Sheila Warnock
Founder & President, ShareTheCaregiving, Inc.
Sheila Warnock has spent most of her professional life in advertising as a Consultant/Associate Creative Director with an expertise in new product development. After 30 years of dedicating her life to this profession, a profound experience changed her life. She became sole caregiver of her ill mother and an emotional crutch for her best friend, Susan, who was diagnosed with cancer. By undertaking this dual role, Warnock truly experienced the tremendous burden caregivers have to endure.
In 1988, she became part of a group of 12 women (mostly strangers to each other) who came together and stayed together for the next three and a half years to care for Susan. The contrast of caring for someone without support to the experience of sharing responsibilities with a group proved to Warnock that this new collaborative approach to caregiving was something of immeasurable value and needed to be shared with caregivers everywhere.
As a result, she and her co-author, Cappy Capossela, documented the systems used by the group in their book, Share The Care, How To Organize A Group To Care For Someone Who Is Seriously Ill. This system takes real family, neighbors, business associates and acquaintances and turns them into a powerful caregiver "family". The Share The Care™ model has been used all across the U.S., in Canada, and elsewhere to help people deal with all kinds of disabilities, illnesses, or the challenges of aging, and relieve the emotional, financial, physical and psychological drain on families.
Warnock and Capossela introduced Share The Care to health professionals at Sloan Kettering, cancer patients at M.D. Anderson Center in Houston as well as to students of social services at New York University. They appeared on the TV Health Network and gave numerous interviews for radio and print media including: The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Modern Maturity and Parade Magazine. Share The Care™ was chosen as a model by the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center to help women undergoing breast cancer treatment.
In January of 2002, Warnock, tragically, was forced to form yet another caregiver group for her co-author and best friend, Cappy, who had developed a brain tumor and died 10 months later. The result of this third personal experience as a caregiver has led Warnock to create ShareTheCaregiving, Inc. a 501c3 nonprofit organization and a comprehensive web site (www.sharethecare.org). Its mission is to improve the quality of life of persons who are seriously ill, disabled, or experiencing the challenges of aging, and to reduce stress, depression, isolation, and economic hardship often suffered by their family caregivers. (In July 2008, the ShareTheCaregiving organization was chosen to become a Project of the National Center for Civic Innovation and currently operates under their fiscal umbrella).
During 2004 Warnock revised and updated Share The Care and added 50 pages of new information and ideas pioneered by groups around the country. The second edition was cited by The Library Journal as “One of the Best Consumer Healthcare Books of 2004.” It also generated recent articles/mentions in: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, AARP Magazine and The Chicago Tribune. In 2008 Share The Care was given a Caregiver Friendly award by Today’s Caregiver magazine. And in 2009, Share The Care’s New York City Program received an Achievement Award for Cross-generational Caregiving by the New York State Coalition for the Aging and the Statewide Caregiving & Respite Coalition of New York. The book rights are now owned by the ShareTheCaregiving organization.
Warnock lectures around the U. S., and leads, on request, full-day training sessions for healthcare professionals and clergy. In 2007 she was invited by Ontario’s Ministry of Health to be the keynote speaker for their Aging at Home Conference in Toronto attended by over 700 professionals. In late 2009 she did four trainings in South West Ontario to kick off an 18-month initiative by the South West Local Health Integration Network. Currently, she is seeking funding to build a project that would allow Share The Care groups everywhere to work online.
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In 1988, she became part of a group of 12 women (mostly strangers to each other) who came together and stayed together for the next three and a half years to care for Susan. The contrast of caring for someone without support to the experience of sharing responsibilities with a group proved to Warnock that this new collaborative approach to caregiving was something of immeasurable value and needed to be shared with caregivers everywhere.
As a result, she and her co-author, Cappy Capossela, documented the systems used by the group in their book, Share The Care, How To Organize A Group To Care For Someone Who Is Seriously Ill. This system takes real family, neighbors, business associates and acquaintances and turns them into a powerful caregiver "family". The Share The Care™ model has been used all across the U.S., in Canada, and elsewhere to help people deal with all kinds of disabilities, illnesses, or the challenges of aging, and relieve the emotional, financial, physical and psychological drain on families.
Warnock and Capossela introduced Share The Care to health professionals at Sloan Kettering, cancer patients at M.D. Anderson Center in Houston as well as to students of social services at New York University. They appeared on the TV Health Network and gave numerous interviews for radio and print media including: The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Modern Maturity and Parade Magazine. Share The Care™ was chosen as a model by the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center to help women undergoing breast cancer treatment.
In January of 2002, Warnock, tragically, was forced to form yet another caregiver group for her co-author and best friend, Cappy, who had developed a brain tumor and died 10 months later. The result of this third personal experience as a caregiver has led Warnock to create ShareTheCaregiving, Inc. a 501c3 nonprofit organization and a comprehensive web site (www.sharethecare.org). Its mission is to improve the quality of life of persons who are seriously ill, disabled, or experiencing the challenges of aging, and to reduce stress, depression, isolation, and economic hardship often suffered by their family caregivers. (In July 2008, the ShareTheCaregiving organization was chosen to become a Project of the National Center for Civic Innovation and currently operates under their fiscal umbrella).
During 2004 Warnock revised and updated Share The Care and added 50 pages of new information and ideas pioneered by groups around the country. The second edition was cited by The Library Journal as “One of the Best Consumer Healthcare Books of 2004.” It also generated recent articles/mentions in: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, AARP Magazine and The Chicago Tribune. In 2008 Share The Care was given a Caregiver Friendly award by Today’s Caregiver magazine. And in 2009, Share The Care’s New York City Program received an Achievement Award for Cross-generational Caregiving by the New York State Coalition for the Aging and the Statewide Caregiving & Respite Coalition of New York. The book rights are now owned by the ShareTheCaregiving organization.
Warnock lectures around the U. S., and leads, on request, full-day training sessions for healthcare professionals and clergy. In 2007 she was invited by Ontario’s Ministry of Health to be the keynote speaker for their Aging at Home Conference in Toronto attended by over 700 professionals. In late 2009 she did four trainings in South West Ontario to kick off an 18-month initiative by the South West Local Health Integration Network. Currently, she is seeking funding to build a project that would allow Share The Care groups everywhere to work online.
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