Welcome to the EIFA web site. The Early Intervention Family Alliance is a national group of family leaders dedicated to improving outcomes for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families. The EIFA works to assure meaningful family involvement in the development of Part C policies and their implementation at community, state and federal levels.

Guiding Principles

• Families are essential partners in implementing family centered practices in all levels of early intervention.
• Families are respected experts on the services their child should receive.
• Families have equal access to training and technical assistance to foster meaningful involvement.
• Family diversity and voices of the underrepresented are essential to quality services and implementation of policies and practices.
• Family-centered services that are community based and culturally competent ensure the highest quality programs.

Outcomes

• Families will inform policy-makers of the needs of infant and toddlers with special needs and their families.
• The interests of families of infants and toddlers receiving Part C services are represented through a proactive and recognized national agenda.
• Part C policies and procedures incorporate and actualize the ICC Principles of Family Involvement.
• Family leaders are cultivated and mentored to foster growth and make certain the unique diversity of families is represented in all Part C activities.
• Family leaders, whether professionally dedicated or in voluntary positions of responsibility, are unified and act as a catalyst for effective advocacy.
• Develop collaboration between related organizations and resources to provide effective guidance and support to family leaders.