Welcome to the Center for Personal Assistance Services 
Our Center provides research, training, dissemination and technical assistance on issues of personal assistance services (PAS) in the United States.
Our research can be found under the links above, prior trainings are in presentations, webcasts and on the PAS Users page. Assistance can be found on the Ask Mike page and via contact with staff.
This website includes PAS resources such as state data, contact details for government agencies, staff publications, policy and legislation, events calendar and our newsletter. This website does not include job posting for personal assistants.
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What's New
PAS Center Publications
Private-Duty Industry Association Studies of DOL's Proposal to Revise FLSA's Companionship Exemption: What Do They Tell Us?
Posted: March, 2012 read more
Statement for the Record by the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) For the Hearing on Ensuring Regulations Protect Access to Affordable and Quality Companion Care Before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Education and the Workforce Committee, U.S. House of Representatives.
Posted: March, 2012 read more
Tax Subsidizations of Personal Assistance Services.
Posted: March, 2012 read more
Barriers to Use of Workplace Personal Assistance Services to Support Employment in California.
Posted: February, 2012 read more
News
Disabled and Mentally Ill New Yorkers Face "Needless Risk of Harm"
Posted: March, 2012 read more
Legislative Analyst's Office Notes Possible Challenges to Proposed IHSS Cuts
Posted: March, 2012 read more
Connecticut Considers Allowing Home Care Aides to Administer Medication
Posted: March, 2012 read more
New York Governor Proposes Removing Spousal Impoverishment Protection
Posted: March, 2012 read more
Latest Research in PAS
Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State.
Posted: March, 2012 read more
The 2012-13 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services Budget Update.
Posted: March, 2012 read more
Multiple Sclerosis Caregivers 2012.
Posted: March, 2012 read more
Implementing Long-Term Care Reform in New York's Medicaid Program.
Posted: February, 2012 read more
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