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Launched in 2010, our California Chapter is led by people with disabilities who employ for homecare, parents who employ (or employed) nannies, and a growing number of house cleaner employers and family caregivers. 

Member leaders have worked to unite people with disabilities with the home attendant workforce to advocate for their shared interests for dignified working conditions and affordable long-term services and supports. After passing the California Domestic Worker Bill of Rights in 2013, Hand in Hand has worked alongside the California Domestic Worker Coalition to establish the first statewide enforcement program. The program funds community-based organizations to reach and educate domestic workers and employers on their rights and responsibilities.   

We’ve also been working to protect Medicaid-funded homecare for low income people with disabilities and seniors (IHSS), expand access to in-home supportive services, organize parents to make their homes Sanctuary Homes in support of the national call to keep families together, and more. Whether you’re in San Francisco, the East Bay, L.A., or anywhere in California, we hope you’ll join us! 

Staff

Staff

California DirectorLindsayImai-Hong

Southern California Organizer & Research ManagerKayla Shore

California Education OrganizerVanessa Cuellar Perez

Current Campaigns

Current Campaigns

San Francisco Paid Sick Leave/Portable Benefits Ordinance

As part of the California Domestic Workers Coalition, Hand in Hand is working to create a portable benefits program so that domestic workers can access the paid sick days they are entitled to, but rarely receive.

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Domestic Worker Rights Education and Outreach

Hand in Hand has partnered with the Department of Industrial Relations to reach, educate and train domestic workers and domestic employers about the rights and protections domestic workers have under California labor law.

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Past Campaigns

Past Campaigns

Health and Safety Law for California Domestic Workers

  On September 28, 2021 Governor Newsom signed SB321: The Health and Safety for All Workers Act. This law will require Cal/OSHA to conduct a study and publish the first ever set of health and safety recommendations for domestic workers in

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California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

After nearly ten years of organizing and advocating, the California Domestic Workers Coalition (CDWC) passed Senate Bill 1215: The Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2016, which made daily overtime a permanent right for childcare providers/nannies and home attendants.

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San Francisco Support at Home

In 2016, Hand in Hand joined its allies in the San Francisco Care Council to win funding and approval for a new program providing older adults and people with disabilities with up to 15 hours of subsidized homecare per week.

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The Care Agenda and Long-term Services and Supports for All

Building upon our success with the Support at Home campaign which won up to 15 hours of subsidized homecare per week, Hand in Hand as part of the Care Council, came together to put California on a path toward universal

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Resources for California Domestic Employers

Resources for California Domestic Employers

Click here for a list of guidelines, legal requirements, work agreements, and more…

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"Ninety-two percent of domestic workers are women, and 57 percent of them are Black, Hispanic, Asian American, or Pacific Islander. We entrust the safety and cleanliness of our homes to Latin American workers, who make up 62 percent of house cleaners. Whether they maintain our house, care for our elders, or watch our children, there is a wide and long-standing gap between the wages of domestic workers and all other workers in America. Whereas the median wage for workers in this country is nearly $20 an hour, it is barely $12 for domestic workers. The gap is widest for nannies—97 percent of whom are women—who earn a median of just $11.60 an hour. And although the cost of living has steadily risen, domestic workers’ wages have remained mostly stagnant for decades."

#CareCantWait we need a National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights NOW! Call your representatives and ask them to support the passage of a National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights and invest in Home and Community Based Services 844-338-5133 ☎️
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American capitalism relies on free and cheap domestic labor. Our economic systems cannot be truly equitable and just unless we compensate care work fairly.
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Summer break is almost here! Do you have travel plans ready or are starting to think about them? Planning to travel with (or without) your child's nanny? Here are 4 ways to travel respectfully with a nanny:

✈ 1: Make sure all travel in which the nanny is asked to accompany your family is mutually agreed upon.

✈ 2: When traveling, compensate the nanny at an additional rate.

✈ 3: Provide the nanny with her own accommodations for the trip.

✈ 4: If the nanny doesn’t accompany you on your trip, pay her for the time.

For more information and to get a sample contract, visit https://domesticemployers.org/resources-and-faqs/…
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Summer break is almost here! Do you have travel plans ready or are starting to think about them? Planning to travel with (or without) your childs nanny? Here are 4 ways to travel respectfully with a nanny:

✈ 1: Make sure all travel in which the nanny is asked to accompany your family is mutually agreed upon.

✈ 2: When traveling, compensate the nanny at an additional rate.

✈ 3: Provide the nanny with her own accommodations for the trip.

✈ 4: If the nanny doesn’t accompany you on your trip, pay her for the time.

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I’ve loved volunteering with Hand In Hand these past 5 or 6 years, they are an upstanding organization working to combat ableism and racism while uplifting domestic work on both sides; worker and employer.Hand in Hand is hiring for a Disability & Elder Justice Organizer! [Image Description: Three people seated in wheelchairs, one holding a sign with the text "IHSS Workers and Consumers United!!" and one person standing behind holding a banner with text "Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network"] ... See MoreSee Less

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I’ve loved volunteering with Hand In Hand these past 5 or 6 years, they are an upstanding organization working to combat ableism and racism while uplifting domestic work on both sides; worker and employer.
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Hand in Hand, alongside our #LTSS4ALL campaign partners, is at the CA State Capitol today dropping off letters in support of investments in universal family care and funding to resource Long Term Services & Supports (LTSS) for Californians.

"We want bread and roses in the form of fair wages, dignity for caregivers, and the freedom to work without sacrificing good care for our loved ones."

Sign the petition in support for higher wages for IHSS providers: https://secure.everyaction.com/myDiyRYQX0q3CeYYOLd…

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Hand in Hand, alongside our #LTSS4ALL campaign partners, is at the CA State Capitol today dropping off letters in support of investments in universal family care and funding to resource Long Term Services & Supports (LTSS) for Californians. 

We want bread and roses in the form of fair wages, dignity for caregivers, and the freedom to work without sacrificing good care for our loved ones.

Sign the petition in support for higher wages for IHSS providers: https://secure.everyaction.com/myDiyRYQX0q3CeYYOLd-TQ2/?ms=FB_HIH

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