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Respite Services for Resource Families
Respite care is for members of adoptive, foster, or kinship families who need a break from the demands of caring for children who may have special needs or challenging behavior. It is an important service for supporting families, particularly during reunification or postadoption, and can be helpful in preventing a child's reentry into foster care. In this section, find resources describing respite care and a database for locating respite care opportunities for families of children with special needs.
Taking a Break: Creating Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Respite in Your Community (PDF - 1940 KB)
North American Council on Adoptable Children, National Foster Parent Association, & the Collaboration to AdoptUsKids (2008)
Helps parent group leaders partner with public agencies to develop respite care programs in their communities and includes step-by-step guidelines and sample forms.
Strengthening Grandfamilies Through Respite Care (PDF - 317 KB)
Family Strengthening Policy Center (2007)
Reviews promising practices for using respite care as a family-strengthening strategy for grandparents raising grandchildren, and makes Federal, State, and local policy recommendations to advance the availability and accessibility of respite care.
Making Arrangements for Foster Care Respite (PDF - 403 KB)
Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parents Association (2011)
Reviews steps foster and adoptive parents can take when making plans for respite care.
The Respite and Recreation: An Innovative Recreation Service to Adopted Children With Special Needs (PDF - 167 KB)
Yang & Howard
Journal of Youth Development: Bridging Research and Practice, 1(3), 2007
Describes a program that collaborates with a university to provide recreation, respite, and professional support services for children with special needs and their adoptive parents.
Respite Care: Fact Sheet (PDF - 131 KB)
Generations United (2007)
Provides information on types of respite care, local strategies for providing respite care to relatives raising children, and model programs to replicate.
| Respite Care Services for Families Who Adopt Children with Special Needs: Synthesis of Demonstration Program Final Reports | |
| Series Title: | Grantee Lessons Learned |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 242KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2002 - 10 pages |
| This report synthesizes information from the final program and evaluation reports of 8 Adoption Opportunities discretionary grants programs written between 1994 and 1999. It summarizes project descriptions, lessons learned, accomplishments, and recommendations. An appendix includes project information for each of the 8 projects, including contact information, area served, target population, and evaluation activities. | |
Retaining Foster Parents Through Respite Care: A Program Evaluation of LiftedUp
Tabor
Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, 69(8-B), 2009
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Describes a faith-based program that provides monthly breaks to foster families and examines foster parents' satisfaction with the respite services they receive.
Therapeutic Respite: What? Where? How?
CRC Health Group (2006)
Describes the use of respite as a structured, therapeutic intervention for children, based on their diagnosis and treatment needs, which also provides a break for parents and foster parents.