Community
Caregiving Initiative

What are the chances that YOU will be a caregiver or need a caregiver? Almost 100%. In fact, unpaid family caregiving is so common it makes the caregivers themselves easy to ignore, to the detriment of their health and happiness.

The Community Caregiving Initiative (CCI) develops and supports on-the-ground service networks for the county’s 70,000+ unpaid caregivers, who provide 87% of long-term care, yet are more or less invisible to the community and even to themselves.

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Strengthening Families on the Journey of Caring

While caregiving provides rewards, it also exacts a toll. Over 50% of caregivers spend forty hours or more per week on care. Caregivers are in poorer health than non-caregivers, twice as likely to suffer from serious stress, and well over half of them lack confidence to do all the necessary tasks of their role. We want to equip these invisible heroes to provide care and care for themselves.

Working with a broad range of service providers, CCI supports caregivers and connects community organizations by:

• Integrating the Caregiver as a Medical Team Member
• Broadening Access to Therapy for Caregivers
• Encouraging Self-Identification and Engagement
• Increasing the Effectiveness of Lay Health Workers
• Increasing Support for Caregivers of Medically Fragile Patients and those with Dementia
• Connecting and Educating Families of Alzheimer’s Patients
• Helping Caregivers Visualize their Caregiving

CCI Grants

Community Caregiving Initiative Grants are available to pilot, develop, and bolster new projects and programs that build community capacity and systems for caregiver support—including work supported through this grant opportunity in the past two years. Competitive projects will address identified gaps and opportunities in existing services, exchanges, and connections that increase caregiver resiliency and competency.