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Camps

Build self-esteem, learn resiliency, explore, be adventurous, make decisions for independence, meet new people

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Achievement Center

  • Camp Alsing

    • Website: https://campalsing.com

    • Description: Summer camp in Maine, ages 10-22, for those who may struggle with social communication, executive functioning and/or anxiety

  • Camp Quality (USA)

  • Camp Wood (YMCA)

  • Everything Autism

    • Website: https://everythingautism.org

    • Description: Houston Parent-driven resource guide for parents of kids, teens, and adults with autism, including a list of camps.

  • Yuri’s Night & Cosmic Odyssey Scholarship

    • Website: https://yurisnight.net

    • Description: Cancer patients or survivors can apply to attend summer camp at the Huntsville US Space & Rocket Center Museum at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center complete with travel, tuition, lodging, food, certificate, space camp wings, and awesome space swag

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

  • Yuri’s Night & Cosmic Odyssey (see above) - Camp Scholarship

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Cancer

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear” - unknown

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Adolescent and Young Adult program (AYA) at Children’s Mercy Kansas City

    • Website: Multiple hospitals and Cancer Centers

    • Description: Support patients 13-21 receiving cancer or blood disorders by offering training support and social work by training child-life professionals, nutrition, and fertility, receive full support transitioning into adulthood

  • Amanda’s Hope - Comfy Cozy for Chemo

  • American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

    • Website: https://www.aacr.org

    • Description: A cancer research organization dedicated to accelerating the conquest of cancer

  • American Cancer Society - Extended Stay America Program

    • Website: https://www.cancer.org

    • description: A supportive cancer organization providing information on cancer, community outreach, and recovery programs, provides lodging assistance for individuals with cancer

  • American Children’s Cancer Benevolence Fund (ACCBF) Amanda’s Hope - Comfy Cozy for Chemo

    • Phone: 813-550-8999

    • Description: Grants of financial support

  • American Life Fund

  • American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

  • ALSAC - American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities

    • Website: https://www.stjude.org

    • Description: The fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

  • $ Angela Andrade Foundation

    • Website: http://angelaandradefoundation.blogspot.com/

    • Description: 4 grants available in 2023 in the amount of $1800 used for financial assistance to metastatic breast cancer patients receiving treatment for outstanding medical bills, mortgage payments, tuition assistance, financial assistance for vacation

  • Austin Hatcher Foundation for Pediatric Cancer

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

    • Description: Erase effects of pediatric cancer, optimize quality of life through specialized interventions at time of diagnosis through survivorship

  • The BstronG Forever Foundation

    • Website: unknown

    • Description: Provides financial assistance through charitable giving to families of children diagnosed with life threatening illnesses, supporting St. Jude Children’s Research hospital

  • Breast Cancer Research Foundation

    • Website: www.bcrf.org

    • Description: Prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing research

  • Cancer Research Institute

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

    • Description: Leading the field with support for immunotherapy research and clinical trials, funding revolutionary breakthroughs to cure all types of cancer.

  • Cancer Relief Macmillian Fund

  • Cancer Care Organization

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

    • Description: Provides counseling, case management, financial assistance, support groups, and community programs for patients, survivors, caregivers, loved ones, and healthcare professionals

  • Children’s Cancer Research Fund

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

    • Description: dedicated to finding more effective treatments and cures for kids with cancer and also fund resources and programs that help families who are fighting cancer stay strong, find community, and take care of themselves

  • Cancer Support Community - Gilda’s Club

  • Cities Cancer Challenge

  • City of Hope

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

    • Description: research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening diseases in California, advancing research and treatment protocols.

    • Location: California

  • Conquer Cancer - The ASCO Foundation             

    • Website: unknown

    • Description: founded by cancer doctors to advance prevention, treatment and cues of all types of cancer

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  • Dragonfly Foundation

    • Website: https://dragonfly.org

    • Description: Helps young cancer and bone marrow transplant patients and families find strength, courage and joy

  • Family Reach

    • Website: https://familyreach.org

    • Description: Emergency financial relief to ensure they can meet daily living expenses during treatment

  • Good Wishes

  • Grind for Life

    • Website: https://www.grindforlife.or

    • Description: Financial assistance to cancer patients traveling long distances to doctors and hospitals.

  • Hope has Arrived

  • Hope Help Live

    • Website: https://helphopelive.org

    • Description: Financial support for medical and indirect bills (transportation, lodging, lost wages care, rehabilitation, etc.) for cancer patients.

