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ACES

Adverse Childhood Experiences

Abuse, neglect & household challenges That are experienced before age 18 can be offset by providing Positive Childhood Experiences. Early childhood trauma.

“Feeling safe allows oneself to take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share feelings, and grow.” - Alfie Kohn

Lifelines, Hotlines,& Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Academy on Health and Violence

    • Description: Advances health education and research in the recognition, treatment and prevention of health effects related to violence and abuse. Integrates findings into society.

    • Website: avahealth.org

  • ACEs Aware

  • ACEsTooHigh.com

  • American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children

    • Description: The mission of APSAC is to improve society’s response to the abuse and neglect of its children.

    • APSAC Website: https://www.apsac.org

  • * Bettie D. Gonzalez Foundation of Hope

    • Description: The goal is that motherless daughters would have an advocate in life to set goals teach life and leadership skills, and reaffirm potential.

    • Website: https://bdghope.org

  • Battered Women’s Justice Project

    • Description: Effective and just response to victims and perpetrators of intimate partner violence and the child exposed to this type of violence.

    • Website: https://www.bwjp.org

  • Bella Vista Foundation

    • Website: https://www.bellavistafoundation.org

    • Description: California grant for high school students focusing on adversity, homelessness, foster care, trauma-informed practices, leadership, anti bullying, mentorship, empowerment, general health, substance abuse prevention, school gardens

  • * Big Life Journal

    • Description: Help build confidence, self-esteem, and resilience by featuring journals for tweens and teens.

    • Website: https://biglifejournal.com

  • Boys Town

    • Description: Serves children & families in crisis, with complex health care conditions, fosters juvenile justice reform in the form of rehabilitation & support rather than punishment & incarceration

    • Website: https://www.boystown.org

  • Child Welfare League of America

    • Description: Consists of hundreds of private and public agencies that work to serve vulnerable children and families.

    • Website: https://www.cwla.org

  • Connect Safely

    • Website: https://connectsafely.org

    • Description: Parental controls, TikTok, cyberbulling, regulations for age assurance technologies

  • * Elizabeth Smart Foundation

    • Description: Hope to end victimization and exploitation of sexual assault through prevention, recovery, and advocacy, featuring Smart Talks and the We Believe You Campaign.

    • Website: https://www.elizabethsmartfoundation.org

  • * Erin’s Law

    • Description: Believes all public schools in each state should implement a prevention-oriented child sexual abuse program.

    • Website: https://www.erinslaw.org

  • Futures Without Violence

    • Description: A health and social justice nonprofit to heal those who are traumatized by violence creating healthy families and communities free of violence.

    • Website: https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org

  • Lynn Family Foundation

  • Justice for Children

  • * KKC Cares:

    • Description: Offers a online support group nationwide with confidential advocacy for services and information to direct and indirect victims of childhood sexual abuse. Clients receive advocacy support for court proceedings, interactions with law enforcement, and other assistance and connect with others from across the nation going through similar situations.

    • Website: https://www.kkccares.org

  • National Children’s Alliance

    • Description: An alliance of more than 500 Children's Advocacy Centers throughout the United States devoted to helping victims of child abuse.

    • NCA Website: www.nationalchildrensalliance.org

  • Mama Bear Effect

    • Description: Provides down-to-earth awareness and prevention education on child sexual abuse, taboo topics, discomfort to effectively empower children, and response teams, featuring the “it happened” and “tie one” campaigns.

    • Website: https://themamabeareffect.org

  • Made to Shine Story Time

  • ! The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

    • Website: https://www.nctsn.org

    • Description: Guidance and resources to support and navigate stress and trauma, find treatments and include a course on child and family stress intervention

  • * Reno Foundation

    • Description: Builds and leverages community partnerships to support children with extraordinary and unique needs through various programs, featuring, “Bears n Badges” program, denim drive, reading rooms in courthouses, wishes, and scholarships.

    • Website: https://www.renorodeofoundation.org

  • Safe Families for Children

    • Website: https://safe-families.org

    • Description: Creates extended family-like support for families facing crisis through a community of compassionate volunteers to keep children safe and families together.

  • * Stop it Now

    • Website: https://www.stopitnow.org

    • Description: Mobilizes adults, families, and communities by offering services, prevention education, and technical assistance to stop sexual abuse of children before they are harmed, featuring the circles of safety training.

