{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mcbride.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mcbride-highlights-workforce-development-and-direct-care-leadership-across", "Rep. McBride Highlights Workforce Development and Direct Care Leadership Across Delaware", "2026-02-23", "2026", "2026-02", "Democrat", "House", "DE", "Sarah McBride", "M001238", "mcbride.house.gov", "mcbride", "https://mcbride.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WILMINGTON, DE \u2014 Last week, Congresswoman Sarah McBride (DE-AL) spent part of her week in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, meeting with workforce leaders and frontline direct care professionals\u2014underscoring her commitment to strengthening Delaware\u2019s workforce pipeline and supporting the care economy.\n\nRep. McBride met with leadership at L.E.E.P., Inc. (Leading Everyone to Empowerment Program), a Delaware nonprofit focused on employment readiness, apprenticeship pathways, and reentry support services. Her visit highlighted LEEP\u2019s Pathways to Apprenticeship program, which connects participants\u2014including formerly incarcerated and underserved residents\u2014to skilled trades and union apprenticeship opportunities aligned with employer demand across Delaware.\n\n\u201cExpanding access to apprenticeship and skills training is one of the most direct ways we can strengthen Delaware\u2019s economy,\u201d said Rep. McBride. \u201cPrograms like LEEP are helping people gain in-demand skills, reduce barriers to employment, address recidivism, and build stable careers. I will continue working to ensure federal workforce investments are reaching organizations that are delivering real results.\u201d\n\nIn Congress, Rep. McBride has prioritized workforce development; securing $1 million in Community Project Funding to expand training capacity at the Delaware Skills Center and supporting bipartisan legislation to modernize workforce training, credentialing opportunities, and employer incentives to hire workers facing barriers to employment.\n\nMcBride also secured a separate $1 million in federal funding to expand La Red Health Center\u2019s Rural Re-Entry Program, another Sussex County resource. La Red\u2019s Rural Re-Entry Program, is a proven model that connects formerly incarcerated people with the health care, treatment, housing, and workforce support they need to rebuild and start fresh.\n\nLater in the day, Rep. McBride was in Rehoboth Beach where she attended a recognition ceremony hosted by CHIMES Delaware honoring Direct Support Professional Anthony Branch and contractor Tykesha Majors. In January, Branch and Majors\u2014while working at a residential home serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities\u2014acted quickly during a medical emergency. They administered CPR and called emergency services to save the life of a visiting nurse.\n\n\u201cAnthony and Tykesha represent the very best of Delaware\u2019s direct care workforce,\u201d McBride said. \u201cDirect Support Professionals are essential to the health and safety of our communities. Their professionalism and quick action saved a life, and their work every day ensures Delawareans with disabilities can live and age safely and with dignity.\u201d\n\nCHIMES provides residential and community-based services supported largely through Medicaid-funded Home and Community-Based Services. Throughout her time in Congress, Rep. McBride has worked to protect access to home and community-based care, including late last year when she helped safeguard nearly $1 billion for the home health industry by leading a bipartisan letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services opposing proposed reimbursement cuts.\n\n\u201cDelawareans are committed to partnership and progress,\u201d McBride noted. \u201cFrom strengthening our direct care workforce to expanding apprenticeship pathways, engaging with my neighbors reminds me that progress comes from investing in people and supporting the organizations doing the work on the ground.\n\n\u201cThe work Delawareans are doing to support each other, and the future of our state of neighbors, is a model for a local purpose paired with measurable federal support,\u201d McBride added. \u201cI am proud to support their efforts, and these neighbors, wherever possible.\u201d\n\nPhotos from her visits can be accessed for use here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-04-04T05:28:40Z", "2026-04-04T05:30:10Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://mcbride.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mcbride-highlights-workforce-development-and-direct-care-leadership-across"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.573170069605112, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}