ARCH Resources

Alabama

• Respite Brochure for Faith Community
  
• Providing Breaks for Family Caregivers: A Toolkit for Volunteers and Faith Communities
  

Arkansas

• Volunteer Respite Provider Information
• Volunteer Respite Training Flyer and Registration Form

Hawaii

• TimeBanks Feasibility Study
  

New York

• Expanding a Volunteer Respite Workforce to Provide Support to Caregivers in New York State, Thomas V. Caprio, MD, MPH, University of Rochester Medical Center (Rochester, New York). Presentation at the ARCH Respite Research Summit, September 30, 2020.  PPT Slides and Video Recording.

North Carolina

• NC Lifespan Respite Project's Volunteer Respite Consortium
• Lifespan Respite: Information Guide for Developing, Recruiting, Training and Retaining Volunteers
  
• The Faith Community. Enhancing Caregiver Assistance and Respite
  

Ohio

• OH Lifespan Respite Volunteer Respite Expansion Mini-grants
  

Pennsylvania

• TakeFive: Funding, Training, Support -- For faith-based or community organizations to develop volunteer programs to offer occasional respite for families of children with special health care needs, including a disability or chronic illness. This project is no longer funded by Temple University, but contact MaryJo Caruso with the PA Respite Coalition for materials.
  

Rhode Island

• Video - Carebreaks - Using Nursing Studentst to Provide Respite
• Toolkit: Supporting Family Caregivers: Nursing Students as Respite Providers Toolkit
• Marketing Materials -- Sample Article and Flyer

South Carolina

• Breakroom How-to Guide
• Advancing the Breakroom in South Carolina’s Faith Communities. Presentation at the 2021 International Short Break Conference.
• Respite Brochure for Faith Community
  
• Spectrum of Respite Options for Faith Community
• Respite Benevolence Policy for faith communities

ARCH Resources on Faith-based and Volunteer Respite

ARCH Resource List

ARCH Volunteer and Faith-based Learning Collaborative

Volunteer Respite Manual: Creating Valuable Options for Family Caregivers (updated 2020), click here.

Webinars and Resources: 

Fact Sheet:  Respite in the Faith Community, click here.