Caring Together: The Power of Connection
November 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Caregiving can be a journey filled with love, challenges, and unexpected emotions. For family caregivers, especially those supporting someone living with dementia, the experience can sometimes feel overwhelming and isolating. Yet connection with others who understand can make a meaningful difference.
In this session, we’ll explore the power of connection through support groups and peer-to-peer relationships. Discover how shared experiences, mutual understanding, and meaningful connections can reduce isolation, strengthen coping skills, and foster resilience. Together, we’ll explore how caregivers can find support, build community, and discover that they don’t have to navigate the caregiving journey alone.
Kristi Horner
Founder and Executive Director, Courage to Caregivers
Kristi Horner is the Founder and Executive Director for Courage to Caregivers. Kristi graduated from Denison University with a BA in Economics. She is certified through the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services as a Family Peer Support Specialist and NAMI Ohio Trainer for this program. She is also certified through the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board as an Ohio Certified Prevention Specialist Assistant (OCPSA). Kristi is a Question Persuade Refer (QPR) Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Instructor.
In 2014, she lost her brother to suicide. She had been one of her brother’s mental illness long-distance caregivers for four years. He lived with depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. As someone who supported someone she loved very much, living with mental illness, she knew there had to be a better way to support mental illness caregivers and the idea for Courage to Caregivers was born!