  • What’s Ok

    • Website: www.whatsok.org

    • Description: Understanding relationships, boundaries, consent, sexual content, sexual thoughts & behaviors,

  • Take it Down

    • Website: https://takeitdown.ncmec.org

    • Description: A free service that can help remove or stop online sharing of nude, sexually explicit images or videos taken when you were under age 18

  • Together for Girls

    • Websites: https://www.togetherforgirls.org

    • Description: Uses advocacy, data, and action to prevent and respond to violence towards girls, featuring humanization initiatives.

  • Young Warriors

    • Website: https://www.youngwarriors.org

    • Description: Young Warriors program mentors boys 8-18 who have come up against adversity (i.e., non-existent positive male figures, poverty, and trauma)

    $ Glance at Funding Opportunities

  • Bella Vista Foundation (see above) - scholarship

  • Lynn Family Foundation (see above) - scholarship

    * Toolkits & More

  • ACES Test (see below): https://acestoohigh.com/got-your-ace-score

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ADHD

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

  • CHADD

    • Website: https://chadd.org

    • Description: Improving the lives of people affected by ADHD through advocacy, research, and resources for adults, parents, educators, and professionals.

  • Child Mind Institute

    • Website: https://childmind.org

    • Description: Support for children who are struggling with mental health, behavior, and learning challenges, a 4 week summer program for ages 5-10

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

* Toolkits & More

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Advocacy in Schools

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Child Mind Institute

    • Website: https://childmind.org

    • Description: Support for parent training and consultation for school refusal and avoidance behaviors

      $ Glance at Funding Opportunities

      * Toolkits & More

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Adoption

Adoption, seen as a societal intervention, poses protective and developmental risks. There are different pathways to adoption, some met with immediate or delayed levels of adversity and trauma. Trauma resulting from neglect, deprivation and threatening life circumstances. Impairments in language acquisition have been seen if placed beyond the sensitive periods of language development whereas having multiple caregivers can impact attachment bonding (Brodzinsky et al., 2022).

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF)

    • Description: Offers adoption assistance, financial assistance for adopting children with special needs, pay for healthcare

    • Website:

  • Buckner Hope Shines Here (Hope Center & Family Pathways Ministries)

    • Description: Protecting children, strengthening families, serving seniors and empowering generations through foster care, adoption, and retirement.

    • Website: https://www.buckner.org

    Lemieux Family Center

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

  • Department for Children and Families (DCF) (see above)- Adoption & financial assistance

* Toolkits & More

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References:

Brodzinsky, D., Gunnar, M., Palacios,J. (2022). Adoption and Trauma: Risks, recovery and the lived experience of adoption. Child Abuse Negl. 130 (Pt 2).

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Aging

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

  • Eldercare Locator

    • Phone: 800-677-1116

    • Website: www.eldercarelocator@usaging.org

    • Website: www.eldercare.acl.gov

  • National Elder Fraud Hotline

    • Phone: 1-833-Fraud-11 (833-372-8311)

    • Eldercare Locator helpline: 1-800-677-1116

Advocacy & Resources

  • US Aging

    • Website: www.usaging.org

    • Description: Supports area agencies and advocates for the Title VI Native American Aging Programs.

  • Center for Elder Abuse

    • Website: https://ncea.acl.gov

    • Description: Supportive counseling to ease uncertainty, anxiety, and stress. Offers guidance, discussions, and education about elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

* Toolkits & More

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Farm to Food

Agriculture

A means to produce high-quality food and defeat hunger

A farm is more than land and crops, it’s family heritage and future - Unknown

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Allegheny Mountain Institute (AMI) Fellowship

  • * Fresh Food Connect

  • Heifer Project International

    • Website: https://www.heifer.org

    • Description: Training and growing farmers and investing in communities (nutritious food, shelter, clean water, education, health care) in 21 countries

  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

    • Website: https://www.fao.org

    • Description: Leading international efforts to defeat hunger, achieve food security, and produce high-quality food

  • * Kansas AgrAbility Program (KAP)

    • Website: https://atk.ku.edu/kansas-agrability

    • Phone: 1-800-526-3648.

