CaringBridge vs Kate’s Club

CaringBridge is a no-cost, 501(c)(3) nonprofit health platform that surrounds family caregivers with support while they care for a loved one on a health journey. A donor-supported nonprofit founded in 1997, the organization offers tools to share and document a health journey, simplify care coordination, and connect caregivers with a supportive community. CaringBridge addresses feelings of overwhelm, isolation, and loneliness by improving emotional health and social connectedness, helping people come together in support of healing. With over 300,000 people on the platform every day sending or receiving support, there are over 1,600 messages of love, hope, and compassion posted every hour. And every 12 minutes a new CaringBridge page is started. The CaringBridge community includes all 50 states and more than 242 countries around the world. To learn more visit www.caringbridge.org. Private, protected, and ad-free · A trusted, private, and ad-free space that only a nonprofit like CaringBridge can provide to support family caregivers and their loved ones on a health journey. Communicate to everyone all at once · Communicate to everyone all at once in a safe and private space, relieving the burden of individually updating people. Capture and process every step of the health journey · The very act of capturing a loved one’s health journey improves emotional health and social support. Coordinate care with family and friends · Making it easy to ask for help, because we know it’s often the most difficult thing to ask for.

IT’S OKAY TO GRIEVE A Kate’s Club online community that connects parents, caregivers and young adults, and their supporters, grieving the death of someone important to them. Through the Hub, we offer supportive resources and activities, host virtual events, and provide a safe and secure way to connect with others who are grieving. We have crafted spaces for different groups to connect with others who are living through similar grief journeys. Here’s a snippet of what each group can expect: · Parents & Caregivers: Resources to support your child(ren) who are grieving, self-care ideas, ability to chat with those who are facing similar challenges, space to learn and speak about your grief freely · Young Adults: A place to connect with peers who are grieving while learning how to navigate adulthood, support from those who get it · Volunteers: Resources to help you be the best Buddy volunteer you can be, support for our grieving Buddies, opportunity to connect with and learn from other Buddies–whether it’s your first or hundredth time with Kate’s Club · School & Support Professionals: A professional community with other like-minded individuals who want to learn how to support young grievers and their caregivers – About Kate’s Club: Kate’s Club empowers children and teens, their families, and young adults facing life after the death of a parent, sibling, caregiver or someone important to them. Since its founding in Metro Atlanta in 2003, Kate’s Club has served thousands of individuals who are grieving, through both direct service and outreach programs.