Winnipeg

Office Administered

CRS’ approach in Winnipeg is to have a pool of Respite Workers that give CRS their availabilities and then schedule them with Participants and families weekly. CRS matches Participants with several Respite Workers to ensure flexibility is achieved. CRS recruits, hires, orientates, and trains them according to CRS standards, deals with any concerns that arise and evaluates them regularly. Office Administered Respite helps ensure all Participants and families receive some respite hours when Respite Workers are on holidays or when there are Worker shortages.

Self Administered

If a Participant or family know someone who they would like to be their Respite Worker. CRS can hire the Respite Worker, do the required checks, provide them with training and administrative support and pay them on a bi-weekly basis. The Participant and Respite Worker are responsible for planning respites as their hours allow.

Participants and families are able to access both Self Administered Respite and Office Administered Respite simultaneously, allowing for more flexibility if their Self Administered Respite Worker is unavailable for a specific time that respite is needed.

Westman

Office Administered

The approach in the Westman region to have Respite Workers provide CRS their availabilities and then they are matched with regular hours. This may be in the form of a weekly regular (Example: Monday’s 6:00pm-10:00pm) or a bi-weekly regular (Example: alternating Saturday’s 1:00pm-4:00pm). The match is an ongoing assignment until either the Respite Worker has a change in availability, or the family has a change in their service request. This provides reliability and consistency to the Participant and family and a connection can be established between them and the Respite Worker.

Based on a Participant/families hours, there may be multiple Respite Workers introduced to ensure their respite hours are provided on a monthly schedule. This ensures the respite hours are still provided should there be limited resources (Respite Worker holidays, practicums, leave of absences, etc.). A monthly schedule is released directly to the Participant/family.

Self Administered

This program is used when a Participant or family has identified someone to do respite for their family. CRS hires them to work exclusively for them. It provides the Participant/family and Respite Worker the opportunity to schedule and provide respite hours within the Participant/family approved hours, without any extra obligation. CRS will do the 3 checks, orientate, provide administrative support, train (as necessary), compensate the Respite Worker regularly (bi-weekly via direct deposit) and invoice the Department of Families monthly.

Winnipeg & Westman Program differences

Winnipeg

Minimum Shift Requirements:

Winnipeg (Office Administered) – Due to the size of the city and Office Administered Workers commitment to go where respite is needed, there is a four-hour minimum call out time.

Winnipeg (Self Administered) – If the Self Administered Worker lives within 8 kms of the Participant, then there is a minimum one hour call out time. If the Self Administered Worker lives outside the 8 kms radius from the Participant, the a two minimum call out time applies. The hours are agreed upon between the Participant/family and the Respite Worker.

Westman

Minimum Shift Requirements:

Brandon – 2 hours of direct support (a shift may be scheduled for less than 2 hours, and Respite Workers will be compensated a minimum of 2 hours).

Rural – 4 hours of direct support. In addition to this, Respite Workers are paid travel time as well as mileage.

Rural (proximity to Brandon) – 2 hours of direct support, if a 30 km radius to the city. Respite Workers are still paid travel time as well as mileage.

If a family lives rural, this does not impact their direct support hour allocation.