Prepared Care Partner · Welcome

You're an unpaid national treasure. Let's get you the training to match.

Prepared Care Partner is a free Force for Health program for family, friends, and partners helping someone live with a serious condition. Same depth as the patient learns — tuned to your job: spotting early warnings, protecting routines, and knowing when to step in and when to step back.

1Recruit
2Onboard
3Register
4Pre-assess
5Start
Why this program

Why Prepared Care Partner exists

Most care partners learn on the fly. We think the people doing the most quietly important work in healthcare deserve a real curriculum — and a structure that keeps you healthy, too. Burnout is built in; respite is built in.

What you'll get

  • A condition-specific pathway: pretest, plain-language course, Tools Kit, and a certification exam
  • A Tools Kit with red rules, red flags, a contact ladder, daily tracker, ER go-bag, and step-in/step-back guide
  • A Care Partner self-care check so you don't disappear into the caregiving role
  • Knowledge · Actions · Confidence confidence tracking that shows what you actually learned
  • A way to coordinate with the patient AND the provider — same vocabulary, same red flags

Who this is for

Family or partner

You live with or near the person and help most days.

Adult child

You're managing a parent's care from across the street or across the country.

Friend

You're the designated person who shows up at appointments and emergencies.

Designated proxy

You hold the health-care power of attorney or similar role.

You can stop and resume anytime — your answers are saved on this device.
Step 2 of 5 · Onboard

Tell us a little about you

We use this to personalize what we show you next. Nothing is shared.

Step 3 of 5 · Register

Lightweight registration

No password. We save this on your device, with an anonymous payload sent to the Force for Health PHIT pipeline so the program can study what works.

What we save and why

Your first name, condition, role, email, and ZIP — saved on this device, plus an anonymous copy in the PHIT outcomes pipeline. We do not sell data. You can clear your data at any time using the button on the last screen.

Step 4 of 5 · Where you are starting

Five quick questions

This is NOT a course exam. It is a baseline snapshot so we — and you — can see what changes over the next weeks.

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You're in.

Your first ten minutes are the most important. Pick one of the next-step cards below — it's already personalized to the condition you chose.

Your first 10 minutes

Start here — then pick the others

The pretest is the first step — it captures where you are before any course content, so we can show you what changes. Once it's done, you can come back to this page and pick whichever of the other cards fits your day.

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Take the pretest first

10 questions before any course content — this sets your before-and-after Knowledge · Actions · Confidence score so you can see your growth.

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Open the Care Partner pathway

Step 1 → Step 6, your structured path.

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Print the Tools Kit

Red rules · red flags · contact ladder · go-bag.

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Care-partner self-check

Two-minute Zarit-style snapshot of your own load.

What happens next

  • A starting-kit email lands in your inbox within minutes (if you provided one).
  • Your pretest will be waiting in the Prepared Care Partner pathway — we'll measure your before-and-after as you go.
  • You can pause anytime — progress is saved on this device.
  • If something is wrong, the contact ladder is built into every course page.
PHIT note: An anonymous record of this onboarding has been added to the Force for Health outcomes pipeline so the program can study whether it actually helps. You can copy or clear that record below.
Go to the Prepared Care Partner Hub →