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Better Jobs, Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce
To create changes in policy and practice that will lead to recruitment and retention of high-quality direct care workers in nursing homes and in home- and community-based settings.
National Program
American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA)
2519 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC, 20008-1520
202-508-1215
Website
Robyn I. Stone
Program Director
202-508-1206
Email
Linda Barbarotta
Communications Officer
202-508-1209
Email
RWJF Staff
Recent Grants
- $44,000.00 awarded to American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) - Planning for RWJF's Better Jobs, Better Care program
- $451,537.00 awarded to American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) - Technical assistance and direction for the Better Jobs, Better Care program
- $259,845.00 awarded to Boston University School of Public Health - Determining whether an organizational cultural competence intervention is associated with certified nursing assistant job satisfaction and motivation
- $247,891.00 awarded to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research - Study of training, education and payment upgrade performance of direct care workers
- $257,473.00 awarded to Connecticut College - Examining the effects wage and benefit differentials have on recruitment, retention and hours of work among the home care workforce