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Better Jobs, Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce

National Program

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.

Promoting Community Health Workers to Reduce Health Disparities in Minnesota

December 20, 2012 | Program Result

Staff at the College of Allied Health and Nursing of Minnesota State University at Mankato created a curriculum and certification process for community health workers and advanced their role in the state's health care system.

Evaluation of Better Jobs, Better Care

October 1, 2010 | Survey/Poll

Better Jobs Better Care sought to change public policy and management practice to improve recruitment and retention of high-quality paraprofessional direct care workers (DCW).

Expanding the Ability of Practitioners and Scholars to Assess Law as a Tool to Improve Public Health

January 4, 2011 | Report

Knowledge Asset: An ongoing study examines the breadth of local public health decision-making authority and describes how local public health ordinances fill gaps in or supplement existing state and federal public health ordinances.

The Better Jobs Better Care Management Practice Change Initiatives

September 7, 2010 | Report

The Better Jobs, Better Care demonstration provided grants and technical assistance to coalitions of providers, workers, consumers, and policy makers to improve the quality of jobs of long-term care (LTC) direct care workers (DCWs), improve recruitment and retention, and strengthen capacity to meet future demand.

Advancing Public Health Practice and Policy Solutions

January 10, 2010 | Issue Brief

Under its Advancing Public Health Policy and Practice solicitation, RWJF funded 16 projects and the Center for Creative Leadership produced Knowledge Assets that synthesize the work and learnings from these projects.

Better Jobs Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce

April 27, 2011 | Program Result

Better Jobs Better Care supported changes in long-term-care policy and provider practices to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among the paraprofessionals who provide direct care to older adults and to improve the quality of that care.

Oregon Works!: Promoting Change Through Person-Directed Care

April 25, 2011 | Program Result

The Oregon Works! project of Better Jobs Better Care aimed to improve recruitment and retention of direct-care workers at eight participating long-term-care sites. The union representing the state's independent home-care workers also participated.

Vermont: Empowering Direct-Care Workers Through Education

April 25, 2011 | Program Result

"We made sure we developed both centralized and individualized curricula that addressed the needs expressed by each participating site" in the Vermont Better Jobs, Better Care project, said the project director.

Pennsylvania: Forming Regional Coalitions in a Large State

April 25, 2011 | Program Result

The lead agency for the 40-member Pennsylvania coalition for the Better Jobs Better Care project divided the state into five regions in order to provide a local focus on long-term care worker issues in the large state.

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