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Focal Point, 1988
The newsletter offers perspectives on the provision of family support services for families with disabled members. An introductory article by Madeleine Will, Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, stresses the impressive coping skills exhibited by many such families and their relationship to service professionals.…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Coping, Disabilities, Family Problems
Gaventa, Bill – Exceptional Parent, 1990
This article discusses the role of organized religion in providing respite services to families of children with disabilities. Respite programs using church volunteers are seen as an opportunity for new and effective partnerships between secular service systems and the religious community. Model programs are described. (PB)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Christianity, Church Programs, Church Role
