BILL NUMBER: ACR 15	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 27, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Evans

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2005

   Relative to In-Home Supportive Services  Caregiver
  Home Care Worker  Recognition Week.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 15, as amended, Evans.  In-Home Supportive Services 
Caregiver   Home Care Worker  Recognition Week.
   This bill would proclaim the second week of November to be In-Home
Supportive Services (IHSS)  Caregiver   Home
Care Worker  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  
home care workers  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
  home care workers  requires great sensitivity,
honesty, patience, trust, commitment, dedication, and compassion; and


   WHEREAS, The work of California's IHSS  caregivers
  home care workers  is both physically demanding
and emotionally challenging; and

   WHEREAS, The work of California's IHSS  caregivers
  home care workers  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
  Home Care Worker  Recognition Week; and be it
further

   Resolved, that the Legislature recognizes and commends the
contributions of IHSS  caregivers   home care
workers  who give their time, patience, care and support to
their families and the entire community.