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Find useful resources for Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Providers
Stakeholder Engagement
- Direct Care Workforce Collaborative - this stakeholder group meets bi-monthly to identify and move forward strategies to support the recruitment and retention of Colorado's direct care workforce.
- Office of Community Living Stakeholder Engagement page
Funding Opportunities
- House Bill HB 21-1264 Stimulus Funding
- Informational Memo IM 21-052 - Provider Relief Funding
- Ready to Rise Collaborative Stimulus Outreach (Communications Toolkit)
Articles
- Older Americans Act: The Foundation of the Aging Services Network
- Collaborating to Address HCBS Workforce Challenges in MLTSS Programs
- House Education and Labor, Ways and Means Reconciliation Legislation Memo
- We Will Ride: 43 years after the 'Gang of 19' protests
- Colorado’s Direct Care Workforce
- Direct Care Workers In the Time of COVID-19
- Federal Policy Priorities for the Direct Care Workforce
- American Jobs Plan
- It’s Time to Care: A Profile of America’s Direct Care Workforce
Videos
Workforce Development
- Direct Care Workforce Base Wage
- Direct Care Spotlight
- Direct Care Labor webpage (CO Dept. of Labor and Employment)
- Provider Update Wage Attestation Form - Updated April 2024
- 2023 Wage Attestation Form
- 2022 Wage Attestation Form
- 2022 IRSS Wage Attestation Form
- Find Quality Child Care
- Letter from Gov. Polis: Notice of New Base Wage Requirement for Direct Care Workers - December 15, 2021
- Base Wage Requirement for Direct Care Workers Frequently Asked Questions - December 2021
- Draft Rule for Stakeholder Input: 8.511 Base Wage Requirement for Direct Care Workers (eff. Dec. 10, 2021)
- Base Wage Requirement for Direct Care Workers Presentation - November 17, 2021
- Base Wage Rate Increases - DRAFT - November 17, 2021
- Staff, Recruitment, Retention, & Training Strategies for Community Human Services Organizations
- The DSW Core Competency Project
- A Blueprint for Reforming Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports and Creating Good Caregiving Jobs
- Colorado Job Quality Framework
- Staff Wellness
- Supporting Your Staff
- PHI Workforce Data Center
- Coverage of Direct Service Workforce Continuing Education and Training within Medicaid Policy and Rate Setting - A Toolkit
- Overviews of Workforce Challenges and Effective Improvement Strategies
- Workforce Development Through No Wrong Door (NWD) Systems/ADRCs
Other Resources
- HCPF American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Page
- HCPF Memo Series Communications
- HCPF Provider Resources
- Home and Community Based Services Authorities
- HCBS Business Acumen Center
- HCBS Conference (Advancing States)
- Other Long-Term Services and Supports Programs