At CareinAction.com, our mission is to expand the capacity of your family to fully support a mentally ill relative while meeting your own needs for personal stability.  

We know that when someone you love became mentally ill, everything changed.  You and your family were suddenly called on to adapt new ways of relating to each other, and to a whole system of care which has so often left you with more questions than answers.  You were thrust into challenging new roles, exposed to a daunting array of confusing information and asked to practice difficult new skills.  And, like many other caregivers, you may have experienced a sense of invisibility, a sense that no one understands what you are going through and too few are there to help.

Recognizing Your Experience

In Arthur Frank's  book ‘At the Will of the Body’, Frank investigates how our society deals with illnesses, and highlights the ways in which the work that caregivers do is too often invisible and ignored.  He says:  “…as much as the ill person’s experience is denied, the caregiver’s experience is denied even more completely.” 

At CareInAction.com, we believe that it is past time to recognize the caregiver's experience - YOUR experience - and we exist to help you make that experience more manageable, more positive, and more conscious.

• What is important to us at CareInAction is that  your experience as a caregiver not be denied.
• What is important to us is that you not lose hope in the possibility of re-creating feelings of joy in your family.
• What is important to us is that you do not doubt your ability to bring about positive changes.

Support, Inspiration, Strategy and Guidance

We created this site because we know that with the right information, the right tools, and the sure knowledge that you are not alone, it is possible for you to find your way.  We know that you have the courage, the strength, and the ability to take on this journey of care; we are here to assist you in knowing all those things, too.

We want to encourage each one of you by offering specific suggestions for coping with your relative's illness.  We want to share with you strategies and tactics you can experiment with to find out what will work best for you in your unique circumstances.  We want to help you sustain the relationships that matter most in your life; including your relationship to yourself.  We want to share what we believe this journey of care can teach us all about the human experience, about the power we all have to bring peace and to be at peace – no matter what.