Direct Care Alliance

Have you checked out the Direct Care Alliance webpage? Do you know about the Direct Care Alliance, a national Direct Care Worker Association?

If you haven't already checked out the new Direct Care Alliance website, you might want to take a look this week. They have revamped it to offer more information and inspiration, including separate landing pages to help direct care workers, consumers, employers, and members of worker associations and coalitions (hey -- that is us!) find what they're looking for.

Other features include:

• News and Opinions. Read blog posts by our direct care worker specialists, Executive Director Leonila Vega, and others -- and join the online conversation by leaving a comment yourself.
• Issues. This section outlines challenges facing direct care workers and links to ways you can learn more about the issue, advocate for improvements, or find out about other groups working for change;
• Resources. Publications, organizations, and online services that match direct care workers with clients; and
• Videos. Videos shot at the DCA's 2007 conference, at last year's open house, and at other DCA events are salted throughout the site, so you can hear what direct care workers, employers, consumers, funders and others are saying about the DCA and its mission.
• Who We Are. Meet our staff, board, and direct care worker specialists or read about our beliefs and principles. This section also includes a definition of direct care work from our direct care worker specialists.

Over the next few months, they will be adding interactive features to help build their movement and give advocates more ways to communicate with each other online, making the website a powerful tool for grassroots advocacy and community building!