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The home care crisis isn’t new, but it is receiving renewed attention. In several communities across the country, home care workers have come together to form worker cooperatives.

Three existing care co-operatives explained how care co-ops work and shared their experiences of setting up a care co-op in their localities.

Equal Care's pilot in Commons-based care in Hackney builds on five years of work developing and delivering a ‘teams model’ of home care in Calderdale, Yorkshire.

Equal Care Coop and Clapton Commons are mapping a local landscape of care and support in Clapton Common, Upper Clapton. Using KUMU, a powerful system mapping platform, we are creating an interactive map that makes the often invisible grassroots networks of care and support more visible and accessible to people giving and receiving care.

We are in the midst of a labor force crisis in the supply of direct service workers. The home care industry experiences a 67% average annual turnover in workers. The number of workers needed to provide home care and respite is going to escalate over the next 2 decades, exacerbating the crisis. The shortage is already acute in rural areas, and worsening in urban and suburban areas as well. An emerging solution is developing across the country through Home Care worker cooperatives.

Conversations with a member of a home care worker co-op, and the co-author of a paper laying out possibilities for a federation structure for care sector cooperatives.

Increasing the prevalence of perceived quality drivers through the expansion of home care cooperatives, the adoption of cooperatives’ practices by traditional agencies, and the implementation of industry-wide policies that facilitate them may significantly improve care quality across the home care sector. 

Home Care Cooperative managers/administrators wear many hats from HR to trainer, to scheduler and marketer and more! It is a lot to manage. In this session hear from experienced administrators on how they approach time management and boundary setting and prioritization to manage the never-ending to-do list and avoid burnout.

Introduction and refresher on board, management and member roles, building engagement and more.