Direct Care Workers United for Change
Direct Care Alliance is the national advocacy voice of direct care workers in long-term care. We empower workers to speak out for better wages, benefits, training, and working conditions, so more people can commit to direct care as a career. We also convene powerful allies nationwide to build consensus for change.
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Direct Care Alliance is helping New Yorkers get free or low-cost insurance through the new health insurance marketplace. Learn how you can get help--or help others.
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Fight for your passion, your job, your future.
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Direct Care Voices
Spotlight on Nursing Home Staffing
Nursing facility staff levels are drawing increased attention lately, spurring discussion about the connection between staffing levels ... Read more »Get Direct Care Workers Covered: A Home Care Aide Relieved to Have Health Care Coverage but Wishing It Were Even Cheaper
Beverly, a home health aide in New York City, usually works 5 days a week for 7 ... Read more »For My Friend Jack Who Has Cerebral Palsy and Lives in a Nursing Home
If I were you this is what I’d say There was a lack of oxygen at my ... Read more »Direct from the Headlines
- DCA's Carla Washington on the state of the direct care worker
- DCA's Jessica Brill Ortiz on why direct care workers are the new face of our economy
- DCA board member Erin Hayes says direct care workers make her family's life possible
- DCA's Tracy Dudzinski on why home care co-ops are a good business model
- The Huffington Post on the new minimum wage and overtime rule
- Bloomberg BusinessWeek on the rule and more recent coverage
- How low-wage workers--including DCA's Elizabeth Castillo--are falling further behind in our economic recovery
- DCA's Carla Washington on the 75th Anniversary of FLSA
