More than 500,000 caregivers eligible to receive paid, comprehensive training from national and state leaders
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SAN FRANCISCO, october 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Homebridge, op san francisco based organization dedicated to quality in-home supportive services, has received a state grant of up to $16.2 million to strengthen California’s Caregiving workforce through the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Career Pathways Program. The program, set to launch this month, will provide a broad array of training and career opportunities to the 550,000 IHSS home care providers who serve more than 650,000 residents statewide.

IHSS workers comprise a large portion of California’s direct care workforce which currently outnumbers every single occupation in California. Demand for quality in-home care and supportive services will keep growing as California’s over-65 population is projected to reach 8.6 million – 1 in 5 residents – by 2030 with an 88% increase in older adults with self-care limitations.

“Homebridge was founded on the principle that a skilled and supported caregiving workforce is fundamental to providing quality home care and we have upheld that value as a leader of exceptional provider training in the Bay Area since 1985,” said Mark Burns, Executive Director of Homebridge. “We are honored to contribute our values ​​and expertise to help meet the urgent and growing need for quality home care throughout California.”

Homebridge will provide a complex offering of more than 65 different classes in five languages ​​to thousands of participants beginning in early 2023. All IHSS and Waiver Personal Care Services (WPCS) Providers in California are eligible for the paid online and in-person courses designed to enhance skills and knowledge across a wide range of caregiving topics.

To develop this ambitious program, Homebridge is partnering with state and national organizations who are well-known and highly respected leaders in the field – Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), Futuro Health, PHI and the Zen Caregiving Project. The unique partnership will provide preparation and training that supports the broad diversity and increasingly complex needs of today’s care recipients.

“san francisco has long been a leader in funding training for caregivers in the In-Home Supportive Services program,” stated Kelly Dearman, Executive Director of the San Francisco Department of Disability and Aging Services (DAS). “This leadership has helped pave the way for Homebridge to roll out their training statewide, and this broad range of programs will benefit our workforce with valuable educational and career opportunities as well as help address the critical shortage of caregivers in our City and state head on .”

Homebridge is also partnering with two statewide organizations to better understand and address the critical needs of providers and consumers – the California IHSS Consumer Alliance (CICA) who represent California’s IHSS consumers, and the California Association of Public Authorities (CAPA) who represent the Public Authorities who provide supportive services for IHSS providers. “It’s a first!” commented Janie Whiteford, President of CICA. “Linking the voices of consumers with provider training and education has never been done like this before. We are delighted to be partnering with Homebridge to achieve this important milestone which will certainly improve the quality of care for thousands of Californians.”

The IHSS Career Pathways Program, administered by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), emerged from an initiative of the California Master Plan for Aging (MPA) launched by the Newsom Administration in Jan 2021.

One of the MPA’s five goals is dedicated to addressing the gaps in caregiving that is currently plaguing communities statewide. The plan aims to strengthen the direct care workforce and create one million high quality direct care jobs by 2031. The IHSS Career Pathways Program includes some of the MPA’s key strategies for achieving this goal: providing training and career pathway opportunities and a heightened focus on equity and cultural and linguistic competence.

About Homebridge: Homebridge is California’s only nonprofit dedicated to providing direct IHSS services and IHSS workforce training. The Homebridge client-centered model of care is tailored to provide innovative at-home and community based care for individuals with complex health, behavioral, and social needs. Homebridge care provides personal and intensive home care services that bridge the gap between healthcare and social services delivery.

About San Francisco Department of Disability and Aging Services (DAS)
About Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)
About Futuro Health
About PHI
About Zen Caregiving Project
About California Association of Public Authorities (CAPA)
About California IHSS Consumer Alliance

CONTACT: Erin Saberi (916) 952-5080/[email protected]

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More than 500,000 caregivers eligible to receive paid, comprehensive training from national and state leaders
in home care best practices

SAN FRANCISCO, october 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Homebridge, op san francisco based organization dedicated to quality in-home supportive services, has received a state grant of up to $16.2 million to strengthen California’s Caregiving workforce through the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Career Pathways Program. The program, set to launch this month, will provide a broad array of training and career opportunities to the 550,000 IHSS home care providers who serve more than 650,000 residents statewide.

