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Sky Blossom: Meet the Grier Family
SKY BLOSSOM is an inspiring film on today’s students taking care of family with disabilities across America.
Meet the Grier Family
GRIER FAMILY, Male Caregiving
WEXFORD, PENNSYLVANIA
Veteran: Rob Sr. (Air Force) Fused spine,
both knees injured
Caregivers: Rob Jr., Camille (16)
Rob Jr.’s full-time job is caring for his dad, a football Civil Rights icon. Junior’s daughter sees how his caregiving has taken a cost, his divorce from her Mom just finalized. The Grier family doesn’t falter–each having cared for different family members almost their entire lives.
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Support for Caregiving Provided By
Outreach and Engagement Partners for Caregiving
Support Provided By
Support for Caregiving is made possible by Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.; OneAmerica Financial Foundation; Comfort Keepers; CareScout Holdings, Inc.; Cherish Health Inc. dba Cherish; Care.com; Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation; Richard King Mellon Foundation; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; Ford Foundation; Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation; NextFifty Initiative (Next50); National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI); PATH Foundation; Care for All with Respect and Equity (CARE) Fund; The John A. Hartford Foundation; and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Outreach and Engagement Partners
National outreach and engagement partners for Caregiving include Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers; Grantmakers In Aging; Milken Institute | Future of Aging; Global Coalition on Aging; Elizabeth Dole Foundation; National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation; National Minority Health Association; Fred Rogers Productions; Caregiver Action Network; The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care; American Association of Caregiving Youth; Caring Across Generations; SHRM and SHRM Foundation; National Alliance for Caregiving; Lutheran Services in America; Center to Advance Palliative Care; PEOPLE; and Forbes.com.
Caregiving is a Production Of
Lea Pictures and WETA Washington, D.C., in association with Ark Media. For Ark Media, Chris Durrance serves as Director and Senior Producer; Barak Goodman is Series Producer; and Ruth Fertig is Producer. Executive Producers for Lea Pictures are Bradley Cooper and Weston Middleton. Executive Producers for WETA are John F. Wilson and Tom Chiodo. Producer for WETA is Kate Kelly. Production is managed for WETA by Jim Corbley. Consulting Producer is Paul Irving.
