"Mrs. Harriet Jacobucci"
Health Aide Training
The Register, March 22, 1984
Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands, Inc. has received a United States Public Health Service grant lo train 24 individuals to become certified Home Health Aides, according to a press release.
Graduates can expect to earn about $5 per hour, for each hour they elect to work.
Several agencies pay benefits to those who regularly work 30 or more hours per week.
The 90 hour course is free of charge and textbooks, a uniform and even a pair of shoes are furnished, free.
Sixty hours will be spent in class; thirty hours in hands-on training.
Mrs. Harriet Jacobucci,
of Cape Cod Homemakers, and members of her staff will do the instructing.
The first of two planned training courses starts on March 19th in Falmouth, the second one on April 25th in Yarmouth.
Graduates will be given a list of employers in their areas and a chance to meet them in person.
Certified Home Health Aides are in great demand on the Cape, so graduates should find work easily.
Those students receiving unemployment benefits will continue to receive them throughout the training period.
The public health service is sponsoring this training to train men and women, age 50 and over, in a marketable skill and to make it possible for crowded hospitals to reduce expensive stays by discharging patients who require only minimal care.
Interested applicants may call Joyce Wolbarst at Elder Services 771-4248.