Home Care Companions’ (HCC) mission is to enable people living with a life-threatening illness to receive sufficient, appropriate, and affordable health care in their own homes, by training families, friends and partners in basic home care nursing skills

Home Care Companions (HCC) was founded in 1988 by a group of friends caring for a person living with AIDS at home. Their first-hand experience (providing around-the-clock care) convinced them of the great need for practical training in home care skills. They developed a curriculum that was reviewed, and embraced, by service providers throughout the Bay Area. HCC held its first patient / caregiver training in April 1988 at the University of California at San Francisco.

HCC was the first institution in the U.S. to focus exclusively on practical skills training in home care for non-professional caregivers. Since 1988, HCC has provided FREE classes to more than 1,900 caregivers in the San Francisco Bay Area. HCC has helped many other service organizations -- from throughout the United States, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe -- by consulting in program and curriculum development, and by conducting 'training the trainer' classes. Through these collaborations, we estimate that HCC's training techniques and strategies have reached more than 25,000 caregivers worldwide.