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Thank you for joining us at the 2025 Wisconsin Respite Summit!
We’re grateful to everyone who registered and attended. Below you’ll find links to the materials, presentations, and data collected before and during the Summit.
About the Summit:
The 2025 Wisconsin Respite Summit brings together caregivers, care recipients, community partners, policymakers, and professionals from across the state to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality respite care. This year’s theme, Listening to Caregivers: Data and Stories Driving Supportive Change, focuses on harnessing both qualitative and quantitative data to shape policy, improve services, and strengthen advocacy for Wisconsin families.
Attendees will engage in interactive sessions, share lived experiences, explore current policy updates, and learn practical strategies to collect and use caregiver stories and data to make a real impact.
*Lodging and parking costs are not included. Those are the responsibility of the attendees.
Registration and breakfast will open at 8:15 a.m., followed by our welcome and opening remarks at 9:00 a.m. The Summit will conclude at 3:30 p.m., giving us six and a half hours together with community partners, family caregivers, care recipients, and professionals from across Wisconsin to connect, share ideas, raise awareness of respite care, and strengthen our ongoing commitment to serving Wisconsin families.
The Madison Concourse Hotel is accessible by elevators that attendees can take from the ground floor to the second floor, where the conference will be held.
Additionally, any dietary restrictions must be specified on the registration form.
Lodging and Parking Information:
There is a block of rooms for attendees at the Madison Concourse Hotel for the night before the conference on September 15. To book under the room block rate, you can do so at this booking link. Alternatively, you can call the Hotel directly at 1-800-356-8293 to make reservations and let them know you are part of the 2025 Wisconsin Respite Summit when making the reservation.
The reservation cut-off date is midnight C.S.T. on August 16, 2025. Any individual reservations received after the cut-off date will be accepted on a space and rate available basis.
The hotel’s parking charges are based on the prevailing rate at the time of function. The current rate is $2.00 per hour, up to a maximum of $24 per day. Parking charges for overnight hotel guests are $18/night for selfpark. Additional parking facilities are available across the street at the State Street Capitol ramp (214 N. Carroll Street). If your vehicle is over 6’3”, please contact the hotel for parking assistance prior to arrival.
Information for families and community members:
Financial assistance for lodging may be available for family caregivers and care recipients. Please get in touch with [email protected] for more information.
If paying for respite care is a barrier to family or informal caregivers, please visit the Caregiver Respite Grant Program webpage to learn more.