Category: Hand In Hand

Tell us a bit about yourself, and your role as a domestic employer: My name is Kendra Scalia and I am a proud disabled woman currently living in Newburgh, New

This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the Americans for Disabilities Act. On July 2, Hand in Hand celebrated this landmark legislation with a virtual panel, Crip Camp: The Fight

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

  The coronavirus has changed what it means to hire attendants or provide caregiving in the home. Here are tips to help us to get the support we need and

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

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

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