Respite Center & Guest Home

For over four decades, The Arc of Caddo-Bossier has offered families of our region a “home away from home” for loved ones with intellectual or developmental disabilities. We offer both in-home and center-based respite care services.

We are there to help families plan for outings or absences and during times of unexpected circumstances. Our Respite Center & Guest Home provides highly specialized care within a warm and welcoming residential environment for infants, children, youth and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

The Arc Caddo-Bossier first opened the Respite Center & Guest Home in 1978, as the first such home in the state of Louisiana. We remain today a model for the state for out-of-home respite care.

This is the only Respite Center in all of Region 7.

FAQs

  • We provide all meals and snacks for people in our care. We can also follow any dietary plan provided.

  • We ask you pack clothes and any special toiletries/soaps needed. We provide nearly everything else you or your loved one will need.

  • We have rooms for men and women from ages 6 years old to adults.

  • The home has televisions, games and more to keep everyone entertained, but sometimes there are planned outings outside the home if our guests want to attend.

  • Family members and guests may visit anytime.

  • We have enough beds for 8 people at a time.

  • We have a hospital bed and lift, and can also administer tube feeding.

  • Medicaid allows for guests to stay up to 30 days per year, which can be broken up into multiple visits or taken all at once.

  • Our Direct Support Professionals are trained to pass medications to individuals in our care. We also have the ability to tube feed when necessary.

  • The house has two wings, one for men and one for women.

  • The first step is to find out if you quality by reaching out to the Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities (OCDD), a state agency, that coordinates services for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families, offering various community-based supports and waivers.

    You can connect with them here.

For more information regarding the Respite Center, contact Sandy Pippenger at (318)221-8392, ext. 299 or spippenger@thearccaddobossier.org.