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Collaborative for Children
3800 Buffalo Speedway Suite 300
Houston, TX 77098
713-600-1100
800-245-1255
Memorial Hermann
Respite House
6411 Fannin
Houston, TX 77030
Marilyn Jansen 713-704-2394
Hospital-based
program providing short-term respite care for families with children
who are clinically stable but require constant nursing care
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Offered on a weekend
basis, one four-day weekend a month, weekly during school breaks,
and one week each month during summer months
Parents’ Night Out
Program
Houston Area Respite Center
6856 Bellaire Blvd
Houston, TX 77074
713-271-6001
E-mail: harcgen@juno.com
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Respite for children
with special needs, ages 3-21, siblings included
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Friday evenings,
6:30-10:30
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Requires
pre-registration, $10.00 fee, partial scholarships
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Includes games,
crafts, movies, music
Special Kids’
Night Out
Lake Houston YMCA
2420 West Lake Houston Parkway
Kingwood, TX 77339
281-360-2500
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Includes games,
crafts, movies, music
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For children with
disabilities, ages 5 and older, siblings included
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Saturdays,
6:30-10:00, one Saturday a month
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Pre-registration
requested.
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$8 member,
$12-non-member, $2 sibling
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Each child is paired
with a volunteer buddy and participates in arts & crafts, dancing,
gym games, etc.
The
Arc of Greater Houston – Saturday Fun Day
3737 Dacoma Street, Suite E
Houston, TX 77092
Karen Lin and Bethanne Arafat: 713-957-1600
Membership not
required for service, however services are more expensive without
membership.
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Out-of-home program
for individuals, ages 4 to 25, with a diagnosis of mental
retardation and or autism and other autistic spectrum disorders
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Provides games, sports, computer learning,
songs and other recreational activities
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Community-wide field trips
- Central Houston (ages 4-14) – Two
Saturdays/month, 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
- Cy-Fair (ages 8-18) – Two
Saturdays/month, 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
- Kingwood (ages 15-25) – One
Saturday/month, 10:00 – 4 p.m.
The Open Door
Sugar Creek Baptist Church
13333 Southwest Freeway, Suite 200
Sugarland, TX 77478
Barbara Waldhuber: 281-274-7431
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Respite services for
children with special needs, ages 4-14.
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Break-Out
– Parent Night Out on the third Friday every month. Slot must be
reserved. $5 fee, siblings free. During the summer there is free a
vacation bible school especially for children with special needs.
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A Day to
Remember – A day camp every Thursday from 9 am to 2 pm; $15
fee for the day.
UCP of Greater Houston, Inc.
4500 Bissonnet, Suite 340
Bellaire, TX 77401
713-838-9050 ext. 332
Shannon Tipton: Respite services for children under 3y/o
Sylvia Smith: Respite services for children 3y/o and older
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Provides a wide
variety of respite care services for children and adults with
cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities.
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In-Home
- Providers who are selected by the parents care for the child in
the home. A Parent Voucher program allows parents to use independent
providers of their own choosing, someone they know and trust to be
with their child.
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Family Day Out
- Provides a Saturday program of supervised fun activities for
children and their siblings to allow parents a total day of rest.
Staffed by a nurse and a center director. Two Saturdays each month
in three outreach locations. Sliding fee.
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Respitality
Min-Vacations - Provides free overnight accommodations at
hotels in the Houston area.
UCP Montgomery
County Respite Program
731 W. Davis
Conroe, TX 77301
Rebecca Snyder: 936-441-0789 ext. 472
Toll free: 888-825-9682 ext. 472
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In-Home
- Respite service in the family's home by paid caregivers chosen by
the family to care for child with special needs. Vouchers reimburse
the family to subsidize the cost of respite.
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Family Day Out
- Respite in a center-based setting held on monthly Saturdays.
Siblings are welcome. Age: 3-15 Hours: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
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Family-Support/Counseling - Professional Counselor available
to help families to resolve family/personal issue during times of
crisis/stress.
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Respitality
Mini-Vacations - Overnight hotel stays donated by local
hotels giving parents a 24-hour respite break.
Funding sources for respite services
Community Living Assistance and Support Services (CLASS)
Wait List: 877-438-5658
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A Medicaid waiver
program that provides home and community services to individuals of
all ages, including respite for individuals with disabilities other
than the primary diagnosis of mental retardation
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Wait list: 10 years;
program is not state-wide
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Eligibility: Must
have Medicaid or be SSI eligible, must be disabled prior to age 22
and demonstrate need for on-going habilitative services and case
management.
Home and Community-Based Services Program (HCS)
Main Intake (Harris County): 713-970-7070
Automated line; leave name and # and a representative will call you
back: 713-970-7799
Gulf Coast Center
(Galveston and Brazoria Counties) – MR Division 1-888-839-7512
Texana MHMRA (Ft. Bend County) – 281-342-0090
Tri-County MHMRA (Montgomery County) – 936-756-8331
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A Medicaid waiver
program that helps individuals with mental retardation and related
diagnoses return to or remain in their family homes in the community
by providing individualized services including respite, nursing,
adaptive aides, day habilitation, therapy, and more.
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Wait list: 8-10 years
In-Home and Family
Support (IHFS)
Program funded by grants annually with a cap of $1200 per year per
child
Mental Health
and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County (MHMRA)
Janice Baines, Program Director: 713-970-3985
713-970-7229
713-970-7799 – Recorded message to leave name and phone # for
wait list/application
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Provides financial
assistance to children with diagnoses of mental retardation, autism,
or Down Syndrome and children under age 4 with physical
disabilities, with or without developmental delay
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After age 4
A Medicaid
waiver program is based only on the child’s income and the child’s
disability must meet SSI disability criteria.
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