    • Description: Kansas State University, Southeast Kansas Independent Living (SKIL), and Assistive Technology for Kansans (ATK) at the University of Kansas AgrAbility program assists Kansas farmers, ranchers, employees, and family who are injured, have health conditions or have any disability so that they can continue in their agricultural career.

  • Leg up

    • Website: https://www.legupfarm.org

    • Description: Provides farming adventures and community collaboration to children with disabilities and developmental delays.

  • The Rodale Institute

    • Website: https://rodaleinstitute.org

    • Description: Leader in modern organic food movement, organic farming, organic food production, and regenerative science to decrease climate change, hunger, poverty

      $ Glance at Funding Opportunities

      * Toolkits & More

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Allergies

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Allergy and Asthma Foundation of America (AAFA)

    • Website: http://www.aafa.org

    • Description: Support, advocacy, research, and training for people with asthma and allergies.

  • Allergy and Asthma Network

  • Alison Rose Foundation

  • Elijah-Alavi Foundation

    • Website: https://www.elijahalavifoundation.org

    • Description: Elijah’s law toolkit, national awareness for food allergies and asthma in childcare, daycare settings, and school, training for professionals regardless of SES status to ensure conditions are appropriately managed. Learn the signs of anaphylaxis.

  • End Allergies Together “EAT”

  • Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Connection Team “FAACT”

    • Website: https://www.foodallergyawareness.org

    • Description: Education, advocacy, support groups, connections with parents and adults affected by food allergies and life-threatening anaphylaxis. FAACT educates, advocates, and raises awareness about research in order to keep those safe

  • Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE)

    • Website: https://www.foodallergy.org

    • Description: Provides information about food allergy issues, advocacy needs, rights of individuals, inclusion, congress initiatives, training, and awareness campaigns.

  • The KeepSmilin4Abbie Foundation

  • Natalie Giorgi Sunshine Foundation

  • Kids with Food Allergies (KFA)

  • Red sneakers for Oakley-Foundation

    • Website: https://www.redsneakers.org

    • Description: In memory of Oakley, a young boy who suffered from asthma and an allergy to nuts, an allergy-friendly handbook, allergy-safe restaurants, and allergy-friendly doctors

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

* Toolkits & More

  • Alison Rose Foundation - Curriculum

  • Elijah-Alavi Foundation - Toolkit

  • FAACT (see above) - Friends Helping Friends Allergy Support Group

  • Oakley-Foundation (see above) handbook on allergy-safe restaurants, and allergy-friendly doctors

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ALS

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Augie’s Quest to Cure ALS

  • Muscular Dystrophy Association

    • Website: http://www.mdausa.org

    • Description: Find care related to MDA, ALS, related neuromuscular disorders, accelerating research, advancing care and advocacy

    $ Glance at Funding Opportunities

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Alzheimer’s & Dementia

Remember their love when they cannot remember - unknown

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

  • Alzheimer’s Association Heart of America

    • Website:https://www.alz.org

    • Phone: 800-272-3900

    • Description: Works to end Alzheimer's and all other dementia — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support

Advocacy & Resources

  • Alzheimers.Gov

    • Website: https://www.alzheimers.gov

    • Description: making every day better for people with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, their caregivers, and their families

  • Alzheimer’s International

    • Website: https://www.alzint.org

    • Description: An organization focused on risk reduction, timely diagnosis, care, and inclusion today, and cure tomorrow

  • Cure Alzheimer’s Fund

    • Website: https://curealz.org

    • Description: Funding research to prevent, slow, or reverse Alzheimer’s disease

  • National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke

  • Project Care (North Carolina)

    • Website: https://www.payingforseniorcare.com/north-carolina/project-care

    • Description: Responds to the needs, values, and preferences of individuals who directly care for a family member or friend with Alzheimer's disease or related dementia (ADRD), sending dementia-trained social workers to their family’s home to assess the needs of the primary caregiver

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

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Animal Therapy

Therapy pets can include dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, guinea pigs, rats, miniature pigs, llamas, alpacas, horses, donkeys and mini-horses - When I need a hand, I found your paw - unknown

Lifelines,Hotlines & Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Broken Wings Ranch

    • Website: https://www.brokenwingranchministries.org

    • Description: Their mission is to minister, both socially and spiritually, to the youth and families of the surrounding communities while creating hope for their future. horse riding, gardening

  • Pets for Life:

    • Website: https://www.kcpetsforlife.com

    • Description: Carefully screened pets visit facilities including hospitals, nursing facilities, shelters for domestic violence, mental health centers, schools, hospice centers, providing needed social, metal and physical stimulation.