  • i-Spy

  • Inflammatory Breast Cancer Tissue Bank

  • Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Support Services

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

    • Description: provides California family-centered care team that addresses the emotional, practical, and financial struggles for families of children and teens during treatment, families experiencing anticipatory grief, and those who are bereaved

  • Lemieux Family Center

  • Less Cancer

  • Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

    • Website: https://www.lls.org

    • Description: Started as the Robert Roesler de Villiers Foundation, dedicated to curing leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, and other blood cancers, Provides funds to eligible patients with assistance for non-medical expenses

  • Live Like Bella

    • Website: https://livelikebella.org

    • Description: Assisting pediatric families undergoing treatment, assists with medical co-pays and basic needs

  • Living Beyond Breast Cancer Fund

    • Website: https://www.lbbc.org

    • Description: financial assistance used for living expenses only such as rent, mortgage, car payment, car insurance, phone, internet, cable, electricity/gas, funds are not given directly to the applicant

  • Livestrong Foundation

  • Love Hope Strength Foundation (USA) Luke Neuhedel Foundation

  • Luke Neuhedel Foundation

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

    • Description: Gifts, grants, support, and entertainment to children undergoing or have gone through pediatric cancer

  • Lungevity Foundation

  • Magee-Women’s Research the Institute & Foundation

  • Marie Curie Charity

  • Mario Lemieux Foundation for Cancer Research

  • McCabe Center for Law & Cancer

  • Miracle for Kids

    • Website: https://miraclesforkids.org

    • Description: Financial help for families with children who have cancer, ensuring basic needs are met, assistance with paying bill, providing house payment assistance, meeting basic needs, and more

  • Myositis Support and Understanding (MSU)

    • Website: https://understandingmyositis.org

    • Description: $2000 yearly assistance for medical bills, housing expenses, medical bills, mobility devices bills for idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, muscle, skin biopsy, imaging, EMG, bloodwork

  • NCD Alliance

    • Website: https://ncdalliance.org

    • Description: unite civil society and drive action on noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevention and care

  • National Breast Cancer Coalition

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI):

    • Website: www.cancer.gov

    • Description Guide to cancer basics, diagnosis and treatment

  • National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship

  • Pan Foundation

  • The Pink Fund

    • Website: https://pinkfund.org

    • Description: short-term financial aid for basic living experiences on the behavior of breast cancer patients who have lost all or part of their treatment during active treatment

  • Ovarian Cancer Patient Charity Project (OCPCP)

    • Website: https://ovariancancerpatientcharityproject.yolasite.com

    • Description: helping patients, spreading awareness and financial assistance for gynecological and breast cancer patients with no or limited coverage, to be used for treatment, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, medication, household bills, car payments, daycare, food, medical bills, and mention the amount requesting

  • Remember Betty Foundation

  • Ronald McDonald House

    • Website: https://rmhc.org

    • Description: Travel expenses for cancer, hotel stays, designated housing near hospitals

  • Samfund - Grants for Cancer Survivors

  • Share Cancer Support Organization:

  • Sisters Network, Inc.

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

    • Description: Assists breast cancer survivors facing financial challenges while undergoing treatment, Karen E Jackson Breast Cancer Assistance Program

  • Stand Up to Cancer

  • Susan G. Komen for the Cure

  • This is Living with Cancer

  • Understand Cancer together

  • Union for International Cancer Control’s (UICC)

  • William K Bowes, Jr Foundation

  • Woman’s Cancer Pavilion

  • World Cancer Congress

  • Y-Me - Breast Cancer Network of Strength

    • Website: unknown

    • Description: National breast cancer organization with chapters

  • Yuri’s Night & Cosmic Odyssey Scholarship

    • Website: https://yurisnight.net

    • Description: Cancer patients or survivors can apply to attend summer camp at the Huntsville US Space & Rocket Center Museum at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center complete with travel, tuition, lodging, food, certificate, space camp wings, and awesome space swag

Campaigns

  • Avon Foundation for Women - Breast Cancer Fund

  • Give Cancer the boot

  • Light Up the Night

  • No One Fights Alone

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

  • The BstronG Forever Foundation (see above) - Financial Assistance Scholarships for children

