The New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council (DDPC) is announcing the availability of funding in the amount of $50,000 (18 months) to conduct outreach activities to identify adult siblings of New Yorkers with developmental disabilities and a needs assessment of demography, training needs and level of knowledge of State and national initiatives.
A recently published study, Hodapp, Ubano and Burke (2010), brings added relevance to our discussions regarding sibling caregiving issues in New York State. The authors of the study gained responses from 1,160 participants, all of whom were adult siblings of people with disabilities, to a U.S. web-based 163-question survey about their health, contact with and perceived benefits from their relationship with their sibling with a developmental disability. “It becomes important,” the article relates, “for societal and policy-related reasons, to learn more about siblings of adults with disabilities, because they will likely become the caregivers for their brothers/sisters with disabilities."
This project seeks to identify factors associated with the involvement of siblings in the life of a brother or sister who has a
developmental disability, the DDPC proposes that a needs assessment be conducted of adult siblings of
New Yorkers with developmental disabilities across New York State.
For more information, please view the Request for Proposal in its entirety. |
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