Advocacy and Support Services assist families and self-advocates in understanding and navigating the intellectual and developmental disabilities service systems, safeguarding individual rights, and promoting self-determination and inclusion.

• Provide one to one support and mentoring services.

• Help families to effectively plan for their adult children's future and effectively participate in planning meetings.

• Staff attend meetings as needed.

• Provide on-going support for individuals who have limited family involvement.

• Initiate, promote and support individual and county-wide self-determination and self-advocacy efforts.

• Provide training for self-advocates.

• Monitor progress made in the areas of inclusion, self-determination, employment, habilitation and recreation.

• Actively promote systems change and improvement through state and national lobbying.

For more information on this program please contact:

Dawn Helgeson, Executive Director

507-433-8994, Extension 101

dawn.helgeson@arcmowercounty.org

We would like to acknowledge The United Way of Mower County for their generous support of this program.