Young adult carers (YACs) are people aged 18–25 years who provide care to a relative who is ill or has a disability. France begins to come to the YAC issue. YAC students were mentioned for the first time in a…
World Carers Conversation returns May 19, 2022 from 8:00 am – 6:00 pm ET as a global, virtual event with the support of EMD Serono and Embracing Carers. Join innovators, researchers, policymakers and carer advocates from around the globe to…
The Erasmus + Together project has officially come to an end, the final resources have been created and published and the final events have been organised. Results of the Together project All the resources that have been produced during…
Our colleagues from the Careum School of Health organise the 3rd Young Carers Conference. This conference will take place in Lugano on the 16th of May. At the conference, the Young Carers research team of the Careum School of Health…
Miriam Svenson and Elizabeth Hanson, our colleagues from Swedish NKA, took part in a symposium hosted by an Japanese NGO Tokyo Soteria whose aim is to support young carers of people with mental illness. Among other, they presented the Me-WE…
The mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on young adult carers have been neglected. This study aimed to identify COVID-19 related risk factors for young adult carers and to investigate their mental health relative to non-carer peers. Of the…
The Swedish Family Care Competence Centre (Nationellt kompetenscentrum anhöriga, Nka) has recently completed its first major set of training sessions for future group leaders who will implement the ME-WE model in different parts of Sweden as a next step following…
Are you interested to learn and discuss how the whole family approach can be used to help young carers? The final event of TOGETHER will be hosted online on the 18th of March (09;30-12:30 CET) Join us for the final…
Our colleagues from COMIP, an Italian association helping children of mentally ill parents, under the leadership of Stefania Buoni, member of the Eurocarers Young Carers Working group, organised a screening of the movie King of Atlantis in order to raise…
New research project on young carers in schools, being conducted by Professor Saul Becker at the University of Cambridge, UK, seeks a postdoctoral Research Associate (3 years, full-time) This new 3-year study, on young carers’ educational assessments and outcomes, will…