IHSS workers comprise a large portion of California’s direct care workforce which currently outnumbers every single occupation in California. Demand for quality in-home care and supportive services will keep growing as California’s over-65 population is projected to reach 8.6 million – 1 in 5 residents – by 2030 with an 88% increase in older adults with self-care limitations.

“Homebridge was founded on the principle that a skilled and supported caregiving workforce is fundamental to providing quality home care and we have upheld that value as a leader of exceptional provider training in the Bay Area since 1985,” said Mark Burns, Executive Director of Homebridge. “We are honored to contribute our values ​​and expertise to help meet the urgent and growing need for quality home care throughout California.”

Homebridge will provide a complex offering of more than 65 different classes in five languages ​​to thousands of participants beginning in early 2023. All IHSS and Waiver Personal Care Services (WPCS) Providers in California are eligible for the paid online and in-person courses designed to enhance skills and knowledge across a wide range of caregiving topics.

To develop this ambitious program, Homebridge is partnering with state and national organizations who are well-known and highly respected leaders in the field – Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), Futuro Health, PHI and the Zen Caregiving Project. The unique partnership will provide preparation and training that supports the broad diversity and increasingly complex needs of today’s care recipients.

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“san francisco has long been a leader in funding training for caregivers in the In-Home Supportive Services program,” stated Kelly Dearman, Executive Director of the San Francisco Department of Disability and Aging Services (DAS). “This leadership has helped pave the way for Homebridge to roll out their training statewide, and this broad range of programs will benefit our workforce with valuable educational and career opportunities as well as help address the critical shortage of caregivers in our City and state head on .”

Homebridge is also partnering with two statewide organizations to better understand and address the critical needs of providers and consumers – the California IHSS Consumer Alliance (CICA) who represent California’s IHSS consumers, and the California Association of Public Authorities (CAPA) who represent the Public Authorities who provide supportive services for IHSS providers. “It’s a first!” commented Janie Whiteford, President of CICA. “Linking the voices of consumers with provider training and education has never been done like this before. We are delighted to be partnering with Homebridge to achieve this important milestone which will certainly improve the quality of care for thousands of Californians.”

The IHSS Career Pathways Program, administered by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), emerged from an initiative of the California Master Plan for Aging (MPA) launched by the Newsom Administration in Jan 2021.

One of the MPA’s five goals is dedicated to addressing the gaps in caregiving that is currently plaguing communities statewide. The plan aims to strengthen the direct care workforce and create one million high quality direct care jobs by 2031. The IHSS Career Pathways Program includes some of the MPA’s key strategies for achieving this goal: providing training and career pathway opportunities and a heightened focus on equity and cultural and linguistic competence.

About Homebridge: Homebridge is California’s only nonprofit dedicated to providing direct IHSS services and IHSS workforce training. The Homebridge client-centered model of care is tailored to provide innovative at-home and community based care for individuals with complex health, behavioral, and social needs. Homebridge care provides personal and intensive home care services that bridge the gap between healthcare and social services delivery.

About San Francisco Department of Disability and Aging Services (DAS)
About Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)
About Futuro Health
About PHI
About Zen Caregiving Project
About California Association of Public Authorities (CAPA)
About California IHSS Consumer Alliance

CONTACT: Erin Saberi (916) 952-5080/esaberi@me.com

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More than 500,000 caregivers eligible to receive paid, comprehensive training from national and state leaders
in home care best practices

SAN FRANCISCO, october 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Homebridge, op san francisco based organization dedicated to quality in-home supportive services, has received a state grant of up to $16.2 million to strengthen California’s Caregiving workforce through the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Career Pathways Program. The program, set to launch this month, will provide a broad array of training and career opportunities to the 550,000 IHSS home care providers who serve more than 650,000 residents statewide.

IHSS workers comprise a large portion of California’s direct care workforce which currently outnumbers every single occupation in California. Demand for quality in-home care and supportive services will keep growing as California’s over-65 population is projected to reach 8.6 million – 1 in 5 residents – by 2030 with an 88% increase in older adults with self-care limitations.

