In Home Respite
What is so Important about the In-Home Residential Respite Program?
Put yourself in the shoes of a parent with a child or adult child with a developmental disability.
At 2 years old it is difficult to find a daycare or a babysitter to come into your home because of the special needs.
At 6 years old you have to attend all types of special education meetings to get your child into school and you still don’t have a babysitter.
At 16 years old you still can’t leave them alone nor will they ever learn to drive themselves – you will have to take them everywhere they will need to go.
At 26 years old they are out of school, sitting in their room all day watching TV because they don’t have a job, or the skills to look for or keep a job. Oh yes, they still can’t be left alone.
At 36 years old you would love to have just one Saturday night a month to go on a date night with your spouse. Make the reservation for three ~ no one to babysit.
At 46 years old you are planning that 40th wedding anniversary cruise you never got to go on. All your other children have grown up, move out of the house and moved away. Who is going to stay in your house for a week and look after your child?
At 56 years old you are now 76 and trying to figure out who will look after your child when you are gone. A New Leaf’s In-Home Residential Respite Program is able to assist parent to find solutions. We are able to help parents find caring and capable people to work with their children meeting all their needs.
Through the In-Home program, services can be offered that make the difference between having an individual stay with their family or have to move into a group home situation. The added support the parents are able to receive through the respite program enable their child/adult child to live a fulfilling, quality life.
The In-Home supports allows staff to be of assistance in teaching and training daily living skills while promoting a more promising future of independence.
A New Leaf started an In-Home program in 2001 in direct response to parents in the Broken Arrow area requesting services. A New Leaf provides services to eligible children, ages 3 through 17, or eligible adults, 18 years or older. A New Leaf offers the In-Home HTS Program for the entire Green Country area.
For more information on the program contact our Client Services Director, Linda Laubaugh, at 918-451-1491