Some of us use and depend on a Live-in Personal Care Assistant to live independently out in the community. And sometimes the working relationship brakes down and you need to replace them. When you call the police they advice you that you would need to go to Housing Court and evict them in order move them out, that could take up to three months. There is a Connecticut statute (section 47a-2) that lists exemptions to the summary process (eviction) laws: http://www.cga.ct.gov/2009/pub/chap830.htm#Sec47a-2.htm. You would want to look at subsection (a) (6) for the mention of a “personal care assistant.” Your local police may not know about this prevision, it is recommend that you make a copy of Sec47 (a) (6) for your own record. You should incorporate it into the contract between you and Personal Assistant. Also you could take a copy down to your local police department and introduce yourself to the Police Chief and make him/her aware of this statute. If you do not live in Connecticut and you do not know if your state has a prevision like ours, you can contact your local or state Library reference department to get help finding that out. If your state doesn’t have this law than this is your duty to work on making it a law. See “How laws are made” in my “Advocate Tool Box”
Also, there is a Guide to Hiring and Managing Personal Assistant Services published by the Connecticut Bureau of Rehabilitation Services that discusses evicting a live-in personal assistant: http://www.ct.gov/brs/lib/brs/pdfs/pas/3-e.pdf#page=23. This guide can be use by people from any state.
More Information and helpful links, nation wide Personal Assistant Registry visit my PCA page in my resource section.
IMPORTANT There is a bill in Legislation that would effect the Connecticut Personal Assistant Waiver progran. This bill, # HB 6486, if becomes laws would allow an union to unionize our PCA's and would create a workforce committee that would take control of the PCA program away from us. To read more about this bill please visit STOP THE SEIU
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