“I don’t even know how that physically is possible to have cancer in your bloodstream,” Isabella told me. works in Palm Beach County schools to identify caregiving students — its direct services are offered only in this district — home visits are central to its operation. “Family caregivers are not controversial,” says Elizabeth Olson, a leading researcher on young caregivers and a geography professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Schools need to serve caregiving students too, says Stephen Osborn, the RIDE official leading the effort. Elsewhere in the world, caregiving children are formally recognized and met with services.