With other people
STAR Network Foundation
Hear and
be heard.
- Live online meetings.
- Led by a trained mentor who has lived it.
- Speak, listen, or just be there.
- What is said there stays there.
- Not therapy, and not a diagnosis.
MyWhatIf 
Family caregiver program
A free program from MyWhatIf Foundation and STAR Network Foundation
When someone’s future depends on you, what happens to yours?
You care for someone else. This space is for you.
A free caregiver program from MyWhatIf Foundation and STAR Network Foundation, combining structured reflection, human peer support and community.
Free to participate
No cost to join, and no cost later.
Support begins now
Peer-support access arrives as soon as you join.
Cohort date announced soon
Your MyWhatIf sessions start when the cohort opens. This is not a waitlist.
Who this is for
You may not call yourself a caregiver.
You may be a daughter caring for a parent.
A husband caring for a partner.
A parent supporting a child.
A sibling.
A relative.
A friend, or chosen family.
Maybe this is temporary. Maybe it has shaped your life for years.
Caregiving can hold love, meaning and closeness. It can also carry exhaustion, uncertainty, isolation, grief, frustration and questions that rarely have room to be asked.
You do not have to choose between caring deeply for someone else and making room for yourself.
The program
One program. Two ways to be supported.
Hear and
With yourself
MyWhatIf Foundation
Ask and
imagine.
One What if? A possibility. Another.
- One question each week
- Ask one What if? about your past or your future.
- As many answers as you want
- MyWhatIf creates new possible outcomes: personalized simulations of how it could unfold. Explore one, or ask for another.
- Not prediction
- MyWhatIf doesn’t tell you what will happen. It helps you imagine, and pursue, what could.
You don’t have to choose. The program brings both together.
Everyone who joins receives both. After you register, we’ll show you how to reach STAR peer-support resources right away.
Your MyWhatIf cohort begins when it opens, and we’ll announce the start date in the coming weeks.
You shouldn’t have to carry it alone.
Or lose yourself carrying it.
What if your future belongs in the conversation, too?
Caregiving can make the immediate feel enormous. The next appointment. The next decision. The next difficult day.
Over time, it can become harder to ask a different kind of question:
What do I hope for now?
MyWhatIf creates a structured space to explore questions like that without asking you to relive or retell everything that brought you here. Not to give you someone else’s answer. To help you find more possibilities for your own.
How it works
Four moments. Join. Connect. Reflect. Continue.
01 · Join
Join the free caregiver program.
A few simple questions. No application or qualification process.
02 · Connect
Human support can begin now.
After you join, you’ll immediately receive access to STAR Network Foundation’s TAR Anon peer-support resources.
03 · Reflect
Make room for your own future.
When your MyWhatIf cohort begins, you’ll enter a structured reflection experience centered on hope, agency and possibility.
04 · Continue
Support doesn’t end with a session.
Peer connection and community continue alongside and beyond your MyWhatIf experience.
Why we work together
Support shouldn’t end when a session does.
MyWhatIf This program is built around a simple idea: imagining new possibilities, and staying connected to people who understand, can support different parts of the same journey.
MyWhatIf Foundation and STAR Network Foundation are bringing those experiences together in one caregiver program.
Technology can open possibilities.
People create connection.
Neither has to replace the other.
A human + technology model
Research in caregiver support has explored programs pairing a technology-supported intervention with peer support from other caregivers. In one small field usability study, family caregivers of people with dementia named the peer connection as the most valuable part, and said shared lived experience matched their needs better than professional support did. Changes in burden, stress and strain were not statistically significant, and the study was not designed to detect them.
That study examined a different program, not ours. We build on the broader principle and are testing our own approach.
Collins-Pisano C, Leggett AN, Gambee D, Fortuna KL. JMIR Human Factors 2024;11:e41202. A two-week field usability study with 9 caregivers and 3 peer supporters. Read the study ↗
Free to participate
Make some space for yourself.
Join the free MyWhatIf + STAR caregiver program.
Joining takes about a minute. There is no application or qualification process.
01 About you
02 Your caregiving
03 Optional
You have joined the program
MyWhatIf You’re in.
Welcome to the MyWhatIf + STAR caregiver program.
Your MyWhatIf cohort will begin soon. We’ll announce the start date in the coming weeks.
But support doesn’t have to wait.
You can begin connecting with STAR Network Foundation’s TAR Anon peer-support community now.
TAR Anon is a free, peer-led support fellowship powered by STAR Network Foundation, offering regular peer-support meetings. It does not provide medical, mental-health or other clinical services.
What happens next
Thank you for making some space for yourself.
MyWhatIf is not therapy or crisis care. STAR peer support is not emergency or clinical care. If you are in immediate danger or need urgent help, contact local emergency or crisis services.