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It’s time to make a difference for your workers and the people they care for. Take advantage of our research-backed solutions to improve the experience and capacity of your direct care workforce, today.
GoodLife U’s nonprofit consulting team analyzes your Direct Care Workforce and provides you with the tools and resources you need to thrive.
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Improving the Capacity of your Direct Support Workforce
The mission of GoodLife U is to deliver proven workforce strategies and solutions that improve the stability and capacity of the direct-support, hourly workforce for care providers nationwide. We’ve seen the difference that reimagining service models and systems has on an agency. We’ve dedicated ourselves to workforce consulting with care providers across the nation to implement lasting, research-based organizational solutions.
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Providing Privacy, Safety, and Independence
Our technology solution that offers a cost-effective alternative to assisted living, providing the extra confidence aging adults and those with disabilities need to live more independently. Customers have the ability to remain in their homes longer through remote support and best-practice care from people they know and trust.
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GoodLife U isn’t just another nonprofit consulting firm. We have the experience of a direct care agency, so our team understands the problems your organization faces daily, and our solutions were developed with the direct care workforce in mind. In four easy steps, our workforce consultants discover your needs, analyze your programs, design a solution, and help you implement it smoothly.
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GoodLife U: 2022 Video Blog Series
Episode 1: The 36 & 48 Contingency
GoodLife's 36 and 48 Contingency is specifically designed to meet the challenges of the new workforce reality.
Episode 2: Replacement Staffing
Replacement staffing represents multiple challenges. In this episode, Dr. Strouse introduces practical solutions…
Episode 3: Bifurcating Your Workforce
Learn about ICHRA and how bifurcation creates better opportunities, flexibility, and savings for both the workfo…
Episode 4: Technology Enabled Service Models, pt 1
Dr. Mike Strouse introduces a small series within our 2022 GoodLife U series focused on important system designs…
Episode 5: Technology Enabled Service Models, pt 2
What’s possible for virtual care is rapidly evolving. Dr. Strouse discusses the policy challenges that face tech…
Episode 6: Technology Enabled Service Models, pt 3
This episode includes demonstration of cutting edge iLink technology integrated within service models to improve…
Episode 7: Technology Enabled Service Models, pt 4
Dr. Mike Strouse talks with Ivo Ivanov about how to grasp a simple and attainable vision of The Final Rule.
Episode 8: Back to the Future
We’ve got to admit that technology is absolutely integral to our lives. Withholding tech from the lives of peopl…
Episode 9: GoodLife U Season Wrap Up
We take a look back at some key points during the past season and preview the next one with Megan McKinney Todd …
GoodLife U: 2021 Video Blog Series
GoodLife U Preview
What can you expect from this series?
GoodLife U Episode 1: The National DSP Crisis
Looking at turnover rates alone doesn't provide the answers our industry needs, but there is hope.
GoodLife U Episode 2: The Problem With Wonky Schedules
What are they? How did we get them? And what kind of havoc do they cause for staff stability?
GoodLife U Episode 3: The Five Faucet Theory
When each "faucet" is turned on, the result is improved DSP stability and improved quality of care.
GoodLife U Episode 4: Filling the Vacancy Gap
A system that anticipates need and has DSPs ready to fill the gap--here's how to do it.
GoodLife U Episode 5: Premium Pay
Vetted but complex, these pay strategies offer several advantages.
GoodLife U Episode 6: Paid Time Off and Pay Day
Let's take a look at some common, self-inflicted wounds.
GoodLife U Episode 7: Lifestyle Professional Direct Support Positions
We talk about positions that allow the caregiver to live with or near the people they support.
GoodLife U Episode 8: Professional Extended Family Model
Here's how our "shared living" approach is a little different from other, similar models.
GoodLife U Episode 9: Rise Up, Look Back, Step Forward
Time to ask the hard questions. When we begin helping other agencies, this is where we start.
GoodLife U Bonus Episode: Premium Pay with Jim Holland, Labor Attorney
BONUS! We dig a little deeper into the ins and outs of Premium Pay and hear from an expert.
