Making Direct Support Professionals no longer Invisible
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Professional caregivers are bureaucratically invisible. They don’t exist as a US federal job classification.
…. and therefore the government doesn’t track them.
… so no one is looking.
…. so no one is held accountable.
… and so the disabled and elderly people they care for… aren’t visible either.
The US Congress is working to change this with the:
Recognizing the Role of Direct Support Professionals Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1332/all-info