How It Works
Make Your Health Journey Easier with CaringBridge
Make Your Health Journey Easier with CaringBridge
CaringBridge is your free online tool for sharing health updates. It is an easy and ad-free way to communicate health news to family and friends—all in one place.
Start a Site in 5 Minutes
Step 1
Register Your Email Address
Sign up with your email, connect your Facebook account, or connect your Google account to easily start a site for yourself or a loved one.
Step 2
Personalize Your Site
Personalize the site by indicating if the site is for you or someone else, and what you would like the site title and site address to be.
Step 3
Choose Your Privacy Settings
You control access to your site and can see who’s visiting and following it. You also decide if your site is searchable online by search engines like Google.
Step 4
Start Posting Your Updates
Let people know what’s happening with your health journey. Share a quick update, write a longer Journal entry, post a photo, or upload a video. Your site is all about what you need to say and hear.
Site Features
Journal
An injury or health crisis takes a toll on both your physical and mental well-being. Even something simple like texting or emailing updates to loved ones and friends is one to-do too many.
- Add to your CaringBridge Journal as often as you need to keep everyone posted on your progress or write through the highs and lows of your healing journey.
- Family and friends can react to your entries and leaving encouraging comments.
Ways to Help
Your Ways to Help section includes a number of tools to make it easy to communicate your needs.
- Start a GoFundMe for any of the things you need during your health journey — from healthcare costs and meals, to airfare or even childcare.
- Start a Meal Train® page to organize those who want to provide support through home-cooked meals and more.
- Order groceries with Shipt to help with everyday essentials.
To learn more about the organizations we team with to provide extra help to CaringBridge users, visit our partner organizations page.
Co-Author
Having one or more co-authors for a CaringBridge site means having help with:
- Posting updates, photos, and videos
- Viewing and respond to comments
- Setting up Ways to Help, including GoFundMe, Meal Train, and Planner tasks
Why CaringBridge?
More than 300,000 people use our private communications platform every single day. We have the tools you need to navigate your health journey and are always adapting based on your feedback.
Secure
Unlike other online platforms, privacy—not profit—is our main concern. CaringBridge is a secure, ad-free community that never sells your data.
Trusted
We are a nonprofit that has been supporting health journeys for nearly 25 years. We are trustworthy and we know the power of community support in health journey communications.
Live Help
The CaringBridge team is here to make it as easy as possible for you to communicate with your loved ones during a health crisis. If you need help at any time with your CaringBridge site, we have Customer Care representatives standing by waiting to help.
Donor-Supported
CaringBridge is a donor-supported nonprofit, powered by supporters like you. A gift to CaringBridge supports free, private sites for anyone on a health journey. For every $30 donated, we can power one site—that’s one gift that can change the experience of someone on a health journey.
Download Mobile App
Our mobile app offers you convenience, which is essential on a health journey.