The focus of the Family Support Program is supporting:

1. (1) families with children with intellectual disability or related disabilities or head injuries, spinal cord injuries, or similar disabilities, twenty-one years of age and younger;
2. (2) persons older than twenty-one years of age with intellectual disability or related disabilities or head injuries, spinal cord injuries, or similar disabilities who choose to live with their families;
3. (3) persons older than twenty-one years of age with intellectual disability or related disabilities or head injuries, spinal cord injuries, or similar disabilities who are residing in the community in an unsupported setting, not a state or federally funded program.

HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 38, Section 1; 1994 Act No. 344, Section 2; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 3, eff June 7, 2011.

Editor's Note

2011 Act No. 47, Section 13, provides as follows:

"SECTION 13. In Sections 1 through 6 of this act, the terms 'intellectual disability' and 'person with intellectual disability' have replaced and have the same meanings as the former terms 'mental retardation' and 'mentally retarded'."

Effect of Amendment

The 2011 amendment substituted "intellectual disability" for "mental retardation" throughout.