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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Sumner Senior Volunteer Program

Innovative and Exemplary (2025): Sumner Senior Volunteer Program, based in Nashville, Tennessee, replicates Tennessee’s AmeriCorps-funded Senior Companion Program, and provides four or more hours of in-home or virtual respite per…

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Will’s House

Innovative and Exemplary (2024): Will’s House, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was especially designed to provide customized respite care, including medical needs care, short-term, long-term, and emergency respite, to support families…

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Musical Memories Café

Innovative and Exemplary (2024): The Musical Memories Café, located in rural West Falls, New York and nearby communities, provides shared respite experiences for persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and dementias and…

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ONEgeneration Adult Day Program

Innovative and Exemplary (2022): ONEgeneration Adult Day Program provides center-based respite services to caregivers of adults 18 years or older with intellectual or developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, aging-related conditions, dementia or…

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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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The Center for Volunteer Caregiving

Innovative and Exemplary (2022): The Center for Volunteer Caregiving has a 22-year history providing in-home respite to caregivers of adults with physical disabilities, dementia and memory conditions, chronic illness, and special…

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Lutheran Services in Iowa Respite Care

Innovative and Exemplary (2021): Lutheran Services in Iowa Respite Care has offered respite to caregivers of children with disabilities and mental and emotional conditions for 19 years. Based on both…

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