2022 National Strategy to 

Support Family Caregivers 

A roadmap to improved services and supports for family caregivers 

Family caregivers include people of all ages, from youth to grandparents; 

people with and without disabilities; people providing care from a distance; 

and people meeting a wide variety of needs. Until now, there has been no 

national approach to recognize and support family caregivers. 

Vision for

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Holistic Support Councils 

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Shared Goals 

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This initial strategy builds on recommendations outlined by the RAISE Act Family Caregiving 

Advisory Council and the Advisory Council to Support Grandparents Raising Grandchildren. We 

must all work together to reshape the way our nation supports its more than 53 million family 

caregivers and more than 2.7 million grandparent and kinship caregivers. 

The strategy proposes fve main goals: 

GOAL 1 

GOAL 2 

Increase awareness and outreach 

• Education and awareness campaigns for professionals and the public 

• Increased caregiver self-identifcation 

• Culturally competent outreach to unserved and underserved caregivers 

• Inclusion of family caregivers in state, territorial, tribal, and local planning 

• More public-private partnerships that drive family caregiver support 

Build partnerships and engagement with family caregivers 

• Use of evidence-based tools to assess and capture family caregiver needs 

and preferences 

• Recognition of family caregivers as essential care team partners 

• Inclusion of family caregivers in care plans 

• Consideration of family caregivers during policy changes 

• Training for professionals on ways to interact with family caregivers 
GOAL 3 

Strengthen services and supports 

• Increased person- and family-centered, trauma-informed, and 

culturally competent services 

• Flexible and accessible respite care 

• Education, counseling, and peer support 

• Access to safe homes, nutritious meals, transportation, and technology 

• Leverage volunteers for family caregiver support 

• Family caregivers’ and care recipients’ needs addressed in 

emergency response 

• Resources to improve planning for future care needs 

• Increased support for the direct care workforce 

• A child welfare system that recognizes kin- and grandparent-led families 

GOAL 4 

GOAL 5 

Ensure fnancial and workplace security 

• Financial planning specifcally for family caregivers 

• Employee-centered, fexible workplace policies and practices 

• Help with planning for long-term needs of care recipients 

• Affordable long-term services and supports 

Expand data, research, and evidence-based practices 

• Shared data systems with consistent data sets 

• More research on practices that beneft family caregivers 

• Translation of research into interventions to support family caregivers 

The strategy includes nearly 350 actions that federal agencies will take in the next 3 years, as 

well as specifc actions that states, communities, health care systems, long-term support and 

service providers, researchers, employers, philanthropic organizations, and many others can 

take to make these goals a reality. 

We all have a role to play in supporting our nation’s caregivers. Learn more at: 

acl.gov/CaregiverStrategy 

The strategy was created through a public-private partnership 

and with support from the following organizations: