Parents helping parents

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Our story

The Caregiver’s Well was founded in 2019 after a group of mothers in Indianapolis realized that emotional support resources were lacking for parents of children with heightened medical, developmental, or behavioral health care needs. What began as a tiny blog has grown into a comprehensive suite of encouraging stories, real-world tips, and practical resources accessed by thousands of caregiving parents across the globe.

Our resources are created by parents, for parents. With every story read and tool downloaded, we hope to remind moms and dads everywhere that they are not alone — and that they can do this.

Our contributors

Laura Spiegel, Founder and Executive Director

Katie Vescelus - Clinical Social Worker, Son survived Bilateral Retinoblastoma and lives with Blindness

Lily Collison - Author of Pure Grit and Spastic Diplegia, son lives with Cerebral Palsy

Christine Ramsay - Founder of Ignite Inclusion, son lives with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Brittany Gummere - Clinical Social Worker, daughter lived with Phelan-McDermid Syndrome

Shelby Brimley - Son lives with Primitive Myxoid Mesenchymal Tumor of Infancy

Lani Knutson - Sons live with SEPN1/SELENON Related Myopathy Congenital Muscular Dystrophy

Tulika Prasad - Son lives with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Julia Everett - Registered Nurse, daughter lives with Cystic Fibrosis

Sandy Davis - Son survived Philadelphia Chromosome Positive B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia