National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce

The National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce supports efforts to improve the quality of jobs for frontline workers who assist people who are elderly and/or living with disabilities. Founded by PHI, in cooperation with the Direct Care Alliance, the Clearinghouse acts as PHI's center for research and analysis and a centralized resource center for individuals and organizations concerned with the growing workforce crisis in long-term care.

Through the Clearinghouse, PHI collects and analyzes a wide range of information related to public policy, workplace practices, and other issues that affect direct-care workers and their clients. This information is disseminated to providers, workers, consumers, advocates, policymakers, researchers.

The major components for the Clearinghouse research center include:

Library of research articles, policy papers, governmental reports, and stakeholder perspectives.

Practice profile database: Examples of innovative recruitment training, career advancement, worker support, mentoring, and other workforce enhancement programs across the long-term care spectrum.

State activities database: profiles of efforts at the state level to stabalize the long-term care workforce, including legislative updates, workforce statistics, contacts for key advocacy groups.

News: A free electronic newsletter, e-mailed twice a month, reporting the latest news about workforce issues.

Links to government agencies, provider associations, worker associations, research centers, and more.