Receive FREE in-home Respite Care

Students in the Campus to Community Program provide weekly respite care to support local families raising a child, adolescent or adult with an intellectual or developmental disability.

Depending on your location, this respite support is available during the Fall, Spring and Summer semesters at the UMass Amherst Campus and during the Summer semester at UMass Amherst Mount Ida Campus in Needham.

Get started: Complete the Intake From

Once you complete the Intake Form, we will reach out to schedule a home visit. You will be asked to complete criminal background checks (forms are provided during the home visit).

It’s created an opportunity for us that we’ve needed so badly for about 8 and a half years.
— Parent