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Family Participation

Family members, guardians, and friends can be an important part of helping people with IDD set and achieve their employment goals. These resources provide examples of how families can support employment and how employment staff can successfully work with family members.

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Bringing Employment First to Scale: Knowledge Translation and Support for Individuals and Families

With the persistently low competitive employment rate for working-age people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), a main focus area for the field of disability research has been on the interaction between the individual and the service system. Yet we know much less about the interaction between systems and families around employment.

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