This feature issue of IMPACT focuses on the empowerment of families with a member who has a developmental disability. It presents strategies and models for a collaborative, respectful approach to service provision, and presents the experiences of families in seeking support and assistance. Feature articles include "Two Generations of Disability: A Family and Community Affair" (Vivienne Kaufman); "Decision Making in the 90s: A New Paradigm for Family, Professional, and Consumer Roles" (Jean Ann Summers); "Access to Services: Sharing the Power" (Fran Smith); "The Impact of Personal Futures Planning on Families" (Angela Novak Amado); "Advocacy: Noun, Verb, Adjective or Profanity?" (Linda Gress Bonney and Sandy Moore); "Self-Determination and Empowerment: The Parent Case Management Program" (Marijo McBride); "Empowering Rural Families: Two Success Stories" (one concerning a child with cerebral palsy, the other about an adolescent with traumatic brain injury--both contributed by the families); "Making the System Work: The Multicultural Family Inclusion Project" (Jamie Smith); "Family Mediation as Family Empowerment" (Patricia A. Moses); "Home-School Collaboration: A Building Block of Empowerment" (Mary F. Sinclair and Sandra L. Christenson); "Home-School Collaboration Model: Project FISC" (Cheri Gilman); "Family-School Collaboration in Interventions" (Michael Bloomquist); "Life Planning for Adult Health Care" (Timothy W. Jorissen); "Health Issues and Placement Decisions for Older Persons with Disabilities" (Deborah Anderson and Eric Kloos); and "Learning To Let Go" (Ceci Shapland). A resource list of 10 organizations, 2 videotapes, and 8 publications concludes the issue. (JDD)