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In
recognition of Neighbors Home Care's distinctive efforts in paraprofessional training, we had been selected in 1988 and 1989 to offer a unique Home Health Aide
Training Program under a special grant by the New York State Department of
Health. Under this grant, trainees
received stipends for such things as childcare, transportation, uniforms, and
medical examinations. In addition,
these programs were set up for bilingual as well as monolingual (Spanish) speaking
individuals in order to better meet the needs of the large Hispanic population
of the Bronx. From 1990 to 1992,
the company participated with the New York City Chapter of the Alzheimer's
Association in a pilot training program (State Department of Health funded and
approved) for Home Health Aides as Dementia Specialists. In 1993, Neighbors Home Care took the
position of lead agency in a consortium to provide Dementia Specialist
training. Our present training program includes an extensive block of instruction dealing with all types of dementia.
In 1992, the company
received a matching grant from the New York State Department of Labor to
upgrade home care worker skills and provide them with career ladder
opportunities. Neighbors Home Care
was also under contract (from 1994 to 1996) with the State University of New
York (SUNY) to conduct Home Health Aide training and employment programs for
disadvantaged, unemployed or under-employed individuals at the Bronx
Educational Opportunity Center (EOC).
This "Welfare to Work"-type program has enabled many Aid to Families
with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients to receive exceptional training and
employment in a field that will continue to grow and, therefore, provide them
with more career opportunities in the home care field.
In
July of 1997, Neighbors Home Care was awarded another training grant,
this time under the New York State Department of Health's Workforce
Retraining Initiative in the position of lead agency of a consortium of
home attendant and proprietary agencies. In 1998, Neighbors Home Care
was awarded another training grant under the Workforce Retraining
Initiative that provided courses in Vocational English as a Second
Language prior to individuals being trained as Home Health Aides.
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