BILL NUMBER: ACR 15	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Evans

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2005

   Relative to In-Home Supportive Services Caregiver Recognition
Week.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 15, as introduced, Evans.   In-Home Supportive Services
Caregiver Recognition Week.
   This bill would proclaim the second week of November to be In-Home
Supportive Services (IHSS) Caregiver Recognition Week, and would
recognize, and commend the contributions of IHSS caregivers who give
their time, patience, care, and support to their families and the
entire community.
   Fiscal committee: no.




   WHEREAS, For over a quarter of a century California has provided
home care services to a very high proportion of its residents through
a unique, fiscally sound alternative to institutional care; and
   WHEREAS, That home care program, In-Home Supportive Services
(IHSS), is now recognized nationally and is being replicated in other
states as the preferred way to provide assistance to people who need
long term care; and
   WHEREAS, IHSS now serves nearly 345,000 aging, disabled, and blind
residents at one fifth of the cost to tax payers as care provided in
nursing homes; and
   WHEREAS, Nearly 325,000 IHSS caregivers provide home care services
and support, making it possible for 345,000 low-income disabled and
elderly residents in California to remain living independently in
their homes; and
   WHEREAS, In 2004, numerous national organizations joined together
in declaring the month of November as National Home Care Month to
Recognize, honor and support the valuable contributions of home care
workers; and
   WHEREAS, Providing services and support for the disabled and
elderly to remain living in their homes is a humane, dignified, and
compassionate alternative to hospitalization or other institutional
placement; and
   WHEREAS, The work of California's IHSS caregivers requires great
sensitivity, honesty, patience, trust, commitment, dedication, and
compassion; and
   WHEREAS, The work of California's IHSS caregivers is both
physically demanding and emotionally challenging; and
   WHEREAS, The work of California's IHSS caregivers promotes
independence, dignity, and quality-of-life for California's disabled
and elderly residents; now, therefore be it
   Resolved By The Assembly Of The State Of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby proclaims the second
week of November as In-Home Supportive Services Caregiver Recognition
Week; and be it further
   Resolved, that the Legislature recognizes and commends the
contributions of IHSS caregivers who give their time, patience, care
and support to their families and the entire community.