ArcLink
TheArcLink´s goal is to provide resources that empower individuals with disabilities and their families to make sound choices about services that support their full participation in the community. For more than fifty years, ARC (a national orgainzation on mental retardation) has been a leading advocate for families and people facing disabilities. This site can also be used to connect you to the ARC of Texas.
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The Arc of Texas
The Arc of Texas is the oldest and largest nonprofit, volunteer organization in the state committed to creating opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to be included in their communities and to make the choices which affect their lives. This website contains a number of excellent updates on Statewide activities,, supports and legislative initatives.
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Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services ("DADS")
The department works to improve the quality and efficiency of public and private services and supports for Texans with mental illnesses and with mental retardation so that they can increase their opportunities and abilities to lead lives of dignity and independence.
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Coalition of Texans with Disabilities
Coalition of Texans with Disabilities is a consumer directed social and economic impact organization representing people of all disabilities of all ages. Through governmental advocacy, public awareness activities and professional disability consulting, CTD ensures that persons with disabilities may work, live, learn, play and participate fully in the community of their choice.
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Imagine Enterprises, Inc.
As stated in their Website - "Imagine (which is located throughout Texas) is a new kind of organization, implementing services that demand spontaneity, flexibility, attention to detail, and customer satisfaction. Services begin with building a dream or personal goal such as employment, semi-independent living or learning a new hobby. Then, design a person-directed plan that will guide the process for achieving the goal. And finally, provide services that support the person through their journey. The very soul of the organization is the people with disabilities, welfare recipients or social security beneficiaries who desire to do and be more".
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Texas Project First
Texas Project First was created by parents, for parents...this web site is a project of the Texas Education Agency and is committed to providing accurate and consistent information to parents & families of students with disabilities.
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Advocacy, Inc.
Advocacy, Inc. is the federally funded and authorized protection and advocacy system for Texans with disabilities. It represents people with disabilities to secure their human, legal and service rights in accordance with its federal mandate. It assists people with disabilities in advocating for their human, legal and service rights.
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Self-Determined for Texas
Self-Determined for Texas is a statewide volunteer organization that provides up-to-date information to Texans with disabilities and frail elderly, their support networks and professionals on publicly funded Medicaid waiver services to accomplish self-determined lives. They have an extensive information network and hold frequent workshops and training sessions on a variety of topics aimed at assisting individuals to accomplish their personal goals.
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What is Person Directed Planning?
The North Bay Regional Center of Napa, California has created a very useful website about what is meant by the concept of "Person-Directed Individual Program Planning". While each person´s approach to their own planning process is unique, this site has a good description of what is inclduded in this very useful approach to developing a "road map" for your own supports.
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TheDesk.info
Check out this exciting website where you can find information about Medicaid services in your state. This is an accessible website about Medicaid for use by people with disabilities. The site has information posted about all fifty states and the District of Columbia. It also has a section called "MY PLAN" which is a web-based person-centered planning tool that helps people with disabilities identify their life dreams and the supports needed to achieve them.
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The Texas Council of Community Mental Health and Mental Retardation Centers
The Texas Council of Community Mental Health and Mental Retardation Centers, Inc. is an organization through which community MHMR centers work together as a public system serving Texans with mental illness, mental retardation, and chemical dependency. The website offers information about where to find your local MHMR Center, which is essential as a "place to start" when seeking eligibility to receive services from the State of Texas.
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Autism Speaks
Autism Speaks is committed to raising funds and supporting global biomedical research into the causes, prevention, treatments, and cure for autism. The work to raise public awareness about autism and its effects on individuals, families, and society.
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The American Assocation On Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)
The American Assocation On Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) is a professional association run by professionals who support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It is a 130 year old organization and was formerly known as the American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR). It changed its name to the AAIDD in January 2007 to reflect a national effort to me more person centered when addressing people with intellectual disabilities.
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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is one of 27 components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Federal government´s principal biomedical and behavioral research agency. NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NIMH mission is to reduce the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain, and behavior. They have extensive educational resources describing the symptoms, causes, and supports for many different forms of developmental disabilities.
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American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The AACAP developed Facts for Families to provide concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families. These are more "medical" in their orientation, but also include information about some of the psychiatric interventions that are used for people with intellectual and develpomental disabilities. Follow this link to "AACAP Facts for Families".
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United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention
The CDC is one of the major operating components of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. They provide many informational resources about various mental and physical conditions, including an extensive review on the topics of Developmental Disabilities, Autism, Mental Retardation and Cerebral Palsy.
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American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The AACAP developed Facts for Families to provide concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families. These are more "medical" in their orientation, but also include information about some of the psychiatric interventions that are used for people with intellectual and develpomental disabilities. Follow this link to "AACAP Facts for Families".
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