Direct assistance is a service provided to a CARD-FSU constituent in their home, school, or community. Direct assistance can include phone/e-mail contacts and home-based consultation for an individual. Direct assistance may also take the form of community or school site visits, attending meetings, research and resource dissemination, connecting families to community supports, and/or assistance with implementing ideas from training sessions. The purpose of these activities is to work directly with an individual constituent and/or their families to provide them, their school or agency with information that will help meet the needs at hand.