On Nov 1, 2022 Executive Director Stacy Kono held an Instagram Live conversation with Angela Garbes to discuss her national bestselling book Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change and how it relates to our work at Hand in Hand.
Building a good relationship with your nanny is critical to ensuring that your home is a place where you, your child and the nanny you employ can be your best selves. Here are three tips to make sure that relationship thrives.
President Biden announces the most comprehensive set of executive actions any President has ever taken to improve care for hard-working families while supporting care workers and family caregivers.
The Seattle Nanny Parent Connection recently put out their yearly report on wages, pay and benefit practices for nannies in the puget sound region.
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This Women’s History Month, Hand in Hand and our partners will launch a new education and implementation initiative for employers of nannies, house cleaners and home attendants.
A huge thank you to all of Hand in Hand’s 2022 individual and institutional supporters and dues paying members. You make Hand in Hand’s work possible!
On December 20, 2022 domestic workers in Washington D.C. made history by winning a domestic workers bill of rights. This makes the 13th bill that has been won by the power of domestic worker and employer organizing.
November is National Family Caregivers Month which recognizes over 65.7 million people who assist a loved one with personal care, skilled nursing tasks, and care management sometimes around the clock.
Angela Gardner is a disability rights advocate and member of Hand in Hand. She lives in Southern California.
It shouldn’t take a tragedy like Engracia’s death to force the airlines to be safe and accessible. Her death was needless and the result of an ableist system that values profits more than people and nondisabled people more than disabled people.
