Brookwood
Community - website |
| A non-profit, educational, residential, work facility
for adults with functional disabilities. |
| Adaptivemall - website |
Adaptive positioning equipment at discount: seating,
standing and
positioning equipment for children with cerebral
palsy and other
physical disabilities and special needs. |
| Boy Scouts of America -Special Needs Scouting - website |
| Special Needs Scouting provides a specialized
program to Special Education classrooms and youth
serving agencies in the council area. Included in
the program are special events such as Bowling,
Movies, and, our most popular event, Outdoor Fun
at Camp Strake. |
| Center for the Retarded, Inc. - website |
| (CRI) is a private not-for-profit United Way agency.
CRI's mission is to "provide opportunities
which promote individual choice, personal growth
and community involvement for persons with mental
retardation and those needing similar services so
that they may achieve their maximum potential." |
| Creativity, The Literary Charity
- website |
| The Creativity team works with schoolchildren,
adult learners, learners with special needs and
learners in care, all over the British Isles, and
beyond. |
| Disability Help, Inc.
- website |
| Assistance in filing Social Security and SSI Disability claims, answer questions, represent claimants at hearings, bilingual assistance. |
| Executive Service Corps of Houston (ESCH) - website |
| Free consulting services for nonprofit organizations in the greater Houston community. |
| Family Voices - website |
| National grassroots network of families with children
needing special care. Gathers, analyzes and privides
information about state and national health-care
reform from a family perspective. |
| Including Kids, Inc. - website |
| Private school for children with autism and related
developmental disorders located in Humble, Texas. |
| Mothers United for Moral Support (MUMS) - website |
| Parent-to-parent network organization for parents
or care providers of chidren with disabilities.
Provides a national networking system that matches
parents with other parents of children with similar
conditions. |
| National Fathers Network - website |
| Support for fathers and families raising children
with special health care needs and developmental
disabilities. |
| National Parent to Parent Support and
Information System - website |
| Provides suppoort to strengthen and empower families
through one-to-one parent contact. Provides parents
and professionals with healthcare informaqtion,
resources and referrals. |
| Partners Resource Network - website |
| Empowers parents of children and youth with disabilities
in their roles as parents, decision makers, and
advocates for their children and to promote partnerships
among parents and professionals. |
| Ray's Adaptive Equipment |
Builds customized adaptive equipment for the
handicapped.
Email (904) 434-3640 |
| Texas Department of Health's Children
with Special Health Care Needs Services Program - website |
| The Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN)
Services Program provides services to children with
extraordinary medical needs, disabilities, and chronic
health conditions. The CSHCN Services Program's
health care benefits include payments for medical
care, family support services , and related services
not covered by Medicaid, CHIP, private insurance,
or other “third party payors.” The program
also contracts with agencies throughout the state
to provide an array of clinical and support services
to children with special health care needs and their
families. The CSHCN Services Program also assists
children and their families by supporting case management
at DSHS regional offices throughout Texas. |
| Texas Lions Camp - website |
| Texas Lions Camp is a 400 bed, residential camping
facility for children with physical handicaps, type
1 diabetes and cancer. The Camp is located on over
500 acres in the Texas Hill County, and is designed
to introduce the "Can Do" philosophy to
children dealing with special medical conditions. |
| United Cerebral Palsy Association - website |
| The leading source of information on cerebral
palsy. |
| Disabled Children's Relief Fund (DCRF) - 516-377-1605 |
| Provides equipment, prostheses and rehabilitative services
through grants. |
| Lekotek - 713-838-9050 |
| Provides direct services, support and information in a play-centered
environment to children with special needs and their families.
Toy lending library. |
| Health Equipment Recycling Coalition - 713-524-1217 |
| Multiorganizational volunteer program provides recycled health
equipment to those in need. |
| Parent Equipment Swap - 713-926-2580 |
