Provides family caregivers with information and education about the importance of regular time-off from caregiving, and helps link them to available community-based respite care resources. Financial assistance is also available to family caregivers of dementia patients in order to help them obtain respite care services.

Offers a variety of support services to residents and their families. Services may include case management, in-home training, and family assistance.

provides help to unpaid family caregivers by providing education, information, resources and support.

Offers respite grants of up to $500, for full-time, unpaid care partners to attend to their own emotional, psychological and physical well-being. Types of respite care funded by the grant can include but not limited to, in-home care services, adult day services, short-term overnight care at home or at a nursing facility.

Provides families of individuals who are developmentally disabled with special needs with supportive services that enable that family to continue to maintain the consumer in the home. Must be approved for the program by the Division of Developmental Disabilities.

Serves as a monthly cash allowance that allows seniors and people with disabilities who are NJ Family Care participants to choose and hire anyone they want for their Personal Care Assistant (PCA) services, including professionals, relatives, friends, and neighbors.

The Help at Home/Companion Program provides trained companions, or provides the family or individual with funds to hire their own companions.