The DCW Strategies Center delivers training and technical assistance to build capacity and drive systems change in the recruitment, training, and retention of the direct care workforce through State Peer-Learning Collaboratives (PLC).
The Strategies Center will sponsor time-limited, results-oriented, and topically focused working groups of states leveraging peer-learning opportunities. Each state participating in the DCW State PLC will engage in monthly virtual meetings focused on group learning and information sharing on best practices, innovative strategies, and demonstrated models for growing the direct care workforce. In addition, each state will work with a subject matter expert. Each participating state will accomplish one policy or program-related milestone within the parameters of the topic of focus as a result of participation in one PLC.
The 2024 cohort of the State PLC included the following 14 states:
- California
- Connecticut
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Michigan
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- Oregon
- Utah
- Vermont
- Washington
The first cohort of the DCW Strategies Center State PLC ran through December 31, 2024.