Homebridge

Contract mode ihss (medi-cal funded in-home supportive services) provides home care, personal care and paramedical support services to clients in their homes who are entitled beneficiaries of san francisco county's ihss program. Eligible clients have disabilities which impact their activities of daily living and/or independent activities of daily living and also have one or more behavioral diagnoses which complicate their ability to successfully self-direct a caregiver (such as cognitive impairments like dementia or alzheimers and/or active substance use and/or mental health diagnoses). This program promotes independent living by sustaining well being and reducing avoidable acute medical incidents. 300-500k hours of ihss service are provided annually to approximately 1,000 clients. Care plan management, caregiver supervision and scheduling and paramedical supports services are all included in program coverage. The cert/prk program is a covid-19 response which provides specially trained caregivers to work with a presumed or known covid positive populations and previously unhoused individuals in shelter in place locales, particularly in federally-funded project roomkey/homekey sites.

Career pathways: in-home supportive services career pathways program is funded by the California department of social services and makes an extensive array of on-line instructor led, trainee self-directed (computer-based) and in person paid training available to nearly 1,000,000 government-funded in-home caregivers and other direct service workers across California through this and the adjacent calgrows program operated by California department of aging. Homebridge is the major provider (80%+) of content to this effort. Homebridge maintains operational systems to track registration, enrollment and participation, sending information to the state which allows qualifying trainees to request payment for hours of training completed.

Homebridge training provides a complete program of workforce development job readiness, skills training and coaching support for more than 500 homebridge-employed caregivers annually. Homebridge training additionally provides caregiving skills development, techincal program trainings and other workforce support initiatives for more than 1,000 caregivers who are independent providers to entitled recipients of san francisco county's in-home supportive services (ihss) program, including all public authority registry caregivers. This program is funded jointly through the san francisco department of disability and aging and the san francisco office of economic & workforce development.

Occupational skills training program is a workforce development initiative for home care providers, providing skills building, barrier removal and other support services.