Living Well With a Disability Curriculum Adaptation Evaluation Plan

First, parent facilitators will be recruited and matched with their peers. Parent
facilitators will be members of the Effingham County Navigator Team with a child with a
disability. The peer matching resembles the community lay health worker model. The community
lay health worker model will reduce the amount of time needed to meet face to face with
families. To begin adapting the facilitator training and curriculum, the program directors
will work with representatives from the University of Montana Rural Institute on Disabilities
to review and update training materials. A representative from the Rural Institute on
Disabilities will deliver an online intensive facilitator training. The facilitator training
is approximately 15 hours long. The training includes three major components: peer training,
facilitator training, and Master "Train the Trainer" training. The project directors will
work with the Effingham County Navigator Team to recruit parents. The Navigator Team will
recruit five parents as parent facilitators. The parents will work together with the project
directors to deliver the adapted curriculum to participating families. With bi-weekly
meetings for 10 weeks between parent facilitators and family participants in the home or
another desired location. The project directors have already participated in the facilitator
training and will serve as mentors to newly trained facilitators. At the end of the online
training session, the parent facilitators will be equipped to successfully implement the
Living Well curriculum. The project directors will schedule a working meeting before and
after the facilitator training to discuss curriculum changes with the Rural Institute on
Disabilities representative. Changes in readability are anticipated since the target audience
includes adolescents. Curriculum delivery methods will need tailoring to match a family-based
approach including activities to be completed at the home at the family and individual levels
for parents, siblings, and children. Both GSU faculty and the Navigator team will lead
monthly summary meetings to review the adapted content. These meetings will take place at a
convenient location in the community as determined by the Navigator team. Pre and post focus
groups will take place before and after these monthly meetings at a convenient locale in the
community.

Inclusion Criteria

Families of with a child (3-50) with any developmental disability

Exclusion Criteria

Family and child are unable to follow directions and participate in curriculum activities.