Angel Caregivers
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Angel Caregivers
Tian-Shi (天使), means “Angel” in Chinese and now we can serve vulnerable monolingual seniors and family members with our culturally competent and linguistically diverse “Angel Caregivers” to provide caregiving services in the comfort of their own homes and in their native language!
About Angel Caregivers
CalGrows is a California Department of Aging (CDA) funded program designed to support caregivers of older adults and people with disabilities by improving their skills through in-person classes and online training courses, 1:1 career coaching, and up to $6,000 in rewards payments. Access at calgrows.org.
Ask us about our CalGrows’ Angel Caregivers project to Learn & Earn!
Contact us at: info@dhti.org
Many Asian seniors prefer to age in place, to stay in environments where the food and language are familiar. Often the caregiving falls on family members. However, not all are trained to properly address medication, safety, bathing, proper body mechanics, etc. Many don’t have the bandwidth to sustain these caregiving duties on a long-term basis due to ongoing work demands. As a result of facing these challenges firsthand, a family donor funded DHTI to create a pipeline of Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese languages) and English speaking caregivers, to serve as home care, hospice, assisted-living, and private duty aides. In Winter of 2022, we received 100 applications to participate in our piloted Angel Caregivers project, top ten applicants were selected and they later completed the training and were referred to employers. By early 2023, California Department of Aging recognized our piloted Angel Caregivers project and awarded us with funds to scale our project to serve more than 100 participants into our 2023 Angel Caregivers project.
Priority will be given to applicants who:
Our Goal
We aim to train “Angels” to provide bilingual and culturally-responsive care to underserved, monolingual communities. We tap the shadow workforce of bilingual immigrants, refugees, and students who have medical backgrounds from their homelands, and train them to provide culturally-competent care with respect and dignity, to Asian-language speakers and their families.
Our Angel Caregivers receive free CA-recognized non-clinical training, career counseling, work-readiness workshops, career advancement into nursing tracks, and job opportunities with benefits and flexible schedules. Our vision is to collaborate with other local and regional health organizations to cultivate Angel Caregivers to address the need of underserved and monolingual Asian senior communities.
You can apply to be an Angel Caregiver:
If you are already experienced in caring for loved ones, but want to help others (and be trained and paid in the process).
If you are looking for a job that makes a difference.
If you have previous healthcare experience from your country of origin.
Ongoing enrollment.
Contact us at: info@dhti.org
Benefits
of becoming our Angel Caregivers
State Standards
CA Recognized training that meets minimum 5hrs requirement of non-medical training
Professional Growth
New career opportunities and career counseling
Flexible Schedule
Providers can coordinate their availability with the family granting them freedom of schedule
Impact
Serve the Asian community and provide critical culturally sensitive care for families and patients in need
Personal Growth
TAF provide English language development and mentoring throughout Angel Caregivers
Upcoming Courses
Upcoming Workshops
and Conferences
“I am so proud to be a student at DHTI, giving me a path to my nursing career. I participated in the Caregiver course, just wanted to learn some basic health care skills since I am taking care of my 86 years old father. This course is amazing because it takes you by the hands and teaches you the care skills, step by step. The course is well structured so it is easy to get inspired, implemented the techniques, and it provoked my interest to the nursing career. I have been engaging in business field for more than 30 years and never think of being a nurse before I met DHTI. I have no experience and knowledge of a nurse job and a little hesitate to start, thanks for the encouragement and support from DHTI, enrolled me to the CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) class about a month ago, I understand this is an valuable opportunity and I must cherish. After a month of hard studying and skills practicing in a long term care facility, I graduated yesterday. In addition, I also got my certificate for BLS/CPR training. I am going to take the State test and there are two care facilities already invited me to join them once I finished my State test. I will further pursue my nursing education by attending the HHA (Home Health Aide) course to widen my career path in nursing. Again, thanks so much for the support from DHTI and their staff, without them I would not able to achieve my goal.”
— Bobby T., Angel Caregivers’ participant
Impact
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World Journal Publication on Angel Caregiver's Project
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World Journal Article on Angel Caregiver Student Testimonial
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Filling the Gaps for an Aging Population and in Senior Care
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DHTI-CalGrows' Angel Caregivers project Impact, 2023