Innovative and Exemplary Respite Services

The 2023 call for applications for recognition by ARCH as an Innovative and Exemplary Respite Service will open in Summer 2023.
The purpose of the Innovative and Exemplary Services initiative is to establish a registry of programs and services to help advance our collective understanding of what respite best practices mean. Respite service providers can apply to be recognized as an Innovative and Exemplary Respite Service.
Innovative, Exemplary & Rising Star Respite Services
Innovative and Exemplary: 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 25…
Innovative and Exemplary: Claude Moore Precious Time in Harrisonburg, VA works with the James Madison University College of Health and Behavioral Studies to match nursing and health and human service students…
Rising Star: Community Connections was established in 2007 when the owners of a pediatric therapy clinic observed that children with developmental disabilities tended to be excluded from the greater community, and…
Innovative and Exemplary: The Crisis Nursery in Urbana, Illinois has provided emergency crisis respite care to children birth to six-years-of-age for 37 years. Based on best practice research and observed need, the…
Rising Star: Dutter House is a community-based respite program offered in a warm and welcoming home by skilled and trained volunteers. It was started by a long-time teacher who bought…
Rising Star: Eagle Valley Children’s Home Respite, established in 1985, began by serving four caregivers of children with disabilities, and through “word-of-mouth” in this rural area, has grown over the…
Rising Star: The Family to Family Adult Care Service in Memphis, Tennessee, has experienced remarkable growth from 10 to 80 plus families during its initial three years. Serving persons with…
Innovative and Exemplary: George Mark Children’s House, in San Leandro, California, provides individualized, residential medical care and caring attention to children birth to 22 years with complex physical and medical needs,…
Innovative and Exemplary: 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 year…
Innovative and Exemplary: HEARTS (Health, Emergency, And Respite Treatment Service) provides home-based respite to caregivers of children birth to 19 years with intellectual, developmental, or physical disabilities, mental or behavioral health conditions, and chronic illness or special…
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