Category: Caregiver Stories
Aida’s Leap: How an Apprenticeship Transformed a...
A Dream Rooted in Healthcare Aida Rustemova Bonfiglio, a single mother and immigrant from Kazakhstan, had...
Cassandra Parker: Learning to Balance The Roles of...
For Cassandra Parker, becoming a caregiver wasn’t something she expected, but when her family faced crisis...
The Impact of Offering IHSS Training in...
As California’s largest provider of free and accessible caregiver training, the Center for Caregiver Advancement (CCA)...
A milestone celebration for IHSS caregivers
None of CCA’s IHSS training courses is complete without a virtual graduation ceremony. Each trimester culminates...
Honoring the families who care for those...
Alzheimer's is more than a mere diagnosis for countless families globally; it marks the beginning of...
From Caregiver to CNA
Veronica Mendoza’s role as a nurse assistant apprentice is new for her, but she is no...
Stepping Stone to a Nursing Career
Lizette Mendoza’s inspiration to pursue a career in the healthcare field comes from two main sources:...
Learning the language of autism
Before Rebekah Acosta transitioned to being her daughter’s full-time caregiver, she was already entrenched in the...
Caregiving strengthens mother-son bond
Perri Kendrick and her son Trevor have an unbreakable bond. They do almost everything together: ice...
Caregivers Lifting Each Other Up
At her IHSS+ training graduation event last December, caregiver Michelle Galloway Blanco used a garden analogy...
