Meet August’s Featured Respite Provider: Fuad Deane

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 August’s featured provider, Fuad Deane!

We asked him a few questions about her experience with the respite program:

How long have you been a respite provider?
About three years.

What made you want to apply to be a respite provider?
It was a natural choice after hearing about it from our daughter. We have a grandson with ASD. Our daughter and son-in-law needed additional support, so we decided to expand our licensing to include respite provider certification with FCC so we could provide our family with this extra help.

What is your favorite part of being a respite provider?
We love knowing that we can provide this important support and help. We know that providing respite is essential to everyone and it helps everyone recharge and that is so important. At the same time, spending special time with our grandson is a win/win for us.

What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
I enjoy nature photography and videography, woodworking and restoration.

You can help support children and parents by becoming a respite provider today. For more information please contact Louise Campbell at (608) 668-2221 or lcampbell@fccnetwork.org.

Learn more about FCC’s community respite program here: https://www.fcconline.org/service/community-respite/.

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