{"id":1013,"date":"2020-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehealthworkforcehub.org\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2020-04-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T04:00:00","slug":"recruiting-and-retaining-a-diverse-direct-care-workforce-key-considerations-for-long-term-services-and-supports-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/recruiting-and-retaining-a-diverse-direct-care-workforce-key-considerations-for-long-term-services-and-supports-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Direct Care Workforce: Key Considerations for Long-Term Services and Supports Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To meet client needs, long-term services and supports (LTSS) providers must be responsive to diverse cultural beliefs and values\u2014that is, culturally competent. One step towards delivering culturally competent LTSS is recruiting a direct care workforce that reflects many aspects of diversity, such as race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, faith, and country of origin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resourcesforintegratedcare.com\/sites\/default\/files\/CC_Direct_Care_Workforce_Brief_Recruiting_and_Retaining_a_Diverse_Direct_Care_Workforce.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.resourcesforintegratedcare.com\/sites\/default\/files\/CC_Direct_Care_Workforce_Brief_Recruiting_and_Retaining_a_Diverse_Direct_Care_Workforce.pdf<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diverse workforce, particularly when direct care workers\u2019 cultural and linguistic backgrounds match their clients\u2019 backgrounds, is important for providers committed to addressing the needs of the increasingly diverse population of individuals using LTSS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,22,35],"tags":[59,265,266,204,180,170,181],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engagement-and-morale","category-employers","category-recruitment-volunteers","tag-direct-care","tag-diverse-workforce","tag-key-considerations","tag-long-term-services-and-support","tag-recruitment","tag-retention","tag-workforce"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}