Caregiver Outcomes Following a Psychoeducational Intervention for Black Families Raising Autistic Children

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 11:40 am Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Centering Family and Caregiver Voices as Equal Participants Within Special Education (Table 6)

Abstract

FACES (Fostering Advocacy, Communication, Empowerment, and Support) is a five-week, in person psychoeducational intervention designed to support Black families raising autistic youth. FACES pilot study findings have indicated positive empowerment and advocacy outcomes for Black families raising autistic children, and highlighted a need to train community-based providers to facilitate the intervention (Pearson & Meadan, 2021). The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore the efficacy of FACES when implemented by community-based facilitators. This presentation will describe family-level outcomes (i.e., advocacy, empowerment, stress) following the FACES intervention, with one of four community-based FACES facilitators.

Authors

• Jamie Pearson, North Carolina State University

• Jared Stewart-Ginsburg, North Carolina State University

• DeVoshia Mason Martin, North Carolina State University

• Janelle A. Johnson, North Carolina State University

• Jetta K. Lewis, North Carolina State University

• Jennifer Macko, North Carolina State University