Tools for Quality Workforce Released by PHI

As reported on the PHI blog, several findings and tools from the Better Jobs Better Care demonstration project have been released.

Many of you will remember that the Lehigh Valley Direct Care Workers Association was created as part of that project.

Most notably, are these reports:

Solutions You Can Use: Transforming the Long-Term Care Workforce takes the major findings and examines how aging-services providers can use them to build a quality workforce. The booklet is organized by WHAT WE LEARNED and WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU.

The findings are organized around four themes:

• Where to find new pools of workers
• What interventions improve retention
• The training direct-care workers and nurse supervisors want and need
• How to develop cultural competence

A Crisis With A Solution: Tools and Resources for Transforming the Long-Term Care Workforce is a compilation of the tools and resources used and developed by BJBC and the grantees.
An accompanying 9-minute video features several BJBC providers sharing their journey from a workplace in crisis to one that empowers direct-care workers and is transforming the way they do business. Narrated by Robyn Stone, BJBC national program director and IFAS executive director, it shares the overall lessons learned during the four-year project.

Nationwide Initiative to Reduce DCW Turnover Documented

Many of you know that the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Direct Care Workers Association started as part of the Better Jobs Better Care demonstration project. PHI's blog has an post that discusses the July issue of The Gerontologist devoted to findings from the Better Jobs Better Care research and demonstration project. Read more here.