What is a Lifespan Respite Program?
A lifespan respite program provides a coordinated system of accessible, community-based respite care services for family caregivers of children and adults with special needs.
Lead Agency Eligibility
Funds would be provided on a competitive grant basis to designated state agencies appointed by the Governor. The state lead entity must involve an Aging and Disability Resource Center and work in collaboration with a public or private nonprofit statewide respite coalition or organization (memorandum of agreement required in application). Priority would be given to applicants who show the greatest likelihood of implementing or enhancing lifespan respite care statewide.
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Who Can Access Lifespan Respite Programs?
Caregivers who are family members, foster parents, or other adults providing unpaid (clarified in report language) care for an adult or child with a special need may access these programs. Adult with special need is defined broadly as a person 18 years of age or older who requires care or supervision to meet the person's basic needs, to prevent physical self-injury or injury to others, or to avoid placement in an institutional facility. A child with a special need is a person less than 18 years of age who requires care or supervision beyond that required of children generally to meet the child's basic needs or prevent physical self-injury or injury to others.
Application Submission
The Governor submits application on behalf of the State Agency that administers the Older American's Act, the State's Medicaid program, or another agency designated by the Governor.
Federal Administration
Secretary of Health and Human Services is required to work in cooperation with the National Family Caregiver Support Program Officer of the Administration on Aging and other respite care programs within the Department to ensure coordination of respite for family caregivers
Funding Authorization:
$30 million for FY 07, $40 million for FY 08, $53.3 million for FY 09, $71.1 million for FY 2010 and $94.8 for FY 2011
National Resource Center:
Establishes National Resource Center on Lifespan Respite Care
GAO Report:
A GAO report on Lifespan Respite Programs is required by 2011.
President Signs Lifespan Respite Care Act,Washington, DC (December 21, 2006)(Click here for a copy of PL 109-442)
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Since 2003, 43 states have received Aging and Disability Resource Center initiative grants. Click the link that follows to view a map that shows the states receiving ADRC awards in 2003, 2004 and 2005 as well as summaries of each state's proposed project. The ADRC projects provide a good opportunity for collaboration! http://www.adrc-tae.org/tiki-index.php?page=PublicHomePage
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The Mission of the National Respite Coalition
The Mission of the ARCH National Respite Coalition is to secure quality, accessible, planned and crisis respite services for all families and caregivers in need of such services in order to strengthen and stabilize families, and enhance child and adult safety.
The Coalition works to achieve these goals by preserving and promoting respite in policy and programs at the national, state, and local levels. For more information on NRC’s activities, write the National Respite Coalition at 4016 Oxford St., Annandale, VA, 22003, call Jill Kagan at (703) 256-9578, or e-mail her at
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When you join the National Respite Network you are automatically a member of the National Respite Coalition, the Policy Division of the ARCH National Respite Network, and can receive the latest updates on Congressional legislative activity important to respite and the families you serve, as well as information from the states about program implementation. The National Respite Network is a program of the Chapel Hill Training-Outreach Project.
Contact:
Jill Kagan, MPH
Chair, National Respite Coalition
National Respite Coalition
Policy Division of the ARCH National Respite Network
4016 Oxford St.
Annandale, VA 22003
703-256-2084
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