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Beyond The First Meeting: A Guide for Beginning and Cultivatinga Thriving Workplace Education Program

This guide will help adult education providers connect with employers to build strong, viable
partnerships. It’s designed from the perspective that the best way to address the needs of students is
by adequately building and fostering strong employer partnerships. Once this is done, you are well on
the way to meeting the employment or advancement needs of students.

Direct Care Workers in the United States: Key Facts 2023

Direct Care Workers in the United States: Key Facts provides a new annual snapshot of the direct care workforce, including its demographics, occupational roles, job quality challenges, and projected job openings. The report includes detailed overviews of three segments of this workforce: home care workers, residential care aides, and nursing assistants in nursing homes.

What you need to know about Medi-Cal’s DEI training requirements.

Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, provides needed health care services for low-income individuals including families with children, seniors, persons with disabilities, foster care, and pregnant people.

Equitable Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Care: An Urgent Need

Patient-experience survey shows stark access barriers for mental health versus physical health

988 mental health crisis line gets 5 million calls, texts and chats in first year

When 24-year-old Marie texted 988 last December, she was in the middle of a dissociative episode that left her unable to speak.

“I just remember shaking and being on the floor and not knowing how to get my soul back to my body,” Marie says. “All I could feel was fear.”

UCSF study unpacks root causes of California’s homelessness crisis

A massive UC San Francisco study of California’s worst-in-the-nation homelessness crisis was released Tuesday as Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders were negotiating details of a new state budget, with homelessness spending as one of the knottiest issues.

US surgeon general warns of next public health priority: loneliness

There’s an ailment linked to increased heart attacks, depression, diabetes, crime and premature death in the US, and it’s affecting people no matter where they live or who they are: loneliness

The cost of senior care is rising while caregivers are ‘drowning’ without help

For most of her life, Tammy La Barbera has been taking care of someone other than herself. First, it was her two children. Then, it was her brother and father, who both died after being diagnosed with cancer. Now, Tammy is taking care of her 90-year-old mother, Ada, who was diagnosed with dementia five years ago.

Assessing the lingering impact of COVID-19 on the nursing workforce

Analysis suggests potential instability and workforce gaps in the US healthcare sector. A call to action for all stakeholders could help.

Care for the caretakers: Building the global public health workforce

In this article, we examine four fundamental shifts that governments can implement to address the growing issue of public healthcare workforce shortages.