Weekend Recreation & Respite

Registration:

Registration: NOW OPEN!

If you need support completing this application, please call our central office at 902-446-4995 and one of our team members would be happy to support you over the phone.

Audience:

This program is cross-disability. It is intended for participants to come and have fun with peers on the weekend. It also gives their parents, guardians, and/or caregivers an opportunity to have some time on the weekend for themselves while their loved one is doing what they also love.

The program is specifically for families who are unable to or not currently accessing provincial respite funding and/or support for whatever reason. Weekend Recreation and Respite is intended to be a short-term bridge program. The long term goal is to have families connected with long-term respite.

Please connect with our Respite Support Coordinator, Breanna Miles, at bmiles@autismns.ca to start the application process for respite.

Note: Yearly eligibility reassessment will be conducted to ensure that our target audience is being reached.

Sessions:

We understand that location can be a significant barrier for families accessing programming. In order to reduce that barrier we have made some changes.

Weekend Recreation and Respite (R&R) will now be a rotating program. This means when you apply,  you will indicate which HRM community you reside. Anytime we host the program in that community, you will have the opportunity to RSVP. This is intended to gives families who may not have capacity to travel outside of their direct community, access to programming.

Registration Cost:

$10/participant

This small program fee supports us in providing the program in community spaces and offering a variety of fun activities/outings during our sessions.