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	<title>News and Opinions « Direct Care Alliance &#187; training and education</title>
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	<description>What direct care worker advocates are thinking, saying and doing</description>
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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>Why Direct Care Workers Must Be Treated as Professionals</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/why-direct-care-workers-must-be-treated-as-professionals/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/why-direct-care-workers-must-be-treated-as-professionals/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/dca-to-build-on-momentum-in-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/dca-to-build-on-momentum-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Dudzinski</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.directcarealliance.org/?p=4572</guid>
		<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>Home Care Agency Owner Finds Caregiver Training Invaluable</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/12/home-care-agency-owner-finds-caregiver-training-invaluable/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/12/home-care-agency-owner-finds-caregiver-training-invaluable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Hebert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I own a non-medical home care agency that provides assistance with activities of daily living. Our clients are all private-pay, and our direct care workers are all caregivers or companions, not certified CNAs or home health aides. Those caregivers are our business. Young or old, they have to have a passion and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Care Quality by Developing Direct Care Worker Leaders</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/11/improving-care-quality-by-developing-direct-care-worker-leaders/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/11/improving-care-quality-by-developing-direct-care-worker-leaders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developing direct care workers’ leadership skills can be an effective way of improving job and care quality in long-term care, according to early feedback from a collaboration between the Direct Care Alliance and four New York City-area nursing homes. The program is part of a pilot being conducted by DCA, the Beth Abraham Family of [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/10/demonizing-caregivers-no-way-to-reduce-elder-abuse-says-dca-issue-brief/#comments</comments>
		<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>Conference Inspires and Informs Florida Caregivers</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/10/conference-inspires-and-informs-florida-caregivers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/10/conference-inspires-and-informs-florida-caregivers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Nachtway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 16th annual Florida Professional Association of Care Givers (FPACG) conference, which was co-sponsored this year by DCA, was inspirational from the start. After a welcome and invocation by CNA/HHA Rita Andrews and CNA/HHA Nancy Strebel, the Air Force junior ROTC from Lake Brantley High School presented the colors. What a thing that was to witness! Next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PA Caregivers Invited to Free Training, Board Meet</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/09/pa-caregivers-invited-to-free-training-board-meet/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/09/pa-caregivers-invited-to-free-training-board-meet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.directcarealliance.org/?p=4211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pennsylvania Direct Care Workers Association invites all interested direct care workers in Pennsylvania to two free training sessions and a PaDCWA board meeting, to be held at Arden Courts in Allentown on October 27. The first training will be on the subject of caregiver burnout. It will be conducted during a working lunch (provided at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Care, Committment and Coffee Series Concludes with Norman Thomas of New York</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/08/care-committment-and-coffee-series-concludes-with-norman-thomas-of-new-york/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/08/care-committment-and-coffee-series-concludes-with-norman-thomas-of-new-york/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:02:22 +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, Norman Thomas to discuss the most pressing issues facing direct care workers.  Mr. Thomas is a direct care worker at Beth Abraham Family Services in Bronx, New York. The DCA recently teamed up with Beth Abraham and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Care, Commitment and Coffee with Melva Proctor of Virginia!</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/08/care-commitment-and-coffee-with-melva-proctor-of-virginia/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/08/care-commitment-and-coffee-with-melva-proctor-of-virginia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:04:40 +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, Melva Proctor to discuss the most pressing issues facing direct care workers and how other activists can get involved in direct care advocacy in Virginia.]]></description>
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