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		<title>Demonizing Caregivers No Way to Reduce Elder Abuse, says DCA Issue Brief</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/10/demonizing-caregivers-no-way-to-reduce-elder-abuse-says-dca-issue-brief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The personal, often intimate nature of caregiving relationships can make it difficult to define, detect, and deter the abuse of elders and people with disabilities by the caregivers they rely on. Nonetheless, there are a number of steps that employers and policymakers can take to support good care and prevent abuse,” says No Excuse for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Book, &#8220;The Caring Self&#8221; Spotlights the Indispensible Role Home Care Aides Play in American Society</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/08/new-book-the-caring-self-spotlights-the-work-experiences-of-home-care-aides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A note from the author, Clare L. Stacey, Ph.D. In The Caring Self, I paint a picture of the important (and often unrecognized) work that home care aides do everyday in this country.  I began my research after meeting a disabled woman and her caregiver who lived around the corner from me. The client, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woo-Hoo, Our Co-Op Toolkit is Finished! Or Is This Just the Beginning?</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/03/woo-hoo-our-co-op-toolkit-is-finished-or-is-this-just-the-beginning/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/03/woo-hoo-our-co-op-toolkit-is-finished-or-is-this-just-the-beginning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Dudzinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was approached to write a toolkit about starting a worker-owned home care cooperative, I wasn’t sure where to start.  But if you have read some of my previous blog posts, you know I say that you can’t grow as a person if you don’t step out of your comfort zone. I have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DCA Publishes Fact Sheets for Direct Care Worker Advocates and their Allies</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/06/dca-publishes-fact-sheets-for-direct-care-worker-advocates-and-their-allies/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/06/dca-publishes-fact-sheets-for-direct-care-worker-advocates-and-their-allies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 resource for direct care worker advocates and their allies, legislators, policymakers, members of the media, and others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Expert Calls for Minimum Labor Protections for Home Care Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/06/policy-brief-calls-for-overtime-and-minimum-wage-protections-for-home-care-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/06/policy-brief-calls-for-overtime-and-minimum-wage-protections-for-home-care-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Federal reform is urgently needed to provide home care workers with the compensation and respect they deserve,&#8221; says Peggie Smith. Smith, who is the Murray Family Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law and a graduate of Harvard Law, is talking about a U.S. Supreme Court decision that excluded home care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Use Economic Stimulus Funds to Improve Direct Care Jobs</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/03/how-to-use-economic-stimulus-funds-to-improve-direct-care-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/03/how-to-use-economic-stimulus-funds-to-improve-direct-care-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using Recovery Act Funds to Improve Direct Care Jobs and the Quality of Direct Care Services (PDF) A new Direct Care Alliance policy brief helps direct care worker advocates, employers, educators, researchers and others make the case for investing part of the federal funding available through the Recovery Act in the direct care workforce. DCA [...]]]></description>
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