Resources

The Maine Parent Federation, Inc. (MPF)

A statewide organization that provides information, advocacy, education, and training to benefit all children. Provides information, referral, one on one telephone support, and training to parents of children with disabilities or special health care needs and the professionals who work with these families statewide at no cost to parents.

Families Helping Families of Baton Rouge

A non-profit, family directed resource center for individuals with disabilities and their families. It is a place where families can go that is directed and staffed by parents or family members of children with disabilities or adults with disabilities. It is this common experience that gives Families Helping Families a very unique approach to serving families. FHF of Greater Baton Rouge offers these benefits: information and referral education; training parent to parent support

Bayou Land Families Helping Families

A non-profit family resource center. They are a group of families who, through our own experiences, promote peer support and advocacy and are committed to alleviating hardships of other families who have members with disabilities or special needs.

Kentucky Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Offers access to medical care and services for children and youth up to age 21 with disabilities or complex medical conditions. Services include hospitalization, surgery, dental care, care coordination, physical therapy, lab services, medication and non-emergency medical transportation.

Michigan Family to Family Health Information Center

Michigan Family to Family Health Information Center provides information and education on disability and health-related issues to families of children and youth with special health care needs and the professionals who serve them. They provide families with the tools to make informed decisions and help build partnerships between professionals and families to improve quality of services for children and youth with special health care needs.

PACER Center

PACER Center expands opportunities and enhances the quality of life for children and young adults with disabilities and their families. PACER is staffed primarily by parents of children with disabilities and works in coalition with 18 disability organizations. Assistance to individual families, workshops, materials for parents and professionals, and leadership in securing a free and appropriate public education for all children.

Family Network on Disabilities (FND)

FND is a grassroots organization for persons with disabilities and their families that is family-centered and family-driven. The mission of FND is to strive for the complete integration and equality of persons with disabilities in a society without barriers and to serve families of children with disabilities, ages birth through 26, who have the full range of disabilities.

Marcus Autism Center

A not-for-profit organization and subsidiary of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta that treats more than 5,500 children with autism and related disorders a year.

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