What Are
Pods & Hubs?
What is a Pod?
A community care pod is a collaborative group of disabled people, advocates, and care workers who are connected to supporting hubs Each pod self organizes and co-creates a space that works best for them to balance being accountable to the work, accessibility needs, language, and care. Care workers can shadow and be mentored in other pods to have an idea of what other pods are doing.
What is a Hub?
Hubs are groups focused on responding to one aspect of care work, like facilitating access, obtaining supplies, cooking food, etc. Each hub is sustained through a worker supportive system. Each care worker is a member of a specific hub and also a member of one community care pod. Care workers within hubs can choose to have various degrees of support for themselves Cross-Training between hubs is encouraged for people who wish to do multiple types of care work.
There are two kinds of Hubs:
Independent Hubs, which provide resources on an as-needed basis for the pods and general program, and Interconnected Hubs, where care workers directly work within each community care pod.