Approaches:

• Redeployment: Shifting funding from higher cost to lower-cost programs and services.
• Operating More Efficiently: Cutting costs that can be reinvested in expanding services.
• Reinvestment: Allocating funds that can be “saved” through redeployment, refinancing, or reductions in spending to new or alternative supports and services.
• Embed Lifespan Respite Activities into Ongoing State Efforts: State agencies and others continue to face economically challenging times. Rather than relying on new funding, some states are working diligently to embed the activities they developed as a result of the Lifespan Respite projects into ongoing sustainable state efforts.