Category: Hand In Hand

My name is Kendra Scalia and I am a proud disabled woman currently living in Newburgh, New York. I use the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPA), which is a Medicaid-funded program that was first designed by and for disabled New Yorkers.

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 for Disability & Domestic Worker Rights, a discussion with Judy Heumann, Ai-jen Poo, and Nikki Brown-Booker.

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.

Here are some tips to help us to get the support we need and keep everyone safe during COVID-19.

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. The links below include information for parents and caregivers of white, Black, and non-Black children of color.

On Tuesday June 9th, we held a virtual Town Hall about Care Work, Economic Recovery & the Green New Deal with Naomi Klein and Ai-Jen Poo.

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. These conversations led to this guide on the mental and emotional toll of racism on Black domestic workers, and how you as an employer can best support the worker in your home.

Understanding the relationship between anti-Black racism and domestic employment, and steps you can take to end the cycle of violence.