U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES & US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR: Improving data on the workforce delivering home and community-based services
The brief provides background information on Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) and the work of the Home and Community-Based Services Federal Opportunities Regarding Workforce and Research Data (HCBS FORWARD) workgroup. It summarizes the workgroup’s recommendations to federal and state agencies, non-profit organizations, and research institutions to improve data infrastructure and information on the HCBS workforce. Implementing these recommendations will bolster the data infrastructure needed to answer key questions about the HCBS workforce and drive data-informed policy decisions to improve the quality of and access to HCBS for the millions of Americans who are receiving or need these services.
