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IHSS Connect Westside Regional Center Los Angeles Westside

For Westside families & providers

Find in-home support. Or find work supporting others.

IHSS Connect is California’s free directory for in-home care — free to use, in 17 languages, across the communities Westside Regional Center serves.

Find Help I need a caregiver Find Work I’m a caregiver
  • Always free
  • No fees or commissions
  • 17 languages
  • About 5 minutes to join
Why this page exists

Pointed at the same thing: free, and in your language.

Westside Regional Center and IHSS Connect are separate organizations. We’re not claiming anything more than this: we want the same outcome, which is for support to be easier to find, free to use, and available in the language a family actually speaks at home.

WRC already does a great deal of that work — a Language Access and Cultural Competency program, support groups running in several languages, and a monthly workshop walking families through the IHSS program itself. You can find those on their calendar of trainings and events.

IHSS Connect is the part that comes after the paperwork: a free, searchable place where families find caregivers and caregivers find work. No fee to either side, and no cut of anyone’s pay.

Self-Determination

The program says you choose. It doesn’t say where to look.

Self-Determination is built on a simple idea: the person receiving support should decide who provides it. That’s the whole point of the program — your plan, your budget, your choice of who walks through the door.

What it doesn’t come with is a roster. In practice, families end up asking around, posting in group chats, and hoping someone good turns up. That gap is where a lot of participants stall out, and it’s the part IHSS Connect was built for — real people listing their skills, their availability, and the languages they speak, searchable by where you live, at no cost.

Finding someone here doesn’t change how you hire or pay them. Your spending plan and your Financial Management Service (FMS) still govern that, the same as always.

IHSS Connect is a free public directory and is not affiliated with Westside Regional Center. It doesn’t authorize, arrange, or pay for regional center services — your Service Coordinator and your IPP still guide all of that.

Communities in the WRC service area

21 communities
  • Bel Air
  • Beverly Hills
  • Calabasas
  • Culver City
  • El Segundo
  • Gardena
  • Hawthorne
  • Inglewood
  • Lawndale
  • Lennox
  • Los Angeles
  • Malibu
  • Mar Vista
  • Marina Del Rey
  • Pacific Palisades
  • Playa Del Rey
  • Santa Monica
  • Topanga Canyon
  • Venice
  • West Los Angeles
  • Westchester

WRC draws its service area by ZIP code rather than city line, so parts of Los Angeles fall to a neighboring regional center. If you’re not sure which one covers your address, check WRC’s service area map. You can search and post on IHSS Connect either way — we don’t use catchment boundaries.

What’s included

Everything below, at no cost

There is no paid tier, no upsell, and no credit card.

Available in 17 languages

Use the site in the language you read most comfortably, and filter caregivers by the languages they speak.

Completely free

Free for families and free for caregivers. No subscriptions, no placement fees, and no commission taken out of anyone’s pay.

Background-checked caregivers

Providers can complete a background check and carry a verified badge on their profile, so you know who you’re talking to.

Private messaging

Ask questions and arrange a meeting without handing out your phone number, home address, or email.

Post your care needs

Describe the help you need and let qualified caregivers come to you, instead of chasing leads one at a time.

Search jobs near you

Caregivers can browse open positions by city and apply directly. No agency in the middle.

Programs

Whatever support you’re using

IHSS In-Home Supportive Services — help with daily tasks so you can stay safely at home.
WPCS Waiver Personal Care Services for people with medically complex needs.
Respite Short-term relief so a parent or primary caregiver can rest.
Self-Determination Participants can look for people to bring onto a support team. Hiring and payment still run through your FMS.
Getting started

Three steps, about five minutes

No paperwork, and nothing to print or mail.

  1. Create a free account

    Tell us whether you’re looking for help or looking for work. An email and a phone number is all it takes.

  2. Build a short profile

    Families describe the help they need. Caregivers list their skills, availability, and languages spoken.

  3. Connect and message

    Search your area, reach out privately, and go at your own pace. You decide who you talk to.

Ready when you are

Every person who joins makes the list stronger for the next family on the Westside that needs it.

Find Help I need a caregiver Find Work I’m a caregiver

Need a hand getting started? Email support@ihssconnect.com and a real person will help you set up your account.