Policy Research Brief: Family Support Services in the United States: 2008

Part of the Policy Research Brief series.
Contributor(s)
Sheryl A Larson, Charlie Lakin
Managing Editor(s)
Sheryl A Larson
Author(s)
Mary C Rizzolo, Richard Hemp, David Braddock, Abigail Schindler

Description

A brief providing a state-by-state summary of services supporting individuals with disabilities living in the family home. Data presented are based on the State of the States in Developmental Disabilities Project, a longitudinal study of public financial and programmatic trends in intellectual and developmental disabilities services and supports in the states. The State of the States project is funded in part as a Data Collection Project of National Significance from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, by the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and by the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, University of Colorado.

Details

Date
May 2009 
Type
Brief 
Edition
Volume 20, Number 2
Publisher
Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC-CL)

Topics

  • Community life
    • Community supports and services
  • Specific life stage
    • Children
    • Adolescents and young adults
    • Adults
  • Housing and residential services
    • Family supports/in-home services
  • Specific disability
    • Intellectual/developmental disability (IDD)