• Planned and Crisis Respite for Families with Children
  This document is the result of a collaboration of the Casey National Center for Resource Family Support, the Child Welfare League of America and the ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center. The study confirms the need for a comprehensive approach to planned and crisis respite care and offers suggestions on next steps.

• Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children: Respite Care
  This fact sheet from Generations United is intended to provide information about respite care, including the different types of respite that can be offered, and model programs that can be replicated. Through the NFCSP, Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs), receive funding to provide respite services to grandparents and other relatives raising children. If there is already an established respite program being administered by a local mental health agency, the AAA in that area may contract with that agency to provide services to these families with NFSCP funding. These types of collaborations are encouraged by AoA in order to maximize resources, decrease duplication of services, and increase communication between service systems

• Respite Care Services for Families Who Adopt Children with Special Needs
  This report synthesizes information from the final program and evaluation reports of 8 of the 19 projects funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in its annual Adoption Opportunities discretionary grants programs in 1990, 1991, 1994, and 1995. The information presented was current at the time these reports were written between 1994 and 1999. Project descriptions, challenges and lessons learned, accomplishments, and recommendations are summarized.

• Strengthening Grandfamilies Through Respite Care
  This policy brief from the National Human Service's Assembly Family Strengthening Policy Center provides information on existing respite care systems and gaps, outlines promising practices, and suggests recommendations for federal and state policy makers and the human services community.

• Care for the Caregivers
  This article is from the May/June 2002 issue of Children's Voice, published by the Child Welfare League of America.

• Respite Care for Children with Serious Emotional Disorders and Their Families: A Way to Enrich Family Life
  This article in the National Bulletin on Family Support and Children's Mental Health looks at respite care for families caring for children with serious emotional or behavioral disorders.

• Respite and Crisis Care
  This fact sheet from the FRIENDS National Resource Center for CBCAP factsheet defines respite and various respite program models, identifies who needs respite, and discusses the evidence supporting the program.

PowerPoint Presentation

• Planned and Crisis Respite for Families with Children
  This presentation summarizes the report by the same name by CWLA, ARCH, and Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support.

NRCFCPPP Information Packet

• Respite for Resource Families (May 2002)

Bibliography

• Annotated Bibliography of Respite Care Resources
  This listing was prepared by the National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) with support from Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support in 2001.

Website

• ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center Web Site
  The mission of the ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center, a service of the Chapel Hill Training-Outreach Project, is to assist and promote the development of quality respite and crisis care programs; to help families locate respite and crisis care services in their communities; and to serve as a strong voice for respite in all forums.

• Child Welfare Information Gateway: Respite and Crisis Care Programs
  Information about respite and crisis care services and programs.

                                                                                                                             
Last updated 12/06/07