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Innovative and Exemplary Respite Services

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.

The National Call for Applications for 2025 recognition by ARCH as an Innovative and Exemplary Respite Service is now closed.

ARCH will make every effort to notify applicants of their status by January 2, 2025.

Innovative, Exemplary & Rising Star Respite Services

The year the respite service was recognized by ARCH is included after its designation of Innovative and Exemplary, Innovative, or Rising Star in the program description.  Please note that Rising Star services have demonstrated a person and family-centered approach but have not yet met all criteria for Innovative or Exemplary practice.

Programs are reviewed every three years by ARCH to assess continued status as Innovative and Exemplary, Innovative or Rising Star, or to assess if a respite service can be elevated to a new level.

If you are interested in replicating a service, accessing a program manual or guidance, or viewing evaluation plans and measurement tools, please visit the program's website for contact information, or contact Susan Summers, PhD with ARCH.

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Pause for Parents, Play for Kids

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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…

Providence House

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Innovative and Exemplary (2019): Providence House in Cleveland, OH, established 37 years ago by Sister Hope Greener, maintains 30 beds to serve 350 children and 150 families with center-based crisis care.…

Respite Care, Inc.

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Innovative and Exemplary (2019): Respite Care, Inc. in Fort Collins, CO, provides short-term respite care to 75 children with developmental disabilities from infancy to age 21, and up to six…

Rhode Island CareBreaks – Nursing Student Respite Workforce Initiative

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Innovative and Exemplary (2020): The Rhode Island CareBreaks – Nursing Student Respite Workforce Initiative has supported caregivers of children and adults with long-term disabilities or medical needs, especially underserved families for…

RISE Wisconsin, Inc., The Respite Center

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Innovative and Exemplary (2020): The Respite Center at RISE was conceptualized over forty years ago, when concerned staff at a local child-care center began looking for ways to support families…

Ryan House

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Innovative and Exemplary (2020): Ryan House in Phoenix, Arizona, has been providing pediatric respite, life-enhancing therapeutic activities, and pediatric palliative and hospice care to help families navigate their children’s life…

Saint Louis Crisis Nursery

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Innovative and Exemplary (2024): The Saint Louis Crisis Nursery has provided trauma-responsive 24/7/365 emergency respite care services for children in the Greater St. Louis, Missouri region for nearly 40 years.…

Share the Care™

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Rising Star (2025): Share the Care™, located in Winter Park, Florida, has offered an array of respite, case management, and behavioral health services and supports to caregivers of adults 18-years…

SOAR 365 Respite

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Innovative (2020): SOAR365 provides an array of services for people birth to adulthood who have disabilities as well as respite for caregivers. Services include pediatric therapy, adult day programs, workforce…

Stepping Up Again, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

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Rising Star (2025) Stepping Up Again, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, located in Lawrence, Massachusetts, is a recent program within AgeSpan’s Family Caregiver Support Program. AgeSpan is a fifty-year-old agency serving older…