Program Services

Family Support Services

Family Support strives to achieve the goal of helping families to stay together, by offering support to individuals with disabilities. It is the philosophy of Family Support to focus on supporting both the individual and the family as a whole.

The Goals Of Family Support Are:

  • enhancing the capacity of communities to value and support people with disabilities and their families
  • developing families' natural capacities to meet the needs of family members
  • offering additional supports such as staff, goods and services, and financial resources

Services Provided Include:

  • Case management
  • Educational advocacy
  • Fiscal assistance through individual/family directed use of allocated stipends
  • Social activities
  • Informational sessions
  • Trained respite service providers
  • Assisting families to access generic community resources to meet their family members need
  • Bilingual services (Spanish, Portuguese)