Omarion Calloway Releases Free Guide to Support Millions of Young Caregivers
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Omarion Calloway's guide provides young caregivers with strategies to overcome adversity and secure scholarships like his $1.3 million achievement.
The guide outlines practical steps for self-care, mental health management, and accessing resources while balancing caregiving responsibilities.
This initiative supports millions of unseen young caregivers, reducing isolation and advocating for systemic change to protect vulnerable children.
A former child caregiver turned advocate shares his raw journey and free guide to help others transform survival into strength.
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Omarion Calloway, who began caregiving for his grandmother and uncle at age ten, has published a free online guide to support the millions of young caregivers across the United States. The resource, titled More Than Survival: A Guideline for Young Caregivers, draws from Calloway's personal experiences memorizing seizure protocols, bathing family members, and managing medications while navigating childhood.
Calloway recalls learning to interpret his uncle's nonverbal cues because his uncle could no longer speak clearly. "A glance, a sigh, even the twitch of his hand became language," he says. By age thirteen, Calloway had lost his grandmother to cancer, and his uncle passed away before he reached college. "There is a guilt in feeling relief," he admits, "because when the exhaustion ends, you realize it only ended because someone you loved is gone."
The guide addresses the reality that over 5.4 million children in the United States serve as young caregivers, with many being Black and Brown youth who disproportionately carry these responsibilities unnoticed. "Young caregivers are invisible," Calloway explains. "Nobody asks what it does to a child to spend their days lifting adults, managing medications, then show up to school like nothing happened."
Behind this invisibility lies a healthcare system that often leaves families without affordable home care or respite services, forcing children to become untrained gap-fillers. "These aren't chores," Calloway emphasizes. "They're life-or-death responsibilities."
The free guide available at https://www.MoreThanSurvivalGuide.com blends Calloway's story with practical lessons on self-care, mental health, and maintaining personal anchors through music, journaling, and creativity. It includes a section on pursuing scholarships and opportunities despite feeling trapped in survival mode, reflecting Calloway's own achievement of earning over $1.3 million in scholarships.
Calloway's upcoming initiative, WeRiseLoud, will further amplify young caregivers' voices through workshops, school partnerships, and advocacy for systemic change. Now a first-generation college student preparing to graduate from New York University in 2026, Calloway aims to transform private pain into collective action, ensuring no child shoulders adult responsibilities alone.
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