Homecare consumers: How would a 40-hour cap affect you?

The State of Oregon is proposing a limit of 40 hours per week for hourly homecare workers. Many homecare consumers need more than 40 hours per week of services. If our primary provider’s hours are limited to 40, we will have to find and train a new provider. There is a serious shortage of trained homecare providers in Oregon. If we can’t find providers to meet our support needs in our homes, we will either go without needed services or be forced into unwanted institutionalization and loss of connection with our community.

Please let us know how the proposed hours cap would affect you:

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* 1. Please complete the following contact information:

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Last name

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Email address

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* 2. If your provider is a relative provider, what is your relationship to your provider (e.g., son or daughter, etc)?

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* 3. What do you think of DHS’ proposed 40-hour-per-week cap for hourly workers? (Does not apply to APD Live-ins) Choose only one answer.

I think a 40-hour cap is fair

I don’t think a 40-hour cap is fair and we should work to increase it. The cap should be more than 40 hours per week.

This does not apply to me

Describe how a 40-hour per week cap would affect you:

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* 4. Are you a member of any groups? (churches, sports teams, school groups, neighborhood associations, political or social organizations?) Please list them here:

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* 5. Do you have friends or family who receive in-home support services who would be affected by the proposed hours cap? If so, please include their contact information here:

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You can ask your friends and family members who are homecare consumers to complete the consumer survey online here: http://www.seiu503.org/consumer-hourscap
Or you can request a printed copy of the consumer survey by calling an SEIU 503 Organizer: 1.800.452.2146

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* 6. What are you willing to do to help win a higher hours cap? Check all that apply.

Travel to Salem and help deliver the message to DHS

Come to a local action to deliver the message

Share my story

Share this survey with other homecare consumers (http://www.seiu503.org/consumer-hourscap)

Other (please specify)