  • Touching Moments

    • Website: https://touchmoments.org

    • Description: pet handler teams, therapeutic riding, literacy reading program, read-to dogs, animal assistance

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

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Animal Welfare/ Pets

An animal’s key survival is through engagement on landscape and marine conservation, policy and disaster response and discussion on crime and research

I can’t speak for myself, you are my voice - unknown

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Animal Welfare Fund

    • Website: https://funds.effectivealtruism.org

    • Description: To improve the well-being of nonhuman animals, by making grants that focus on neglected geographical regions or groups of animals, research to improve understanding of issues, improvements in farm animal welfare policies, animal advocacy, animal well-being, activities that could make it easier to help animals in the future, and best-in-class opportunities, corporate reform, research on alternative proteins

  • American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)

    • Website: https://www.aspca.org

    • Description: Direction and guidelines for animal-assisted therapy, animal behavior, animal poison control, humane education, shelter, and more, saving animals from dog fighting, puppy Mills, hoarding, and other cruelty situations, providing animal medical care and behavior rehabilitation and helping animals find forever homes.

  • Association of Zoos and Aquariums

    • Website: https://www.aza.org

    • Description: advances the zoo and aquarium movement with a commitment to being a global leader in promoting species conservation and animal welfare by leveraging the size, scope, expertise, and public trust of its member institutions, program may include Safe Program, Frog Watch

  • Audubon

    • Website: https://www.audubon.org

    • Description: Protects birds and their environment through science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation

  • Back to the Wild

    • Website: https://www.backtothewild.org

    • Description: Rehabilitates and releases injured, orphaned, and displaced wildlife back into their natural habitat

  • Catholic Charities (St. Vincent De Paul)

  • IFAW

    • Website: https://www.ifaw.org

    • Description: Presses issues for the protection of animals in need across the globe

  • Performing Animals Welfare Society

    • Website: http://www.pawsweb.org

    • Description: Protects and provides sanctuary for abused, abandoned, and retired captive wildlife

  • Red Rover

    • Website: https://redrover.org

    • Description: Bringing animals out of the crisis situation, strengthening bonds, emergency shelter, disaster relief services, financial assistance, and education. Grant program for financial and emotional support for pet guardians

  • Salvation Army

    • Website: https://www.salvationarmyusa.org

    • Description: Holiday giveaway, Rent and Utility Assistance, Homeless Shelters, Rehabilitation, Disaster Relief, Job Training, Summer Camps, Services for the Aging, Life Skills to Escape Poverty, Grassroots Services, Services to all, Responses to Human Trafficking, Spiritual and Worship Services, Veteran Services, pets

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

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Apraxia

Difficulty with Skilled Movements and Gestures

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter - James Earl Jones

Lifelines, Helplines, & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Apraxia Kids Organization

    • Website: Apraxia-kids.org

    • Description: a motor speech disorder that makes it difficult for those to speak. Children generally have a good understanding of language and know what they want to say, However, they have difficulty learning or carrying out the complex sequenced movements that are necessary for intelligible speech.

  • The Orange Effect Foundation

    • Website: https://theorangeeffect.org

    • Description: Making sure children with speech disorders receive the speech therapy and technology they need

  • National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke

  • Small Steps in Speech

    • Website: https://www.smallstepsinspeech.org

    • Description: helping children with speech and/or language disorders take the steps needed to be better communicators. Provides grants on behalf of children with speech and language disorders for therapies, treatments, communicative devices, and other services not covered by insurance or Medicaid aimed at improving their communication skills

    $ Glance at Funding Opportunities

  • The Orange Effect Foundation (see above) - Grants

  • Small Steps in Speech (see above) - Grants

    * Toolkits & More

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Anxiety

“Start Where You Are. Use What You Have. Do What You Can.” - Arthur Ashe

“You don’t need to climb a mountain to be on top of the world.” unknown

“I’m like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.” - Bess Myerson

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Active minds

  • Child Mind Institute

    • Website: https://childmind.org

    • Description: Support for children who are struggling with mental health, behavior, and learning challenges, Brave Buddies program for ages 3-5 and social anxiety groups for ages 9-25

