Year of Grant Award:

2004

Project Title:

Washington State: Demonstration to Improve Direct Service Community Workforce

Grantee:

Washington State Home Care Quality Authority (HCQA)

Primary grantee point of contact:

Mindy Schaffner

Executive Director, HCQA

mschaffner@hcqa.wa.gov

Hypothesis:

Workers can best be recruited and retained through a supportive work environment that promotes the health and well-being of the worker and his or her family. Also, it is hypothesized that measures that have been found to increase recruitment and retention of other health care workers will work with this population of workers as well.

Interventions:

• Operate worker referral registry that will match worker skills, training and abilities with consumer needs and preferences and increase current and prospective worker knowledge of in-home care job opportunities.
• Assist workers through Referral Workforce Resource Centers in obtaining state health insurance coverage.
• Offer training for workers and consumer-supervisors through the Referral Workforce Resource Centers.
• Offer peer mentorship program through the Referral Workforce Resource Centers.
• Offer professional development opportunities through the Referral Workforce Resource Centers.
• Offer apprenticeship program through the Referral Workforce Resource Centers.

Evaluators:

Dave Pavelchek

Washington State University

Jane Wood

Home Care Quality Authority

Read about:

Click here to read about the Washington Case Manager Web Survey

Click here to read about the Washington state peer mentor program

Click here to read about becoming a Professional Individual Provider

Click here to read about becoming a Professional Individual Provider Section 1(Student Manual)

Click here to read about becoming a Professional Individual Provider Section 2(Student Manual)

Click here to read about becoming a Professional Individual Provider Section 3(Student Manual)

Click here to read about becoming a Professional Individual Provider (Student Manual- Appendices)

Click here to read about Peer Mentoring (Student Manual)

Click here to for the Medical, Dental & Vision Benefits For Home Care Workers Enrollment Application

Click here to read about Health Insurance Benefits for Individual Providers

Click here to read the Kaiser Benefits Summary

Click here to for the Medicare Insert Sheet Page 4 of 5 (SEIU Local 775 Multiemployer Health Benefits Trust)

Click here to for the Dental Insert Sheet Page 3 of 5 (SEIU Local 775 Dental Summary of Benefits for Individual Providers)

Click here for worker recruitment postcards

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