Authors: Elizabeth Lightfoot, PhD, & Mingyang Zheng, MSW
Published: November 2019
Parents with intellectual disabilities have a high risk of child welfare involvement. There are a growing number of promising practices that can help support parents with intellectual disabilities, including interventions that focus on building parenting skills and increasing social connections and social supports. Read more from this issue of Practice Notes on changes you can incorporate into your practice for supporting parents with intellectual disabilities.
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Practice Notes is published by the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota. This issue was supported, in part, by grant #GRK129722 from Minnesota Department of Human Service, Children and Family Services Division. This work was also supported, in part, by grants from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant number 90DPGE0001), and the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station (Grant #55-055). The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Center, School, College, University or their funding source.
