Caregiver Summit 2021 Session Recordings

About the Caregiver Summit 2021

The National Caregiver Summit is an engagement opportunity that fosters learning and collaboration while driving advocacy and action on key issues that impact all caregivers. As the COVID-19 pandemic spotlight the need for the essential skills of paid and unpaid community health workers, promotores, home health aides, family caregivers and others, the Summit was developed and designed by and for caregivers looking to strengthen, uplift and expand this crucial role. Caregivers have individual strengths and insights that when leveraged together, can create an even stronger platform for progress. To best harness this potential, the Summit centered on three focus areas: Equity, Innovation and Policy. Attendees discussed challenges and solutions in each of these focus areas during the plenary and breakout sessions.

Welcome & Keynote

Equity Track

This track focuses on supporting caregivers across the spectrum by addressing strategies to build workforce sustainability, while ensuring equitable hiring practices, professional development, paid leave, access to respite care and career pathways that advocate to share power with caregivers.

Policy Track

This track evaluates and identifies existing solutions to caregiving, through the complex lens of the local and national policy landscape. It demonstrates the value of centering caregivers’ expertise, especially lived experience, when developing equitable and sustainable policy solutions.

Innovation Track

This track aims to reimagine care that promotes equity and sustainability by considering tools, technology and trainings.

Closing Plenary