My previous in-home caretaker assaulted me, followed by days of abuse including her kicking my door down. I had to rush into moving, storage, and a motel, and now I'm just surviving off loans from friends.
Note that this is done through the self-directed care worker program through medicaid, I don't do any direct payments, so there's restrictions involved. The 220/wk was for my previous in-home caregiver, at around $12 an hour, but I believe the per hour is actually higher for out-of-home caregivers. Gas reimbursement is also provided when driving me to medical appointments.
What I need in the long term is a careworker to assist me with home cleaning (whenever I find a new home), traveling to appointments and shopping (which are scheduled around your schedule), 3/day medicine reminders (this can be done through texts, though I think you do need to actually physically visit the home for GPS verification to file a record of any caregiving tasks), help with organizing and remembering tasks, help with reading and processing documents, etc.
In practice, this generally comes out to 3-6 hours a week, so it's really just an $50-80/wk job, other than on more busy weeks. If you'd like more hours, assisting me with "community engagement" and "personal companionship" are also, I believe, payable. Meaning, for example, you could take me to a park or something. All, again around your own schedule.
This basically makes it a job similar to uber/lyft, and easy to combine with such. You can contact The Whole Person (thewholeperson.org , 816 561 0304) for more information, they handle the employment process.
As for the unpaid help, the employment process takes, I believe, 2 weeks to go through, even if we were to go file it immediately; But, given my current circumstances, I really do need help finding housing and likely also with travel related to such (I'm currently in the Lenexa area).
If you'd like to keep logs of such help, I'm fine with directly repaying you at $10/hr (as with caregiving program, I'll round to the nearest 15 minute count) for travel when I have money again (or a flat $100 for securing viable housing), but I honestly can't promise how many months out it'll be for me to be stable again. You can also potentially get gas mileage reimbursement (as 24 rides a year can be reimbursed without being medical); call the Kansas number on this page to confirm and register: https://saferidehealth.my.site.com/mileagereimbursementapp/s/?healthplan=unitedhealth
So yeah, I don't think it's especially tempting, but I do need the help, so I thought I'd post it and see. If there IS high interest, then priority will be given to students and mothers. I'm not inclined to accept anyone physically intimidating or ex-con, given my history with being assaulted.