Vanessa Valerio

After graduating from college with a degree in Business Management, Vanessa Valerio began working at a bank, where she soon felt personally unfulfilled. Her mother was a nurse and invited her to the Bay Area, suggesting caregiving as a great career in which she could help others and feel good about herself. Her sister was already a caregiver for Home Care Assistance and it didn’t take long for Vanessa to fall in love with caregiving herself.

In her past four years at Home Care Assistance, Vanessa has enjoyed many adventures, even accompanying her high profile clients on vacations on yachts and private jets. There have been difficult times as well, but as Vanessa advises, you can’t get mad and you can’t get sad; you just have to adapt. “I feel like this is a calling. I love taking care of people. It’s not just a job,” says Vanessa. “I help them feel comfortable and I learn great things from them in return.”

Now Vanessa is studying to become a registered nurse like her mother, so she can bring even more care to people who need it. “My Mom is my idol,” Vanessa notes. “I see how she devotes herself to others.”