Personal Care Aide Homemaker Training

The ABCs for Direct Care Worker Curriculum is grounded in adult learner-centered principles. To enhance the Home Care Aides understanding of his/her roles, responsibilities, and limitations, the curriculum introduces these concepts in the first module: Roles and Responsibilities. Instructional scaffolding, a process used to help the worker develop a deeper understanding, continues to reintroduce the worker's role, responsibilities, and limitations throughout the entire training; resulting in a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of the important role s/he has in home and community-based care.

Participants in this course receive additional training to qualify for a certificate to be a Personal Care Homemaker (PCHM). Participants who successfully complete this 75-hour course are qualified to work as a PCHM employed by consumers and in a home care agency.

This curriculum is taught in both English and Spanish.