Knowledge & Insights
Community Care Corps Publications
Community Care Corps highlights knowledge and insights drawn from our national initiative and the work of our grantees. This page features documents that demonstrate program impact, promising practices, and lessons learned from supporting older adults, adults with disabilities, and family caregivers.
These materials reflect Community Care Corps’ commitment to strengthening volunteer-driven programs that build networks of care across the country and help individuals remain independent in their homes and communities.
Documents & Reports
Community Care Corps: How Volunteer Programs Are Reshaping Caregiving connects findings from the Caregiving in the U.S. 2025 report with outcomes from Community Care Corps grantees nationwide. The brief shows how volunteer-driven, nonmedical support can reduce caregiver stress, address isolation, and help older adults and adults with disabilities remain independent in their communities.
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Program Impact and Alignment with National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers examines how Community Care Corps advances the goals of the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers. The brief outlines program outcomes, economic impact, and evaluation findings that demonstrate how volunteer-driven, nonmedical support strengthens services, reduces caregiver stress, and contributes to national caregiving priorities.
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Evaluating the Economic Impact of an Innovative Community-Based Volunteer Model: Ascension St. Agnes
Evaluating the Economic Impact of an Innovative Community-Based Volunteer Model: Ascension St. Agnes presents findings from an economic analysis of the Ascension Saint Agnes Trusted Ride program, a Community Care Corps grantee initiative providing volunteer-chaperoned non-emergency medical transportation. The brief demonstrates a nearly two-to-one return on investment, showing how volunteer support improves access to well-managed care, reduces missed appointments, and generates measurable cost savings to the health care system.
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Evaluating the Economic Impact of an Innovative Community-Based Volunteer Model: Lori’s Hands presents findings from an economic analysis examining how volunteer companionship reduces social isolation among older adults and adults with disabilities. The brief demonstrates that lowering loneliness can decrease Medicare and Medicaid spending, generating an estimated $1.89 in savings for every dollar invested while strengthening health and long-term care outcomes.
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Community Care Corps Symposium: Supporting Older Adults, Caregivers and Adults with Disabilities Through Innovative Volunteer Models summarizes key insights from a national virtual convening of federal leaders, researchers, and community-based organizations. The report highlights successful volunteer models, policy perspectives, and actionable strategies to strengthen caregiver support and expand home and community-based services nationwide.
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Community Care Corps: 2019-2024 provides an overview of the first five years of the national program funded by the Administration for Community Living that supports innovative volunteer models assisting family caregivers, older adults, and adults with disabilities. The one-pager outlines program purpose, distinguishing features, and cumulative impact data, including service reach, volunteer engagement, and the economic value of volunteer hours.
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Community Care Corps 2020–2024 Interim Report presents cumulative findings from the first four years of program implementation funded by the Administration for Community Living. The report highlights national service reach, volunteer engagement, and early outcome data demonstrating reduced caregiver stress, decreased loneliness, and strengthened capacity for older adults and adults with disabilities to remain living at home and in their communities.
Community Care Corps Five-Year Final Report presents national evaluation findings from four grant cohorts funded by the Administration for Community Living between 2020 and 2025. Drawing on survey data from more than 6,900 care recipients, nearly 2,000 caregivers and over 5,000 volunteers, the report demonstrates how volunteer-driven, nonmedical support reduced loneliness and caregiver stress, strengthened social connections and helped individuals remain safely in their homes and communities.
The Indirect Benefits for Caregivers Pilot Project Final Report presents findings from a study conducted by Caregiver Action Network for the Administration for Community Living, examining how volunteer services provided to care recipients also benefit family caregivers. Based on interviews and survey data, caregivers reported measurable reductions in stress and feeling overwhelmed, increased confidence in caregiving, and improved quality of life as a result of volunteer-driven, nonmedical support.
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Grantee Snapshots
Community Care Corps Building Communities of Strength: Grantee Snapshots 2020–2021 highlights innovative volunteer models launched across the first completed cohort to support older adults, adults with disabilities and family caregivers. The publication showcases a wide range of services, including respite, transportation, home-based assistance, and social connection, demonstrating how volunteer-driven programs strengthen independence and community living nationwide.
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Community Care Corps Building Engagement and Independence in Communities: Grantee Snapshots 2021–2022 spotlights the second cohort of grantees advancing volunteer-driven, nonmedical assistance in communities across the country. The publication illustrates how local organizations are expanding respite, transportation, companionship, and caregiver support services to address isolation, access barriers, and growing caregiving demands.
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Community Care Corps Supporting Healthy Community Living: Grantee Snapshots 2022–2023 features innovative volunteer models tailored to meet the needs of rural communities, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and populations that face challenges with limited resources. The publication demonstrates how volunteer engagement advances the goals of the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers by strengthening local systems of support and promoting independence at home.
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Community Care Corps Volunteer Power Supporting Health at Home: Grantee Snapshots 2023–2025 highlights the fourth completed cohort of grantees expanding direct supports for family caregivers, older adults, and adults with disabilities. The publication demonstrates how volunteer-powered models increase access to transportation, respite, companionship, and peer support while building sustainable, community-based solutions nationwide.
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Grantee Spotlight
Grantee Spotlights: Beyond the Grant features success stories from Community Care Corps grantees that expanded and sustained their volunteer-driven programs beyond initial funding. Through real-world examples, the publication highlights lessons learned, keys to success and the lasting impact of nonmedical volunteer support for older adults, adults with disabilities, and family caregivers.
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Project & Program Posters
Evaluating the Economic Impact of an Innovative Community-Based Volunteer Model Poster Presentation – highlights findings from an economic analysis of the Ascension Saint Agnes Trusted Ride program. The poster summarizes how volunteer-chaperoned non-emergency medical transportation improves access to well-managed care and generates a nearly two-to-one return on investment for the health care system.
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Family Caregivers Benefit from Volunteer Services for Older Adults is a poster presentation summarizing findings from a pilot project examining the indirect benefits family caregivers experience when volunteers support older adults. Based on interviews with more than 30 caregivers, the poster highlights how volunteer services provide respite, reduce stress, increase emotional well-being, and offer critical support and resources for families.
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