BILL NUMBER: ACR 15	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 1, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 27, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Evans

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2005

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



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 15, as amended, Evans.   In-Home  
In-Home  Supportive Services Home Care Worker Recognition Week.

   This bill would proclaim the second week of November to be
 In-Home   In-Home  Supportive Services
(IHSS) 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   long-term  care; and

   WHEREAS, IHSS now serves nearly 345,000   is
estimated by the State Department of Social Services to serve 374,986
 aging, disabled, and blind residents  in the 2005-06
fiscal year  at one fifth of the cost to  tax payers
  taxpayers  as care provided in nursing homes; and


   WHEREAS, Nearly 325,000 IHSS home care workers provide home care
services and support, making it possible for  345,000
  approximately 375,000  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   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 home care workers requires
great sensitivity, honesty, patience, trust, commitment, dedication,
and compassion; and

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

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

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