People sometimes ask how I came to join the CAPS board. The honest answer starts with my own family. When my father and later my mother needed aging-related services, CAPS was there for us during a confusing and frightening time—and Christi, in particular, helped us find our footing. That experience showed me what this organization is capable of, and I’ve been devoted to it ever since.

What CAPS has become still amazes me. From modest beginnings, it has grown into an organization that delivers extraordinary, deeply personalized social services to people living with Parkinson’s and the families who care for them. Alongside that direct support, CAPS has built meaningful educational and awareness programming, a committed board, and the fundraising base that sustains it all. It does the quiet, hands-on work and the larger community-building work at the same time, and it does both well.

What makes me proudest is who CAPS serves. As the organization has grown, it has reached further toward the people who need it most—those who are frightened by a new diagnosis, who have limited resources, and who have no one else to turn to. CAPS meets them where they are, with the same care and personal attention it offers everyone. No one is turned away. That kind of reach—generous and personal at once—is rare, and it’s the reason I give my time to this board so gladly.

With gratitude,

Kathrin Brewer