People with disabilities are the largest minority group in this country; one in five people in the United States experience life with a disability. However, we rarely discuss the struggle for policy wins and the history of disability justice organizing.
Hand in Hand and our close partners, Caring Across Generations, recently held two anti-racism training sessions, the first time we’ve done so as an organization. As Hand in Hand grows and considers its place in the community, we recognize that it’s important for us to articulate fury at extrajudicial killings of Black people, whether by
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In this moment when anti-Black violence and racism is in the national spotlight, many of us are having hard conversations about events that have unfolded across the country in recent days and weeks. For those of us who are parents and caregivers, this also means having age and developmentally appropriate conversations with our kids. With the help of the Hand in Hand community, we’ve compiled the following set of resources to help you have these conversations in your families and communities.
On Tuesday June 9th, the New York Caring Majority, a campaign co-led by Hand in Hand and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), held a virtual Town Hall about Care Work, Economic Recovery & the Green New Deal with Naomi Klein and Ai-Jen Poo. In case you missed the conversation, you can watch the
On June 9th and 16th, Hand in Hand and We Dream in Black (WeDIB), a program of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, convened two virtual dialogues with Black domestic workers and domestic employers in New York City. We had powerful, hard but necessary conversations about the experiences and struggles of Black domestic workers and the
The Domestic Worker Industry is Inextricably Linked with Anti-Black Racism To fully understand the connection between police violence and killings of Black people to domestic workers rights, we have to connect the legacy of slavery and anti-Black racism to the criminalization of domestic workers, the passage of labor policy that developed using this racist lens,
We all want to stay safe, and to do that we need to work together. This template can help nannies and employers talk honestly about how you will commit to each others’ safety and wellbeing, reach agreements and put them down in writing so that you can refer back to them regularly. Download the templates
Hiring or rehiring a nanny during COVID? Here are some answers to frequently asked questions. See Also: Nanny Employer Checklist During COVID-19. 1. When should the nanny we employ come back to work? I wish we had an easy answer for you, but in this time of uncertainty, changing conditions and region specific guidance, we
As stay at home restrictions are lifting, many of us are considering either hiring or rehiring a housecleaner to offer some much needed help in our homes. At the same time, the major concern for all of us, is to how keep our employees and our entire household safe. We’ve partnered with the National Domestic
