VCC at its peak provided jobs for sixty home health aides who performed tens of thousands of hours of service per year.

"These were people who had lost their jobs in factories that had moved out of the area, some of them had worked in health care, were not happy with how things were, or they were not able to get the hours, some of them were on welfare.  The majority single mothers."

    - Margie Rosati

Hiring the nurturers.

"Invariably I would hear, I took care of my grandfather because my mother was working, or my brother is in a wheelchair and has cerebral palsy and I’m the one that took care of him since I was thirteen or twelve.  One of our home health ades, her father was injured, fell off a ladder when she was very young, and she was the one that provided the care for her father.  Because the mother had to go out and work.  One thing about the people that come is that these are the people that are the nurturers."

    -  Margie Rosati 

 "The nurses and everybody in there got along well, we would sometimes have lunch together, we’d all buy something and we’d chip in, we’d celebrate each other’s birthdays.  Sometimes when you’d get kind of overwhelmed you can stop in and you go talk to somebody for a couple of minutes and you’d calm down and you’d go back and get a renewed outlook on what you were doing."

- Henrietta Norman

"The business plan called for a mix of a third, a third, and a third white, Hispanic, and black.  At the end of 1991, VCC had eight African Americans, six Hispanics, and eight European Americans on its paraprofessional staff."

    -  Pat Diorio, VCC president