Our family has a sponsored child living in Ethiopia through the World Vision program. An eight-year-old petite girl named Anyme. As with all large agencies, I am sure that they have their negative attributes. However, we can see that our sponsored daughter is receiving an education and needed supplies that she otherwise would not have. A recent photo of her and her father included the family’s prized bull.

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If you’re parenting a child who receives (or should receive) special education services you have to know about the Parent Training and Information Center (PTI) and/or the Community Parent Resource Center (CPRC) in your state. Some states have more than one. The centers’ mission is to:

provide training and information to parents of infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities and to professionals who work with children. This assistance helps parents to participate more effectively with professionals in meeting the educational... more

I asked Google to search for Foster Adoptive Family Resource Center. There were 1,900,000 results. I realized that many states have centers that specifically offer services to foster and adoptive families. Have you considered getting involved with your local center? If you don’t have a local center, have you considered starting one?

We have a center called The Foster Adoptive Family Resource & Support Center and it serves several counties in Michigan. I have watched the Resource Center grow and expand its services over... more

I was fascinated by the article that described the Creative Growth Art Center, in existence since 1974. Its purpose is to give people with severe physical and mental disabilities the opportunity to develop as artists. And now, 30 years later, it seems that many of the center’s artists have indeed become mainstream.

The artists here are all adults with disabilities, mostly developmental disabilities such as autism or Downs Syndrome, but others have physical or psychiatric disorders as well. When... more

Parenting Special Needs Children blog proudly announces the addition of a category: Resource Tuesday. In this category we will profile an organization (business or non-profit) that provides resources special needs children and their families, or adoptive and foster children and their families. We hope that this will provide an active resource list for parents seeking information, but also provide some ideas of how you can “give back” through volunteer and donor involvement with any of these organizations.

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