COVID-19 Cooperative Home Care

The COVID-19 Cooperative Home Care Concept

Mutual aid is essential for us to survive and thrive. Government support for businesses, non-profits and individuals will be essential but not sufficient. Family, friends and neighbors must help each other.

For example, laid off workers may be able to provide dependent care services, in their homes or faith centers, so other workers can go to their jobs. This is especially important to maintain medical, food, law enforcement, delivery, as well as, other essential services. If you have the interest, ability, time and place to provide care, you can make arrangements with your family, neighbors, faith friends and others who still have jobs. One caregiver may help four or five others keep working and can be compensated to offset their lost wages. Allowing more people to work can reduce the number of people who may lose their homes, healthcare and more.

Maintaining virus prevention procedures will be critical and the smaller settings are much safer than large schools and centers. If the pandemic progresses and more people get sick, arrangements need to be flexible. Most people will survive the virus and may become immune. At that point, they may be able to safely provide needed services, especially to others who are sick.

The Centers for Disease Control, CDC provides guidelines for protecting yourself and others, homecare and treatment. Whole Child Leon provides guidance on how to enhance the six dimensions of early childhood development. The Agency for People with Disabilities has valuable resources. Suggestions for caring for seniors can be obtained from the Tallahassee Senior Center. In addition, here is a Guide for How Autonomous Groups are Mobilizing Mutual Aid Initiatives.

Short-term, informal sharing of responsibilities and resources will help us get through this crisis. If this crisis is longer-term, it will be important for caregivers to get the training and certifications required to provide paid quality dependent care services. The Florida Department of Children and Families has standards for operating a licensed Family Day Care Home. The Department of Elder Affairs regulates Adult Family Care Homes (including those for disabled adults). Licensing and certification will also for allow payment by HMOs, Medicaid and Medicare.

The TLH Co-Corp is gearing up to help dependent care givers and others create and succeed in cooperative enterprises, as CEOs (Coop, Entrepreneur, Owners). For information go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/COVID-19HomeCare.

Mutual aid and cooperation are key components in efforts to cope with our inter-connected health, human and economic needs in this COVID-19 crisis

Please answer the questions below and we will contact you.

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* 1. Why are you interested in Cooperative Home Care?

I would like to provide childcare services in my home.

I would like to provide adult care services in my home.

I would like to provide disabled care services in my home.

I need childcare (indicate ages and special needs in the comment box)

I need adult care (indicate ages and special needs in the comment box)

I would like to volunteer to help manage this home care initiative (indicate your interests and skills in the comment box)

Other interests and comments (please provide your comments here and reference which questions they apply to)

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* 2. Please provide your contact information.

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