In 2022, the RAISE Family Caregiving Advisory Council and the Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Council developed the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers (the Strategy), released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through its Administration for Community Living (ACL). The National Strategy contains hundreds of action steps that a wide range of entities — including public and private organizations; federal, state, and local governments; and others — can take to support family caregivers.

Emerson Ea at the New York University Rory Myers College of Nursing examined areas of convergence between the Strategy and the federal White House Initiative on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) (White House Initiative). The White House Initiative was launched in 2021, providing the basis for a national strategy to support the AANHPI community. Ea found a direct relationship between the Strategy’s and the White House Initiative’s principles of advancing equity, accessibility, and inclusion for family caregivers in underserved communities, illustrating opportunities within the strategies for alignment in supporting family caregivers.

Ea conducted this analysis as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow at ACL, funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation, West Health, and the Atlantic Philanthropies.

 Read the crosswalk analysis and findings.