{"id":2026,"date":"2019-02-22T13:21:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T13:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2019-02-22T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T13:21:12","slug":"survival-coalition-applauds-executive-order-announcing-caregiver-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/2019\/updates\/survival-coalition-applauds-executive-order-announcing-caregiver-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"SURVIVAL COALITION APPLAUDS EXECUTIVE ORDER ANNOUNCING CAREGIVER TASK FORCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>(MADISON) &#8212; The Survival Coalition of more than 30 disability organizations supports today\u2019s announcement by Governor Tony Evers of an Executive Order identifying a caregiver task force to address the growing shortage of direct care providers, both paid and informal as well as the stress on family caregivers statewide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that people are not getting the care they need,\u201d said Beth Swedeen, Survival Coalition co-chair. \u201cOur survey showed that 95% of people with disabilities and their families had trouble finding caregivers, and 45% reported being unable to fill 7 or more shifts each month. This shortage is only projected to increase in the months and years ahead as Wisconsin\u2019s population ages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Pugh, Survival Coalition co-chair, said the pressure of unmet care needs is impacting families and employers statewide, \u201cMany informal caregivers report being forced to reduce hours or leave the workforce entirely in order to care for family members, incurring risk to their own financial futures and creating challenges for businesses that must adjust workflow for absent employees or deal with higher turnover rates as employees leave the workforce to care for loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA focused study of how to attract, train, support and retain quality direct care workers is critical to Wisconsin\u2019s future, and has great potential to save public funds by keeping people in their homes instead of costly facilities,\u201d said Kristin Kerschensteiner, Survival Coalition co-chair.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of Survival Coalition\u2019s member organizations list the direct care worker shortage as the top concern they are experiencing. Survival supports a comprehensive approach to addressing the crisis that includes increased wages and benefits for direct care workers, supports for family caregivers and as innovative public policies to attract and retain high-quality workers.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Survival_Coalition_Caregiver_Taskforce_Presser.pdf\">[see press release]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MADISON) &#8212; The Survival Coalition of more than 30 disability organizations supports today\u2019s announcement by Governor Tony Evers of an Executive Order identifying a caregiver task force to address the growing shortage of direct care providers, both paid and informal as well as the stress on family caregivers statewide. \u201cWe know that people are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}