Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Texas Lifespan Respite Care Program · About this organization
What you get
Short-term care at home or elsewhere so a family caregiver can take a break.
How to start
Fill in the local eligibility and respite-need assessment.
Good to know
- Other available respite programs generally need to be used first.
The details, as published
Texas Lifespan Respite provides short-term in-home or out-of-home respite through local ADRCs for eligible family caregivers of a person of any age with a severe chronic health condition or disability who needs help with an activity of daily living. It has no age or income limit, but generally fills gaps when another respite program is unavailable or exhausted; local capacity, hours, value, and application steps are not published statewide.
What help you may get
Peer And Emotional Support
Texas Lifespan Respite Care Program — peer and emotional support
Texas Lifespan Respite provides short-term in-home or out-of-home respite through local ADRCs for eligible family caregivers of a person of any age with a severe chronic health condition or disability who needs help with an activity of daily living. It has no age or income limit, but generally fills gaps when another respite program is unavailable or exhausted; local capacity, hours, value, and application steps are not published statewide.
Amount not published
Practical Items And Home Help
Texas Lifespan Respite Care Program — practical items and home help
Texas Lifespan Respite provides short-term in-home or out-of-home respite through local ADRCs for eligible family caregivers of a person of any age with a severe chronic health condition or disability who needs help with an activity of daily living. It has no age or income limit, but generally fills gaps when another respite program is unavailable or exhausted; local capacity, hours, value, and application steps are not published statewide.
Amount not published
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. A child with B-ALL may qualify only when the severe chronic-condition and activity-of-daily-living rules are met.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.
Where your child is treated
No treatment-location restriction is published.
How to get started
Does a social worker or care team need to start it? No. A required care-team start is not published; the family can use the available route below.
- Complete the local eligibility and respite-need assessment.
- Contact the local ADRC through 855-937-2372.
Ways to apply or ask
- Phone · Open form or page · 855-937-2372
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Call To Confirm |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
Limitations and things to confirm
- Cancer alone does not qualify; the severe-condition and ADL gate applies.
- Local funding, provider capacity, hours, value, form, and response time are not published.
- What local funding, hours, value, form, provider capacity, and response time apply?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Texas Lifespan Respite Care Program · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Texas Lifespan Respite Care Program · checked Aug 24, 2026