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360 Local Supportive Parenting Project | Individual and Family Support Links | Family Support 360 Transition Project

Any system that supports persons with developmental disabilities cannot ignore their families; those who are most concerned about the welfare of their members with disabilities and who often provide and/or are responsible for most of their long term day-to-day care.

The Sherlock Center recognizes that to look at individuals with disabilities without seeing them as members of families results in an incomplete view of those individuals. The Sherlock Center promotes quality services by helping the service system regard the family as the unit receiving services by recognizing and helping to meet the needs of parents, siblings and other family members of persons with disabilities. The Sherlock Center supports the development of family-centered services by being a resource of information and technical assistance to individuals with disabilities, their families, their advocates and those who provide services to them.

Sherlock Center Family Support Projects

360 Local Supportive Parenting Project

The Supportive Parenting Project supports the parenting efforts of parents with learning challenges. To participate, a parent must be currently involved in CASSP, self identified as having learning, cognitive and parenting challenges; and currently raising a child or children. For information on the project and available supports, contact Mitzie Johnson, Family Support Coordinator, at (401) 456-2817 (direct line).

Brochure - English 81.1 kb (PDF)
Folleto - Espanol 77.3 kb (PDF)

Family Support 360 Transition Project

Family Support 360 supports families of youth with developmental disabilities to plan and carry out effective transitions to meaningful adult lives. Eligible families are those with transition-age students with the most significant disabilities - those who will clearly be eligible for services through the Division of Developmental Disabilities when they turn 21. For more information, contact a Family Support Coordinator at the Sherlock Center:

Claire Rosenbaum (401) 456-4732
Janet Iovino (401) 456-4791
Iraida Williams (401) 456-4790 (bi-lingual English/Spanish)

Brochure - English 1.9 mb (PDF)

The Supportive Parenting and Family Support projects are funded by grants from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.