The Association for Successful Parenting (TASP) is a national nonprofit advancing the rights, leadership, and self-determination of parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
ABOUT TASP
The Association for Successful Parenting (TASP) is a national nonprofit advancing the rights, leadership, and self-determination of parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Parents with lived experience help lead our work to strengthen families and transform the healthcare, child welfare, and family support systems that affect their lives.
Our Purpose
Every parent deserves the opportunity to raise their family with dignity, respect, and the support they need to succeed. Parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities continue to face discrimination in healthcare, child welfare, and other family-serving systems. TASP works to change that by advancing parent leadership, strengthening families, and promoting equitable systems.
Our Approach
Parents with lived experience are at the center of everything we do. They help guide our organization, shape our resources, lead trainings, and influence the systems that affect their families. By combining lived expertise with research, education, and advocacy, we create practical solutions that improve opportunities for parents with IDD nationwide.
How We Create Change
TASP partners with parents, self-advocates, professionals, researchers, and community organizations to create lasting systems change. Through education, advocacy, technical assistance, resource development, and national collaboration, we help build more inclusive healthcare, child welfare, and family support systems where parents with IDD can thrive.
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RECENT NEWS
June 25, 2026: 
How can you better support parents with IDD in your health system? With support from the WITH Foundation, TASP has worked with parent self-advocates and legal experts to develop a Healthcare Organizational Self-Assessment. The TASP Healthcare OSA helps healthcare organizations evaluate and improve disability-inclusive practices when working with parents with IDD. Choose the version that fits your organization. Find it under the “Resources” tab on our home page.
February 12, 2026: 
Find the right tools fast! TASP is excited to share our new Resource Roadmaps. In conjunction with parent self-advocates, we have organized TASP-developed and curated materials, as well as outside resources, into easy-to-browse maps. Pick the map that fits your role or the type of resources you’re looking for: parents and professionals can use both. Find them under the “Resources” tab at the top of the page.
January 15, 2026: 
TASP is excited to share our eLearning Hub for Healthcare Professionals, developed with support from the WITH Foundation, and in conjunction with parents with disabilities and healthcare professionals, the 5 self-paced, expert-developed modules help professionals build more inclusive, supportive practice with parents with IDD. Find it under the “Education” tab on our website.
October 1, 2025: 
We are so excited that The MENTOR Network Charitable Foundation has given TASP a 1-year grant to develop a curriculum for adult service providers to extend services to parents with IDD. The project, called Providing Family Support for Parents with IDD and Learning Difficulties: Expanding and Individualizing Support, will enable adult service providers to extend their services to parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). This curriculum will transform existing disability service programs into family-centered support systems through a series of modules covering everything from foundational beliefs and human rights to practical service delivery and program evaluation.
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