This resource provides tools, contact information, and lessons learned from eight research projects that focused on providing a more stable and qualified workforce. These projects, including state demonstrations and applied research and evaluation programs, are part of the four-year, $15.5 million Better Jobs Better Care initiative. The report compiles the major findings, and the resource catalog provides surveys, policy analyses, training and assessment materials, and many more practical tools. 

Livingston, Joy 

Wages and Benefits; Recruitment and Retention; Personal Assistant; Caregiving; retention specialists; training; education; cultural competence; Better Jobs Better Care; BJBC; Organizational Cultural Competence Assessment; Improving Institutional Long-Term Care for Residents and Workers: The Effect of Leadership, Relationships and Work Design; Making Consumer-Directed Home Care a Good Job; The Retention Specialist Program: Testing a Model Workplace Innovation; The Impact of Job Preparation, Ongoing Education and Training on Job Satisfaction and Commitment among Frontline Workers and Their Supervisors; Older Workers in Direct Care: A Labor Force Expansion Study; Labor Force Expansion Through Retention of Related Caregivers; STEP UP NOW for Better Jobs and Better Care: Supporting Training, Education & Payment to Upgrade Performance of Nurse Aides and Other Workers 

Long-Term Care, Quality, Workforce/Direct Care 

Assessments, Contacts, Policy alerts, briefs, letters & papers, Reports, Surveys, Training materials, Toolkit 

American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging; AAHSA; Institute for the Future of Aging Services; IFAS 

California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, All States/Territories 

11/17/2008 

Joy Livingston
Flint Springs Associates

joy@madriver.com
802-482-5100