Name: From Lived Experience to Industry Standard: Creating a Universal Direct Care Worker Credential
Start: 2026-08-04T04:00:01-0600
End: 2026-08-04T04:00:01-0600

2026 Badge Summit @ CU Boulder
In-person July 13-15 | Online August 4

From Lived Experience to Industry Standard: Creating a Universal Direct Care Worker Credential

Tuesday August 4, 2026 TBA

This session explores how a workforce intermediary supported a statewide effort to build the nation’s first universal, competency-based Certified Direct Care Worker credential. Learn how centering worker voice, using stackable skills-based design, and ensuring credential value can elevate undervalued work, strengthen career pathways, and improve workforce stability at scale.

Speakers

Melissa Goldberg

Director, Competencies & Credentials, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW)

Melissa Goldberg is the Director of Competencies & Credentials at Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW). She leads CSW’s portfolio of work focused on expanding the use of competencies and incremental credentials within learning and talent management systems to increase economic... Read More →

Clare C. Luz, PhD

IMPART Alliance Executive Director; Associate Professor; Research Director, Family and Community Medicine, IMPART Alliance, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University

Dr. Luz, PhD, Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine, MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine, and founding director of both MSU AgeAlive and IMPART Alliance, is a gerontologist whose research focuses on quality of life for vulnerable older adults, long-term care health services... Read More →

Tuesday August 4, 2026 TBA

VIRTUAL, Pre-recorded

2026 Badge Summit

Melissa Goldberg

Clare C. Luz, PhD

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2026 Badge Summit

Melissa Goldberg

Clare C. Luz, PhD

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