Innovative Respite Service

Your program’s work with an underserved population, parents of infants recently released from Neonatal Intensive Care Units, during a time a time when they need global support is truly innovative in the respite field. Your respite services help caregivers feel competent and confident in their parenting despite experiencing a situation that initially makes them feel, in your words, “anxious, scared, isolated and overwhelmed.” Your program’s approach that tailors services to identified needs, and responds with flexibility to family emergencies by providing respite, is a strong example of person- and family-centered respite services, as is your willingness to extend the duration of services for families with children who are at high risk or have disabilities. We are grateful that your program elevates our awareness of this particularly vulnerable population and the need for respite to support them.

It is our hope that Nurturing Newborns will serve to inspire and inform the respite field and the public, and help to build and promote stronger respite opportunities for caregivers across our network and nation.

Thank you for your dedication in building an Innovative respite program, and for sharing your expertise with ARCH so that we may share it with others.

With regards,