ARCH wishes you a happy, peaceful, & healthy new year, filled with joy and many moments of restorative respite! Please consider making a year-end donation to support ARCH and our collective work to strengthen respite services and support family caregivers in 2026! To donate-visit icont.ac/51bTn

Celebrate, honor, & support family caregivers this National Family Caregivers Month. Share respite resources that help caregivers understand, find, pay for, choose, and plan for respite. Find your State Lifespan Respite Grantee or Coalition for local resources.

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Reach out a hand to Veterans and their Family Caregivers on Veteran's Day and everyday. Share Respite Resources from the ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center.

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ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center is pleased to announce 5 respite services from across the country were renewed for an additional three years of recognition as Innovative and Exemplary Respite Services.
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Happy National Family Caregivers Month! ARCH Quick News is chock full of new resources you can use to celebrate family caregivers and amplify their voices.

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ARCH is pleased to share Webinar Series on Sustaining Respite recordings. This 3-part series was designed to educate, inspire, and support sustainability planning activities by Lifespan Respite grantees, partners, providers and the respite community.

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Is there a Medicare GUIDE Model near you? If so, there's respite support.

CMS provides comprehensive care for people with dementia and their caregivers through GUIDE (Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience) that pays $2,500 a year per Medicare beneficiary for respite. www.cms.gov/priorities/i...

Reimagining Support for Family Caregivers and Their Loved Ones medschool.duke.edu/news/reimagi...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

"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.

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/...

✔️ 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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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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