In addition to its award-winning Come Care With Me program (see below), PHI Massachusetts staff meet with individual legislators, hold legislative briefings, issue recommendations related to active legislation, and work directly with legislators to draft new legislation. Legislative offices can reach PHI Massachusetts state director Amy Robins at (617) 698-1662 or ARobins@PHInational.org.
Come Care With Me
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PHI’s award-winning Come Care with Me (CCWM) program is an opportunity for Massachusetts legislators to gain a deeper understanding of the Commonwealth’s largest workforce.
Participating legislators are paired with a worker from their district and spend a few hours assisting in the care of a client. Talking with the worker, client, employer and family members, legislators have a genuine opportunity to experience what these services mean to Massachusetts families, businesses, and communities.
Representative Kate Hogan
Massachusetts State Representative Kate Hogan assists home care worker Cam King as she works in the home of her client.
“How can we increase opportunities for home care workers to grow in their jobs,” asks Rep. Hogan, “… and let them know that what they’re doing is so important and so essential to our society?”
Senator Pat Jehlen
Massachusetts State Senator Pat Jehlen assists homemaker/pca Philomena Ahern as she works in the home of her 102-year-old client Stella.
“It’s incredible to me that we can expect people to do this kind of work, which is so important, for this little money,” says Senator Jehlen, “…we need to pay them enough to live on.”
Legislative Briefing
In May, 2010, PHI Massachusetts partnered with Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts; MassAging; MassALFA (Assisted Living Facilities Association); Massachusetts Council for Home Care Aide Services; Massachusetts Senior Care Alliance; and SEIU/1199 to conduct a briefing on the direct-care workforce for Massachusetts legislators and their staff. The briefing was co-sponsored by the Joint Committee on Elder Affairs and the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development and helped raise the profile of the direct-care workforce with key policymakers in the state.
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