Helping women step confidently into adult-care careers
Demand for adult and elder care is rising faster than the workforce can meet it. CareMakers Collective™ helps refugee and immigrant women step into the caregiving pathway.
From entry to advanced — a real ladder, not a dead-end job
Our graduates are prepared to enter the credentialing and employment pathways that already exist in Washington state — and to keep climbing.
What CMC adds
Most adult-care training and matching systems assume a level of language, confidence, and workplace fluency that newly arrived women are still building. We fill that gap to prepare them into caregiving careers.
Language & confidence training
Caregiving foundations
Workplace readiness
How our participants support adult care
Adult & elder care support
- Companionship and daily living assistance
- Respite care for family caregivers
- Cultural and language-aligned placement with partner employers
A Win-Win Model
CareMakers does not duplicate what already works—we leverage and amplify it.
Why it's a win-win
Nationally, demand for home health and personal care workers creates hundreds of thousands of job openings each year. Families struggle to find trusted care. Caregivers — including newly arrived women with deep traditions of caring — struggle to find stable, fairly matched work.
CareMakers bridges that gap.
We partner with organizations that already provide:
- Adult care and home care that requiring certifications
- Refugee and immigrant resettlement services
Holistic support to remove barriers and accelerate economic mobility:
- ESL Integrated with Caregiving & Daily Life
- Caregiving skills Training (without certifications)
- Financial Literacy & Wealth Building
- Digital Literacy & Platform Training
- Mental Health & Social Support
Prepare women to enter the caregiving career
- Recruit + Orient
- Training + navigation
- Build communications skills
- Match to the best-fit certification programs + employers
Caregivers can also access flexible sewing and circular-economy work pathways.
How Our Model Strengthens the Care Ecosystem
- Actively screen and recruit future caregivers to meet the demands
- Provide culturally responsive care training
- Income stability: caregivers can also access flexible sewing and circular-economy work pathways
Ready to start your caregiving career?
Caregivers: Join a supported pathway to certification, income, and community.