Many parents felt that funders of community-based multidisciplinary
services, not necessarily the service providers themselves,
used the shift to FCC to justify a decrease or removal of professional
services for families, evenwhen families did not feel that thiswas in
their best interest. Specifically, parents felt like they were no longer
considered appropriate candidates for multidisciplinary services if
they demonstrated “sufficient” parenting skills, even if they felt
that they were struggling. Alice’s statement reflected the comments
of many participants: