Give Me a Break!
This short break from caring from a loved one can help reduce stress, burnout, and mental health crises.
What is respite?
A person who provides full-time care for an individual with a chronic illness or disability.
Who is a caregiver?
This agency administers matching state funds that make ALR eligible for federal respite grants.
What is the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services (ADRS)?
She processes Universal and DMH reimbursement, emergency respite, education stipends, assists caregivers with enrollment, shares resources, and so much more!
Who is Elena?
Provides free mental health counseling to caregivers.
What is the Caregiver Wellness Initiative (CWI)?
This term, used to describe the period of time from birth to end of life, explains what age groups are eligible to receive respite.
What is the lifespan?
A person with a chronic illness or disability who requires full-time care.
Who is a care recipient?
This agency awards federal lifespan respite grant funds.
She processes personal-choice option respite reimbursement for more than 900 caregivers and 13 Alabama Cares agencies statewide, and so much more!
Who is Carolyn?
Provides 8 hours of free online respite provider training to 25 participants per month.
What is CareAcademy?
Caregivers in all 67 counties of Alabama, or this, are eligible to receive respite.
What is statewide?
A person hired by a caregiver to provide a short break from caregiving responsibilities.
Who is a respite provider?
This state agency administers ACL federal lifespan respite funds and provides grant oversight to ALR.
What is the Alabama Department of Senior Services?
She creates the monthly ALR newsletter, manages social media and online calendars, manages CWI, and hosts Caregiver Education, Lunch & Learns, Respite Clinics, exhibit booths, and so much more!
Who is Carley?
This quarterly meeting connects caregivers with state and local agencies to share resources and identify gaps in caregiver services.
What is CARE (Caregiver and Agency Resource Exchange)?
This official document is required to determine eligibility for respite.
What is a proof of diagnosis?
This document is used by a caregiver to record when respite was taken.
What is a timesheet?
This state agency is ALR's first and longest-running respite funding partner.
What is the Alabama Department of Mental Health?
She is ALR's South Alabama Training Specialist for Caregiver Education, and so much more!
Who is Vonda?
A presentation about ALR services for a specific audience, like a business or church, to bring caregiver awareness to the community.
What is a Lunch & Learn?
This process is used to award respite funding to caregivers.
What is reimbursement?
When a caregiver has the freedom to choose how and when they receive respite.
What is personal-choice option?
Collectively, these 13 statewide partners contract with ALR to administer personal-choice option respite reimbursement for their caregivers.
What is Alabama Cares?
She oversees ALR activities, program development, grant management, legislative communication, Coalition activities, and works with the best ladies in the world!
Who is Tracy?
Opportunities offered online and onsite statewide to inform and support caregivers about self-care, mental health, natural supports, and more.
What is Caregiver Education?