The purpose of the Respite Care Program is to provide short-term, periodic and temporary care for individuals with developmental or functional disabilities in or out of their homes by qualified care workers in order to relieve the family or informal caregiver. This temporary care of the adult or child with a developmental or functional disability provides a period of rest and renewal for the family while contributing to maintaining the individual in the community, enabling the individual to live in a family or family-like environment, or assisting the individual in achieving a greater level of independence. Respite care is provided at planned intervals, in a time of crisis, or on an as-needed basis. This is not an entitlement program.

Authority: Human Services Article, Title 7, Subtitle 2, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: May 6, 1985 (12:9 Md. R. 809)

Regulation .01 amended effective November 13, 1989 (16:22 Md. R. 2363)

Regulation .02 amended effective November 13, 1989 (16:22 Md. R. 2363)

Regulation .03 amended effective November 13, 1989 (16:22 Md. R. 2363)

Regulation .04 amended effective November 13, 1989 (16:22 Md. R. 2363)

Regulation .05C amended effective November 13, 1989 (16:22 Md. R. 2363)

Regulation .06A, C amended effective November 13, 1989 (16:22 Md. R. 2363)

Regulation .07D amended effective November 13, 1989 (16:22 Md. R. 2363)

Regulation .09A amended effective November 13, 1989 (16:22 Md. R. 2363)

Regulation .11A amended effective November 13, 1989 (16:22 Md. R. 2363)

Regulation .12 amended effective November 13, 1989 (16:22 Md. R. 2363)

Regulation .14C amended effective November 13, 1989 (16:22 Md. R. 2363)

Regulation .15 amended effective March 7, 1988 (15:5 Md. R. 616)

Recodified from COMAR 07.02.06 to COMAR 07.06.11, December, 1992

Regulations .01—.15 repealed and new Regulations .01—.14 adopted effective December 24, 2001 (28:25 Md. R. 2189)

Chapter recodified from COMAR 07.06.11 to COMAR 07.02.18, effective June, 2009

Chapter revised effective April 10, 2017 (44:7 Md. R. 353)