Meet June’s Featured Respite Provider: Sharonna Sedelbauer
Respite Providers are a vital part of caring for children and youth aged birth to 18 experiencing behavioral, emotional, medical, and/or physical challenges. This program is designed to meet specific individual and family needs while maintaining collaboration with other service providers and legal guardians. This valuable service provides families of special needs children the opportunity to balance the many challenges of life. The breaks provided allow family members time to meet their other vital family needs. Providers can be couples, single persons, or families.
As part of an ongoing series, FCC would like to introduce you to June’s featured provider, Sharonna Sedelbauer!
We asked her a few questions about her experience with the respite program:
How long have you been a respite provider?
About 3.5 years.
What made you want to apply to be a respite provider?
I decided to do this to take care of a family member and family that at the time was going through a very hard time with losing their father to cancer.
What is your favorite part of being a respite provider?
The flexibility, learning new things with homeschooling the child and opportunities that comes with the family. What do you enjoy doing in your free time? I enjoy spending
What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
the family. What do you enjoy doing in your free time? I enjoy spending time with my family. I also enjoy going on hunting trips. I am a very avid hunter so that’s what I do a lot on my days off in the fall. I’m a woman who wears many hats.
You can help support children and parents by becoming a respite provider today. For more information please contact Kelli Degenhardt at (608) 668-2229 or kdegenhardt@fccnetwork.org.
Learn more about FCC’s community respite program here: https://www.fcconline.org/service/community-respite/.
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