“Homebridge was founded on the principle that a skilled and supported caregiving workforce is fundamental to providing quality home care and we have upheld that value as a leader of exceptional provider training in the Bay Area since 1985,” said Mark Burns, Executive Director of Homebridge. “We are honored to contribute our values ​​and expertise to help meet the urgent and growing need for quality home care throughout California.”

Homebridge will provide a complex offering of more than 65 different classes in five languages ​​to thousands of participants beginning in early 2023. All IHSS and Waiver Personal Care Services (WPCS) Providers in California are eligible for the paid online and in-person courses designed to enhance skills and knowledge across a wide range of caregiving topics.

To develop this ambitious program, Homebridge is partnering with state and national organizations who are well-known and highly respected leaders in the field – Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), Futuro Health, PHI and the Zen Caregiving Project. The unique partnership will provide preparation and training that supports the broad diversity and increasingly complex needs of today’s care recipients.

“san francisco has long been a leader in funding training for caregivers in the In-Home Supportive Services program,” stated Kelly Dearman, Executive Director of the San Francisco Department of Disability and Aging Services (DAS). “This leadership has helped pave the way for Homebridge to roll out their training statewide, and this broad range of programs will benefit our workforce with valuable educational and career opportunities as well as help address the critical shortage of caregivers in our City and state head on .”

Homebridge is also partnering with two statewide organizations to better understand and address the critical needs of providers and consumers – the California IHSS Consumer Alliance (CICA) who represent California’s IHSS consumers, and the California Association of Public Authorities (CAPA) who represent the Public Authorities who provide supportive services for IHSS providers. “It’s a first!” commented Janie Whiteford, President of CICA. “Linking the voices of consumers with provider training and education has never been done like this before. We are delighted to be partnering with Homebridge to achieve this important milestone which will certainly improve the quality of care for thousands of Californians.”

The IHSS Career Pathways Program, administered by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), emerged from an initiative of the California Master Plan for Aging (MPA) launched by the Newsom Administration in Jan 2021.

One of the MPA’s five goals is dedicated to addressing the gaps in caregiving that is currently plaguing communities statewide. The plan aims to strengthen the direct care workforce and create one million high quality direct care jobs by 2031. The IHSS Career Pathways Program includes some of the MPA’s key strategies for achieving this goal: providing training and career pathway opportunities and a heightened focus on equity and cultural and linguistic competence.

About Homebridge: Homebridge is California’s only nonprofit dedicated to providing direct IHSS services and IHSS workforce training. The Homebridge client-centered model of care is tailored to provide innovative at-home and community based care for individuals with complex health, behavioral, and social needs. Homebridge care provides personal and intensive home care services that bridge the gap between healthcare and social services delivery.

About San Francisco Department of Disability and Aging Services (DAS)
About Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)
About Futuro Health
About PHI
About Zen Caregiving Project
About California Association of Public Authorities (CAPA)
About California IHSS Consumer Alliance

CONTACT: Erin Saberi (916) 952-5080/[email protected]

SOURCE Open Square Connect

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SAN FRANCISCO, September 22, 2021 / PRNewswire / – A groundbreaking educational partnership begins today that will empower the home care workforce and provide dedicated caregivers with an avenue to careers in nursing. The partnership between City College of San Francisco (CCSF), UC San Francisco (UCSF) and Homebridge – one of San Francisco Leading in-house care organizations for older adults and people with complex health, behavioral and social needs – follows key lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis. It should strengthen San Francisco Responding to current challenges related to aging, equal opportunities and labor.

The program provides Homebridge In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) employees with on-the-job training for Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification by CCSF and connects participants with on-the-job clinical training at UCSF. It will then connect workers with CNA jobs and provide a path to nursing careers with San Francisco Health care provider.

The initiative aims to overcome barriers to career advancement for home care services, including access to education and training, and fees associated with healthcare education and certification. Funded by the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the Metta Fund, the program provides paid on-the-job training for CNA certification for Homebridge employees. Program participants stay on the job at Homebridge while attending ten hours of weekly classes on the CCSF curriculum. The state clinical practice requirement of 100 hours is met at UCSF Health.

