Caregiver Stories

We work with community members to co-create personal histories, cultivate artistic production, and organize workshops. We hope these resources inspire ideas, activism, and further research.

We invite you to contact us about how to share your experience.
  • Oral Histories
    6/5/25
    The Community of Care project is gathering oral histories as a resource that will preserve our shared stories about living in the community and caring for one another. We are working with those who wish to share their story about disability caregiving and caretaking, providing resources for all steps in the process.
  • Writing Workshops
    6/5/25
    The Communities of Care sponsors writing workshops in the community centered on the themes of the project. We will highlight the writing produced in our workshops on our website.
  • Art Workshops
    6/5/25
    The Communities of Care sponsors art workshops in the community centered on the themes of the project. Our website will feature creative work produced in the art workshops

Collecting stories and information about experiences, helping to share that work, and making it searchable, with the consent of their creators, will allow future researchers and community members to access the experiences and voices of people who have been historically silenced. We’ll gain new perspectives on their every day lives including on the delivery of health care,  working conditions for employees, and other valuable information related to physical health, mental health, nutrition and well-being.”

    —Michael Rembis, PhD, Associate Professor, History         
        DIrector, UB Center for Disability Studies