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Your membership will mean that:

• We will work to secure full funding annually for the Lifespan Respite Care Program, work with federal agencies to ensure successful state implementation, and to grow the program as need expands.
• Members receive timely legislative alerts and announcements of crucial private and public funding opportunities as well as periodic issues of the newsletter “Respite Policy Perspectives."
• We will continue to make available the publications and other products, such as respite start up manuals, funding guides, and coalition building materials developed by ARCH over the years. ARCH members receive a 10% discount when purchasing these products.
• We will continue to maintain the ARCH Respite Locator Service at no charge to users.
• We will assist states in implementing the Lifespan Respite Care Act, assist with state legislation, and help build and strengthen state respite coalitions.
• We will continue to give you a significant voice in Washington, DC, on critical respite and crisis care legislation, including CAPTA, Medicaid and the Older Americans Act.

Join Us!

Since 1991, ARCH has provided support to a national effort to make respite and crisis care available to all families caring for children with disabilities and chronic illness, and for families caring for the elderly and those at risk for abuse and neglect. Today, there are nearly 3,000 respite and crisis care providers listed on our Respite Locator Service, and more are signing up every day. But our Federal funding has come to an end. We are grateful to the US Congress and the Children's Bureau in the US Department of Health and Human Services for their consistent support of this program over the years, but now we must look to you for our continued support.

Become a Member Today!

Because the ARCH parent organization, The Chapel HIll Training-Outreach Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization, your contribution or membership donation in any amount is considered by the IRS to be tax deductible.

The ARCH National Respite Network is the only national support and advocacy organization dedicated solely to promoting the development of quality respite programs.

Public Policy. The National Respite Coalition helps states and local communities to understand policy, educate policy makers, and build strong advocacy coalitions. It provides information and teaching tools to respite advocates throughout the country. In the past year, the National Respite Coalition has convened a group of national and state organizations, the Lifespan Respite Task force, dedicated to the passage of federal lifespan respite legislation.

Evaluation. Both planned and crisis respite programs must be able to clearly and compellingly demonstrate that their efforts are achieving worthy outcomes—outcomes related to the improvement of quality of life, and outcomes related to saving tax-payer dollars on more costly interventions such as foster care, nursing homes, or other institutional care. During the past two years, respite programs across the United States have been field-testing tools for measuring program outcomes. The tools were developed by Dr. Ray Kirk of the University of North Carolina and are published in the ARCH guidebook, Evaluating and Reporting Outcomes: a Guide for Respite and Crisis Care Program Managers (1999). A second edition, revised by ARCH Evaluation Specialist Casandra Wade, was published in December, 2002