“The launch of this innovative career pipeline initiative is an important strategic step in expanding our long-term care workforce and creating a thriving health sector for all San Franciscans,” said Mayor London Breed. “Since these workers are predominantly colored women, the initiative also shows San Francisco Commitment to economic opportunities and equal opportunities for women and people of color. These dedicated home care workers have been at the forefront of helping older adults and people with disabilities during the COVID-19 crisis, saving lives and enabling vulnerable residents to stay at home safely here in the city. “

Throughout the pandemic, home and community caregivers have been first responders to older adults and people with disabilities living in isolation at home. Your rapid response networks and home support services are critical to maintaining home safety, access to vital resources such as food and health care, and facilitating entry or re-entry into community care facilities.

“As the most important vehicle for professional and personnel training in San Francisco, City College is looking forward to this partnership “, commented Interim Chancellor Dianna Gonzales. She added, “Partnerships like this also demonstrate our commitment to economically empowering our diverse and most vulnerable communities while continuing our mission to provide educational pathways with a social justice perspective.”

Fully accredited by the CA Department of Public Health, the 15-week, on-the-job, Certified Nursing Assistant training program provides career opportunities in certified healthcare for home care workers and provides healthcare providers with access to a dedicated, highly skilled, experienced and patient workforce . The partnership is an innovative step in the integration of home care and health services that has long been advocated by IHSS practitioners and beneficiaries as necessary for successful, high quality home care.

A statewide master plan for aging called for by Governor Newsom in 2018 and published in January 2021, names “care that works” as one of its five bold goals to be achieved by 2030. The plan aims to create one million high quality caregivers and predicts a labor shortage of up to 3.2 million paid direct caregivers.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for long-term home and community-based carers increased and is expected to increase in the near future as access to IHSS is expanded below California State law 2021-2022. These shifts come after a decade of growth in California direct care workers between 2009-2019 (source: PHI) and as California is preparing for 25% of the population to be 65 or older by 2030.

Home care is currently the largest of all occupations in California (Source: PHI 2021). Despite their vast reach, the vendors’ workforce remains largely underpaid and unrecognized as an invaluable part of the U.S. workforce and health care system. In California, home care workers are twice as likely to live in low-income households as other Californians, and one in four lives below the state poverty line (Source: CA Master Plan for Aging). Most nursing professions are held by women (81% PHI), particularly black, Indigenous, Latin American, and Asian-American women, and many are immigrants (48% PHI).

The program is also a step in addressing a significant shortage of nurses and care assistants across the country, both in the face of aging caregivers and increased demands during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This partnership offers these frontline workers an important career path that also helps hospitals and other health care facilities that benefit from the new skills of these workers,” said Dr. Pat Patton, DNP, MSN, RN, Chief Nurse Executive and Vice President of Patient Care Services at UCSF Health. “As an anchor institution in San Francisco, with the goal of contributing to the socio-economic health of our community as well as health care needs, we pride ourselves on being part of advancing the employee and health development goals that are critical to meeting the nursing needs of the San Franciscans are.”

The program is one of three CCSF institutional service agreements, including one with SF Police and SF Fire focused on career expansion and the first in healthcare. For Homebridge, whose IHSS work is funded by a contract with the San Francisco Department of Disability and Aging Services, it is the next link in a highly acclaimed person-centered care model with a ladder from home care to health care. “We believe that delivering critical training with employment is a way of doing things San Francisco and other jurisdictions everywhere California to increase the number of employees with incentives and a suitably skilled workforce capable of meeting the growing demands of an aging population California,” called Mark Burns, CEO of Homebridge.

CONTACT: Erin Saberi (916) 952-5080 / [email protected]/

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SAN FRANCISCO, September 22, 2021 / PRNewswire / – A groundbreaking educational partnership begins today that will empower the home care workforce and provide dedicated caregivers with an avenue to careers in nursing. The partnership between City College of San Francisco (CCSF), UC San Francisco (UCSF) and Homebridge – one of San Francisco Leading in-house care organizations for older adults and people with complex health, behavioral and social needs – follows key lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis. It should strengthen San Francisco Responding to current challenges related to aging, equal opportunities and labor.

The program provides Homebridge In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) employees with on-the-job training for Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification by CCSF and connects participants with on-the-job clinical training at UCSF. It will then connect workers with CNA jobs and provide a path to nursing careers with San Francisco Health care provider.

