Family Resources includes:

• Coordinating evaluations and assessments
• Identifying service providers
• Facilitating Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) development
• Coordinating with medical and health providers
• Facilitating communication among early intervention team members, and
  Ensuring that early intervention services take place in a timely and appropriate manner.

What is a Family Resources Coordinator?

An individual who:

• assists an eligible child and his or her family in obtaining early intervention services and other resources. 
• helps the family and child by making sure that services identified in the IFSP are effectively delivered and that the needs and priorities of the family are what guide the child’s early intervention program.
• receives ongoing training from the state and must possess knowledge about infant and toddler development, IDEA early intervention services, applicable federal and state regulations, funding sources, available services and family centered planning and service delivery.

What is an IFSP?  (Individualized Family Service Plan)

An IFSP is:

• based on family’s priorities, concerns, and resources. 
• "spells out" the early intervention services for your child. 
• developed by a team which includes your family, your Family Resources Coordinator, and the other service providers and individuals you choose.
• designed to meet your child’s needs.
• reviewed at least once every six months. 

During the initial IFSP meeting you will be asked to designate a Family Resources Coordinator.

"The IFSP is a promise to children and families—a promise that their strengths will be recognized and built on, that their beliefs and values will be respected, and that their hopes and aspirations will be encouraged."

                  —Mary J. McGonigel & Beverly H. Johnson