
Collaborative for
Children
3800 Buffalo Speedway Suite 300
Houston TX 77098
713-600-1100
800-245-1255
www.collabforchildren.org
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Zip code based
referral service for respite childcare and parenting programs.
Parents’ Night Out Program
Houston
Area
Respite
Center
6856 Bellaire Blvd
Houston,Texas 77074
713-271-6001
www.harc-hou.org
harc@harc-hou.org.
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Requires
pre-registration, $10.00 fee, partial scholarships
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Includes
games, crafts, movies, music
Special Friends Night Out!
Lake Houston YMCA
2420 West Lake Houston Parkway
Kingwood, Texas 77339
281-360-2500
(The) ARC of Greater
Houston
3737 Dacoma Street, Suite E
Houston, TX 77092
Karen Lin and Bethanne Arafat 713-957-1600
www.thearcofgreaterhouston.com
Membership not required for service, however
services are more expensive without membership.
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Saturday
Fun Day
-An 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
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Central
Houston (ages 4-14) - 2 Saturdays/month from 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
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Cy-Fair (ages
8-18 ) - 2 Saturdays/month from 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
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Kingwood (ages
15-25) -one Saturday/month from 10:00 - 4:00 pm
The Open Door
Sugar Creek Baptist Church
13333 Southwest Freeway, Suite 200
Sugarland TX 77478
Barbara Waldhuber 281-274-7431
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Provides
respite services to children with special needs, ages 4-14.
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Break-Out -
Parent Night Out on the third Friday every month, need to reserve slot. There
is a $5 fee and siblings are free. During the summer there is a vacation bible
school especially for children with special needs, with no fee.
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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
www.ucphouston.org
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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
www.ucphouston.org
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In-Home
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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.

“Desperate
for Respite”
Presented by The
JOY
Ministry @ Graceview Baptist Church, 25510 Tomball Pkwy, Tomball, TX
77375. “Desperate for Respite” is a pilot program providing respite
opportunities for families caring for children and young adults with
special needs. Available 3 days each week throughout the summer season for
caregivers to schedule respite for their special needs child/young adult
along with their siblings. Each respite will be 5 hours and include fun
and educational activities, snacks, drinks and one-on-one care. Fee is $40
per respite and $20 for each additional child/young adult, or $10 per hour
for the first child and $5 per hour for each additional child/young adult.
Please contact Tonya Magagh at
respite4all@yahoo.com
or
281-203-7280 to register or for additional information. Ask about the use
of CLASS funding or available scholarships.
FUNDING SOURCES FOR RESPITE
SERVICES
Community Living Assistance and Support Services (CLASS)
Wait List: 877-438-5658
www.dads.state.tx.us/services/communitycare/class.html
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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
www.dads.state.tx.us/services/dads_help/mental_retardation/HCS
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
Program funded by grants
annually with a cap of $1200 per year per child. Two providers through In-Home
and Family Support:
Department of Human Services (DHS)
Carmen
Marshall 713-803-1802
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Provides
financial assistance to children who are over 4 years of age with documented
permanent physical disability.
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Income
criteria applies. Wait list is 3 ˝ - 4 years.
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,
if child does not have mental retardation diagnosis, call MHMRA to make sure
name and original application has been turned over to DHS.
MDCP
(Medically Dependent Children's Program)
Wait list: 1-877-438-5658
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A Medicaid
Waiver Program for children under 21y/o, long waiting list.
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Child must
meet the medical criteria for admission to nursing home.
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Respite care
is one of the services provided by MDCP.
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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