Sec. 25005. Technical assistance center for supporting direct care and caregiving
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator for the Administration for Community Living, for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $20,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2031, for necessary expenses to establish, directly or through grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements, a national technical assistance center (referred to in this section as the Center ) to— provide technical assistance for supporting direct care workforce recruitment, education and training, retention, career advancement, and for supporting family caregivers and caregiving activities; develop and disseminate a set of replicable models or evidence-based or evidence-informed strategies or best practices for— recruitment, education and training, retention, and career advancement of direct support workers; reducing barriers to accessing direct care services; and increasing access to alternatives to direct care services, including assistive technology, that reduce reliance on such services; provide recommendations for education and training curricula for direct support workers; and provide recommendations for activities to further support paid and unpaid family caregivers, including expanding respite care.
The term direct support worker has the meaning given such term in section 22301.