The State of America’s Direct Support Workforce Crisis

For the fourth consecutive year, ANCOR has measured the impact of the direct support workforce crisis on community-based providers supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). By assessing the impact of the direct support workforce crisis on community-based providers on a consistent set of measures for four years, the 2023 edition of the State of America’s Direct Support Workforce Crisis is the first to shed light on longitudinal trends.

The results of this year’s report reveal that ongoing staffing shortages force providers to consider adopting extreme, sometimes gut-wrenching measures to sustain operations. Meanwhile, people with I/DD and their families are left with diminished access to services. Please join this session where we’ll discuss the value of data collection and surveys in analyzing the impact of the workforce crisis and how it can be leveraged to support advocacy to sustain access to community-based services.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn about the available data assessing the impact of the workforce crisis on access to services;
2. Learn how data collection and surveys can be utilized to assess the impact of the workforce crisis; and
3. Learn how data can be utilized in advocacy efforts to stabilize the workforce and access to services.