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Fighting For Darla: Challenges for Family Care and Professional Responsibility

Center:

NH-INACTIVE-Institute on Disability, UCEDD

Fiscal Year:

2007

Contact Information:

Jill Varney
[email protected]
603-862-4320

Product Description:

Darla?s story presents a less than totally positive commentary on the tendency of the state?s legal and educational systems to be at odds with family wishes and client needs, and to function at cross-purposes with each other. It demonstrates the gaps in planning as professionals and families attempt to communicate, collaborate, and provide for the protection, care and education of people with disabilities. Individuals such as Darla require a strong and extensive commitment from agencies to work co-operatively. ...The story, sadly, forces the realization that supportive legal, medical, social welfare, mental health, residential and educational systems so desperately needed by people like Darla, are just not in place.

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Consumers/Families

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