- Bridges to Youth Self-Sufficiency.  We are pleased to be involved with this Social Security Administration grant to the California Department of Rehabilitation.  At this time, we're using this page as a distribution point for members of the Bridges team.  In the future, it will contain updates on our activities.

Special needs family friendly fun - enhancing the quality and fun of family life with special needs.


DND Press is the home of the Disability Resource Library. It's a comprehensive collection of disability related documents including the complete texts of major disability laws, regulations, government reports, guides, and more... all categorized, indexed, and fully searchable.


Paradigm is a website about disabilities with a British flavor. Great articles by the O'Briens and M. Smull.


Redwood Coast Regional Center represents a beautiful area of California with a great looking site!


California's Tools and Strategies for Family Partnerships. This web site is for sharing information about successful tools and strategies that demonstrate and/or encourage partnerships between and among families, family organizations, educators and policy makers.

Supported Life Institute are those great folks who bring you the Supported Life Conference in Sacramento every Fall.

While we have several links to and reprints from John O'Brien and Connie Lyle O'Brien (Responsive Systems Associates), here's a way to see more of them. Through the Center on Human Policy, they write and distribute a wide range of wonderful informational material on person-centered planning, community building, and innovative services. Those publications are available on the Center's web site (in Abode PDF format - available free from Adobe Systems).

Tri Counties Regional Center has a great site with loads of information for people with developmental disabilities and their families living in the Central Coast (San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura) area of California. It's not a new site, but it's taken us a while to update our links.

Learning Services Corporation provides long-term, supported living services for persons with acquired brain injury on the East Coast.

Training Resources Network is a well-respected publisher of resources to support people with disabilities working and living in their communities.

Advocacy

People First of the United Kingdom.


Our friend John Jacobs awaits your visit and your email.


Welcome to Disability Infomation Resources on the Internet Through Disability Advocacy Work With Networking (DAWWN).

State and National Disability Groups

The Organization of Area Boards provides coordination and support to 13 local Area Boards on Developmental Disabilitiies as well as advice and recommendations to state agencies, the Legislature and the State Council. Congratulations to Area Board III, another new website recruit.

The Oaks Group is a value based stakeholder organization of parents, consumers, advocates, educators, service providers, and other professionals .

California Developmental Disabilities Netlink provides information about services and programs for children and adults with developmental disabilities in California.

Here you'll find the Arc United States Home Page.


The California chapter of The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps.


National Home of Your Own Alliance provides information and resources to promote home ownership for people with disabilities.

Harbor Regional Center was the first California regional center to go online.


Kern Regional Center is one of the 21 regional centers serving Californians with developmental disabilities and their families.

California Department of Developmental Services contracts with 21 private, nonprofit regional centers to provide a comprehensive community-based system of developmental services throughout the state.

ADA Information

ADA and Disability Information Center.


Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center.


Axis Disability Rights Website.


Social Security

SSA Home Page.


University Connections

Waisman Center Home Page and the Family Village.


University of Minnesota Institute on Community Integration.


Transition

School to Work Interagency Transition Partnership (SWITP).


Technology

The wonderful people at the Alliance for Technology.


Families

The Sibling Support Project is dedicated to the interests of brothers and sisters of people with special health and developmental needs.

The Beach Center on Families and Disabilities in Lawrence, Kansas.


Disability Solutions: A resource for families and others interested in Down syndrome and related disabilities.

Supported Living

Our old friend and associate, Claudia Bolton, has created a supported living service in the Gold country of Northern California.

CIRCL is a new resource for information on supported living.


Employment

An employment resource database growing right here in the Napa Valley. You will find great links here to other state and and national employment sites.

CARF provides accreditation and technical assistance to community employment services for people with disabilities.

Other Resources

The Pennsylvania Journal On Positive Approaches is a quarterly publication dedicated to helping people with developmental disabilities and challenging behaviors live fulfilling Everyday Lives.

The Dual Diagnosis Task Force is a working group of Pennsylvanians dedicated to improving the ways in which people with mental retardation and a concurrent mental illness are supported, served and perceived in their homes and communities.

The National Institute on Life Planning for Persons with Disabilities.


Evan Kemp and Associates with a variety of disability resources.


Find out about the art of Gentle Teaching.


See for yourself, great things are happening at Inclusion Press.


Information Requests

Requests for information from visiting browsers.


For Fun

Mr. Edible Starchy Tuber Head.


The Amazing Fish Cam.



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