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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="11-1401" title_number="11" title_name="Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning" subtitle_number="14" subtitle_name="Direct Care Workforce Innovation Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Direct care worker” means an individual whose occupation is classified under the 2018 Standard Occupational Classifications of the U.S. Department of Labor as:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a home health aide (31–1121);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a personal aide (31–1122);</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a nursing assistant (31–1131); or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a psychiatric aide (31–1133).</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Direct care worker” includes a geriatric nursing assistant.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Division” means the Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Eligible entity” means a nonprofit organization, a labor organization, an employer of direct care workers, or an entity with shared labor–management oversight:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>with an established record of recruiting or providing training to direct care workers; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>that establishes a training program in consultation with an organization with an established record of providing training to direct care workers.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Program” means the Direct Care Workforce Innovation Program.</text>
  </level>
</section>
