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Public Authority for IHSS

The Public Authority for In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) in Alameda County is a public agency whose mission is to improve the planning and delivery of IHSS in Alameda County. IHSS is a publicly-funded program which helps low-income people with disabilities, including the elderly, to remain in their own homes by paying for domestic and personal services.

The Public Authority for IHSS provides the following services in Alameda County:

  • a registry that provides lists of screened workers to IHSS recipients/consumers and seniors seeking to hire home care workers/personal assistants;
  • Rapid Response, a free emergency worker replacement service that provides on-call workers to IHSS consumers 24 hours a day;
  • training for providers and consumers;
  • consumer organizing and support services;
  • a limited number of bus and BART passes for IHSS home care workers/personal assistants;
  • administration of medical, dental and vision plans for IHSS home-care workers/personal assistants.

Find a Homecare Worker

The Public Authority staff and community agencies under contract with the Public Authority provide registry services.

If you have been authorized for IHSS hours by the Alameda County IHSS department or if you are 60 years or older and plan to pay privately, call one of the registry sites listed below.

There is no cost for the registry services.

Apply to Find Work as a Homecare Worker

Call one of the phone numbers listed below:

  • Oakland
    Bay Area Community Services,
    510.271.6078 and 271.6079
    Center for Independent Living (IHSS only),
    510.763-9999 TDD: 444.1837
    Family Bridges,
    510.839.2022
  • Berkeley
    Center for Independent Living (IHSS only),
    510.841.4776 TDD: 848.3101
  • Hayward
    Community Resources for Independent Living,
    510.881.5743 TDD: 881.0218
    Public Authority Registry in Hayward,
    510.581.9499
  • Fremont
    Public Authority Registry in Hayward,
    IHSS and Private Pay: 510.574-2095
  • Pleasanton
    Senior Support Program of the Tri-Valley,
    IHSS: 925.931.5384      Private Pay: 925.931.5380

Emergency IHSS Worker Replacement

Rapid Response is a service provided to IHSS consumers throughout Alameda County. The Public Authority for IHSS contracts with Nightingale Nursing to provide emergency home care workers/personal assistants at no cost to the IHSS consumer. Call 510.357.4222 anytime, any day, if your usual IHSS worker is not available and you have an urgent need for personal care, shopping or cooking.

Training and Education

Call 510.577.3554 for more information on homecare worker classes and the IHSS consumer handbook and video.

Find out more at www.ac-pa4ihss.org