Project Heritage: Helping
Early Interventionists Receive Informative Training to Address Grandparent
Families’ Needs in Effective Ways
What is the Purpose of Project Heritage?
Project HERITAGE developed training to enhance early interventionists’ skills in providing effective services and support to grandparents raising grandchildren with disabilities, birth to three.
Project HERITAGE developed five training modules which include DVDs with accompanying printed materials. The five themes are:
- Awareness of Grandparent Family Issues: An Overview
- Financial Information
- Legal Information
- Delivering Effective Early Intervention Services to Grandparent Families
- Mental Health Information
What is Included on the DVDs?
The DVDs include real-life situations of grandparent families to problem solve and strategies/interventions shared and/or demonstrated by expert speakers/early interventionists.
What is Included in the Printed Materials?
Printed materials include information from the speakers’ presentations in a discussion format with accompanying visuals and handouts for early interventionists that may be used with grandparent families immediately after training.
What
Training Options are Available?
The project provides two options, on-site group training and individual
training. On-site group training uses a facilitator and DVD technology.
Individual training uses a facilitator, DVD technology, a chatroom, and
a Yahoo group.
Helpful Websites for Grandparent Families and Professionals Working With Grandparent Families:
- AARP Grandparent Information
Center (GIC)
www.aarp.org/confacts/programs/gic.html
- Generations United
www.gu.org
- GrandsPlace
www.grandsplace.com
- Grand Parent Again
www.grandparentagain.com
- The Brookdale Relatives
as Parents Program (Brookdale Foundation)
www.brookdalefoundation.org
- Foundation for Grandparenting
www.grandparenting.org
- Children’s Defense
Fund
www.childrensdefense.org
- U.S. Administration on Aging
www.aoa.gov
For more information contact:
Lori Rowan
SKI-HI Institute
6500 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-6500
(435) 797-5600
Funded by:
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services