CARING TEENS WANTED!
CARING TEENS is a quality respite care training program especially designed for students aged 13 -19.
Upon completion of the course you may enter the Caring Network, a National Respite Care Registry that is available to families. Agencies can also access this registry to provide you with other opportunities in the disabilities field.
Caring Teens Course Promo Video
The FIRST and ONLY respite care training for teenagers in the nation.
Learn how to care for children with disabilities and provide respite care. CARING TEENS is a program that prepares teens to offer first-rate care for children who have mild to moderate disabilities and/or enter the field of special education some day. Caring for a child with special needs can be a 24-hour-a-day job, with limited downtime to take care of family matters, catch a movie or just relax on the sofa. Parents of children with disabilities desperately need a break to rest, relieve stress and get re-energized. Respite care for a child with disabilities is something that every parent asks for, but few ever get.
Unlike families of typical children, who can hire a neighborhood teenager to baby-sit when they need a night out, respite care requires someone with training and confidence to tend to the child’s needs.
Training Topics
• Role and responsibility of the Respite Care Provider
• Disability information and awareness
• Communication issues
• Behavior management
• Safety
• Seizures
• Assistive/adaptive equipment
• and much much more!
" I loved the course and now I feel more comfortable babysitting kids with disabilities now" Dover DE Student
" I learned so much! I am going to use the Respite Care Certificate to get into a better college". HS Student from Washington County, MD
"I am going to tell all my friends. I loved learning about seizure, autism and the disability exercises". 9th grader from Chantilly, VA
Caring Teens Certificate
A personalized gold embossed certificate will be mailed to you to proudly showing that you have completed the Caring Teens Course and are now ready to serve families of children with disabilities by providing respite care for them.
Example Curriculum
- READ ME FIRST
- About Our Family Booklet
- ADHD FACT SHEET
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Cerebral Palsy
- Deaf:Blindness
- Deafness and Hearing Loss
- Developmental Delay
- Down Syndrome
- Epilepsy
- Seizure First Aid
- Learning Disabilities
- Mental Health Issues
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Multiple Disabilities
- Intellectual Disability
- Sign Language
- Spina Bifida
- Speech and Language Impairments
- Visual Impairment