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		<title>ANCOR Accepting Nominations for Direct Support Professional Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANCOR is accepting nominations for its 5th Annual Direct Support Professional Recognition Award competition.]]></description>
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		<title>Apprenticeship Program for Direct Support Professionals Approved</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration has approved a Registered Apprenticeship program for direct support professionals, updating the prior direct support specialist apprenticeship. ]]></description>
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		<title>Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week Proclaimed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate has proclaimed September 12-18 to be 2010 Direct Support Recognition Week.]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO: ANCOR Announces Video Winners, National DSP Recognition Week</title>
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		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/video-ancor-announces-video-winners-national-dsp-recognition-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[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 &#8212; all both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa Issues Detailed Blueprint for Establishing DCW Credentialing System</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/iowa-issues-detailed-blueprint-for-establishing-dcw-credentialing-system/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/iowa-issues-detailed-blueprint-for-establishing-dcw-credentialing-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommendations for Establishing a Credentialing System for Iowa&#8217;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 &#8220;an accessible, comprehensible, flexible, quality system of education and training for all direct care workers.&#8221; The report documents work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHI Calls for Changes in Federal DCW Job Classifications</title>
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		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/phi-calls-for-changes-in-federal-dcw-job-classifications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a recent solicitation for comments from the federal government, PHI recommended changes to the three main categories used to track direct-care workers at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The government considers revisions to its Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) categories every ten years. PHI also asked the government to address the exclusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care for Health Care Workers Newsletter Seeks Suscribers</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/health-care-for-health-care-workers-campaign-launches-newsletter/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/health-care-for-health-care-workers-campaign-launches-newsletter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the HCHCW newsletter We&#8217;ve been covering news from our Health Care for Health Care Workers (HCHCW) campaign in PHI&#8217;s news stories and Quality Care/Quality Jobs newsletter ever since the campaign started years ago &#8212; and we&#8217;ll keep on covering the really big stories, since PHI&#8217;s beat is whatever affects the direct-care workforce. But now HCHCW has launched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DSPs Invited to DC to Advocate for Workforce Legislation</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/dsps-invited-to-dc-to-advocate-for-workforce-legislation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANCOR is inviting direct support professionals and their supporters to rally in Washington, D.C. next month to show their support for H.R. 1279 (pdf). DSPs to DC will convene workers, people with disabilities and their family members, providers, and advocates to &#8220;deliver a unified message about the direct support workforce crisis and the need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senators Learn About Person-Centered Care and the DCW-Resident Link</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/dcw-and-others-inform-senators-about-person-centered-care/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/dcw-and-others-inform-senators-about-person-centered-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I can honestly say that I love being a Shahbaz, and so do my fellow Shahbazim,&#8221; Edna Hess told the senators at a July 23 U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing. Hess worked for years as a CNA at the Lebanon Valley Brethren Home in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, becoming a Shahbaz (the Green House® name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin Legislators Learn About Direct-Care Workers</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/wisconsin-legislators-learn-about-direct-care-workers-at-listening-session/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/wisconsin-legislators-learn-about-direct-care-workers-at-listening-session/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent “listening session” on the direct-care workforce for Wisconsin legislators demonstrated the power — and the limitations — of capturing lawmakers’ attention with personal testimonials. Family members attested to the importance of paid caregivers, employers discussed the increasing difficulty of recruiting enough workers, and direct-care workers talked about the difficulty of surviving on their [...]]]></description>
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