Better Jobs Better Care is a 4-year $15.5 million research and demonstration program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies.
The program seeks to achieve changes in long-term care policy and practice that help to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among direct care staff across the spectrum of long-term care settings and contribute to improved workforce quality.
Creating a pool of talented people to care for our elders is one the greatest challenges our society faces. High-quality staffing is also the best proxy for quality we have in our work. AAHSA is committed to helping our members take this challenge head on and improve and advocate for a committed and well-trained long-term workforce.
AAHSA workforce strategies include:
AAHSA Talent Cabinet
The AAHSA Talent Cabinet has brought together AAHSA members, aging services providers, consumers, direct care staff and representatives from education, research, state government and workforce development to develop recommendations for policy, practice and education changes that address the current and projected long-term care workforce shortages.
Its work on core competencies and retention will help identify the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to provide the highest level of care to our nation's elders and the strategies needed to retain keep quality staff. Learn more.
AAHSA Advocacy and Public Policy Team
The AAHSA Advocacy and Public Policy Team advocates for public policies that support a quality workforce and a healthy management culture that supports teamwork, trust and competence. AAHSA's focus for 2009/2010 includes research, development and dissemination of core competencies for all professions providing aging services, strategies to recruit, educate and retain licensed and direct-care staff, funding for training and resources for family caregivers who provide the majority of long-term services and supports. Learn more.
Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS)
IFAS provides research and resources to help members become employers of choice in their communities, help alleviate long-term care workforce shortages and improve workforce performance and quality.
AAHSA members and other aging services providers collaborate with IFAS to identify and assess promising workforce development and improvement practices and develop demonstrations of innovative workforce development models. Learn more.
Better Jobs Better Care
Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC) was the nation's largest single initiative to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among direct care staff across the spectrum of long-term care settings and contribute to improved workforce quality. Learn more.