By calling 405-271-2710 or 1-877-441-0434 or emailing respite@ouhsc.edu (please indicate your county of residence in email), Sooner SUCCESS can help you find the respite option that best fits your needs.
What is Respite Care?
Respite service can provide a much-needed, temporary break from the often exhausting challenges faced by family caregivers. Respite vouchers let caregivers hire another person (respite provider) to temporarily care for their loved ones.
Respite care strengthens families, helps keep caregivers healthy, and forestalls the need for individuals requiring full-time care to move into state-financed institutions or expensive nursing home living.
Sooner SUCCESS staff can assist with finding resources and information about Respite programs.
To address a consistent need for Respite Care across the state, Sooner SUCCESS coordinates the Lifespan Respite Grant Voucher Program, funded by ACL AoA and operated by DHS Aging Services.
The Lifespan Respite Grant Voucher program may be able to help!
Respite vouchers let caregivers hire another person to temporarily care for their loved ones. The Lifespan Respite Grant Voucher program provides respite services for caregivers who do not qualify for other respite programs.
Lifespan Respite Grant Voucher Eligibility Guidelines
The Caregiver:
- Is 18 or older and is a full-time, unpaid caregiver; or,
- Is a grandparent or other relative age 54 or younger raising a child as a full-time parent; and,
- Does not receive respite services or payments from other programs including, but not limited to foster care, Family Support Assistance Payment, OAA Title III-E, or ODMHSAS Systems of Care funding.
- Has an annual household adjusted gross income limit of $125,000.
The Care Receiver is an Oklahoma resident:
- Age birth to 59 who needs help with activities of daily living (ADL) in order to stay at home in the community or who has neurological and organic brain dysfunction such as multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy or traumatic brain injury; and,
- Does not qualify for respite services or payments through any other program including, but not limited to, DHS Developmental Disability Services, SSI-DCP, OAA Title III-E, ADvantage waiver program, Medicare-funded home health services or hospice.
Where Can Respite Care Happen?
Respite care can be provided in the caregiver’s home, someone else’s home, a center-based program or care center, such as an adult day services center or nursing facility, as long as agreed to by the caregiver and respite care provider.
Who Can Be A Respite Care Provider?
- The respite care provider can be anyone the caregiver chooses such as a family member, friend, church member, center-based program or care center.
- The respite care provider must:
Be age 18 or older;
Have a social security number and social security card
Not live in the caregiver's home; and
How Does the Lifespan Respite Voucher Program Work?
- Caregivers contact may call 405-271-2710 to start the application process
- Eligible caregivers receive up to $300 worth of respite vouchers to be used within a 3-month period.
“One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.” ~ Jim Rohn
The Lifespan Respite Grant Voucher program is funded by the ACL AoA, monitored by DHS Aging Services and operated by OUHSC Sooner SUCCESS.