• Special assistance services (home habilitation, home care, and nutritional services)
• Financial assistance
• Housing assistance (adaptive equipment and home modifications)
• Recreation
• Crisis Intervention.

The Home and Community Based Waiver and “Katie Beckett” Amendments opened the door for increased family support programs and approaches.

The use of vouchers and cash subsidies to families in the 1980s laid the groundwork for ever expanding power in the hands of families to control the nature of the support they receive.
 

Photo courtesy Charyl Walsh-Bellville