An Iowa nonprofit that advocates for the state’s hundreds of thousands of care providers is launching a new feature on its website to honor those vital helpers by letting them tell their own stories.
Di Findley, executive director of Iowa CareGivers, says the photos and first-person testimonials put a face on the compassion of these important people.
“They’re typically kind of an invisible segment of our workforce,” Findley says. “We’re talking about nurse aides and home care aides there on the frontline. We just thought it was important to try to get the message out, increase awareness about who these individuals are, and the importance of the work that they do.”…