Illinois Medical Respite Capacity Building Initiative

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Funding Information

Up to ten awards will be made across two tracks of applicants:

1. 1. communities interested in developing new medical respite programs;
   2. existing medical respite providers interested in expanding services.

Please note that only one project will be funded in a single community or service area.

In cases where we receive more than one application from a community that is selected for funding, we may request that you partner with another applicant.

Funding Information continued

Selected applicants will receive up to $25,000 to support planning and design of new or expanded medical respite programs and are expected to participate in three learning collaborative meetings on medical respite led by the National Institute for Medical Respite Care (NIMRC). Technical assistance will also be provided by NIMRC.

With the funding and technical assistance support, selected applicants will be expected to:

• identify stakeholders and potential partners; 
• determine the need for and barriers to medical respite in their community; and 
• develop a plan to implement new medical respite services or scale existing medical respite capacity to address the need in their community.