Mission
PHI works to improve the lives of people who need home or residential care—by improving the lives of the workers who provide that care.
What We Do
The Bronx-based Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) is the nation’s leading authority on the direct-care workforce, promoting quality jobs as the foundation for quality care.
Our work is anchored in New York City, where PHI and our affiliates provide high-quality home care for thousands of elders and people with disabilities. We offer free training to residents of the Bronx and low-income individuals citywide, with guaranteed placement in quality home health care positions and extensive employment support for successful graduates. Together with Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA), our worker-owned affiliate home care agency, we provide program participants with valuable career skills, dignified working conditions, fair compensation, competitive benefits, peer mentoring, and opportunities for career advancement.
These workers—primarily women, nearly all unemployed when they joined our program—have helped to transform their community and provided essential home and community-based care for tens of thousands of the city’s elders and individuals living with disabilities.
PHI builds from the lessons of its New York City-based efforts to serve as a recognized leader in practice and policy on the direct-care workforce nationwide. Our coaching, consulting, and policy work is at the forefront of strengthening the U.S. long-term care system, in the face of demand for services that will grow significantly in the years and decades to follow.
Our work is anchored in New York City, where PHI and our affiliates provide high-quality home care for thousands of elders and people with disabilities. We offer free training to residents of the Bronx and low-income individuals citywide, with guaranteed placement in quality home health care positions and extensive employment support for successful graduates. Together with Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA), our worker-owned affiliate home care agency, we provide program participants with valuable career skills, dignified working conditions, fair compensation, competitive benefits, peer mentoring, and opportunities for career advancement.
These workers—primarily women, nearly all unemployed when they joined our program—have helped to transform their community and provided essential home and community-based care for tens of thousands of the city’s elders and individuals living with disabilities.
PHI builds from the lessons of its New York City-based efforts to serve as a recognized leader in practice and policy on the direct-care workforce nationwide. Our coaching, consulting, and policy work is at the forefront of strengthening the U.S. long-term care system, in the face of demand for services that will grow significantly in the years and decades to follow.
Causes
COMMUNITY AND SERVICE
HEALTH
I JUST WANT TO DO GOOD
SENIOR CITIZENS ISSUES
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