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John Joyce
"I am a 73 year old man taking care of my wife, who suffers from severe arthritis. I don't want my wife to end up in a nursing home, but the way the system is, she might have to. Pennsylvania should set up a registry of qualified workers, where I can recruit my own worker to come in and help. Family caregivers like me need relief."
John Joyce
Brookline, PA
Time for the Consumer Workforce Council!
A Consumer Workforce Council will expand home care options for seniors and people with disabilities -- while improving wages and providing health benefits for the direct care attendants who serve them.
Tell our Legislators and Governor Rendell: It's Time for the Consumer Workforce Council!
Learn About the Consumer Workforce Council
Pennsylvania's leading aging organizations, disability rights groups, and health care workers' organizations support the Consumer Workforce Council: a board of seniors and people with disabilities who work directly with home care attendants to build the retainable, reliable home care workforce our Commonwealth needs.
Tell Our Legislators And Governor Rendell: It's Time For The Consumer Workforce Council!
Seniors, people with disabilities, and the workers who support them are standing together to make sure people get the long term care they need in their homes – not just in nursing homes.
That's why Pennsylvania's largest Centers for Independent Living, senior advocacy organizations, and home care workers' unions support the Consumer Workforce Council.
A Consumer Workforce Council will expand home care options for seniors and people with disabilities -- while improving wages and providing health benefits for the direct care attendants who serve them.
Legislators Hear Loud and Clear: Pennsylvania Supports the Consumer Workforce Council!
People with disabilities, seniors, and home care attendants celebrate a great hearing on the Consumer Workforce Council on May 13, 2009
On May 13th, 2009, seniors, people with disabilities, and home care attendants from all over the state were proud to witness the House Aging and Older Adult Services and Labor Relations Committees conduct an important hearing on the Consumer Workforce Council. The Consumer Workforce Council is home care consumers' plan to build a reliable workforce of home care attendants that can help all of us get the care we need at home.
Well over 100 leaders in the ongoing work to build a home care system that works for everybody came together in Harrisburg on the 13th:
Check out the press release on the event from Pennsylvania's Campaign for the Consumer Workforce Council below, and stay tuned for more news and leadership on home care in Pennsylvania!
We Did It!
On April 1st, over two hundred people with disabilities, seniors, and home care attendants gathered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to tell our legislators and Governor Rendell that now is the time for the Consumer Workforce Council.
With support from over a dozen legislators who stood with us, lots of press coverage of all of us urging lawmakers to move quickly on the CWC, and strong representation from the whole state, we know that we are well on our way to building the retainable, reliable home care workforce people with disabilities and seniors need.