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Respite & Crisis Services for Families at Risk of Abuse & Neglect

Promising practices, Federal legislation, national respite guidelines for State and local communities, factsheets on respite and family support, and community-based grants.

	Promising Practices in Respite Care (PDF - 197 KB) Jivanjee (2005) Presentation from the 2005 Winter System of Care Community Meeting in Dallas; discusses a study that examined promising practices in respite care for families of children with serious emotional disorders.

Access to Respite Care and Help: A National Network of Crisis Nursery and Respite Care Grantees
Chapel Hill Training-Outreach Project (1991)
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Materials on respite care and help, including topics such as risk management to mitigate liability losses and guidelines for the operation of local interagency councils for preschool programs for children with disabilities.

Benefits of Planned and Crisis Respite Care
FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Programs (2004)
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Results of a survey of respite service recipients to determine the effectiveness of crisis and planned respite care.

Caring After Care
Child Welfare League of America
Children's Voice, 4(3), 1995
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Describes model aftercare programs.

Crisis Nursery and Respite Care Programs: Results of Annual Program Survey for Services Provided in 1993
Huntington & Langmyer (1994)
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Describes the differences between respite care and crisis nursery programs.

Factsheets on Respite and Family Support
ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center & Chapel Hill Training-Outreach Project (2003)
Links to 56 factsheets on respite care.

National Respite Guidelines: Respite Services for Families of Children With Disabilities, Chronic and Terminal Illnesses, and Children at Risk of Abuse or Neglect
Edgar & Uhl (1994)
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Guidelines for State and local communities to use in developing quality respite services to meet the needs of families with children with disabilities or who are at risk of abuse or neglect.

National Respite Locator Service
Database of respite services for those looking for childcare for children with special needs.

Planned and Crisis Respite for Families With Children: Results of a Collaborative Study (PDF - 282 KB)
Child Welfare League of America (2002)
Study of respite care services that identifies best practices in the field.

Respite Care: An Overview of Federal, Selected State, and Private Programs
U.S. General Accounting Office (1990)
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Focuses on a study that investigated the availability and use of respite care services that provide temporary relief to family members or other caretakers of children who may be at risk of abuse or neglect.

Respite in Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CBCAP) (PDF - 78 KB)
FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Programs (2004)
Factsheet about respite care funded through the Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.

Understanding the Temporary Child Care Act
Cernoch, Kagan, & Smith (1994)
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Background information about the Temporary Child Care for Children with Disabilities and Crisis Nurseries Act of 1986 (as amended).

Updated on July 3, 2008