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…

Respite Breakroom: A How-to-Guide for Faith & Community Organizations

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Developed by the South Carolina Respite Coalition and the SC Department on Aging. A Respite Breakroom is a faith- or community-based respite model designed to give a family caregiver a…

Respite Programs for Adults and the Aging: A Start-up Manual

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This 258-page manual, contains all of the topics addressed in the original manual (Bringing Respite to Your Community). Examples, forms, and resources relevant to services for adults were substituted for…

Bringing Respite to Your Community: A Start-up Manual

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This manual gives step-by-step instructions on how to begin a respite care program. The 332-page book includes chapters on needs assessment, the planning process, program models, budget, collaboration, marketing, funding,…

Site Orientation Manual: Example from Gio’s Garden

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Gio’s Garden was created, by a group of parents, to address the gap between the respite needs of a family with a young child with special needs, and the respite services…

Replication Manual: Lifespan’s Caregiver Respite Program

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The intended audience for this replication manual may be governmental or nonprofit aging service providers seeking to fill a gap in services for family caregivers of older adults who provide…