Quality Care/Quality Jobs
News about the direct-care workforce |
 Obama's Budget Speaks to Direct-Care Workers and Employers
The proposed budget outlines spending initiatives addressing two of Obama's top priorities: job creation and health care reform. Read more and comment |
 Times Advocates to End Home Care Aide Pay Discrimination
A New York Times editorial calls for overturning the 1975 federal labor
regulation that exempts agency-employed home care workers from federal
minimum wage and overtime protections. Read more and comment |
 Brookings Institution Holds Long-Term Care Forum
Nearly two dozen eldercare experts convened in Washington, DC, on January 28 for a long-term care forum held at the Brookings Institution, a public-policy think tank. Read more and comment |
 Foundation Awards Grants to Develop California Direct-Care Workforce
Five organizations have received a SCAN Foundation grant award aimed at developing California's direct-care workforce through training and continuing education. Read more and comment |
Deane Beebe, Director of Public Education and Media Relations
dbeebe@phinational.org718.928.2033 PHI works to improve the
lives of people who need home and residential care-and the lives of the workers
who provide that care. Our goal is to ensure caring, stable relationships
between consumers and workers, so that both may live with dignity, respect, and
independence. |
