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Yarbrough D. 2016. Supporting families. [Richmond, VA]: Center for Family Involvement; Virginia Commonwealth University, Partnership for People with Disabilities, 13 pp.

Annotation: These presentation materials describe the mission and vision of Virginia's Center for Family Involvement, which include aiding families in helping their children and adolescents with disabilities to lead the lives that they want. Included is information on how parents and families can become advocates, mentors and leaders in the process, and describes the direct support to families includes peer support, training, and materials provided by the Center. This presentation also discusses the process by which families can be referred into the program, how they get a family navigator, and how data is compiled (includes sample part of form), and how family impact/assessment is done. Also included is a map of Virginia with locations of the Family to Family network and a statistical of family data collected between 2014 - 2016.

Keywords: State CSHCN programs, Autism, Data collection, Virginia
   

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