Coalitions Harness the Power of Change
Here is a look at some of the BJBC coalitions, their accomplishments and the lessons participants learned.

Where Are the Workers?
The search for new pools of potential frontline workers is turning to new populations—workers above age 55 and former family caregivers who found fulfillment taking care of their loved ones. Two BJBC-sponsored studies took a closer look at those populations.

Workplace Interventions for Retention, Quality and Performance
Learn how investing in direct care workers will pay off for your organization.

The Business Case for Investing in Staff Retention
This article highlights how proactive efforts to reduce turnover— some expensive, some simple and cheap—are almost always worth the effort.

Article Discusses How to Improve Employee Motivation
Find out how surveying your employees can help with their motivation and improve the work environment.

Resource for Recruiting the Best Direct Care Professionals
This guide is responsible for helping Jennings Center for Older Adults better recruit and retain new employees. Denise Smudla, Director of Human Resources, says "The Long Term Care Workforce Initiative's competency standards and behavioral interviewing have been a critical component of a 51% reduction in 1st year turnover." Find out how this guide can help you in your efforts.

Workforce Management Magazine
This monthly magazine features the latest news, research and information for human resources professionals.

Workforce Excellence: Effective Tools to Recruit and Retain Staff
This AAHSA publication features testimonials for aging-services human resources experts on best practices for developing and maintaining an excellent workforce in your organization.

Engaging the Public Workforce Development System: Strategies for Investing in the Direct Care Workforce
This issue brief examines the reluctance to invest and engage and highlights five examples of successful partnerships between employers and workforce development networks. These partnerships are seeking to change business as usual in order to improve the quality of care, increase the supply of direct care workers and promote greater workforce stability through higher.

Linking Payment to Long-Term Care Quality: Can Direct Care Staffing Measures Build the Foundation?

Organization Strives to Reduce Workforce Vacancy, Turnover Rates
Better Jobs Better Care is a four-year $15.5 million research and demonstration program, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies. Its goal is to achieve changes in long-term care policy and practice that help to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among direct care staff across the spectrum of long-term care settings and contribute to improved workforce quality.

Database Includes Profiles of Recruitment and Retention Programs
This database includes profiles of programs implemented by service providers, educators, and worker and community organizations to improve the recruitment, training, and retention of direct-care workers across the spectrum of facility- and home- and community-based long-term care services. Each profile includes program descriptions as well as links to additional information. These practice profiles were researched and written by staff of the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) and the Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS).

National Commission on Nursing Workforce for Long-term Care
Established in 2003, the National Commission on Nursing Workforce for Long-Term Care developed recommendations for practical steps to strengthen the nursing workforce that cares for the nation’s frail elderly and disabled people.

A Mentoring Program to Reduce Turnover
In 1997 Luther Manor Retirement Community was struggling with a nursing assistant turnover of 102 percent. We decided we would no longer accept high staff turnover.

AmeriCorps Offers Workforce Development Opportunities to Not-for-Profit Organizations
Founded in 1994, AmeriCorps has a track record of accomplishment in the areas of education, public safety, the environment, and health and human needs. This federal agency offers not-for-profit organizations grants to recruit AmeriCorps members and volunteers that can help them expand their capacity to achieve their mission and building community involvement and support.

The Retention Specialist Project
A study at Cornell University examined the impacted of retention specialist in an aging-services organization.

Retention of Related Caregivers Can Expand Labor Force
This study found that paying family caregivers can expand the direct care workforce, and public payment draws more workers into the caregiving workforce permanently.

Ageing and Employment Policies - "Live Longer, Work Longer"