3.03 - Family Support/ASD research across the lifespan

2019

The FSRTC is a collaboration of researchers and organizations who are focused on synthesizing and generating knowledge about the needs and experiences of families who provide support to children and adults with disabilities across the life course. Because family support is similar across different types of disability and across different age groups, we aim to bridge different resources and information across these groups to inform more cohesive policies and practices related to family support.The FSRTC has three main objectives: (1) Define the state of science in family support; (2) Generate new knowledge in the critical policy areas of self-direction and managed care and in culturally competent peer-to-peer family interventions; and (3) Generate and implement a vision for policy and practice in family support through a national resource center.

family support, caregiving, disabilities,

Performing Research or Evaluation

Quality Assurance, Education & Early Intervention

Students/Trainees (long or intermediate trainees), Community Trainees / Short term trainees, Professionals and Para-Professionals, Family Members/Caregivers

Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Limited English, Specific Groups

State, National

N/A