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Family Caregiver Alliance

Introducing new classes and events for family caregivers, their care recipients and providers:

CLASSES & EVENTS

• Let's Get Away, Together! — Tuesdays at 1pm from July 2 to August 6. Join us for our 20th series of Let's Get Away, Together! — where we'll explore Australia, the greatest Olympic moments, American artists, Brazil, unusual and creative patents and Hawaii! Full info and registration here.

• Powerful Tools for Caregivers — Six Thursdays at 12:30pm from July 11 to August 15. This six-part class offers new skills and tools for family caregivers of those with a chronic health condition. Participants will learn how to reduce stress, make difficult caregiving decisions, communicate more effectively during challenging situations, and prevent caregiver burnout. Full info and registration here.

• Film Screening: Caregiver — A Love Story — Saturday, August 24 at 10:30pm in Half Moon Bay. This short award-winning documentary film follows a woman's decision to take control of the end of her life and the unexpected challenges it creates for her caregiver husband. Join us to watch this touching and film and discuss the challenges and joys of caregiving with others. Download the flyer here.

As a San Francisco-based nonprofit supporting family and friend caregivers for more than 40 years, FCA celebrates and honors diversity and inclusion. We consider family to be an inclusive term and we recognize that caregivers might be friends, partners and community.

We join the world in celebrating Pride Month, and we’re proud to advocate for and support LGBTQ+ caregivers everywhere.

Through the development of LGBTQ+-related resources, support groups, training sessions, events and partnerships, we work to ensure we’re addressing the needs of these caregivers and supporting them...

>>> Read the rest of our Pride Month blog post here (includes resources in the SF Bay Area for LGBTQ+ caregivers and older adults) ...

Since our founding, FCA has supported people caring for adults with physical and cognitive impairments, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, and other types of dementia. In honor of Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month, we're happy to share our Caregiver's Guide to Understanding Dementia Behaviors. Please share this with your caregiver clients or patients who are caring for someone living with dementia or other cognitive impairment.

By giving a microphone to family caregivers, we’re hoping to raise awareness about their experiences and help turn that awareness into stronger recognition and support for them. You can help us by sharing this survey with your family caregiver clients!

This 1-page survey is designed to identify family caregivers who are open to talking with reporters and others about their caregiving stories and experiences. We believe that by sharing their stories, caregivers can help our community members and leaders understand the challenges, rewards and complexities of caregiving. FCA may use their stories to highlight and advance the caregiver cause in our educational programming, advocacy and policy initiatives, and collaborations with other organizations and agencies in formats such as: 

• letters to elected officials
• on our website and in promotional materials
• in training videos and other materials
• on our social media channels
• in presentations to government agencies

FCA never sells caregiver contact information — our only goal is to elevate caregiver voices to improve channels of support. Thank you for your help!

We respect your inbox, so we send our Provider e-News Update out every 1-2 months. But between issues, we are still hosting and sharing plenty of activities, classes, webinars and new resources for caregivers.

Stay in the know by following us on any or all of our social media channels — and be sure to share them with others who can benefit!

... and while you're here — sign up for our Connections e-newsletter (designed for family and friend caregivers), ¿Que Pasa? boletin (our e-newsletter for Spanish-speaking caregivers), and our Caregiving Policy Digest newsletter (caregiving policy at the local, national and international levels).