Our Vision
What We Believe
- Caregiving is a profession deserving of respect and recognition.
- Everyone should be able to access training.
- Training improves the quality of life for caregivers.
- Training promotes improved quality of life for seniors and people with disabilities.
- The benefits of training extend to the systems of care.
- Training is one element of a larger, complex system of long-term care.
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.
