Year
of Grant Award:
2004
Project Title:
Community Care Attendant Resources & Education
(C-CARE)
Grantee:
Arkansas Department of Human Services
Primary Grantee Contact:
Kris Baldwin
Project Director, Dept. of Human Services
Kris.Baldwin@arkansas.gov
Hypotheses:
- People with disabilities and older people are a viable source
from which to recruit and retain DSWs.
- By training people with disabilities and older individuals as
DSWS, C-CARE can promote their successful entry into the field.
- Retention of DSWs is directly affected by the skill of their
supervisors.
- A Web-based DSW registry can serve as an employment aid for DSWs
seeking work and would benefit individual consumers and provider
agencies seeking employees.
Interventions:
- Recruit and train people with disabilities and elders to become
DSWs.
- Develop, implement and maintain a back up pool of specially trained
workers, to be hired by provider agencies and individual consumers
in Pulaski County.
- Offer supervisory training to personal care provider agencies'
staff as well as individual customers.
- Establish and maintain a web based statewide worker registry
for use by consumers and agency providers.
- Develop and implement a marketing campaign to aid recruitment
and make people aware of C-CARE and what it offers to the community.
Evaluator:
Cindy Young
Arkansas Dept. of Human Services
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