Why Educational Standards For The Direct Care Profession Is Important
Urge Iowans to Call on Legislators to Support Establishment of the Board of Direct Care Professionals
Matt Clevenger, Certified Nursing Assistant, Urges Iowans to Call on Legislators to Support Establishment of the Board of Direct Care Professionals.
Click here to see the Des Moines Register letter to the editor.
 Former Director of Iowa Commission on the Status of Women Shares Opinion After Receiving Direct Care
Published in the following newspapers:
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Press Citizen (Iowa City)
Fort Dodge Messenger
 "We require 2,100 hours of training for cosmetologists. Nobody ever dies from a bad haircut. People die from getting bad care."
Standards, incentives needed for Iowa’s direct care workers.
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Source: Daily Nonpareil Online – Council Bluffs, Iowa by Tim Johnson
Empowered To Care (Videos)
A Message from Direct Care Workers, Employers, and Consumer Advocates!
State Educational Standards for the Direct Care Workforce ARE Important to Us!
We are direct care workers and we can't be at the State Capitol 24-7 to share our thoughts because we are providing care and support to Iowans 24-7. So please take a few minutes to hear what we have to say about the need for educational standards for direct care workers and the Board of Direct Care Professionals. We provide care and support to older Iowans, kids and adults with mental and physical disabilities, those with Alzheimer's and brain injury, and those at the end of their lives. Our voices need to be heard.
— Becky Johnson, Home Care Aide, Osage, Iowa.
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To learn more about the members of the Direct Care Professional Education Review Committee who appear on the Empowered to Care video, please click here.
A Message from Public Health
Proposed New Educational Standards for Direct Care Workforce
— Erin Drinnin
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A Message From A Long Term Care Employer
"as an employer (home care) I worry about meeting the demand out there..this has the capacity to make an incredible impact on this workforce."
— Anne Peters, Home Instead Senior Care
Click here to view the forum video excerpt.
A Message From A Consumer Advocate
"Looking at the numbers (of this workforce) ..we know that Iowa is not prepared to care,"
— Kent Sovern, Executive Director, AARP Iowa
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A Message From A Direct Care Worker
"and he said take care of her Fran. Will you do that?"
— Fran Mancl, Certified Nursing Assistant
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A Message From A Consumer
"I fell from a ladder…I want my independence back…you rely on these people to come get you up, dress you…”
— Bruce Hamilton, Consumer, Boone
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A Message From A Direct Care Professional
“not everyone views direct care as a profession but they might if we gave them a reason to…”
— Becky Johnson, Home Care Aide, Osage
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