PHI collaborates with a wide variety of organizations in its effort to create relationship-centered eldercare and disability services that offer quality jobs to direct-care workers and quality person-directed care to consumers. Below we identify those organizations with which we have formal relationships.
Affiliates
PHI has participated in the creation of, and has cross-board relationships with, the following affiliates. These organizations are founded on the principle of “Quality Care through Quality Jobs”.
Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) is the largest worker-owned health care company in the United States and among the 100 largest employee-owned companies in the nation. Based in the heart of the South Bronx, CHCA employs over 1600 mostly Latina and African American home health aides.
Home Care Associates of Philadelphia employs over 200 home health aides and provides paraprofessional job training and placement services to other Philadelphia long-term care providers.
Independence Care System (ICS) is a managed long-term care demonstration program in New York City designed exclusively for adults living with disabilities. ICS coordinates the care for 1400 people with disabilities living in their homes.
Campaigns and Coalitions
PHI supports these initiatives either in a formal leadership role or as a member organization.
Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes Campaign is an ongoing, voluntary, coalition-based campaign concerned with how we care for people living and recuperating in nursing homes.
Campaign for Better Care is an initiative to ensure that comprehensive health reform results in high-quality, comprehensive, coordinated care for American consumers.
CHAMP: Advancing Home Care Excellence is a national initiative to advance home care excellence for older people.
Direct Care Alliance is a national advocacy voice of direct-care workers in long-term care.
Eldercare Workforce Alliance is a group of 25 national organizations joined together to address the immediate and future workforce crisis in caring for an aging America.
Herndon Alliance is a nationwide non-partisan coalition of more than 200 minority, faith, labor, advocacy, business, and healthcare provider organizations working for affordable health care for all.
Leadership Council of Aging Organizations is a coalition of the nation’s non-profit organizations serving older Americans. It dedicated to preserving and strengthening the well-being of America’s older population through influencing the national debate on aging policy.
National Partners
PHI has established formal partnerships with the following organizations. Each of these partners has embedded The PHI Coaching Approach into its work to transform our eldercare and disability services system into one that fully supports consumers, their families, and the direct-care workers who deliver the vast majority of hands-on services and supports. For a complete list of our Training and Organizational Development clients, go to www.phinational.org/training.
Eden Alternative is seeking to remake the experience of aging around the world. It is dedicated to addressing the three plagues of helplessness, boredom and loneliness that undermine the ability of elders to thrive.
NCB Capital Impact GREEN HOUSE® Replication Project partners with organizations, advocates, and communities to lead the transformation of institutional long-term care by creating viable homes that spread THE GREEN HOUSE® vision of more powerful, meaningful, and satisfying lives, work, and relationships.
Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders (SAGE) works with LGBT elders to address and overcome the challenges of discrimination in senior service settings, while also being an essential component in the creation of informal caregiving support, and development of new “family” networks.
National Policy Contracts
The PHI policy group provides research, policy development and technical assistance services to the following federally funded projects addressing the direct-care workforce. For a list of policy allies with whom we collaborate, go to: www.phinational.org/policy.
National Direct Service Workforce Resource Center, sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, supports efforts to improve recruitment and retention of workers who assist people with disabilities and older adults to live independently and with dignity in the community.
Personal Assistance Services Center, a project of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, is dedicated to the study of issues regarding the availability and quality of services provided by formal and informal caregivers to 15 million people nationwide who need help performing activities of daily living.
