{"id":50,"date":"2011-10-09T21:18:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T21:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survivalcoalitionwi.org\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2011-11-04T18:50:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:50:06","slug":"budget-papers-long-term-care-workforce","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/budget-papers-long-term-care-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Papers &#8211; Long-Term Care Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2011-2013 Legislative Budget and Priorities &#8211; Long Term Care Workforce<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/LTC-Workforce-priorities.pdf\"><em>Download a PDF of this page<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Direct Support Professionals are the backbone of the community long term care system. They provide personal care and a wide variety of other supports in people&#8217;s homes and in the community.<br \/>\nSurvival Recommendations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase Family Care rates to specifically address DSP salaries.<\/li>\n<li>Increase wages and access to benefits for Direct Support Professionals.<\/li>\n<li>Implement the College of Direct Support, a national training program that has proven to decrease turnover and increase retention rates among DSPs.<\/li>\n<li>Support WIDCA (WI Direct Care Alliance) to empower DSPs to network, to get advanced training, and to advocate for themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Provide training and support on employment issues to people who hire their own DSPs through the use of Self-Directed Supports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Background:<br \/>\nDirect Support Professionals provide personal care and a wide variety of other supports in people&#8217;s homes and in the community. Wisconsin will need at least 5000 new DSPs in the next five years, and the turnover rate for existing jobs is as high as 50%. Although there is a great need to find DSPs, the low salaries and limited benefits make it difficult to recruit and retain good workers. Other reasons that DSPs leave the field include a concern that they have not been fully prepared to do the work, feeling that they have no input into the way the jobs is done, a the general lack of respect for this work. Improve training so DSPs are fully prepared to provide high-quality services will improve job retention.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information contact: Maureen Ryan, moryan@charter.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011-2013 Legislative Budget and Priorities &#8211; Long Term Care Workforce Download a PDF of this page Direct Support Professionals are the backbone of the community long term care system. They provide personal care and a wide variety of other supports in people&#8217;s homes and in the community. Survival Recommendations: Increase Family Care rates to specifically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}