DCA Publishes Fact Sheets for Direct Care Worker Advocates and their Allies
A full set of DCA Direct Care Fact Sheets, one for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, is now available in the Resources section of our website. The one-page sheets were created as a...
View ArticleReal Wages Keep Falling for Personal and Home Care Aides
As every direct care worker advocate knows, personal and home care aides earn far too little for the important work they do. And now an updated version of PHI’s State Chart Book on Wages for Personal...
View ArticleRecruiting Public Housing Residents as PCAs
A case study from the DSW Resource Center outlines a model for recruiting people in public housing buildings as personal care attendants. Work Where You Live (PDF) describes a program in the Glenwood...
View ArticleNursing Assistant in the U.S., King in Uganda
A political refugee from Uganda who worked for years as a nursing assistant in Maryland and Pennsylvania has gone back home to take his place as king of the Rwenzururu Kingdom. According to an...
View ArticleSupport Melanie’s March for Health Care Reform
A group of Pennsylvanians is marching the 135 miles from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., over the next week. They are going to call on Congress to support health care reform, and they want you to...
View ArticleProtecting the Social Safety Net
UPDATE: Help us fight to preserve these crucial programs by emailing your elected representatives. Our action alert makes it easy to send them a letter. Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are...
View ArticleDirect Care Workers in the News
The U.S. economy does not value caregivers, writes Anne-Marie Slaughter in The Atlantic. The text of a tweet chat about professional and family caregivers and direct care care consumers that was hosted...
View ArticleDirect Care Workers in the News
“It’s way, way deeper than just a job,” says one of the home care workers in this article about going the extra mile to get to clients during this winter’s storms. Personal support workers in Illinois...
View ArticleDirect Care Workers in the News
The March/April Caring Economy Campaign newsletter includes an interview with DCA’s Jessica Brill Ortiz. DCA Executive Director Carla Washington on why it pays to invest in advocacy by and for direct...
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