Yelloux Cove Foundation supports family caregivers of every age who care for older teenagers and adults living with serious mental illness, developmental disabilities, cognitive disabilities, neurological disabilities, and other conditions that create significant daily support needs.
Our work has a particular focus on caregivers carrying major responsibility without conservatorship, formal decision-making authority, reliable case management, clear guidance, or consistent support from the systems surrounding them.
We have a particular focus on caregivers carrying major responsibility without conservatorship, formal decision-making authority, reliable case management, clear guidance, or consistent support from the systems surrounding them.
Caregivers From Every Community Are Welcome
Yelloux Cove Foundation is proudly Black-founded and Black-led. We welcome family caregivers across every race, ethnicity, culture, gender, income level, age, and family structure.
Our identity grounds the work; it does not limit who is welcome. Our free resources are available to caregivers from every background.
What connects the people we serve is the experience of caring for someone while navigating systems that may provide too little information, authority, preparation, or support.
Our work is caregiver-led and shaped by lived experience, but you do not have to share our identity or exact family circumstances to belong here.
Our resources are open to caregivers at every income level. We are especially attentive to low-income and under-resourced families, caregivers who have been overlooked by traditional support systems, and people carrying responsibilities they were never prepared or financially equipped to manage.
Caregivers of every age
Every background
Many kinds of families
Caregiving Has No Single Age or Life Stage
Family caregivers can be children taking on additional household responsibilities because someone in the family needs care, teenagers balancing caregiving with school, college students answering urgent calls between classes, or young adults trying to begin careers while remaining available at home.
Others are raising children of their own, supporting siblings or partners, approaching retirement, or managing health conditions and financial pressures of their own.
Caregiving can affect whether someone can attend school, accept an internship, work fixed hours, relocate, build savings, maintain relationships, rest, or pursue the future they imagined.
Recognizing young caregivers does not mean children should be expected to carry adult responsibilities. It means refusing to let the responsibilities they are already carrying remain invisible.
Care Needs Do Not Begin in Old Age
The family member receiving care may be an older teenager approaching adulthood, a young adult in their 20s, an adult in their 30s, 40s, or 50s, or an older adult.
Serious mental illness and developmental, cognitive, or neurological disabilities can create substantial support needs at many points in life. The person receiving care is not automatically a young child or an elderly parent.
Caregiving may involve a parent supporting an older teenager or adult child, siblings caring for one another, a young person helping a parent, partners supporting each other, or relatives stepping in when formal systems do not.
The ages and relationships may differ, but the caregiver can still be carrying substantial responsibility without matching authority, information, financial support, or the freedom to step away.
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This May Be for You If
- You provide ongoing care as a parent, sibling, son or daughter, partner, relative, or other family member.
- You support an older teenager or adult with serious mental illness, developmental disability, cognitive disability, neurological disability, or significant daily support needs.
- You are expected to respond when something goes wrong but do not have conservatorship or formal decision-making authority.
- Providers expect you to coordinate care while limiting the information or access available to you.
- You are trying to organize medications, appointments, referrals, symptoms, incidents, or provider communication.
- You were suddenly placed in a caregiving role without preparation.
- You have been caregiving for years and need a clearer way to document what is happening.
- Your education, employment, independence, finances, relationships, or future plans are being shaped by the need to remain available for someone else.
- You feel under-resourced, overlooked, dismissed, or shut out while trying to help someone you love.
You do not need to have everything organized before using our resources. Many of our tools exist because caregiving can become overwhelming long before anyone explains what information you may eventually need.
Supporting the Whole Caregiver
Family caregivers are whole people—not only the person responsible for medications, appointments, emergencies, paperwork, and keeping everything from falling apart.
Many caregivers live with chronic illnesses, mental-health conditions, disabilities, chronic pain, hormonal conditions, neurodivergence, or other health needs of their own. They may also be managing financial strain, transportation concerns, household responsibilities, employment, school, relationships, and the need for rest or personal space.
Being a caregiver does not erase the caregiver’s body, health, identity, interests, goals, or need for care.
Yelloux Cove Foundation is being built as a caregiver-centered lifestyle nonprofit. By that, we mean that our work considers the caregiver’s health, home, finances, safety, environment, interests, comfort, and quality of life—not only the tasks they perform for someone else.
That does not change who we serve. Family caregivers remain at the center of our mission. It changes how fully we recognize what a caregiver may need.
Support should not begin and end with helping someone survive the next crisis. Caregivers deserve resources that help make daily life safer, more manageable, more comfortable, and more their own.
How Serious Mental Illness Changes Life at Home
Every disability and every household is different. However, when caregiving involves paranoia, hallucinations, severe disorganization, impaired judgment, or a lack of awareness of illness, families may face household risks and expenses that general caregiver programs rarely acknowledge.
During periods of active symptoms, a family member may discard groceries because they believe the food is unsafe, hide or destroy mail, relocate household items, take keys or personal belongings, misuse toiletries or cookware, damage electronics because they believe something is inside them, or create property and lease problems without understanding the consequences of what occurred.
That can mean the caregiver cannot leave ordinary belongings in ordinary places.
Mail, identification documents, keys, purses, phones, electronics, toiletries, cookware, cleaning supplies, food, and decorative items may need to be stored somewhere else or secured. Caregivers may need lockable mailboxes, locking cabinets, additional storage, household safety equipment, or a protected area for items that would normally remain in the kitchen, bathroom, living room, or bedroom.
These arrangements affect more than household organization. They affect the caregiver’s privacy, finances, emotional health, comfort, personal expression, and ability to feel at home in their own space.
A caregiver may repeatedly replace groceries, electronics, furniture, household supplies, or personal belongings. They may have to manage smoking or other lease violations, explain symptom-related property damage, communicate with landlords, prevent eviction, or pay for repairs they did not cause. They may also have to live without the kind of peaceful, functional, or visually comforting environment they would otherwise create for themselves.
Protective storage and household adaptations are not about punishing or controlling a person with a disability. They may be necessary to reduce preventable harm, preserve housing, protect essential belongings, and make it possible for everyone in the household to live more safely.
These are real caregiving needs—even when traditional assistance programs do not recognize them that way.
What We Currently Provide
Our currently available support includes free downloadable caregiver tracking logs, practical tools, and plain-language educational resources created to help families document, organize, and better understand caregiving.
These resources are designed to help caregivers:
Caregiver Tracking Logs
Document daily care, medication, symptoms, safety concerns, and significant incidents. Recognize patterns that may be difficult to remember during stressful situations, and record the financial, physical, emotional, and household effects of caregiving.
Practical Planning Tools
Organize information for appointments, emergencies, referrals, and provider communication. Prepare questions and maintain clearer records when healthcare, disability, and social-service systems become confusing or disconnected.
Plain-Language Resources
Better understand caregiving without conservatorship, case management, or formal decision-making authority. Create records that may help you communicate more clearly with medical providers, service systems, schools, attorneys, and other professionals.
Caregivers may download the tools that fit their circumstances and begin at their own pace. There is no cost and no requirement to explain or prove why they need them.
Our Current Scope
Yelloux Cove Foundation currently focuses on supporting family caregivers of all ages who care for older teenagers and adults.
We do not provide medical treatment, therapy, crisis intervention, legal representation, clinical case management, or individualized medical or legal advice.
Our resources are intended for education, preparation, documentation, and personal organization. They do not replace services from qualified medical, mental-health, legal, emergency, or social-service professionals.
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Whether caregiving began yesterday or has shaped your life for years, you are welcome to use the resources that fit your circumstances.
You deserve support without having to justify how difficult caregiving has become.