; and (2) ensure that long-term care settings are meeting the unique demographic, cultural, and linguistic needs of the community in which such settings are situated and the community of workers within such settings. (b) Activities The Center may— (1) maintain a centralized online hub of equity-focused direct care professional workforce resources; (2) conduct studies and develop trainings and resources on the inequities facing direct care professionals and enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility among long-term care settings; (3) develop equity-specific tools and resources to support State and local governments in building an equitable direct care professional workforce; (4) design and inform interventions in the direct care professional workforce that reduce disparities and promote equity within the direct care professional workforce; (5) convene experts in the direct care professional workforce, including direct care professionals, to develop equity-based resources