Paul Walsh, CEO of the Autism Society.
The Autism Society is continuing to advocate to make respite care more broadly available to families who need it.
Executive Director Paul Walsh says families who require respite care have a lot of paperwork to go through when the process should be far less onerous.
“They have to set up as an employer, they have to find the person, they have to do the interviews. It’s a very intense process. And then, you can’t be guaranteed that the person is going to stay.”
Walsh says what the Autism Society has been pushing for is to establish a respite care profession, like early childhood educators.
“Look at the model we follow for early childhood educators. We’ve developed a specific curriculum, and put in the wage grids and everything else to make it a profession. If that was done with respite…there are lots of people who would choose to go in that role if it were a legitimate career path.”
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