  • Half of Us

    • Website: http://www.halfofus.com

    • Description: Offers support for your own mental health, actions to take, information on breathing strategies and strategies to help with overwhelming feelings

  • Now Matters Now

    $ Glance at Funding Opportunities

    * Toolkits & More

  • Active minds - Toolkit

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Art

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation

    • Website: gottliebfoundation.org

    • Description: Worldwide grants to visual artists, 1. Annual individual support grant 2. Emergency-grant one-time grants to painters, print-makers, and sculptors facing unforeseen catastrophic incidents

    $ Glance at

    Funding Opportunities

  • Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (see above) - grant

    * Toolkits & More

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Assistive Technology

Technology can be extremely useful allowing children and adults the opportunity to have a voice and advocate for their individual needs. Though the price of i-pads have reduced, setting up an AAC device is still costly. Here are some steps to fund an alternative augmentative communication device (AAC).

Request consultation: Request an AAC consultation and evaluation to see which device is most effective.

Gather professional letters to submit to insurance or charities outlining the area of need and medical necessity.

Contact school officials and IEP team to see about adding the Augmentative Communication Device into the IEP and Funding for the the AAC device. If a client needs a communication system, it should be funded through the school district.

Contact insurance companies to see if AAC devices can be funded through a durable medical equipment provider or another funding method.

Contact the local agencies such as CDDO to see if they have additional funds or scholarships to fund such device

Consider Contacting charities and apply for funding grants

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Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Adaptech Research Network

    • Website: https://adaptech.org/downloads

    • Description: free and inexpensive adaptive technology and accessibility features and
      adaptive technology on various computer software programs, phone & tablet apps, web browser extensions, etc. 

  • Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA)

    • Website: https://www.atia.org

    • Description: Using assistive technology products, equipment and systems to enhance learning, working and daily living, with resources guide to finding funding.

  • Assistive Technology for Kansans

    • Website: https://atk.ku.edu

    • Description: Connects people with disabilities with assistive technology for work, play, and participation in community life.

  • Association of Assistive Technology Act Projects

    • Website: http://www.ataporg.org

    • Description: 21st century assistive technology act (ACT) prompts access to assistive technology devices and services through assistive technology programs offered at the local, State and national level

  • AT 3 Center

    • Website: https://www.at3center.net

    • Description: Information about each state’s AT program, promoting people’s awareness of, and access to, assistive technology devices and services. Under the law, each U.S. state and territory receives a grant to fund an Assistive Technology Act Program (AT Act). These programs provide services to persons with disabilities for their entire life span, as well as to their families or guardians, service providers, and agencies and other entities that are involved in providing services such as education and employment to persons with disabilities.

  • College Stats

    • Website: www.collegestats.org

    • Description: A guide of resources and technologies available for students with various disabilities

  • Kansas Equipment Exchange Reuse Program

  • Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)

    • Website: http://www.resna.org

    • Description: Maximize the health and well being of people with disabilities through technology

      $ Glance at Funding Opportunities

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Autism Spectrum Disorder

Excesses or Deficits in Social-Communication and Behavior

I am different, not less - Temple Grandin

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

    • Website: https://www.aacap.org

    • Description: Autism Resoruce Center for clinicians, and families.

  • American Autism Organization

    • Website: https://www.myautism.org

    • Description: Provides recreational projects to low income families whose children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder; sending families to Kings Island, Bush Gardens, Walt Disney World, Indianapolis Zoo, Sea World, Children's Museum, Cedar Point and Myrtle Beach

  • ARC - Wings of Air Program

  • ASAN - Autistic Self Advocacy Network

    • Website: https://autisticadvocacy.org

    • description: Advances the principles of the disability rights movement toward autism, advocating for equal access, rights and opportunities, focusing on policy and legal advocacy, making educational resources, creating advocacy tools and leadership training for autistic self-advocates, run by and for autistic people, supporting neurodiversity friendly environments

  • Association of Autism Treatment (ASAT)

    • Website: https://asatonline.org

    • Description: Provides resources for accurate, timely, and science-based treatments countering unsubstantiated, inaccurate, and false claims for people with autism

  • Autism after 21

    • Website: https://www.autismafter21.org

    • Description: Autism doesn’t end at 21, helping young adults on the Autism Spectrum confidently build foundations for their future

  • Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network

    • Website: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/addm.html

    • Description: Funded by the CDC to collect data to understand the number and characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities living in different areas of the United States.

