This report provides a roadmap for future research on family support for families of people with disabilities and who are aging.

Dr. Burke (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Easterseals and the Family Support Research and Training Center (FSRTC) at the University of Illinois-Chicago have a Request For Applications for community-based organizations interested in implementing the Volunteer Advocacy Project (VAP), a 36 hour advocacy training intervention for individuals who want to become special education advocates.

Trends suggest an increasing share of family caregivers will be in the labor force, facing the dual demands of employment and caregiving responsibilities for relatives or close friends with a serious illness or disability.

On September 24, FSRTC conducted a webinar hosted by The Arc on a strategic plan for family caregiving support research … the plan identifies research topics related to exploration and discovery, services and interventions, and policy.

The aim is to understand the experiences of families who provide supports to a family member with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD).

With input from people with disabilities, family caregivers, health and service providers, the plan identifies research topics related to exploration and discovery, services and interventions, and policy…

On June 11, 2018, family support researchers, policymakers, program specialists and advocates met in Washington, D.C. to attend the State of the Science Conference on Family Support Research.

The BOLD Act would recognize Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias as public health issues and develop the infrastructure necessary to combat these diseases.

The Families Special Interest Group will plan some meaningful presentations and activities for the World Congress in Glasgow August 6-9, 2019. Please keep this conference in mind for presenting your future research on family support and IDD.