{"id":1337,"date":"2023-11-03T09:16:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T23:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hfccoalition.org\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:20:11","slug":"inaugural-caregiver-nation-summit-powered-by-the-national-alliance-for-caregiving-october-25-and-26-2023-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hfccoalition.org\/index.php\/2023\/11\/03\/inaugural-caregiver-nation-summit-powered-by-the-national-alliance-for-caregiving-october-25-and-26-2023-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural Caregiver Nation Summit Powered by the National Alliance for Caregiving, October 25 and 26, 2023, Washington, D. C."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Hawaii Family Caregiver Coalition was invited to participate in the Inaugural Summit Caregiver Nation Summit powered by the National Alliance for Caregiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Our delegates were Kathy Wyatt and Savy Makalena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Events included education forums on implementing NAC\u2019s National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers and meetings with Senators and Representatives on Capitol Hill.&nbsp; Kathy and Wyatt met with Senator Mazie Hirono and Representative Jill Tokuda to advocate for policies and programs which improve the lives of family caregivers and their care recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul 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Our delegates were Kathy Wyatt and Savy Makalena. Events included education forums on implementing NAC\u2019s National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers and meetings with Senators and Representatives on Capitol Hill.&nbsp; Kathy and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hfccoalition.org\/index.php\/2023\/11\/03\/inaugural-caregiver-nation-summit-powered-by-the-national-alliance-for-caregiving-october-25-and-26-2023-washington-d-c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inaugural Caregiver Nation Summit Powered by the National Alliance for Caregiving, October 25 and 26, 2023, Washington, D. C.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawPu8-lz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfccoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfccoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfccoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfccoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfccoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hfccoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/hfccoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfccoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfccoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfccoalition.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}