The Workshop For

Home-based Residential Care Providers to Finally

Obtain, Train, & Maintain

Quality Respite Relief


This workshop is for you if you desire:

  • A clear, repeatable respite system you can build once and use for years, including access to the recordings.

     

  • A structured vetting and interview framework that saves time and reduces risk.

     

     

     

  • Retention strategies and boundary frameworks to keep quality respite providers long term.

  • An ideal candidate profile and application template to attract aligned providers and filter out poor fits early.

     

  • A step-by-step onboarding and compliance roadmap so you feel confident navigating agency requirements.

     

  • A supportive peer network of shared living providers who truly get it, so you’re no longer building this in isolation, second-guessing yourself, or suffering silently. 

  • A proven sourcing strategy that helps you build a roster of quality respite, not just a single backup.

     

  • Training and trial respite guidelines that protect both you and your individual.

     

     

     

  • The confidence to use respite regularly, not just when you’re already burned out or in crisis.

Gain connection, shared wisdom, and collective problem-solving that strengthens your entire respite ecosystem.


Respite That’s Designed With Real Responsibility In Mind

(If you're new here)

A Host Home Provider (aka Shared Living Provider or Residential Care Provider) 

is someone who supports adult(s) with disabilities in their own home.
Respite is trusted, short-term relief support so providers can rest, travel, or recover from their lifestyle career.

Finally, a real resource built from lived experience, 

Obtain, Train, & Maintain Quality Respite

reflects the emotional and logistical realities of shared living care,

 

helping providers & primary caregivers walk away with clarity and confidence for who they trust, how they prepare to be away, and what standards they hold during their break,

 

reducing second-guessing, emotional strain, and the constant sense of vigilance that often accompanies time away.

 

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  • 4/23/26: Foundation & Framework

    In this lifestyle career, respite is not optional; it is preventative care. In this session, we reframe respite as an essential system, not an emergency measure. Participants will establish their ideal respite criteria, clarify expectations, create a compelling candidate & client profile, and establish the structural foundation needed to attract aligned providers instead of random, wrong-fit applicants.

  • 4/30/26: Sourcing & Vetting (Obtain)

    This tactical session focuses on where and how to find quality respite providers. Participants will learn effective sourcing strategies, how to build a small ecosystem instead of relying on one person, how to streamline vetting, and how to avoid wasting weeks on poor-fit candidates.

  • 5/7/26: On-boarding & Compliance (Train)

    We walk step-by-step through onboarding, agency authorization processes, background checks, training requirements, trial respite periods, and documentation best practices, so providers stop fumbling and guessing their way through compliance and start leading with clarity and confidence.

  • 5/14/26: Retention & Sustainability (Maintain)

    Finding respite is one thing; keeping them is strategy. This session focuses on communication, compensation conversations, boundaries, flexibility, backup layering, and relationship management to prevent last-minute collapse and create long-term reliability.


After completing Obtain, Train, & Maintain Quality Respite, Host Home Providers don’t just have more information,

 

they experience greater clarity, confidence, and autonomy around respite.

 

 

Providers often report feeling more grounded in their decision-making, better able to communicate expectations, and less burdened by the fear that stepping back will create more work, or more emotional fallout, later. 

 

Respite becomes something they can plan for and repeat, rather than something they avoid until exhaustion forces their hand.

 

 

 

At its core, this workshop supports providers in shifting from survival mode to stewardship,

so care can continue without costing them themselves.

Host Home Helpers are allies and advocates of Host Home Providers.