Lifespan Respite
Technical Assistance Center
Lifespan Respite is defined in the Lifespan Respite Care Act as "coordinated systems of community-based respite for family caregivers of children or adults regardless of special need."
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ARCH releases results of 2012-13 Training and Technical Assistance Needs Assessment of Lifespan Respite grantees, their partners, state respite coalition and ARCH network members. To view the final report, click here. |
Overview of the T/TA Network for Lifespan Respite
In September 2009, the ARCH National Respite Network was awarded a three-year cooperative agreement with the US Administration on Aging to provide training and technical assistance to the growing Lifespan Respite Network, its stakeholders and partners, and state respite coalitions. The cooperative agreement was awarded in partnership with the highly regarded Family Caregiver Alliance in San Francisco, which provides training and technical assistance primarily to the Aging Network on broader caregiving issues. Together they formed the Technical Assistance Centers for Caregiver Programs & Lifespan Respite. This project ended on August 31, 2012. In September 2012, ARCH was awarded a three-year cooperative agreement directly with the Administration for Community Living/AoA to form the new Lifespan Respite Technical Assistance Center. Through the new TA Center, ARCH will continue to provide training and technical assistance to the Lifespan Respite Network with a focus on performance measurement and research. As of August 2012, AoA has funded thirty states and the District of Columbia to establish or enhance Statewide Lifespan Respite Systems and ARCH provides training and technical assistance to them as well. For more information on this initiative, please click here.
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ARCH training and technical assistance activities include:
- State site visits to assist with State Lifespan Summits to help states build or strengthen coalitions and prepare state agencies to apply for federal Lifespan Respite grants in the future;
- Updating ARCH respite fact sheets that have proven most useful over the years and developing new fact sheets as needed on topics across age and disability categories;
- New documents and guidebooks, and webinars on topics such as "Lifespan Respite 101," Respite in the Faith Community," and "Tools for Collaboration." Future topics may include Federal Respite Funding Opportunities, Evaluation, Marketing and Public Awareness, Volunteer and Rural Respite, respite for special populations, and more;
- New consumer content on the ARCH web pages, especially the National Respite Locator Service;
- A repository for respite training curricula and links to specific state resources;
- An ongoing needs assessment of ARCH and State Lifespan Networks to assess new training and TA needs;
- Phone and email consultation as needed or to help family caregivers find respite.
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April 4, 2013
Two new funding announcements for the Lifespan Respite Program have been posted by the Administration for Community Living on www.grants.gov.
1) Grants to New States – Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2013-ACL-AOA-LR-0047
2) Building Integrated and Sustainable Lifespan Respite Programs - Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2013-ACL-AOA-LR-0048
The Funding Opportunity Announcements can also be obtained on the Funding Opportunities page of the Administration for Community Living at http://www.acl.gov/Funding_Opportunities/Announcements/Index.aspx
Due Dates: May 20, 2013, 11:59 PM
Teleconferences: Separate Pre-Application Teleconferences for each opportunity will be held on 4/17/13: New States at 1:00 PM Eastern; Integration States at 3:00 PM Eastern. Complete information on accessing the teleconferences is in Section VIII (Other Information) of the Funding Opportunity Announcement.
All questions pertaining to the Funding Opportunity Announcements should be directed to:
Greg Link
ACL/AoA
Washington, D.C. 20201
Phone Number: 202-357-3545
E-mail:
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GAO Lifespan Respite Report Released
On October 22, 2010 the Government Accounting Office released a report to Congress on the Lifespan Respite Care Program mandated by the Lifespan Respite Care Act of 2006. Since the program is relatively new, GAO could not carry out the cost benefit analysis required by the legislation, but they did prepare a descriptive summary of current state Lifespan Respite grantee activities. To conduct its required audit, GAO interviewed officials from AOA and reviewed related documentation including grant applications, notice of awards, grantee work plans, and semi-annual progress reports. The ARCH program director was also interviewed to obtain background information on respite care and information about the National Resource Center on Lifespan Respite Care. The report includes a supportive statement from the Administration on Aging. For the full report, Respite Care: Grants and Cooperative Agreements Awarded to Implement the Lifespan Respite Care Act. GAO-11-28R, October 22, 2010, click here.
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Archived Lifespan Respite Federal Program Grant Announcements from Previous Years
- FY 2009, click here.
- FY 2010, click here.
- FY 2011, New Grants, click here.
- FY 2011, Expansion Grants, click here.
- FY 2012, Integration and Sustainability Grants, click here.
- FY 2012, Expansion Grants, click here.
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Lifespan Respite State Grant Updates: In 2009, AoA funded the first twelve states to establish Lifespan Respite systems. ARCH periodically provided updates on the successes and challenges faced by the pioneering grantees that were published in the newsletter of the FCA/ARCH Technical Assistance Ceters on Caregiver Programs and Lifespan Respite. They are reprinted here for your convenience.
Additional state updates were also published regularly in the FCA-ARCH Newsletter. For archived volumes of the newsletter, click here. For an up-to-date summary table of the objectives and activities of the Lifespan Respite Grantees, including the roles played by their State Respite Coalition and ADRC partners, click here. For information culled from select states' final reports, see the presentation of Greg Link, ACL/AoA, and Jill Kagan at the American Society on Aging Meeting in Chicago on March 14, 2013. The title of the presentation was Why Lifespan Respite? Meeting the Respite Needs of the Nation's Family Caregivers. Click here.
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Jill Kagan, MPH
Chair, National Respite Coalition
Program Director,
ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center
4016 Oxford St.
Annandale, VA 22003
703-256-2084
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Maggie Edgar, RN, MSW
Senior Consultant,
ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center
807 N. 50th Street
Seattle, WA 98103
206-632-5208
206-547-1905 FAX
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Casandra Firman
ARCH Evaluation Specialist
360.769.7167
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October 15-17, 2013
Boston Park Plaza
Hotel & Towers
50 Park Plaza at Arlington Street
Boston, MA 02116
Call for Presentations
Now Available, click here.
Lifespan Respite Grantee
and Partner Meeting
October 18, 2013
(for Lifespan Respite Grantees and Primary Partners only)
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8th International Respite Conference
October 10-12, 2012
Toronto, ON, Canada
For Conference Presentations, PPT Slides and handouts, click here. |
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2011 National Respite Conference Highlights
Federal Plenary Presentations Now Available
Click Here
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If you are a State Lifespan Respite Grantee or Stakeholder, Visit Your Own Networking Page.
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States with AoA Lifespan Respite Funding
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2009 Grantees
Alabama
Arizona
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Illinois
Nevada
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas |
2010 Grantees
Delaware
Kansas
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Nebraska
New York
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Utah
Washington State
Wisconsin
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2011 Grantees
Colorado
Hawaii
Montana
New Jersey
Ohio
Virginia
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2012 Grantees
Alabama
Arizona
Iowa (New State)
Nevada
North Carolina
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Texas
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