Personal Care Attendants

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This is an excellent site with a free manual on how to recruit, hire and manage your PCAs:

http://www.wa-ilsc.org/toc2ack.html

This site is designed to link those who need PCAs with those looking for work. It is underutilized, but has potential:

http://www.pca-hha.com/index2.html

This book (Avoiding Attendants From Hell) must be purchased, but is also excellent:

http://whitesellenterprises.com/pricezrite/

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If you want to get involved in the movement to create more attendant care programs and improve government funding for PCA care vs. institutionalization, get involved with ADAPT:

http://www.adapt.org/