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		<title>DCA Members, Allies Comment on Proposed Rule</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/02/dca-members-allies-comment-on-proposed-rule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we&#8217;re about two-thirds of the way through the public comment period on the proposed rule to extend Fair Labor Standards Act protections to home care workers, the comments are beginning to give a sense of the range and sheer number of home care stakeholders who support the rule&#8211;and the depth of their passion about this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Caring for Friends Taught Me About Direct Care Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an advocate for people with disabilities, I’ve always realized that they need certain supports. But becoming a caregiver for two of my friends gave me a whole new awareness of just how much professional caregivers really do, and the huge responsibility they have for another person’s life. The first time I was put into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Honest Day’s Work Deserves Fair Pay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mohan Varghese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A home care workers explains why we need to enact the proposed home care rule It is only just to give home health care workers the basic rights that are guaranteed by the Fair Labor Standards Act.  If you look at any other job that’s non-salaried, they have those rights. If you work at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Direct Care Workers Must Be Treated as Professionals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ameia Yen-Patton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been a long-term care nurse for over 25 years, most recently as a gerontological nurse practitioner. I started out as a nursing assistant, but it wasn’t until I went to graduate school in 2006 that I realized how many people, including us long-term care nurses, fail to give direct care workers the respect and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DCA to Build on Momentum in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Dudzinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, Thanks to the hard work of our direct care worker leaders and allies, we made a lot of progress in 2011, and there are many opportunities for continued success in 2012. As DCA’s board chair, I am incredibly proud of the leadership and vision of DCA’s executive director, Leonila Vega, as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poems by Direct Care Workers: A Direct Care Worker Teaches the World to Love</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/12/poems-by-direct-care-workers-a-direct-care-worker-teaches-the-world-to-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Moreau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She knows how to turn your mother’s body to slide the wet Attends from under her, to clean her peri area, so the skin does not turn red and every day your mother tells her the same story - she saw Yul Brynner in the King and I on her honeymoon and every day the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working for Less than Minimum Wage</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/10/working-for-less-than-minimum-wage/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/10/working-for-less-than-minimum-wage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clara Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been doing home care work for 30-some years, and I love it. I tell everybody I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You have to have a heart to do this work. You can’t just do it for no reason. You have to be dedicated. I always put God first in my life, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Care, Commitment and Coffee with Naomi Smith of Michigan!</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/06/care-commitment-and-coffee-with-naomi-smith-of-michigan/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/06/care-commitment-and-coffee-with-naomi-smith-of-michigan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the 2011 Voices Institute Leadership Training, DCA communications director, Josh Sabato sat down to speak with direct care worker, Naomi Smith to discuss the most pressing issues facing direct care workers and how other activists can get involved in direct care advocacy in Michigan.  DCA Speaks with Naomi Smith at 2011 Voices Institute Training.]]></description>
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		<title>Care, Commitment and Coffee Series Continues!</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/06/care-commitment-and-coffee-series-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/06/care-commitment-and-coffee-series-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your passion. Your job. Your future! At the 2011 Voices Institute Leadership Training, DCA communications director, Josh Sabato sat down for conversations with workers and direct care advocates from around the country, discussing the most pressing issues facing direct care workers and how anyone can join the movement in their home state. This week we invite you to meet Noel Mendez, from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The National Voices Institute Experience &#8211; Part III</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/05/the-national-voices-institute-experience-part-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/05/the-national-voices-institute-experience-part-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 21:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join Florida CNA Joan Leah on her journey to this year&#8217;s Voices Institute Training My colleagues and I just completed the 2011 Voices Institute Leadership Training Program! It was a very intense, yet rewarding learning experience and I am honored to have graduated with some of the finest people I have ever met. The investment [...]]]></description>
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