Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA), New York City

• Responsible Organisations: Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) (Civil society); New York Community Service Society (Civil society)
• ILO Regions: Americas
• Country(ies): United States
• Thematic areas: Protection; Social integration and inclusion
• MLFLM: 8.; 9.(a),(b),(c); 11.; 14.
• Sectors: Domestic work; Health

Description

Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) is a worker-owned homecare (elderly care) agency in New York City. CHCA is the largest worker cooperative in the United States, employing 2,200 inner-city homecare workers in the South Bronx and generating an annual income of over US$ 40m. Originally established in 1985 with the support of the New York Community Service Society, CHCA is now owned by 1,700 low-income women, from immigrant, African American and Latin American backgrounds. By improving homecare jobs, CHCA transforms the challenges faced by unemployed women into sustainable opportunities for economic independence.

Documents

• Cooperating out of isolation: Domestic workers' cooperatives
  (Cooperating out of isolation.pdf; 868kb)
• Global Mapping of Domestic Worker Cooperatives and Social and Solidarity Organizations
  (Global mapping.docx; 4,249kb)
• Mapping of Domestic Worker Social and Solidarity Economy Organizations
  (Mapping.docx; 225kb)
• New York City Domestic Worker Cooperatives
  (NYC.pdf; 2,566kb)