Meet December’s Featured Respite Provider: Kimberly Zamot

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 November’s featured provider, Kimberly Zamot!

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

How long have you been a respite provider?
For the last year.

What made you want to apply to be a respite provider?
My sister is a respite provider for some of our family members, To see all the work she put into the kids to help them was really inspiring to me. It made me want to do the same for other kids.

What is your favorite part of being a respite provider?
I love seeing all the different personalities. Each and every child has made me learn something new and it helps me grow as a parent myself.

What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
I love to read or bake. I love to make everything homemade and to teach my kids everything they need to know.

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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