Crisis Nursery

Innovative and Exemplary (2021): The Crisis Nursery in Urbana, Illinois has provided emergency crisis respite care to children birth to six-years-of-age for 37 years. Based on best practice research and observed need,…

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Bethel Life, Loving Hands

Rising Star (2020): Loving HANDS is a faith-based program with a monthly family-night-off for caregivers of children with special needs as its centerpiece. Relationships across individuals, families, the local faith…

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SOAR 365 Respite

Innovative (2020): SOAR365 provides an array of services for people birth to adulthood who have disabilities as well as respite for caregivers. Services include pediatric therapy, adult day programs, workforce…

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TRE-ADD Respite Choices of Community Living Toronto

Innovative and Exemplary (2020): Respite Choices of Community Living Toronto offers hourly, overnight, camp, and community-based respite for children and adults with intellectual disability and/or autism, including Treatment Research and…

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Ryan House

Innovative and Exemplary (2020): Ryan House in Phoenix, Arizona, has been providing pediatric respite, life-enhancing therapeutic activities, and pediatric palliative and hospice care to help families navigate their children’s life…

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RISE Wisconsin, Inc., The Respite Center

Innovative and Exemplary (2020): The Respite Center at RISE was conceptualized over forty years ago, when concerned staff at a local child-care center began looking for ways to support families…

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ChildServe Respite

Innovative and Exemplary (2020): The needs and priorities of Iowa’s caregivers and their children are foremost in the development of respite options offered by ChildServe. Caregivers with children birth to…

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Respite Care, Inc.

Innovative and Exemplary (2019): Respite Care, Inc. in Fort Collins, CO, provides short-term and overnight respite care to more than 165 children with developmental disabilities from infancy to age 21.…

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Masterpiece Respite Nights

Innovative and Exemplary (2019): Masterpiece Respite Nights, Lincoln, NE, is a faith-based volunteer respite program where parents drop off their child(ren) with special needs of any age, along with siblings through age…

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Claude Moore Precious Time

Innovative and Exemplary (2019): Claude Moore Precious Time in Harrisonburg, VA, works with the James Madison University College of Health and Behavioral Studies to match nursing and health and human…

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