Partnering with AmeriCorps Seniors to Support Respite and Workforce Development

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Partnering with AmeriCorps Seniors to Support Respite and Workforce Development This meeting of the Volunteer and Faith-based Respite Learning Collaborative focused on the AmeriCorps Seniors – Senior Companion Program and how it…

Students as Respite Volunteers: A Creative Approach to Supporting Family Caregivers

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Students as Respite Volunteers: A Creative Approach to Supporting Family Caregivers Using students from undergraduate and graduate nursing, social work, and other health care professional academic programs as volunteer respite…

Conversations on Caregiving – Flooding the airways with kindness

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Podcast 3 – Flooding the airways with kindness.     In this third podcast in the ARCH Series, Conversations on Caregiving, educator Sharon Leary talks about a multidisciplinary, undergraduate university-based respite…

Conversations on Caregiving – Respite is a contact sport, not a spectator sport

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Podcast 2 – Respite is a contact sport, not a spectator sport.       In this second podcast in the ARCH series, Conversations on Caregiving, Melissa Leisen and Christine McGrane…

Conversations on Caregiving – Not free, but freely given

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Podcast 1 – Not free, but freely given.      In this inaugural ARCH podcast in the ARCH series, Conversations on Caregiving, educator Mary Jo Alimena Caruso describes how she…

State Summaries of Lifespan Respite Grant Activities and Outcomes, Grantee Final Reports, FY 2017 and FY 2018

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State Summaries of Lifespan Respite Grant Activities and Outcomes Final Reports, FY 2017 and FY 2018 Grantees This report contains summaries of the final reports from FY 2017 and FY…

Respite and the Faith Community

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Respite and the Faith Community The purpose of this fact sheet is to identify and provide information on how faith communities can provide or support respite services as well as…

Volunteer Respite Manual: Creating Valuable Options for Family Caregivers

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Drawing on the experience in volunteer services among ARCH network members, ARCH’s recognized Innovative and Exemplary respite services, and Lifespan Respite grantees and their partners, this step-by-step manual will help…

In Support of Caregivers: Key Accomplishments of Lifespan Respite Program Grantees

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Through competitive grants, the Lifespan Respite Care Program supports individual state grantees to achieve Five Objectives: Expand and enhance respite services in the states; Improve coordination and dissemination of respite services; Streamline…

Community Care Corps

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Community Care Corps Caregiver Action Network staff presented an overview of the federally-funded Community Care Corps initiative, and shared recent outcomes from funded projects across the country. Nichole Goble, Director of Community…