Comcast, UM, local restaurant get red carpet treatment for helping youth caregivers thrive

American Association of Caregiving Youth, Palm Beach County school partnerships grow in 2022
By: American Association of Caregiving Youth
 
BOCA RATON, Fla. - Feb. 9, 2022 - PRLog -- About to partner with their 36th Palm Beach County school, the American Association of Caregiving Youth honored three supporters at their first Community Caregiver Awards breakfast.

County Mayor Bob Weinroth, Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer, Palm Beach County School Board chairman Frank Barbieri and district officials were among 100 supporters at the Feb. 4 event in the Boca Raton Marriott at the Boca Center.

AACY is the only nonprofit in the U.S. to partner with schools to identify and then meet the needs of middle and high school students taking full-time care of siblings or adult relatives. https://aacy.org/what-we-do/

"We have served over 2,000 children. And we're excited we can add two more schools in 2022 to help students in this hidden population," Dr. Connie Siskowski, founder and President told attendees. She estimated 290,000 students in Florida alone are youth caregivers.

The 2022 honorees were:
  • Comcast, for donating Internet services to AACY families during the switch to virtual learning;
  • Stallone's Italian Kitchen in west Boca Raton, for donating meals, money, and manpower for regular and Thanksgiving meals;
  • Dr. Julie Belkowitz, a pediatrician and University of Miami educator doing research aimed at informing legislation supporting Caregiving Youth as an advocate in the Caregiving Youth Project. https://aacy.org/what-we-do/caregiving-youth-project/

"We need to raise awareness nationally, so these students can qualify for benefits now only provided to older caregivers," Siskowski said, including home health aides and reimbursement for caregiving. "Some people say it takes a village, but it takes a community," she added. AACY just opened a satellite office near Washington D.C. and will collaborate with the Rhode Island Department of Education.

"It's events like these that bring awareness and funding to help more Caregiving Youth who sacrifice their personal lives to care for their sick loved ones," AACY board chair Rosie Inguanzo-Martin said via video.

Event sponsors included Allegiance Home Health, Boca Raton's Promise, AvalonBay Communities, and Strikes Cigar Lounge.

Event chair and AACY board director Dominique Renaud emceed. Pastor Genine Rumph, assistant pastor, St. John's Missionary Baptist Church of Boynton Beach delivered the invocation and sang the National Anthem.

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