  • Autism Foundation

    • Website: https://www.autism-foundation.org/

    • Description: creating a more inclusive and supportive world for those living with autism and their families, offers resources, build connections, and foster understanding of autism, providing support, education, and advocacy to those in need.

  • Autism Hope for Families

    • Website: http://www.autismhopeforfamilies.com

    • Description: A Kansas support group which assists with finding services, financial support, fundraising, and raising public awareness for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder, baseball game & license plates

  • The Autism Site - Autism for the greater good

  • $ Anchor of Hope Foundation

    • Website: https://www.anchorofhopefoundation.org

    • Description: Offers financial assistance to Georgians that is not covered by insurance or Medicaid to individuals who can provide proof of diagnosis of a developmental disability for therapy, education, equipment, and other direct needs

  • Anthony Schmidt Photography

  • Asperger/Autism Network

    • AANE Website: https://www.aane.org

    • Description: Provides education, community, support, and advocacy to helps people with autism spectrum and neurodiverse profiles build meaningful connected lives.

  • * Autism Awareness Project

  • Autism Cares Foundation

    • Website: https://autismcaresfoundation.org

    • Description: A place to turn to for answers navigating the system surrounding autism, raising funds to benefit children and young adults afflicted with autism

  • $ The Autism Community in Action

    • TACA Website: https://tacanow.org

    • Description: provides education, support, and hope to families living with autism so that every individual diagnosed with autism can lead independent lives. Provides scholarships to families pursuing treatment; National liquid immunity bundle scholarship

  • $ Autism Care Today

  • *$ Autism Spectrum Disorder Foundation

    • Website: https://myasdf.org

    • Description: Information and support for autism spectrum disorder identifying red flags warranting diagnosis. Featuresing early detection kits, modified checklist for autism in toddlers (M-CHAT), autism treatment evaluation checklist (ATEC) for older children and offers scholarship and funding program for social skills camps, iPads, Holiday gift cards, and swim program

  • * Autism of the Seas

    • Website: http://autismontheseas.com

    • Features: Royal Caribbean Cruises that provide staff and accommodations for families with autism.

  • Autism Partnership Foundation

  • Autism Law Summit

    • Website: https://www.autismlawsummit.org

    • Description: an annual gathering of parents, advocates, autism service providers, lawyers, individuals with autism, lobbyists, and legislators from across the US who are interested in the politics and policy of autism spectrum disorders

  • Autism Neighborhood Organization

    • Website: http://autismneighborhood.org

    • Description: Interviews by experts, professionals, and families with up-to-date information and educational materials to help others handle the challenges presented by life with autism

  • Autism Research Institute

    • Website https://autism.org

    • Description: Funding research and education support for autistic individualism, for parents and care providers, for clinicians and therapists and for researchers

  • Autism Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN)

    • Website: https://autisticadvocacy.org

    • Description: To advance the principles of the disability rights movement, equal access to rights and opportunities

  • $ Autism Speaks

    • Website: https://autismspeaks.org

    • Description: An organization for individuals and families with autism that promotes solutions across the spectrum and throughout the life span. Grants and scholarships to families and organizations for coverage of costs related to critical expenses and the well-being of the individual, family or groups served

  • Autism Society

  • Autism Society of the Heartland - University of Kansas

    • Website: https://www.asaheartland.org

    • Description: A professional organization, recognizing many individuals, support through grants and scholarship, referral of services, educational workshops, Saturday seminars,

  • Autism Mental Health Insurance Project

    • Website: https://www.mhautism.org

    • Description: Helps families and providers with Autism Spectrum and mental health conditions obtain health care services to access interventions and treatment of medical necessity. assists the public and legislators with education, single case agreements, billing, claims, appeals, and regulatory laws.

  • The Behavior Analyst Certification Board

    • Website: https://www.bacb.com

    • Description: The BACB accredits BCBA, BCaBA and RBTs in order to protect consumers of behavior-analytic services by establishing promoting, and disseminating professional standards of practice.