The initiative aims to overcome barriers to career advancement for home care services, including access to education and training, and fees associated with healthcare education and certification. Funded by the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the Metta Fund, the program provides paid on-the-job training for CNA certification for Homebridge employees. Program participants stay on the job at Homebridge while attending ten hours of weekly classes on the CCSF curriculum. The state clinical practice requirement of 100 hours is met at UCSF Health.

“The launch of this innovative career pipeline initiative is an important strategic step in expanding our long-term care workforce and creating a thriving health sector for all San Franciscans,” said Mayor London Breed. “Since these workers are predominantly colored women, the initiative also shows San Francisco Commitment to economic opportunities and equal opportunities for women and people of color. These dedicated home care workers have been at the forefront of helping older adults and people with disabilities during the COVID-19 crisis, saving lives and enabling vulnerable residents to stay at home safely here in the city. “

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Throughout the pandemic, home and community caregivers have been first responders to older adults and people with disabilities living in isolation at home. Your rapid response networks and home support services are critical to maintaining home safety, access to vital resources such as food and health care, and facilitating entry or re-entry into community care facilities.

“As the most important vehicle for professional and personnel training in San Francisco, City College is looking forward to this partnership “, commented Interim Chancellor Dianna Gonzales. She added, “Partnerships like this also demonstrate our commitment to economically empowering our diverse and most vulnerable communities while continuing our mission to provide educational pathways with a social justice perspective.”

Fully accredited by the CA Department of Public Health, the 15-week, on-the-job, Certified Nursing Assistant training program provides career opportunities in certified healthcare for home care workers and provides healthcare providers with access to a dedicated, highly skilled, experienced and patient workforce . The partnership is an innovative step in the integration of home care and health services that has long been advocated by IHSS practitioners and beneficiaries as necessary for successful, high quality home care.

A statewide master plan for aging called for by Governor Newsom in 2018 and published in January 2021, names “care that works” as one of its five bold goals to be achieved by 2030. The plan aims to create one million high quality caregivers and predicts a labor shortage of up to 3.2 million paid direct caregivers.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for long-term home and community-based carers increased and is expected to increase in the near future as access to IHSS is expanded below California State law 2021-2022. These shifts come after a decade of growth in California direct care workers between 2009-2019 (source: PHI) and as California is preparing for 25% of the population to be 65 or older by 2030.

Home care is currently the largest of all occupations in California (Source: PHI 2021). Despite their vast reach, the vendors’ workforce remains largely underpaid and unrecognized as an invaluable part of the U.S. workforce and health care system. In California, home care workers are twice as likely to live in low-income households as other Californians, and one in four lives below the state poverty line (Source: CA Master Plan for Aging). Most nursing professions are held by women (81% PHI), particularly black, Indigenous, Latin American, and Asian-American women, and many are immigrants (48% PHI).

The program is also a step in addressing a significant shortage of nurses and care assistants across the country, both in the face of aging caregivers and increased demands during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This partnership offers these frontline workers an important career path that also helps hospitals and other health care facilities that benefit from the new skills of these workers,” said Dr. Pat Patton, DNP, MSN, RN, Chief Nurse Executive and Vice President of Patient Care Services at UCSF Health. “As an anchor institution in San Francisco, with the goal of contributing to the socio-economic health of our community as well as health care needs, we pride ourselves on being part of advancing the employee and health development goals that are critical to meeting the nursing needs of the San Franciscans are.”

The program is one of three CCSF institutional service agreements, including one with SF Police and SF Fire focused on career expansion and the first in healthcare. For Homebridge, whose IHSS work is funded by a contract with the San Francisco Department of Disability and Aging Services, it is the next link in a highly acclaimed person-centered care model with a ladder from home care to health care. “We believe that delivering critical training with employment is a way of doing things San Francisco and other jurisdictions everywhere California to increase the number of employees with incentives and a suitably skilled workforce capable of meeting the growing demands of an aging population California,” called Mark Burns, CEO of Homebridge.

CONTACT: Erin Saberi (916) 952-5080 / esaberi@me.com/

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