Caregiver Training
The Integrity of Care.
Five modules. Skills you’ll use every shift, or every day at home. We go past compliance. Home care workers earn a certificate for their job. Family caregivers learn the same skills.
18+
caregivers trained and certified
5 modules
built on the ethics of care
8–12
caregivers per cohort
Quarterly
new cohort every season
Our Philosophy
Most trainings teach care as a list of tasks. This one teaches care as a practice.
Care is skilled work.
It takes knowledge, judgment, and heart.
Care is a relationship.
It happens between people, not to them.
How we care matters as much as what we do.
Values only count when we practice them.
You already know a lot.
Your experience is knowledge. This training builds on it.
Good care is fair care.
It protects the dignity of the person receiving care, and the person giving it.
The curriculum
The Integrity of Care.
Built on Joan Tronto's ethics of care. Each module follows one phase of care, from noticing a need to building trust together.
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00
Introduction: The Care Workforce and the Integrity of Care
Who direct care workers are · Five phases · Five moral elements · One moment, five phases
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01
Caring About · Attentiveness
Recognizing changes · Bias · Dementia · Mental health · Trauma · Abuse
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02
Caring For · Responsibility
Consumer rights · Confidentiality · Scope of practice · Documentation
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03
Giving Care · Competence
Infection control · Personal care · Nutrition · Mobility · Emergencies · Skills practice
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04
Receiving Care · Responsiveness
Communication · Dementia care · Behavior as communication · Dignity of risk
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05
Caring With · Trust & Solidarity
Power dynamics · Working with families · Worker rights · Burnout · Community
Source: Fisher & Tronto (1990); Tronto, J. C. (2013). Caring Democracy. NYU Press.
Tuition
You choose your rate.
No income checks. No paperwork. Pick the rate that fits.
Supported
$250
For caregivers who need the lower price.
Standard
$300
What most people pay.
Sustaining
$400
Pay a little more. Help open a seat for someone else.
Institutional
$500
For agencies and hospitals sending staff.
Can't afford any rate? Donors fund scholarships. Ask us.
Next cohort
January 2027
Exact dates coming soon. Save your spot and you'll hear the dates first.