Direct care workers (DCWs) are the backbone of our country's long-term care workforce.
Multiyear funding is required to sustain our services and value Direct Support Professionals.
There is a workforce crisis in Intellectual Disability and autism services.
Legislation that invests in the Direct Support Professional workforce is needed.
That is the human cost, the human face of these policy issues and issues that need to be resolved.
We recently finished our outreach efforts and have sent out almost 170,000 notices to the affected beneficiaries.
I think it is always important that we center the people as we discuss policy, remember the human face of the issues we ...
People like Denise and others shouldn't have to be penalized for a situation that they did not create.