  • Building Blocks for Kids

    • Website: https://bb4k.org

    • Description: envisions a community where the needs of children with physical, emotional, and developmental challenges are being met. Providing health related grants to children in the Cincinnati/Tri-State area.

  • C.A.R.E. Foundation

    • Website: https://careautismfoundation.com

    • Description: Autism Speaks Family Grant and CARE Grant Program helps families with medication, autism diagnosis/evaluation, therapy session (including speech, OT, and ABA), and autism summer camps.

  • Child Mind Institute

    • Website: https://childmind.org

    • Description: Support for children who are struggling with mental health, behavior, and learning challenges, with Lego therapy skills groups, Children’s Friendship Training, Peers Program, Project ImPACT, ADOS-2 training, Early Childhood Social Skills Groups.

  • Colors of Autism

    • Website: https://thecolorofautism.org/

    • Description: autism affects children of every race, ethnic group and socioeconomic status. Colors of autism is Committed to ending the stigma of Autism Spectrum Disorders in communities of color. African American children are frequently confronted with late diagnosis or misdiagnosis.

  • Challenge Air

  • Dan Marino Foundation

  • $Different Needz Foundation

    • Website: http://www.differentneedzfoundation.org

    • Description: The Different Needz Foundation was inspired by the life of Luke Jordan. Luke was born with developmental disabilities which caused many physical disabilities and medical conditions funding grants are available to families with children with special needs.

  • Discover Seven Stars

    • Website: https://discoversevenstars.com

    • Description: Seven Stars’ outcome-driven, innovative Autism and neurodiverse program design combines residential treatment, a specialized academic program  and outdoor adventure experiences. 

  • Everything Autism

  • Families CAN Parent Education Project (University of Houston)

    • Website: https://www.uh.edu/education/pep/families-can

    • Description: Information referrals, casework services, assistance with agencies, children’s resources, education program, support group from a parent-to-parent perspective.

  • $ Hannah and Friends

    • Website: https://www.hannahandfriends.org

    • Description: nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for children and adults with special needs. Provides grants for families that care for children and adults with special needs in Florida, Indiana, greater Michiana, Kansas, Kansas City Metro Area, Rhode Island and New York.

  • HollyRod Foundation

    • Website: https://hollyrod.org

    • Description: Provides empowerment, raising awareness and provides resources for autism and Parkinson’s Disease, advocating for ethical treatment, inclusion and access to services and treatment. o families that have a loved one who has received an autism or Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis.

  • iTaalk

    • Website: https://www.itaalk.org

    • Description: giving children with autism a voice… and so many resources. Provides assisted technology in Ohio area

  • Finding Cooper’s Voice

    • Website: https://www.findingcoopersvoice.com

    • Description: Finding Cooper's Voice, a place where you can celebrate the unique challenges of parenting a special needs child. And a place that understands you. Also has a more than projects supporting siblings and teachers as well as coops troop.

  • Jacks Place for Autism

  • Jordan’s Summer Shirt Project

  • Lacrosse Area Autism Foundation

    • Website: Https://www.laxautism.org

    • Description: facilitates autism awareness, support, and funding in the La Crosse, Wisconsin area

  • Let’s Chat Autism

    • Website: https://autismlc.com

    • Description: empowering individuals with Autism, their family and professionals living in Ohio

  • Operation Autism

    • Website: https://operationautism.org

    • Description: A resource guide fo military families including autism 101, early warning signs, education, information on evidence based and alternative treatment approaches.

  • Operation Save the Lost

    • Website: https://www.facebook.com/operationsavethelost

    • Description: A non-profit organization with the intent of providing tracking devices families with loved ones on the Autism Spectrum. Application for tracking devices closed as of 4/26/2023

  • Pervis Jackson Jr Autism Foundation

    • Website: http://www.pjjraf.com

    • Description: Provides comfort to parents of children handicapped by autism and other disabilities. funding to parents who show a need for camp sessions, respite care, house help, cooking help, spa day, urgent bills, and intervention not covered by insurance or other sources.

  • National Council on Severe Autism

    • Website: https://www.ncsautism.org

    • Description: Support for severe autism, whom requires continuous or near-continuous, lifelong services, supports, and supervision.

