Fran Goldfarb, MA, MCHES, CPSP
    Director, Community Education
    USC UCEDD CHLA
    323 361-3831
    fgoldfarb@chla.usc.edu
            Agenda
   • History of family support
   • Family support as a profession
   • Competencies
   • Essential skills for family support 
    professionals
   • Building and Sustaining Family Support 
    Professionals
    – Recruiting
    – Screening
    – Training
    – Sustaining and celebrating
    History of Family Support
  • Hallway chats and multiple “you 
    shoulds”
  • 1960’s Social Services Movement 
    –Parents organized to support each other
    –Brought issues of segregation, lack of 
     education and training, and lack of 
     support services to 
     legislators, educators and the public 
                         The DD Act 
      (Developmental Disabilities)
                        1986 Reauthorization – 
                        recognize and mandate role 
                        of parents and family 
                        members
                                                   2000 Reauthorization - family 
      1970 Developmental                           support was now explicitly 
      Disabilities Services                        recognized as an area of 
      and Facilities                               need and focus for research, 
      Construction                                 education and services
      Amendments of 1970                                      UMKC Institute for 
                                                              Human 
                                                              Development, 
                                                              UCEDD
    It all started in Nebraska