Maine’s Essential Care & Support Workforce Partnership gathered for the Future of Maine’s Care Workforce Planning Summit to generate the action steps needed to grow this workforce to meet Maine’s current and future demands.
Maine’s lack of care and support professionals is impacting us all – employees are leaving the workforce unnecessarily to provide care and support to loved ones, hospital beds are being filled unnecessarily by people who cannot get care at home or in a residential setting, and the problem is costing us over a billion dollars in lost economic activity and productivity.
The June 18th Summit highlighted the breadth of the continuing crisis and generated a myriad of suggested action steps needed to grow this workforce to meet Maine’s current and future demands.
All the good ideas were pulled into and summarized in the summit’s report, “The Future of Maine’s Care Workforce Planning Summit Culminating Report.”
We invite you to help us operationalize that plan over the next year by joining one of our three Working Groups. This Summit was about building a brighter future for everyone in Maine. We hope you will join us by emailing us with your interest.