RESOURCES FROM BEACON PATHWAYS
Caregiver, Healthcare & Mental Health Resources
Useful stuff for complicated situations.
Some things need more than a therapy session.
Here you’ll find practical resources for caregivers, adults navigating healthcare and chronic illness, and social workers working inside healthcare systems- created to make the next step a little easier to figure out.
No inspirational worksheets for the sake of having a worksheet.
Just things you might actually use.
FEATURED RESOURCE
The Caregiver’s Beacon
A practical companion for navigating healthcare when someone you love needs care.
The Caregiver’s Beacon was created for the moment when somebody you love gets sick and suddenly there are approximately 47 things you're apparently supposed to know how to do.
It gives caregivers one place to organize the information that tends to end up scattered between patient portals, scraps of paper, text messages, and the Notes app.
Inside, you'll find support for:
Appointments + questions for providers
Keep track of what needs to be discussed before you're sitting in the exam room trying to remember.
Medications + symptoms
Organize medication changes, symptoms, daily care, and important health information.
Hospital + care transitions
Prepare for hospital stays, discharge, home health, rehabilitation, hospice, and changing levels of care.
Healthcare wishes + decisions
Think through advance directives, end-of-life wishes, advocacy, and conversations families often don't know how to start.
Your own well-being
Because being the person everyone needs does not magically make you stop needing things yourself.
This isn't really a book you read once.
Write in it. Bring it to appointments. Make notes in the margins. Come back when you can't remember what somebody told you three appointments ago.
That's what it's there for.
Staying Calm and Speaking Up: Tools for Healthcare Advocacy
Practical, action-oriented, perfect for caregivers and patients navigating difficult conversations with providers. This one could eventually be a paid download given how useful it is.
Guilt vs. Responsibility
This is deeper and more reflective, almost like a mini workbook. It's squarely for caregivers and fits beautifully with your specialties in caregiver stress and chronic illness.
You shouldn't need a healthcare
degree to love someone who's sick.
Hospital Social Work Field Guide
A quick-reference cheat sheet covering the essentials for navigating the hospital setting- referral guidelines for home health, SNF, rehab, hospice, and palliative care; Medicare and insurance basics; common nursing abbreviations; hospital floor types; SDOH screening; and more. Built for hospital social workers who need the right information fast.
Illinois Social Work CEU Reference Guide
A clear breakdown of Illinois licensure CEU requirements for LCSWs and LSWs, including mandatory training categories and role-dependent requirements. Built so you can find what you need without digging through the IDFPR website.