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How Families Can Empower Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) from Racially and Ethnically Diverse Backgrounds

How Families Can Empower Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) from Racially and Ethnically Diverse Backgrounds

May 15, 2024

ThinkWork! Staffers Esther Kamau, Jennifer Bose, and Jean Winsor just released a new ThinkWork! Brief titled, How Families Can Empower Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) from Racially and Ethnically Diverse Backgrounds.

This brief shares the perspectives and experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse family members of four youth who shared their employment and community engagement stories. It outlines the pivotal role these families played to support youth with IDD to find and maintain competitive integrated employment and to meaningfully engage with their communities. It draws from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with youth with IDD, their family members, and job coaches.

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