Corinne Eldridge is a recognized expert in caregiving and long-term care workforce issues. As president and chief executive officer of the Center for Caregiver Advancement (CCA), Corinne leads an empowering non-profit organization that is building the care workforce that California needs.
Driven by her personal experiences, witnessing the women in her family confront the challenges of caregiving, Corinne is committed to increasing access to quality training, training that improves care for consumers, and building quality jobs for In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) providers and workers in skilled nursing facilities across the state.
Under Corinne’s leadership for more than a decade, CCA has developed and increased condition-specific caregiver training on Alzheimer’s and related dementias, diabetes, autism, heart disease, and traumatic brain injury. She also led the launch of a first-in-the-nation program that trains caregivers on how to prepare for, respond to, and recover from climate-related emergencies and natural disasters.
Corinne places a high value on research and data evaluation as critical drivers of informed, strategic decision-making that advance long-term care workers. She has established significant partnerships with academic-based research institutions such as UC San Francisco and UCLA; and has co-authored articles on the impact of caregiver training published in peer-reviewed journals such as Gerontology & Geriatrics Education and Journal of Applied Gerontology. In 2024, CCA initiated the first-ever randomized controlled trial on IHSS training in collaboration with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) North America at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Corinne presents at numerous national conferences and events, and currently serves on the National Skills Coalition’s Care Workforce Advisory Council and is a member of the Healthcare Career Advancement Program (H-CAP) Education Association Board.
