Publications

FROM THE DCA

Notes from the Frontlines

A how-to series for direct care worker advocates. All are PDF files.

• Launching a Direct-Care Worker Association: First Steps
• Understanding Your Core Constituency: Direct-Care Workers
• Understanding Key Stakeholders: Employers, Consumers, Policymakers, and Others 
• Making Your Stakeholder Partnerships Successful
• Developing Your Mission Statement  

 Health Care Reform Principles

Direct Care Worker Principles for Health Care Reform (PDF)

Policy Briefs

Analyses of legislative, regulatory, and public policy approaches to challenges facing the direct care workforce. All are PDF files.

The Best and Worst State Practices in Medicaid Long-Term Care 

Using Recovery Act Funds to Improve Direct Care Jobs and the Quality of Direct Care Services 

Protecting Home Care Workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act 
 

 State Direct Care Fact Sheets

One-page roundups of key facts for direct care worker advocates and their allies, legislators, policymakers, members of the media, and others interested in direct care issues. All are PDF files.

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arizona 
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington state
• Washington, D.C.
• West Virginia 
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Describing Direct Care Workers 

Direct Care Workers in Long-Term Care (PDF)

Who are Direct-Care Workers? (PDF)

Wages and Benefits

Paying for Quality Care: State and Local Strategies for Improving Wages and Benefits for Personal Care Assistants

State Chart Book on Wages for Personal and Home Care Aides, 1999-2006 (PDF)

Health Insurance Vital to Job Retention (PDF)

Working Conditions and Care Quality

Direct-Care Worker Associations: Empowering Workers to Improve the Quality of Home- and Community-Based Care (PDF)

The Direct Support Workforce Crisis: Can Unions Help Resolve This?

Improving Working Conditions for Nursing Home Direct Care Staff: Description of a project in two nursing homes in New York City

Knowledge and Skills Needed for Dementia Care (PDF)

Leadership Stories from Maine: The Voices of Direct-Care Workers in Culture Change (PDF)

What Makes for a Good Working Condition for Nursing Home Staff: What Do Direct Care Workers Have to Say? (PDF)

A synthesis of direct service workforce demographics and challenges across intellectual/developmental disabilities, aging, physical disabilities, and behavioral health (PDF)

Home Attendants Speak About Home Care (PDF)

Impact Feature Issue on Direct Support Workforce Development (PDF)