Lifespan Respite grantees and their partners are reaching out to employers to provide information and discover how they can help support employed family caregivers with respite resources. This page provides some useful strategies/tools that states are using for these initiatives.
ARCH Recorded Webinar: Tools for Employer Engagement in Respite and Caregiver Support. Watch the webinar and access the Employed Caregiver Survey.
In this webinar, participants learned about the Employed Caregiver Survey developed and supported by the University of Wisconsin Division of Extension. The importance of understanding the impacts of caregiving on both employees and employers; the benefits of understanding and supporting caregiving employees; and the purpose of the Employed Caregiver Survey as a tool to understand and act on these needs were discussed. Additional information was shared on how to bring the Employed Caregiver Survey to your organization to use in engaging employers.
The webinar also shared information from the NE Lifespan Respite Network about their employer engagement efforts and the results of their initiative.
Lifespan Respite grantees, including New York, have made use of the Employed Caregiver Survey shared by Kristen Litzelman, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Human Ecology and Division of Extension during this webinar. If you would like more information about the survey, please feel free to contact her at Litzelman@wisc.edu.STATE TOOLS
Colorado
Facilitators: Meghan Baskett and Lynn Robinson, Easter Seals, CO and Peggy Spaulding, CO Lifespan Respite grantee
Massachusetts
New York