  • The National Clearinghouse on Autism Evidence and Practice

  • National Autism Association

    • website: https://nationalautismassociation.org

    • Description: Information and resources to support autism spectrum disorder. Information on wandering prevention and response. Funds helping hand program. They provide one time grants to individuals who are confronted by adversity and who do not qualify for financial assistance through other agencies. Give a Voice program to provide effective communication to individuals with autism or unreliably speaking, including iPad AAC program and S2C (Spelling 2 Communicate) and RPM (Rapid Prompting Method)

  • The Orange Effect Foundation

  • Small Steps in Speech

    • Website: https://www.smallstepsinspeech.org

    • Description: helping children with speech and/or language disorders take the steps needed to be better communicators. Grants on behalf of children with speech and language disorders for therapies, treatments, communicative devices and other services not covered by insurance or Medicaid aimed at improving their communication skills.

  • Sailing Angels

  • The September 26 Project:

    • Website: https://www.september26.org

    • Description: The annual emergency preparedness checkup for autism and special needs families in honor of Feda and Muhammad Almaliti.

  • Younique Abilities

  • SPARK for Autism

  • Simons Foundation

    • Website: https://www.sfari.org

    • Description: 100 million in research to advance the basic science of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders.

  • Toddler Tracks: SouthEastern Telehealth Resource Center

    • Website: https://setrc.us/toddler-home

    • Description: Support for Early Intervention for Autism with resources on diagnosis and assessment of ASD, care coordination and behavior health integration, and Telehealth treatments for ASD

  • Younique Abilities

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Funding Opportunities

  • The Adult with Autism Scholarship

  • American Autism Organization (see above) - recreation scholarship

  • The ASD Ascend Autism College Scholarships

  • The Autism Can Do Scholarship

  • Autism for Hope Scholarship / Integrated Behavioral Technologies (see above) - recreation and material scholarship

  • Autism Family Services of New Jersey Scholarship

  • Autism Research Texas Scholarship

  • Building blocks: health grants

  • The Avonte Oquendo Memorial Scholarship Autism Delaware

  • C.A.R.E. Foundation (see above) financial assistance grant

  • Dentistry by John Barras, DDS Scholarship

  • Don Miller Scholarship

  • Feldman Law Firm Autism Scholarship

  • Incight Scholarship

  • iTaalk (see above) - communication/AAC grant

  • The Jacob Trotter Memorial Scholarship

  • Jacks Place for Autism (see above) - funding

  • The Kelly Law Team Autism Scholarship Contest

  • KFM Making a Difference Scholarship

  • The Law Office of David P. Shapiro Scholarship

  • Law Offices of David A. Black Autism Scholarship

  • Lawrence Madeiros Memorial Scholarship

  • The Lisa Higgins Hussman Scholarship

  • National Autism Association (see above) - One-time grants

  • Organization for Autism Research

  • The Percy Martinez Autism Scholarship

  • Pervis Jackson Jr Autism Foundation (see above) - scholarship for families

  • Rise Scholarship Foundation

  • The Schwallie Family Scholarship

  • Small Steps in Speech - Family scholarship

* Toolkits & More

  • Challenge Air - Flight opportunities

  • Sailing Angels (see above) - Sailing adventures

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Asthma

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Air Now

    • Website: https://www.airnow.gov

    • Description: Air quality and health index for teachers, students and health professionals, fires

  • Allergy and Asthma Foundation of America (AAFA)

    • Website: http://www.aafa.org

    • Description: Support, advocacy, research, and training for people with asthma and allergies.

  • Allergy and Asthma Network

  • Elijah-Alavi Foundation

    • Website: https://www.elijahalavifoundation.org

    • Description: Elijah’s law tool kit, national awareness for food allergies and asthma in childcare, daycare settings, and school, training for professionals regardless of SES status to ensure conditions are appropriately managed. Learn the signs of anaphylaxis.

  • Red sneakers for Oakley-Foundation

    • Website: https://www.redsneakers.org

    • Description: In memory of Oakley, a young boy who suffered from asthma and an allergy to nuts, an allergy-friendly handbook, allergy-safe restaurants, and allergy-friendly doctors

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* Toolkits & More

  • Oakley-Foundation (see above) - Allergy-friendly handout, restaurants & doctors

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