Our Vision
What We Believe
- Caregiving is an essential profession deserving of respect and recognition. For too long, the caregiving workforce has been understaffed, devalued, and marginalized.
- Training is a key component of building quality jobs that attract and retain caregivers.
- Caregiver training should center on the experiences and needs of the immigrant and BIPOC women who make up the majority of home care and nursing home workers.
- Training supports improved health, safety, quality of life, and independence for older adults and people with disabilities. Training also improves quality of life for caregivers.
- The benefits of training extend to the broader healthcare system.
What We Do
- Building the workforce of highly trained caregivers that Californians can’t live without
- High-quality Training
- Research
- Policy and Advocacy
- Communications
- Community Building
How We Do It
- We champion the underserved, particularly immigrant women of color who comprise the majority of the workforce.
- We welcome all communities, languages, genders, and ages.
- We center our work in race and health equity.
- We design educational offerings that promote
cultural and linguistic competence.
What We Seek
- Boost in confidence, self-efficacy, and job retention. Changes in knowledge and skills, increased self-efficacy, increased confidence, decreased stress and isolation, decreased depression
- Caregiving as a respected and recognized profession. Increased public awareness of the value of training, public policies promote and incentivize career pathways
- Seniors and people with disabilities living longer, healthier, and happier lives. Increased access to health services, decreased isolation, decreased institutionalization, decreased emergency room visits, decreased hospitalizations, decreased fall rates
- Higher standards of care. Caregivers can recognize systems of care and other resources, decreased costs, caregivers seen as invaluable members of the care team, increased diversity in health professions
The mission of the Center for Caregiver Advancement (CCA) is to build the workforce of highly trained caregivers that many Californians can’t live without.
A core belief of CCA is that caregivers, the majority of whom are immigrants and women of color fluent in languages other than English, serve at the frontlines of caregiving.
They have immense capacity to directly influence the quality of care and yet remain persistently marginalized. This is evidenced by their low compensation, limited advancement opportunities, and a general lack of respect and recognition. We envision a world where all caregivers are viewed as a valuable, integral part of the healthcare system.
