Helpful national resources

• Better Jobs Better Care – Vermont was one of five demonstration sites that received this grant to address culture change in long-term care. This site highlights the results/products of this demonstration.
• Direct Care Alliance – A national organization that's building awareness and unity around the importance of a stable and valued direct care workforce.
• Direct CareGiver Association (DCGA) is dedicated to providing leading edge training to professional caregivers.
• Health Care for Health Care Workers
• National Alliance of Direct Support Professionals - The NADSP is a coalition of organizations and individuals committed to strengthening the quality of human service support by strengthening the direct support workforce. The group has representatives from the fields of mental health, developmental disabilities, child welfare, education, and many others in the human services community.
• National Association of Health Care Assistants – This association of CNAs and health care assistants provides experience-based, peer-driven solutions to long term care.
• National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce – provides the latest information on improving the quality of care services by improving the quality of direct-care jobs.
• National Direct Service Workforce Resource Center – supports efforts to improve recruitment and retention of direct service workers who help people with disabilities and older adults to live independently and with dignity.
• National Family Caregivers Association – educates, supports, empowers and speaks up for Americans who care for loved ones with a chronic illness or disability or the frailties of old age.
• National Network of Career Nursing Assistants – educational organization promoting recognition, education, research, advocacy and peer support development for nursing assistants in nursing homes and other long term care settings.
• PHI National – works to improve the lives of people who need home or residential care – by improving the lives of the workers who provide that care.
• Pioneer Network – A national organization that envisions a culture of aging that is life-affirming, satisfying, humane and meaningful.