ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center

ARCH is pleased to share new resources for leaders in the respite field looking to build respite capacity, improve quality, ensure sustainability, and ease access to respite care services for family caregivers in their states and communities. www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=10...

06.08.2025 16:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The MI Dept. of Health and Human Services ensures that foster parents have respite care through 5 contracted agencies in the state, and helps recruit new respite providers. Does your state offer respite for youth in the foster care system? Read more. www.michigan.gov/.../adu.../f...

23.07.2025 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This featured article highlights a recent NASEM workshop on family caregiving in D.C. Respite care was prominently featured and presented by Dr. Kim Whitmore, ARCH, on a panel taking a Deep Dive on Caregiving Policies, Programs, and Financing. www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/07...

02.07.2025 20:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New important resources and reports from state and national organizations were released in June in the respite and caregiving space. Catch up with the July edition of ARCH Quick News Update!

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02.07.2025 20:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Despite political divisions, U.S. adults across parties back affordable care, support for caregivers | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Four in five U.S. adults support making long-term care more affordable, with 79% backing reduced facility costs and 75% endorsing expanded home-based services.

The country may be politically divided, but according to a new study, four in five U.S. adults support making long-term care more affordable, with 79% backing reduced facility costs and 75% endorsing expanded home-based services. publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/despite...

13.06.2025 19:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cuts with Consequences Cutting Medicaid puts infants, toddlers, and young children at risk.

"We love our daughter with an extra chromosome."

🚨 Here, this new fact sheet details exactly how the proposed cuts to #Medicaid put children with disabilities at risk—and why parents like Jeralyn from Utah are deeply concerned for the future of the services they depend on to care for their child.

13.06.2025 16:53 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Supporting Family Caregiving: How Employers Can Lead | Milken Institute More than 53 million people provide unpaid care for loved ones, with 61 percent also holding paid jobs. Family caregiving impacts financial stability, career pr

This report on how employers can support working caregivers includes a recommendation that employers offer stipends or vouchers to help offset the costs for respite or in-home care. milkeninstitute.org/content-hub/...

11.06.2025 19:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

America’s Untold Career Exodus: University of Phoenix Career Institute® and Motherly Find 1:2 ‘Sandwich Generation’ Moms Have Had to Leave a Job to Keep Up with Caregiving Today, University of Phoenix Career Institute® and Motherly released the latest installment in The Career Optimism Special Report™ Series: Moms in the Sandwi...

✔️ 51% of moms in the sandwich generation, those simultaneously supporting both children and adult dependents, have left a job due to caregiving responsibilities.

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11.06.2025 15:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

children and adults with disabilities, and older adults with their caregivers smiling, reading, playing or walking

June's ARCH Quick News Update is out! Read the latest from State Lifespan Respite grantees and partners, caregiving resources from federal agencies, new reports and resources from national organizations, upcoming webinars and events, and much more.
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03.06.2025 00:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0