Video: Decision-Making

This video explains the many different ways people with disabilities make decisions about their lives, including steps and advice from self-advocates about things people can do to make decisions in the future and how they make decisions in their lives.

Your Next Home

This video talks about things people with I/DD may want to consider in a next home, including stories and advice from self-advocates about how they found their next home.

What to Know About Trusts and ABLE Accounts

This video gives an overview of how people use special needs trusts and ABLE accounts to pay for the things that they need in their life, including stories and advice from self-advocates about using special needs trusts.

 

Building a Career

This video gives an overview of the steps a person with IDD may want to take to find a job and build their career, including stories and advice from self-advocates about jobs they have had and how they have built there careers.

 

Growing Your Social Network

This video gives an overview of how people with I/DD can grow and build their social network throughout their lives, including stories from self-advocates about who is in their social network and how they have grown it throughout their lives.

Dealing With Grief, Loss, and Other Big Changes

This video talks about the many changes or losses people may have in their lives and how to prepare for losses that they may experience, including stories from self-advocates about how they have dealt with losses in their lives.

Building Good Relationships

This video provides an overview about how people can build good relationships in their lives and leave bad relationships when they occur, including stories and advice from self-advocates on how people have built good relationships in their lives.

Urgent Need

This webpage gives an overview of people to contact if you have an immediate need for temporary or permanent support as a result of a caregiver no longer being able to provide support.

National Association of States United for Aging and Disabilities

NASUAD represents the nation’s 56 state and territorial agencies on aging and disabilities and supports visionary state leadership, the advancement of state systems innovation and the articulation of national policies that support home and community-based services for older adults and individuals with disabilities. NASUAD releases publications, provides technical assistance to agencies, and develops initiatives to support state agencies to better support people with disabilities and families.