Study Raises Concerns About Unregulated Home Care Workers
As the population ages, personal home care has become one of the fastest-growing occupations in California. A new study from UCLA finds these caregivers for the elderly and disabled are unregulated, raising questions about patient safety and the quality of care.
As Growing Season Shifts, Farmworkers Face Tough School Choices
Kids are back at school across California, except for one group. Preschoolers in Ventura County, about an hour from Los Angeles, have just finished the school year. It's a unique program that caters to the needs of parents who are migratory farmworkers. For years, this Head Start program has run from January to September, to match the local growing season. But now the agricultural calendar is changing -- and parents are facing tough choices.
Woman Goes From Accounting to Animal Rescue
In this installment of our occasional series "The Giving State," we meet a woman who needed a change from her work as an accountant. She now works rescuing wildlife in Northern California.