The National Center on Caregiving (NCC) at Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) recently released "Making the Case: Saving Your State's Caregiver Support Programs."

From our friends at the Family Caregiver Alliance. For over a year, states have been struggling with one of the deepest recessions on record. One casualty of this economic downturn is caregiver support programs. Across the country, budgets for publicly funded caregiver support programs are among those not only reduced, but threatened with further cuts or elimination as the economy promises to get worse. Now with the new year upon us, most states are starting the budget process for the next fiscal year - governors are proposing budgets and legislators are trying to figure out how to balance their budgets with a mixture of spending cuts and new taxes.

This paper is intended to help advocates, program administrators, service providers and caregivers fight for their state and local caregiver support programs. It includes background information, statistics, talking points and a list of additional resources to help make the case for maintaining public funding for crucial caregiver support services.