Public Policy and Workplace Practices Forum
2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 24, 2003
Radisson Hotel
111 North Grand Avenue, Lansing, MI
Presentations of :
“Michigan’s Care Gap: Our Emerging Direct-Care Workforce Crisis” by Hollis Turnham, Michigan Policy Director of the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute
“Economic Self-Sufficiency in Michigan, A Benchmark for Ensuring Family Well-Being” by Jim Lunday, Senior Planning and Research Associate of the Michigan League for Human Services
Michigan’s network of long-term health care supports and services faces an unprecedented labor crisis. High turnover and vacancy rates among home care aides, certified nursing assistants, direct-support professionals and personal care assistants—our state’s direct-care workforce—are harmful to consumers, workers, and employers. Currently, most direct care jobs are not competitive with other entry-level jobs in terms of wages, benefits or working conditions. Across the board, average wages and benefits are generally not adequate to meet the basic needs of
workers or their families.
This Forum will focus on Michigan’s long-term care workforce, the emerging crisis and possible solutions based on state and national public policies as well as changes in employer practices.
Sponsored by: The Joyce Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the
Hudson-Webber Foundation, Metro Health Foundation, and the Michigan Women’s Foundation.
The forum's sponsoring foundations want to underscore the importance of
debating these direct-care workforce issues that are central to both quality
jobs and quality care in Michigan. Foundation support of the forum is not an endorsement of the recommendations presented.
There is no charge for attending the Forum. Please RSVP to Hollis Turnham at e-mail or telephone phone number listed below to insure a copy of all materials.
Hollis Turnham
Michigan Policy Director
Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute
5013 Applewood Dr
Lansing, MI 48917
517-327-0331 (voice and fax)
hturnham@...
www.paraprofessional.org
www.directcareclearinghouse.org
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