National Domestic Workers Alliance

Caring Across Generations

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is an advocacy organization promoting the rights of domestic workers in the United States, the majority of whom are immigrant women and women of color. In 2011, NDWA launched Caring Across Generations (CAG), a national coalition of 200 advocacy organizations working to transform the long-term care system in the United States through federal and state policy advocacy, research, culture change strategies, and caregiver organizing and leadership development. This grant to NDWA provides flexible support to CAG for efforts to increase public support for comprehensive care infrastructure at the state and federal levels and to use mass media and popular culture to change the narrative about care in this country from a responsibility that falls to individual family members to a collective issue deserving of collective solutions. Its goal is to ensure all Americans have equitable access to the care they need throughout their lifespans.

Caring Across Generations

The Care Can’t Wait Campaign (CCW) is a coalition-based project of Caring Across Generations (Caring Across). Housed within the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Caring Across is a national coalition of 200 advocacy organizations working to transform the long-term care system in the United States through federal and state policy advocacy, research, culture change strategies, and caregiver organizing and leadership development. It is using this project grant to staff and manage the Care Can’t Wait campaign, a national effort advocating for the inclusion of comprehensive care infrastructure in the federal COVID-19 recovery plan. The COVID-19 crisis brought into focus the country’s dependence on care giving. It not only exacerbated the financial strain felt by parents and caregivers, especially Black and immigrant women who disproportionately provide care for others’ families as well as their own, but it also amplified the longstanding inequities of caregiving. The campaign builds on growing public interest in care infrastructure in the wake of the pandemic, including federal investments in caregiving as part of the nation’s COVID-19 recovery. Building on this momentum and good will, the campaign’s activities over the next year will focus on public education and engagement, and culture and narrative change activities to advance public awareness of the need for and value of comprehensive care infrastructure.