Respite Services
Respite Services
Respite Services is a unique short-term, home-based program offered to clients and their families of the Children’s Treatment Centre of Chatham-Kent (CTC-CK) with complex developmental needs. The program provides assistance to families whose respite needs exceed the family’s available community supports.
Who We are:
Respite Workers are required to have completed post-secondary education and have experience working with children/ youth with complex developmental needs.
What We Provide:
Respite services may provide:
- Qualified matches between the respite worker and the family to meet the family’s respite needs.
- Meaningful, fun activities both in the home and in the community for the child.
- An opportunity for parents/ caregivers to experience caregiver relief while their child is being care for by qualified professionals.
- Parents/ caregivers are welcome to:
- Spend time taking care of their own personal needs
- Visit friends
- Spend quality time with their other children
- Spend time with significant other
- Parents/ caregivers are welcome to:
How to Refer:
To be eligible for respite services, the child/ youth must:
- Be between the ages of 0-18 years of age.
- Have a diagnosis or suspected diagnosis of developmental delay.
- Reside at home.
- Be a client of the CTC-CK.
- Have no other community respite services in place or have extraordinary respite needs deeming them eligible for services.
Respite Services are only available to children / youth who are active clients on the CTC-CK caseload and meet eligibility requirements. Unfortunately, children and youth in foster care or ward of CAS are ineligible for respite funding through this program.
Please speak with your child/ youth’s therapy team if you are interested in being referred or contact the Centre, 519-354-0520