Homecare Workers Training Center


	"The Homecare Workers Training Center gives members the educational tools they need to sharpen their skills and expand their careers." –-Amanda Figueroa; Secretary-Treasurer SEIU-ULTCW
	The Homecare Workers Training Center (HWTC) was established in 1999 as a separate, non-profit entity for the benefit of homecare workers, their families, and the community, by generous funding and support from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 434B (Now SEIU-ULTCW, Local 6434). The (HWTC) provides homecare workers with the tools to achieve their full educational and professional potential, while providing quality care to our senior and disabled communities and addressing the critical need for trained nursing staff in long-term care facilities.

	Certificate of Appreciation Awarded to Homecare Workers Training Center by the City of Los Angeles

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Submit by mail to:
Homecare Workers Training Center
2515 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90057

Or fax to:
866-728-1117

New Student Sponsorships
Individuals, Employers and Community Groups can now sponsor a student for classes.

Improving Lives
The Homecare Workers Training Center helps to stabilize the caregiving industry to meet the rapidly growing public need for personal assistance. Through our pioneering efforts to develop a free healthcare career ladder for underprivileged communities, we are improving the lives of California’s low-wage caregivers, seniors and persons with disabilities.

Creating Opportunities
There are over 190,000 homecare workers providing essential home and health care services to low-income elderly, disabled, and terminally ill patients in California. Homecare workers enable their patients to maintain a sense of dignity and independence. Unfortunately, their salaries are too low to confer the same dignity and independence upon them. The (HWTC) provides the first step in real world career advancement - education.

Job Training
The (HWTC) offers year-round In Home Supportive Services (IHSS) courses as well as Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) and Licensed Vocational Nurse certification courses. The curriculum includes In-Home Supportive Services, Vocational Nurse, Computer Classes, Basic Skills Classes, such as Vocational English as a Second Language, literacy and basic math, basic computer skills, citizenship classes, advanced safety courses, nutrition, caring for terminally ill patients and patients with Alzheimer's, CPR and more.

Promoting Higher Standards in Long Term Care
Families rely on nursing home and homecare workers to take care of their loved ones. Yet, most long term care workers in America receive poverty-level wages and little training or health coverage — conditions that force nearly 100 percent turnover. And nine out of ten nursing homes in America don't have enough staff to provide adequate care to residents, according to a new study by the federal Department of Health and Human Services.

Partnering to Fill California’s Quality Care Needs We partner with nursing home employers to identify job placement opportunities for CNA and LVN graduates to help maintain adequate staffing levels at facilities throughout California.

Uniting for Quality Care In partnership with SEIU United Long-Term Care Workers' Union (ULTCW), our students are uniting with patients and their families, advocates, community leaders, and elected officials in quality care campaigns to win better care standards for America's seniors and persons with disabilities:

Comprehensive training for nursing home workers.

Good caregiver careers, with benefits and wages that help attract and keep qualified providers.

We work in coalition with community groups to improve recruitment and retention of long term care workers.

Lifting Communities Out of Poverty
Homecare workers enable their patients to maintain a sense of dignity and independence. Unfortunately, their salaries are too low to confer the same dignity and independence upon them. The Homecare Workers Training Center provides the first step in real world career advancement -- education.
The Faces of the Folks We Serve

78% are women
58% are minorities
50% are foreign-born
50% live below the poverty line

Case Management
The Training Center’s project coordinators help participants overcome individual barriers, provide on-going motivation and support, and are knowledgeable about outside agencies that can provide additional supportive services when necessary.

Building Confidence and Success
Beyond the medical skills and the tools for professional advancement, program participants gain a real sense of confidence and accomplishment through their participation in the program. For many of our students, the certificate of completion is their first diploma. For them, completing the training builds self confidence, job skills and interest in continuing education.

Job Readiness and Placement
The Training Center offers job readiness skills-building workshops, including:

Resume writing
Interviewing skills
Effective communication

Computers are available, and our staff provides individual assistance to students. The Training Center works with various agencies to place program graduates in jobs.