Parents with Intellectual Disabilities Support
The HOPE Initiative
An abuse prevention program designed to provide individ alized parenting education and life skills training to parents with a developmental disability, or learning difficulties. Families in which a parent has a developmental disability are at higher risk for abuse and neglect. Parents with developmental disabilities typically do not benefit from mainstream parenting classes, and learn more effectively with repetitive individualized hands-on instruction, concrete examples and demonstrations of techniques in the context of actual parenting situations. The HOPE Initiative has been providing this specialized education and training to families for 26 years. Our staff has an average of 16 years working for our program. Contact: Kris Saurini, Director, P. O. Box 350458, Westminster, CO 80035,
303-362-0990, 303-421-8193 FAX, kris.saurini@thehopeinitiative.org.
