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Opportunities for Innovation: Home Care Worker Cooperatives

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We are in the midst of a labor force crisis in the supply of direct service workers. The home care industry experiences a 67% average annual turnover in workers. The…

Assistive Technology Programs and Lifespan Respite: AT Resources for Family Caregivers and Respite Care Providers

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The 56 State and Territory Assistive Technology (AT) programs provide a multitude of resources and activities that can help family caregivers and respite care providers maintain or improve the functional…

No Wrong Door and Lifespan Respite

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The Shared Vision of Connecting Individuals and Families to Services and Supporting Family Caregivers Accessing long-term services and supports (LTSS) at the community level for people with disabilities and older…

Using the Finance Project Sustainability Tools

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Learning Collaborative leaders from the Exemplar States* who participated in the  ARCH Sustainability TA Project shared their experiences in using the Finance Project Toolkit and provided an introduction to Logic…

Assuring Culturally Relevant Respite Services for the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Aging Population and their Family Caregivers

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This webinar provides an overview of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Aging population for Lifespan Respite grantees, their partners and other respite services providers. As the most diverse…

Sustaining Lifespan Respite and Strengthening Stakeholder Engagement

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How can we best sustain respite programs and services over time?  Lifespan Respite Grantees and their partners consistently rank “providing funding sustainability training and assistance” as a top priority. Without…

TimeBanking for Respite: An Innovative and Socially Just Approach to Supporting Family Caregivers

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This webinar provided the historical backdrop and philosophy behind TimeBanking and began a discussion of how TimeBanks can be applied to the offering of respite care to family caregivers. Incorporated…

Grandfamilies and Relative Caregivers: Meeting their Respite Needs

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The State of Grandfamilies in America: 2015 was recently released by Generations United, a national organization whose mission is “to improve the lives of children, youth, and older adults through…

Youth Caregivers-They need respite, too!

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It is hard to even begin to imagine that children, who are also students, are thrust into the complexities imposed by caregiving responsibilities!  They have no experience bank, and like…

Caregivers in the Workplace: National Data and Successful Strategies to Engage Employers in Respite and Caregiver Supports

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Developing an approach to engaging employers in respite and caregiving supports requires knowledge of the experiences of working caregivers as well as communication savvy to deliver the most effective message.…