Pause for Parents, Play for Kids

Innovative and Exemplary (2025): Pause for Parents, Play for Kids, located in Liberty Township, Ohio, was established ten years ago in response to local planning data showing that 100% of…

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Autism Eats

Rising Star (2024): Autism Eats, recognized as a Rising Star, is located in Boston, Massachusetts. As a non-profit entity, it has organized more than 150 shared respite events across the…

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HEARTS Respite

Innovative and Exemplary (2022): HEARTS (Health, Emergency, And Respite Treatment Service) at United Cerebral Palsy of Huntsville and the Tennessee Valley provides home-based respite to caregivers of children birth to 19 years with intellectual, developmental, or physical…

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TRE-ADD Respite Choices Community Living Toronto

Innovative and Exemplary (2020): TRE-ADD Respite Choices of Community Living Toronto offers hourly, overnight, camp, and community-based respite for children and adults with complex medical needs. Respite services are for children…

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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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Gio’s Garden

Innovative and Exemplary (2019): Gio’s Garden, in Middleton, WI, is a therapeutic respite care program for children seven years and younger who have significant developmental or physical delays. In its eighth…

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