Outcomes of Consumer-Directed Family Support (R8)
Principal Investigator: Alan Factor, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator(s): Joseph Caldwell, MS, Tamar Heller, PhD

Goals:

• Examine the impact over a 10-year period of a consumer-directed family support program on placement outcomes, service needs, caregiving appraisal, service satisfaction, employment, and community integration of adults with I/DD
• Conduct a cross-sectional study that examines:
  • differential impact of age, single parent status on impact of consumer directed model
  • the impact of consumer-directed program on choice making of individuals with I/DD, health status and healthcare utilization of caregivers, social/leisure activities of caregivers, and family out-of-pocket expenses