Recuperative Respite

The Women’s Center of Wake County’s Recuperative Respite provides 24-hour comprehensive safety, stabilization, and housing services to single, adult women experiencing homelessness with a post-acute medical need.

Recuperative Respite is designed to provide stability and safety when guests are too well for the hospital, but unable to return to shelters or other place not meant for human habitation due to ongoing medical needs.

Our Recuperative Respite program consists of eleven beds in our location on New Bern Avenue. Five beds are reserved for referrals from Wake Med Community Health, the remaining beds are utilized by women from the community.

Every guest utilizing the Recuperative Respite enters a supportive program, where they work with Women’s Center staff to establish personal goals with the long-term goal being permanent housing. The Recuperative Respite program provides multiple wrap-around services, in addition to the existing resources of the Day Shelter, as the program participants work toward permanent housing.

Guests are admitted to Recuperative Respite ONLY by referral from partner agencies.