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JFK Partners Community Needs Assessment: 2025-26

If you find detailed surveys difficult, a brief version for people with such disabilities may be accessed here.

JFK Partners will soon compete for federal funds for our program in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, including autism. These funds support specialized training of people who work with Coloradans with disabilities and their families, as well as disability research, community education, and collaboration with community partners. Your input will help us shape our five-year plan for serving Colorado’s disability community.

To shorten our questions, “I/DD” is substituted for Intellectual and/or Developmental Delays and Disabilities and autism. You will notice that we repeat the I/DD topics in Questions 5-8 to learn how each area should be addressed in our program. Questions about this survey can be sent to Dina.Johnson@cuanschutz.edu.

Confidentiality: Surveys collected by JFK Partners are voluntary. Confidential information will not be shared with others, and answers will be used for the purposes for which they were collected.
1.I am interested in intellectual or developmental disabilities (I/DD) because I am a(n): (Select all that apply.)(Required.)
2.If you work for or with an organization that serves people with I/DD and/or their families, please share the name of your agency: (If you prefer not to, skip to the next question.)
3.JFK Partners should train the following types of individuals to work with people with I/DD and their families: (Select all that apply)
4.Which professional fields have the greatest need for additional training in I/DD? (Select all that apply)
5.Which I/DD topics are most needed to help professionals who serve people with I/DD and their families keep their skills up to date? (Select all that apply)
6.People with I/DD and their families most need information on which of the following topics? (Select all that apply)
7.Which I/DD topics are most important for JFK Partners’ research, evaluation, or policy analysis? (Select all that apply)
8.JFK Partners and other state and local agencies should collaborate on the following I/DD topics: (Select all that apply)
9.With which state or community agencies should we establish or increase collaboration?
10.What kind of information about I/DD topics would you like JFK Partners to share? (Select all that apply)
11.What suggestions do you have to make our products more accessible?
12.How do you prefer to receive information from JFK Partners? (Select all that apply)
13.What do you wish professionals and members of the community-at-large better understood about people who have I/DD and their families?
14.If you have more suggestions to help JFK Partners better serve the Colorado I/DD community, please describe them below.
Optional: Please help us better understand who our survey respondents are so we may identify gaps in our information.
15.What is your five-digit ZIP CODE?
16.What language do you usually speak at home?
17.How would you describe your race and/or ethnicity? (Select all that apply)
18.What is your current employment status? (Select all that apply)
Thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us!