The Administration for Community Living (ACL) supports the needs of the aging and disability populations, and improves access health care and long-term services.
This grant program aims to advance the provision of respite services across all age groups, disabilities, and chronic conditions through state Lifespan Respite Care systems. It focuses on enhancing state systems and capacities for delivering respite care and related services to family caregivers of children and adults. The broad goals include building collaborations and partnerships, expanding volunteer options, ensuring respite provider training, identifying and addressing service gaps, and targeting underserved populations. The grant encourages applications that incorporate strategies for enhancing State Lifespan Respite Systems of care, aligning with the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers. Approximately fifteen cooperative agreements will be funded over a 4-year project period, with an emphasis on implementing data collection and reporting as required by the Lifespan Respite Reauthorization Act of 2020.