Advocates, including from Long Island, call for better pay and affordable housing for DSPs as rising costs and federal cuts ...
Kathy Hochul offers a 2.5% cost-of-living increase in her budget plan. State lawmakers want an 8.5% hike for direct-care professionals. Advocates and nonprofits that employ DSPs say that's still not ...
Credit: Getty Images Health care workers with disabilities face significant challenges, such as employment discrimination, lack of accessibility, and ableism. Nurses constitute the largest group of ...
A Direct Support Professional in Philadelphia argues that essential workers who provide life-changing care deserve living ...
At the onset of the pandemic, as most of the country shuttered themselves inside to avoid COVID-19 infection, home health aides remained on the front lines, taking care of our loved ones and risking ...
A new report makes a series of recommendations the authors say will strengthen Medicaid home- and community-based services and support direct care workers, but one Illinois advocacy organization says ...
A major NDIS plan management provider says the scheme is bogged down by red tape and needs an urgent overhaul of the payments ...
Ginny Clark, a longtime client at disability support nonprofit Our Own Lives, has had the unique opportunity to shape her own disability care at the organization. Clark, who has a cognitive, visual ...