Uses of Time

the IMPD promotes respite services for people with disabilities with the aim of enabling caregivers to have a conciliation time, given the dedication involved in taking care of a person of child or adult age with a high degree of disability. Within the scope of respiratory services, the IMPD promotes its own leisure resources for people with disabilities (Time for You program) and also promotes respite through a line of specific subsidies to projects of entities that organize overnight stays for people with functional diversity and mental health disorders. 

These stays are generally out of the city, with a minimum of one overnight stay. The objective is to respond to the specific needs of families that have a member with a disability and enable a time of rest for all family members, to respond to unforeseen urgent situations, to avoid situations that may cause a premature separation of the person with a disability from his or her family and to ensure adequate care for the person with a disability when he or she is temporarily separated from his or her family. 

The IMPD promotes this activity through grants to projects of entities, with the requirements of being aimed at people living at home and a number of annual overnight stays between 1 and 30 per year per participating person ... .

The activity of 2021 has been affected by the context of covid-19, since many entities have had to adapt their needs to the requirements of the pandemic, with innovative solutions, in order to respond to the demands and needs of families and users themselves. It should also be noted that some 2020 projects ended on March 31, 2021, since projects that could not be developed during 2020 were allowed to be extended. Thus, some of the 2021 projects were developed from April to December 2021.