"Executive Director"
Community Homemaker Service F.ormed
Barnstable Patriot, January 07, 1965
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Mrs. Harriet Cameron, executive director, announces the formation of a new non-profit community service, the culminaton of three years of hard work on the part of a steering committee drawn from the Cape Cod professional community.
Cape Cod Homemaker Service has its own office in a portion of the Barnstable County Public Health Association, sponsoring agency in Hyannis.
The convalescent, the acutely or chronically ill and disabled, the aged—they all benefit from this service which preserves the family unit and helps relieve pressure on rest homes, public health nurses and hospitals by supplying carefully selected, trained and supervised homemakers, often as part of a "team" of workers providing mutual service.
"In our widely scattered population, such a service is vital to supplement the general health services, however fine," says
Mrs. Cameron.
The Massachusetts Department ol Public Health, Division of Adult Health, is absorbing the administrative expense of Cape Cod Homemake: Service in a three-year demonstration program.
The organization will be supported mainly by fees
Service Will stem from three branches of homemaker service.
flu- first to be established, was the headquarters unit which will cover "'e area lrom Barnstable to Brewster and Harwich. Early in 1!"J5 an Outer-Cape branch will be
' Op in Provincetown to service "oni Chatham to Provincetowti
In the latter part of 1965 will be the Upper Cape branch accommodating all of Bourne, Falmouth, Masnpee and Sandwich.
BfcCfl unit will have its own supervisor and will be under the jurisdi ction of the Mid-Cape office.
Herein lies the tremendous challenge to the Cape Cod Homemaker Service , accordmg to
Mrs. Came'0D . because there are no prececal tor this kind of a wide-spread
undertaking In the homemaker service field.
The first of the initial training courses of 10 two-hour sessions will be offered candidates from the Outer Cape.
They will be trained in the philosophy and purpose of homemaker' service, policies and organization of the sponsoring agency and skills of home management.
These include meal planning, nutrition, care of cloGhing, and personal care, and problems she Is likely to face, such as Inadequate or substandard housekeeping equipment, differences in family attitudes toward food and homemaking, emotional and pbysi-(Continued on Page S i
(Continued from Page 1) cal needs ot children, and the chronically ill. the handicapped and the aged.
Many of the educational skills and resources needed for homemaker training exist Within the Cape Cod community and will be used insofar as possible.
On the job. homemakers work under the continuing supervision and guidance of professionals.
For nursing consultation. Cape Cod Homemaker Service is fortunate lo have
Miss Esther G. Howe?. County nursing educational director.
In addition, the executive committee which was formed this past November, offers an excellent cross-ject.ion c<f professional resources including
Mrs. Richmond Blake, director, Welfare Board of Orleans:
Louis Jacobucci. executive. Massachusetts Sortety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children;
Dr. Julius G. Kelley, consultant, diseases of the chest;
David Rockwood, chairman of Cape Cod Homemaker Service and treasurer of Barnstable County Public Health Association, and
Miss Mary Susich.
County health < officer.
Active ex-officio members are
Miss Lucy Barker, executive director, and
Philip Jones, president, berth of the Barfistahle County Public Health Association.
Mrs. Cameron is recruiting prospective homemakers at the moment and would welcome any inquiries by telephone.
She is also available to speak to clubs, meetings and special groups.