Triad First In Family -- Resources And Eligibility
Types of support provided include clothing, tuition, summer camp tuition, therapeutic and recreational games and equipment, computer equipment, household items, transportation, respite care, diapers – anything needed in order to help the person achieve their goals and realize their dreams.
The support may be in the form of referral to an agency or company that provides those items and/or services. Or we may solicit donations for items/services needed. Or, if no other provision can be found, we may purchase the item or service for the family.
Eligibility
Triad First in Families endeavors to help all people with disabilities to find services and resources they need, such as agency referrals and donated goods and services. However, in order to be eligible for Triad First in Families monetary funding:
(1) You must live in Forsyth, Davie or Stokes counties; and
(2) you must live with natural, adoptive or foster parents or relatives, or independently on your own or with others, such as caregivers or friends (those living in licensed group care settings are not eligible); and
(3) your household income must not exceed $65,000 after taxes; and
(3) you or a family member in your household must have a developmental disability (as defined in NC Statue 122-C-3 (12a) - below) or traumatic brain injury.
NC Statute § 122C‑3 defining Developmental Disability:
(12a) "Developmental disability" means a severe, chronic disability of a person which:
a. Is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and physical impairments;
b. Is manifested before the person attains age 22, unless the disability is caused by a traumatic head injury and is manifested after age 22;
c. Is likely to continue indefinitely;
d. Results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity: self‑care, receptive and expressive language, capacity for independent living, learning, mobility, self‑direction and economic self‑sufficiency; and
e. Reflects the person's need for a combination and sequence of special interdisciplinary, or generic care, treatment, or other services which are of a lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated; or
f. When applied to children from birth through four years of age, may be evidenced as a developmental delay.
Emergency funding is available if the person or family has made a reasonable effort to solve the problem through other resources and has a plan in place to avoid a future such occurrence. Emergency funding may be granted to prevent.
- Loss of housing for a person with a disability
- Interruption of essential life routines, such as school or work
- Compromise of the health of a person with a disability
Emergency funding may be granted only once in a three-year period.
Basic needs funding, such as rent/mortgage, telephone and utilities, may be granted only once.