California Homemakers Association
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CHA has a more than 25 year history in Sonoma County building an all-volunteer membership association
Join as a Volunteer
You can become a volunteer with CHA and make a difference your first day in.
Become a Member
Join as a member and add your voice to those of other low-income workers in Sonoma County.
Who are homemakers
Homemakers are domestic workers. They work inside private residences as caregivers for the elderly or disabled, as childcare workers and as housecleaners. Their labor is an essential component of Sonoma and Lake Counties’ economies yet they live below the poverty line, are paid minimum wage or less and their contributions and status as workers remains unrecognized.
Illustration by Sally Wern Comport
CHA membership is open to all low-income workers
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CHA membership is open to all low-income workers ★
Welcome
What is CHA
CALIFORNIA HOMEMAKERS ASSOCIATION (CHA) is a free and voluntary, unincorporated, private membership association committed to ending the poverty conditions facing our membership of domestic workers, in-home care workers, low-income elderly, blind and disabled recipients of in-home care and other low-paid service, temporary or seasonal workers in Sonoma County and beyond. We are 100% volunteer run and independent of government funding.
Membership Association
Who are CHA members
CHA’s members are the backbone of the economy: we care for the elderly, sick and disabled, clean homes and office buildings, work in food service and healthcare, and do a variety of other vital jobs including working for contractors in construction and seasonal jobs, yet often receive wages that don’t cover survival needs for a family.
Positive Impact
Members helping members
Since 2000, CHA members and volunteers have built an 11‑point self-help, membership benefit program including emergency and supplemental food, preventive medical care, non-emergency dental care, legal advice, and much more. These benefits respond to our members’ immediate survival needs to keep us on our feet while we organize to gain control over our living and working conditions, and bring about an end to poverty once and for all.
CHA has tread lightly on the earth since 2000!
The CHA Logo
CHA’s logo was inspired by an illustration by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859–1923) in the year 1900. His illustration shows "Paris" leading a charge of working class men and women against social and economic injustices. Paris holds the broken shackles that tie the underclass to their conditions of poverty and servitude. The original illustration was used as a cover in a workers magazine in France called Le Petit Sou (“The Little Penny”).