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		<title>Vermont Now Honoring Direct-Care Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vermont&#8217;s &#8220;Healthy Aging Awards&#8221; have been expanded to include a new category: &#8220;Caregiver Champion.&#8221; The Governor&#8217;s Commission on Healthy Aging sponsors the awards to recognize individuals and organizations that demonstrate its &#8220;ideals of Healthy Aging.&#8221; The Caregiver Champion award, which honors outstanding caregivers who exemplify the profession, made its debut at the fourth annual &#8220;Healthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: PHI to Manage Vermont Career Ladder Program for PCAs</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/press-release-phi-to-manage-vermont-career-ladder-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE For immediate release July 6, 2009 Contact: Alex Olins PHI Northern New England Director Phone: (802) 655-4615 Email: aolins@PHInational.org Rewarding Skill and Improving Care New initiative provides career advancement opportunities for direct-care workers in Vermont Burlington, VT &#8212; Few issues are more important to people today than health care. Both from a personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nationwide Initiative to Reduce DCW Turnover Documented</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The July issue of The Gerontologist is devoted to findings from the Better Jobs Better Care research and demonstration project. BJBC, which began in 2002 and ended in 2006, was the largest initiative in the nation ever created to address the high vacancy and turnover rates of direct-care workers by improving the quality of direct-care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Gas Prices Expose Home Care Fault Line</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/rising-gas-prices-expose-home-care-fault-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are rising gas prices making it harder for you to deliver or receive care? Add your comments at the end of this post.  We all feel the pinch from high gas prices, but for home care workers it&#8217;s more of a punch. As PHI President Steven Dawson puts it: “The doubling of gas prices over the past few years has been like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of Progress in the Mainstream Press</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/signs-of-progress-in-the-mainstream-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re having some doubts about whether public perception of direct-care workers is improving, a recent run of insightful stories in local papers may give you some hope. Two stories in Vermont papers, one in the April 7 St. Albans Messenger and one in the April 4 Brattleboro Reformer, covered a new study about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Study Calls Wages and Benefits Critical</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/vermont-study-calls-wages-and-benefits-critical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new study, better wages and benefits are critical to retaining direct-care workers in Vermont, yet a third of the state&#8217;s direct-care workers have employer-sponsored health insurance and only half of the workers surveyed expected to receive a raise. Legislative Study of the Direct Care Workforce in Vermont also reports that only 42 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermonters Get Fired Up at Town Meeting</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/vermonters-get-fired-up-at-town-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/vermonters-get-fired-up-at-town-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aolins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch the Fox 44 News video The forecast was for somewhere between 6 and 12 inches of snow and the roads were bad on the morning of the town meeting with Senator Sanders. I was worried about attendance, but by 10:45 or so we had about 50 people, which felt like a victory in and of itself. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Community Meeting to Focus on Direct-Care Workers</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/vermont-community-meeting-to-focus-on-direct-care-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/vermont-community-meeting-to-focus-on-direct-care-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who care about issues involving direct-care workers in Vermont can talk to their senator about their concerns on March 1. US Senator Bernie Sanders is holding a special community town meeting on &#8220;issues facing direct care workers and how we can improve the quality of care to the elderly and people with disabilities,&#8221; according [...]]]></description>
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