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NYSACRA Explores ARRA Workforce Development Funds to Promote Careers In Direct Care

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The New York State Association of Community and Residential Agencies (NYSACRA) recently partnered with the University of California – Berkeley, the University of Minnesota and the Erie County Community College’s One-Stop Career Center on a multi-state grant offered by the US Department of Labor’s American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA). This proposal will provide training and placement services to assist workers to pursue careers in the health care sector, specifically in providing direct support professional services to individuals with developmental disabilities and/or other disabling conditions needing long term care and support to live in their home communities and avoid institutionalization. Using a Two Prong Approach, NYSACRA and its partners will implement:

Regional/County Specific, Intensive Job Readiness Training and Placement: To provide unemployed or dislocated workers in six western New York counties with training to prepare them for employment as direct support professionals (DSP) and, upon completion of the training, to place them in employment with service agencies in the region. Once placed as DSPs, individuals will be eligible to pursue the national credential discussed in point 2 below. The counties that were selected encompass counties with unemployment rates higher than the statewide average of 8.6 as of July, 2009.
Statewide Access to National Credential: Provide incumbent direct support professionals (DSP) tuition assistance in pursuing and obtaining a portable, nationally recognized credential in the field of direct support and access to career ladders. DSPs from across the state will be eligible for this assistance. This will primarily be accomplished through the College of Direct Support.

For more information, contact Joseph M. Macbeth at NYSACRA (518) 449-7551 or e-mail at joem@nysacra.org.

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