Project LIFT is a 3-year model demonstration program designed to provide family-focused, home-based early intervention services to rural parents of handicapped children under 3 years of age. The LIFT model encompasses: (1) development of an Individual Family Service Plan, (2) case coordination to assist families in identifying and obtaining community resources and to facilitate interagency collaboration and cooperation, (3) home-based interventions focusing on infant development and family adjustment, and (4) a modified transdisciplinary team approach. The Individual Family Service Plan documents both family and child strengths and weaknesses as based on family and child assessments. A case coordinator is assigned to each family and acts not only as the primary interventionist, but also is responsible for contacting other agencies or community services the family may need, accompanying the family on clinic or medical visits, etc. The home-based interventions emphasize teaching the child a cause and effect relationship between their behavior and something happening within the environment. Interaction patterns between parents or other family members and the handicapped child are analyzed by videotaping the family's interactions and evaluating them. (JDD)