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A Respite Network the Legislature Built — Six Regions, One Phone Number

A caregiver looking after a family member with a disability or chronic condition can get a paid break through a statewide respite network created by the legislature in 1999. Six service areas each have a named coordinator, and one number reaches all of them. Veteran caregiver support is one of the funding streams the network will help you assemble alongside its own subsidy.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

A caregiver looking after a family member with a disability or chronic condition can get a paid break through a statewide respite network created by the legislature in 1999. Six service areas each have a named coordinator, and one number reaches all of them. Veteran caregiver support is one of the funding streams the network will help you assemble alongside its own subsidy.

What it's worth: Coordinated respite — a paid break from caregiving, arranged through a regional coordinator

  • The network states that in 1999 the legislature established the state lifespan respite programme by LB 148.
  • Based on that legislation the health and human services department established six lifespan respite service areas to coordinate respite resources across the state.
  • The six regions are named as Central, Eastern, Northern, Southwest, Western and Southeast, each with a named respite coordinator and a direct telephone number.
  • The statewide number is 1-866-RESPITE (1-866-737-7483).
  • The network states that respite provides relief for the family caregiver, whether for a few hours, a few days or a week.
  • The network operates a provider search against the state resource and referral database, filtered by the type of respite needed — in home, out of home, or a community-based setting.
  • Providers screened by the network are marked with an icon and have completed background checks, provided references and completed a new provider orientation.
  • A self-assessment tool, Respite Provider Match, connects a caregiver with providers based on needs and location.
  • The network lists funding routes for respite that include its own subsidy programme, private pay, subsidised adoption, older Americans act funding, a federal air force exceptional family member programme, and veterans caregiver support.
  • The network advises that a caregiver’s first call should be to a regional respite coordinator.

Who is entitled to it

  • Your home is in this state.

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How to claim it

  1. 1Call the statewide number, 1-866-737-7483, or the coordinator for your region directly. The network is organised around six coordinators, and reaching the right one is the whole of the first step.
  2. 2Say plainly that the person you care for is a veteran. Veterans caregiver support is one of the funding routes the network lists, and the coordinator’s job is to assemble funding across routes rather than to push you toward one.
  3. 3Ask about the subsidy programme by name. The network distinguishes its own subsidy from private pay and from the other funding routes, and a caregiver who asks only "is there help" often hears about the directory rather than the money.
  4. 4Use the provider search rather than a general web search. It runs against the state resource and referral database and lets you filter by in-home, out-of-home or community-based respite.
  5. 5Look for the screened-provider icon. Those providers have completed background checks, supplied references and been through a new provider orientation — the unmarked ones have not.
  6. 6Try the Respite Provider Match self-assessment if you are unsure what kind of respite you need. It is designed to translate a description of your situation into a provider list.
  7. 7Do not wait for a crisis. The network frames respite as an occasional break that sustains the caregiver, and the arrangements — screening, matching, funding — take time to put in place.
Form
No single form — start with a regional respite coordinator
File with
The lifespan respite network, through the coordinator for your region
Periodic
Re-confirmed from time to time.
Worth knowingThis is a coordination network first and a funding source second. Its real value to a veteran household is that one coordinator will look across the subsidy, the older Americans act money and the federal veteran caregiver programmes at the same time, which no single agency otherwise does.
Known gapNo subsidy amount is published on the pages read this session, and the department page carrying the subsidy programme rules sits on a host that refused the connection outright. Ask the coordinator what the current subsidy pays and over what period.
CorrectionThe network is not a veterans programme and does not hold itself out as one. It is worth knowing about precisely because it is not — a caregiver turned away from a veteran-specific route still has this door, and the coordinator can often braid the two together.

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