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 ...
Home Care Workers Protect the Civil Liberties of People with Disabilities. They Need Protection, Too
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 ...
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