Cooperative home care is delivering change in the face of a broken care economy by elevating caregivers and empowering quality care.
Low wages and poor conditions for caregivers work against the quality of care and create long wait lists.
Even though they work on the front lines, the insights and concerns of caregivers are ignored.
The business of care prioritizes profit over investing in caregivers, with extractive practices and poor job quality.
Microscopic, public reimbursement rates shrink the margin for job quality investments and crowd out quality care.
Solutions would address long-term systemic problems and impact the day to day realities of giving and receiving care.
forward-looking opportunities to create change across the care industry.
Scalable approaches that elevate the industry.
Opportunities to create change that reach beyond short-term or stopgap solutions.
Investments that combine the wisdom of frontline caregivers with industry-leading innovation and expertise.
While policy change is critical, it takes shape slowly with uncertain impacts and offers no benefit for the millions of caregivers struggling today.
Legacy programs can only bring limited improvement beyond their previous impacts with an ever-decreasing potential for transformation.
Too many home care interventions fail to reach the individuals they are intended to help, and instead perpetuate inequity.
Discover the scalable, high-impact model of home care through caregiver-owned cooperatives.
Providing women, minority, and immigrant caregiver owners access to scalable operating systems, coaching, and support designed to build success.
Support designed for caregiver-owned home care companies.
Support sustainable businesses and elevated care through resource pooling and shared purchasing.
Give home care cooperatives the resources, systems, and training needed to compete and improve worker outcomes and care.
Maintain core values powered by organic leadership and skills.
For the last 8 years, CDF and its partners have developed sustainable home care cooperatives through quality technical assistance, rigorous research, and data-driven analysis. While we have provided the framework for the development and sharing of resources, it is really the co-op members that implement the work – responding to customer and business realities, creating policies that center workers, and advocating for the needs of caregivers and the people they serve. We look forward to the day where worker ownership transforms the home care field for all workers, and we believe that Elevate Cooperative can be the vehicle for transformative change.
How we're unlocking a new future for home care.
Full range of consultative, training, operational systems, and support for start-up to scale-up home care cooperatives.
Tools and systems that allow home care cooperatives to operate with the same business efficiencies as large home care enterprises.
Guidance provided by experienced leaders and expert home care business developers.
Access to multi-lingual, multi-cultural systems and support for a broad range of cultures and language speakers.
Talk with one of our home care cooperative experts. We'll share our experience and insights about the difference
that cooperative home care is making and the impact that investments can create.