Adria Powell

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Adria Powell

As Cooperative Home Care Associates President and CEO, Adria Powell oversees the cooperative’s work to provide high-quality care, support its workers and worker-owners, and sustainably grow to serve more clients. Ms. Powell supervises the Senior Leadership, whom have oversight of the cooperative’s various divisions: Operations, Training and Workforce Development, Finance, Quality Performance and Clinical Services. She works closely with these teams to ensure that the organization maintains the best quality of services possible, by maintaining a deep investment in the development of the home care workforce.

Ms. Powell assumed the role of President in January 2017 after serving as Executive Vice President, at a time of significant change and challenge in the home care industry. In addition to guiding CHCA’s ongoing strategic planning efforts, she has advocated on behalf of the cooperative’s workers for adequate funding for rates that support the cost of home care services and has collaborated with Local 1199 to support home care workers.

She leverages CHCA’s identity as a worker cooperative to champion the foundation and principles of the cooperative model, both with CHCA workers and worker-owners and to the broader community. Ms. Powell works with local government bodies to support CHCA’s work and advance the stability and support of the home care workforce. Through all this work, Ms. Powell focuses her efforts and those of CHCA on providing person-centered care for every client, and continually improving the care and the jobs for those who provide that care.

Ms. Powell holds a Baccalaureate Degree in Psychology with a minor in Black Studies from Boston College. In 2000, she earned her Masters of Public Administration (Health Policy & Management) from New York University.

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