Direct Care Workforce

The purpose of the AccessMaine site is to provide access to information about community-based services for persons with disabilities, their families, and providers in the State of Maine.

The first newsletter for the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Community Integration of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) announces the opening of their Center and describes the mission and the goals of the Center, including all the research and training projects that will be conducted there over the next 5 years.

This teleconference is designed to assist grantees that are preparing new curricula for trainings and other activities or who are engaged in the effective communication of information. Kathleen McInnis-Dittrich is the presenter for this teleconference, and she is an Association Professor in the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, where she teaches social work with elders, social work practice, and methods in professional education.

Direct care workers and long-term care employers are facing greater challenges than ever before in securing affordable health coverage. This "Better Jobs, Better Care" issue brief presents the case for improving health coverage to direct care workers and offers realistic strategies for making health coverage more available and more affordable to them and their families.

This link to the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP)website contains the presentations from the 2004 CMS Conference held March 2-3, 2004.

This document describes the Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Recruitment and Retention Project implemented by the Iowa Care Givers Association. This program aims to decrease turnover among CNAs who provide direct support in three Northwest Iowa nursing facilities. ICA is a member-driven association that provides education, information, support, and advocacy for CNAs, Home Health Aides, and other specialized direct support professionals.

Teleconference presentation by Susan Flnagan on Workers Compensation \"best practices\" for personal assistants. The topic is Accessing Workers’ Compensation Insurance For Individuals Participating In Self-directed Support Service Programs: A National Review.

Workforce Tools is a series of publications for people concerned with improving the quality and stability of the home- and community-based direct-care workforce. This brief outlines standard training practices for direct-care workers, identifies training gaps, and provides examples of outstanding programs. This is a tool to help agencies, consumers and workers find and develop appropraite educational resources.

The University of California & San Francisco’s Center for Personal Assistance Services provides research, training, dissemination & technical assistance. The center, which was created with the help of a grant from the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research, toffers number of useful resources, including materials about the direct-care workforce and a well-stocked library of publications on issues relating to personal assistance services.

This report describes a recruitment effort lead by the Metro Region of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation (DMR). DMR and provider agencies, in collaboration with a communications company, conducted a marketing campaign to recruit direct support professionals. The report highlights the implementation and impact of the project.