) a recent publication from the Iowa Direct Care Worker Task Force, is a useful tool for advocates in any state who want to create “an accessible, comprehensible, flexible, quality system of education and training for all direct care workers.” The report documents work [...]

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