The Care Dividend: Investing in Childcare, Mental Health & Longevity

What becomes possible when care is treated as an economic investment rather than a private burden?

The Care Dividend is a solutions-driven convening that makes the economic case for care: affordable childcare, supported caregivers, mental-health readiness, and healthy longevity are not peripheral social issues. They are essential infrastructure for a thriving workforce, healthier families, and a stronger New York.

Why now

Caregivers hold together households, workplaces, and communities, often without the systems, information, or support they need. At the same time, New York is advancing new childcare investments while communities confront mental-health crises, workforce shortages, an aging population, and uneven access to reliable health information.

Who should attend

Caregivers, parents, community-health workers, nonprofit leaders, healthcare providers, employers and HR leaders, funders, policymakers, advocates, journalists, and creators interested in practical solutions for New York families.

Who's in the room

• Council Member Linda Lee, New York City Council, District 23
• Will C. Holden, Director of Communications and Storytelling, Gary Community Ventures
• Elizabeth Wong, PhD, MPH, Research Scientist, Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity and Healthy Development at Boston University School of Social Work
• Dr. Nicholas Jackson, "Nick the Immunologist," immunology researcher and content creator
• Dr. Darshini Mahadevia, Co-Director of Healthy Workforces at the McKinsey Health Institute
• Hari Sreenivasan, PBS anchor who frequenly covers caregiving, longevity and health
• Dr. Bipin Subedi, Chief of Psychiatric Services Bellevue Hospital, sharing insights from mental health training and readiness

What's in it for you

Childcare models employers are actually using, plain-language guidance on recognizing and responding to mental-health crisis and new connections across sectors that rarely share a room.

Plus light morning bites and lunch will be served.

Presented by Epicenter NYC and URL Media, the convening will extend beyond the room through trusted, community-rooted storytelling and multilingual distribution.

Please note that Epicenter extends some complimentary tickets to ensure our events are representative of the communities we serve. If you have financial hardship, email us and we will try to accommodate you.