CARE Documentary Hits Home

With exquisite sensitivity, a new documentary called CARE deftly weaves the stories of two elderly women and two chronically disabled men with those of the four women paid to care for them. In spite of the geographic, racial, income, and ethnic diversity of the subjects, their struggles spring from a single source: the lack of value given to care.

Please click here for the Huffington Post article on this film and CPS’s discussion of the subject matter, by?Riane Eisler?and?Valerie Young, JD,?Outreach director for CPS?s Caring Economy Campaign. Valerie?s work appears extensively in social media, @WomanInDC on Twitter, Your (Wo)Man in Washington on Facebook, and blogging for Mom-mentum.org. She also has written for The Shriver Report, Brain/Child Magazine, and is frequently featured on BlogHer.com.