CACY-Colorado Alliance For Caregiving Youth

06/12/2026

Small Gifts. Big Impact.

Every day, caregiving youth across Colorado help care for parents, grandparents, siblings, and loved ones while balancing school, friendships, and the challenges of growing up.

Your monthly gift helps the Colorado Alliance for Caregiving Youth raise awareness, strengthen partnerships, and advocate for the systems and supports caregiving youth need to thrive.

Together, we can make caregiving youth visible, valued, and supported.

💙 Learn more and donate: cacycares.org

06/11/2026

Thank you to Chris Durrance and Well Beings for continuing to share this important story.

In Rhode Island, adding a caregiving question to a student survey revealed that nearly 41% of students who responded identified as caregivers.

When schools ask the question, they can better identify and support Caregiving Youth. That's why visibility matters.

In 2023, CACY successfully advocated for the inclusion of a caregiving question in the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey, helping bring greater visibility to the experiences of caregiving youth across our state. The data is helping inform awareness, education, and advocacy efforts throughout Colorado.

Because what we recognize, we can support.

🎥 Watch Caring to Ask and learn how one question can make a difference.

06/09/2026

We're encouraged to see growing national attention focused on Caregiving Youth.

On Wednesday, June 10, AACY National Advisory Council member Maria Miranda, LMSW, will present a free webinar exploring the realities facing young caregivers in the U.S. and the importance of building systems that recognize and support them.

As more states begin studying the impact of caregiving on students, conversations like these help move the field forward.

📅 June 10, 2026
🕐 1:00 PM ET

Learn more and register: https://www.nyscrc.org

06/04/2026

❓When you hear the word “caregiver,” who comes to mind⁉

-Many people picture an adult.

-But caregiving can begin much earlier.

A caregiving youth may help with medications, meals, transportation, translation, household responsibilities, emotional support, or caring for younger siblings.

Caregiving youth are students, athletes, artists, leaders, and friends.
They’re also caregivers.

Curious to learn more about caregiving youth? Visit cacycares.org.

06/02/2026

Repost •
One year after the premiere of Caregiving, the conversation continues.

The documentary has helped bring greater visibility to caregivers across the country, including Caregiving Youth, who have long been part of the caregiving story but too often go unrecognized.

As a national outreach and engagement partner, was proud to help elevate these voices. The film features Jacob, a former Caregiving Youth who cared for both his grandmother with dementia and his mother, Jennifer Gutierrez, who lived with MS.

Jennifer passed away before the film’s release, but her advocacy, compassion, and commitment to Caregiving Youth continue to inspire this work.

🎥 Watch the video: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2152858415565686

05/30/2026

No child should carry caregiving alone.

Yet every day, young people across Colorado quietly help care for parents, grandparents, siblings, and loved ones while balancing school, friendships, and the challenges of growing up.

Too often, they do it without recognition or support.

At CACY, we believe caregiving youth deserve to be seen, understood, and connected to the resources and support they need to thrive.

Because no child should have to navigate caregiving alone.
💙 Learn more: cacycares.org

05/29/2026

⏳ We’re in the final stretch.
There’s still time to be one of the 65 helping make caregiving youth in Colorado more visible, valued, and supported.

In honor of our founder, Nadine Roberts Cornish’s 65th birthday, we’re inviting 65 people to give $65 each to help uplift caregiving youth and strengthen awareness, advocacy, and support across Colorado.

Every gift matters. Every act of generosity moves this mission forward.

65 People. $650 Each. One Powerful Movement for Colorado’s Caregiving Youth.
💙 Help us cross the finish line:
https://www.coloradogives.org/story/578bhf

05/27/2026

My Why.

❓ Did You Know ❓

In Colorado, approximately 20.4% of middle school students and 12.5% of high school students report caregiving responsibilities at home.

😲 That means thousands of young people are helping care for parents, grandparents, siblings, and loved ones while balancing school, friendships, and the everyday challenges of growing up.

Many are helping with meals, medications, transportation, emotional support, and daily care.

😥 Yet too often, caregiving youth remain unseen.

At CACY, we are working to change that by building awareness, strengthening partnerships, and helping schools and communities better recognize and support these extraordinary young people.

Because caregiving youth deserve to be visible, valued, and supported.

💙 Learn more: cacycares.org

05/27/2026

❓ Did You Know ❓

In Colorado, approximately 20.4% of middle school students and 12.5% of high school students report caregiving responsibilities at home.

😲 That means thousands of young people are helping care for parents, grandparents, siblings, and loved ones while balancing school, friendships, and the everyday challenges of growing up.

Many are helping with meals, medications, transportation, emotional support, and daily care.

😥 Yet too often, caregiving youth remain unseen.

At CACY, we are working to change that by building awareness, strengthening partnerships, and helping schools and communities better recognize and support these extraordinary young people.

Because caregiving youth deserve to be visible, valued, and supported.

💙 Learn more: cacycares.org

05/26/2026

✨Help Shape the Future of Caregiving Youth in Colorado✨
CACY is growing, and we are seeking passionate, community-minded leaders to join our Board of Directors.

If you believe caregiving youth deserve to be visible, valued, and supported, we invite you to consider lending your voice, expertise, and leadership to this important work.

We are especially seeking individuals with experience or interest in:
*Community Partnerships and Outreach
*Public Education / School Districts
*Experience Working with Young People
*Advocacy & Policy
*Corporate Leadership
*Fundraising & Grant Writing

Together, we are building a Colorado where caregiving youth are recognized, supported, and empowered at home, at school, and in their communities.
Interested in learning more?

Visit cacycares.org or email [email protected] or [email protected].
Let’s help shape a brighter future for Colorado’s caregiving youth.