Take Time For Yourself

Need a break from caregiving? Below are some organizations that offer respite care:

 

Easter Seals
230 West Monroe Street, Suite 1800
Chicago, IL 60606
800-221-6827
Web site: www.easter-seals.org

Easter Seals provides a variety of services at 400 sites nationwide for children and adults with disabilities, including adult day care, in-home care, camps for special needs children and more. Services vary by site.

Faith in Action
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem, NC 27157
877-324-8411
Web site: www.fiavolunteers.org
e-mail: info@fiavolunteers.org

Faith in Action is an interfaith volunteer caregiving program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Faith in Action makes grants to local groups representing many faiths who volunteer to work together to care for their neighbors who have long-term health needs. There are nearly 1,000 interfaith volunteer caregiving programs across the country.

Family Friends
National Council on the Aging, Inc.
409 Third Street, SW
Washington, DC 20024
202-479-6672
Web site: www.family-friends.org

This group provides respite (and other services) by matching men and women volunteers over the age of 50 with families of children who have disabilities or chronic illness. Programs are located throughout the country.

National Adult Day Services Association, Inc.
8201 Greensboro Drive, Suite 300
McLean, VA 22102
866-890-7357
Web site: www.nadsa.org

This association provides information about locating adult day care centers in your local area.

National Respite Coalition
4016 Oxford Street
Annandale, VA 22003
703-256-9578
Web site: www.archrespite.org/NRC.htm

NRC provides a list of states that have respite coalitions. These state coalitions then list respite services available in their state. The majority of the information is focused on helping families of children with special needs, but lately there has been an effort to enlarge their referral base to include lifespan respite information. The NRC is working to gain passage of national lifespan respite legislation.

National Respite Locator Service
800 Eastowne Drive, Suite 105
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
800-473-1727, ext. 222
Web site: http://www.respitelocator.org/index.htm

Access a list of sites nationwide. While the vast majority focus on respite care for families of special needs children, the service now assists programs that provide respite for caregivers of adults and the elderly.

Shepherd’s Centers of America
One West Armour Boulevard, Suite 201
Kansas City, MO 64111
800-547-7073
Web site: www.shepherdcenters.org
e-mail: staff@shepherdcenters.org

The organization provides respite care, telephone visitors, in-home visitors, nursing home visitors, home health aides, support groups, adult day care, and information and referrals for accessing other services available in the community. Services vary by center.

 

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