Family Respite Care
Population Served:
Ages: 3 months up to 22 years old.
Children and young adults with developmental and physical disabilities, including: autism, children with mental and behavioral challenges, children in foster or adoptive care, and their typically developing siblings who reside in the home.
Mission Statement:
Providing respite to families caring for young and adult children with special needs. “RAVE” itself is an acronym for Respite And Volunteer Experiences. Not only do our programs provide highly-needed breaks for caregivers from the extra care their children require, but our center and community based programs create a space for children to just be kids in a safe, fun, and social environment.
Offerings:
We give the "Gift of Time"!!! RAVE provides an essential moment of reprieve for families in our region caring for a young or adult child with special needs. This reprieve, referred to as “respite care". During sessions we prepare lots of fun activities for the kids to do. We could provide resources for families if needed. We have social work interns on site who help us gather any resources!
Respite is provided at their facility, and on community outings for each of these groups:
(1) RAVE Family Center, (2) Jr. RAVE and (3) Teen RAVE.
Participate:
First step is filling out a Family Interest Form. https://nnrff.org/contact/
Then a Family Specialist will get in contact with the families to schedule an enrollment tour. During our tour we will fill out paperwork and registration. Families that are interested can call or email us at familycoordinator@nnrff.org to get our interest form and further information.
For events:
Sign up with our sign-up software or call the contact number.
Notes and Tips:
Services are free.
We are also looking for volunteers that are interested or are looking to do their hours here with us. We accept youth volunteers starting 6th - 12th grade and college volunteers as well. If they are interested in volunteering with us they could send an email to coordinator@nnrff.org for more information.
Get Involved:
Contact:
775-787-3520
kviehweg@nnrff.org
775-356-8357
MAILING ADDRESS:
PO BOX 2072
SPARKS, NV 89432
Physical Address:
555 Reactor Way, Reno, NV 89502, USA