  • Angela Andrade Foundation - Financial Assistance ~ 1800

  • American Children’s Cancer Benevolence Fund (ACCBF) - Financial Assistance

  • Cancer Care Organization - Financial Assistance

  • Children’s Cancer Research Fund (see above) - Research

  • Grind for Life (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • Family Reach (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • Leukemia & Lymphoma Society - Nonmedical Financial Assistance

  • Live Like Bella (see above) - Financial Assistance for children

  • Living Beyond Breast Cancer Fund (see above) -Financial Assistance

  • Love Hope Strength Foundation (USA) (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • Luke Neuhedel Foundation (see above) - Grants for children

  • Myositis Support and Understanding (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • Ovarian Cancer Patient Charity Project (OCPCP) (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • The Pink Fundshort (see above) - Financial Assistance for basic living experiences

  • Remember Betty Foundation (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • Ronald McDonald House (see above) - Housing and Transportation Assistance

  • Samfund (see above) - Grants for Cancer Survivors age 21-30

  • Sisters Network, Inc. (see above) - Karen E Jackson Breast Cancer Assistance Program

  • Yuri’s Night & Cosmic Odyssey (see above) - Camp Scholarship

* Toolkits & More

  • Amanda’s Hope - Comfy Cozy Clothes for Chemo

  • Good Wishes (see above) - hair scarves

  • Woman’s Cancer Pavilion (see above) - wig products

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References

Perlmutter, J., Bell, S. K., Darien, G. (2013). Cancer Research Advocacy: Past, Present, and Future. American Association for Cancer Research.


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Careers

Providing long-term and short-term career development

“The best way to predict the future is to create it” - Abraham Lincoln

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Working Wardrobe (California)

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

    • Description: Helping men, women, young adults, and veterans overcome difficult challenges so they can achieve the dignity of work, and the power of a paycheck.

  • Kamileon Professional Development, Inc.

    • Website: https://www.kpdinc.org

    • Description: Find career advice, skills training, image makeovers, life coaching, and other resources for those wishing to re-enter the workforce.

  • Semper Fi Fund

    • Website: Semperfifund.org

    • Description: Financial support that arise from hospitalization and recovery, adaptive housing, adaptive transportation, service member and family support, education and career transition assistance, PTS and TBI support, America’s Fund, Team Semper FI

  • Upwardly Global

    • Website: Http://www.upwardlyglobal.org

    • Description: Eliminate employment barriers for immigrant and refugee professionals advancing the inclusion of their skills into the U.S. economy

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

  • Semper Fi Fund (see above) - Financial Support

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Cerebral Palsy

October 6 Is World Cerebral Palsy Day

Disorders Affecting Movement, Muscle Tone, Balance & Posture

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Alyssa V Phyillips Foundation

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

    • Description: Provides Support to individuals with Cerebral Palsy (“CP”) with a focus on assisting children with CP, the families of children with CP, or any individual impacted by CP in maximizing independence

  • Center for Parents Education $ Resources

  • Cerebral Palsy Alliance

  • The Cerebral Palsy Guide

  • The Cerebral Palsy Foundation

    • Website: https://cpresource.org

    • Description: Clinician and provider resources to make better and informed choices about cerebral palsy lifespan, learn from families and individuals through insights, fact sheets, blogs, stories, videos, podcasts and more.

  • Easter Seals

  • International Cerebral Palsy Society

    • Website: https://www.cpint.org

    • Description: Helping individuals, families, frontline professions in countries

  • Lenn Foundation

    • Website: https://thelennfoundation.org

    • Description: The Lenn Foundation provides grant opportunities for children with cerebral palsy to receive the pediatric intensive therapies they need to thrive

  • Millions of Reasons

  • United Cerebral Palsy (UCP)

    • Description: http://www.ucp.org

    • Website: Educating others through their learning series, advocating for inclusion, and providing support services and connectivity opportunities to ensure there is life without limits for people with Cerebral Palsy

  • Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation

    • Website: https://www.cprf.org

    • Description: Provides support and technology to individuals with CP. Funding packages for durable medical equipment (DME)

  • Levin Perconti (Attorney At Law)

Funding

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

  • Alyssa V Phyillips Foundation - scholarship

  • Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation (see above) grants for technology

  • Lenny Foundation (see above) - pediatric grant

* Toolkits & More

  • The Cerebral Palsy Foundation - handouts

  • The Cerebral Palsy Guide - handout

  • Levin Perconti (Attorney At Law) (see above) - Toolkit

  • Millions of Reasons (see above) - handouts

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Choice 

A Right to Choose

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

  • The Brigid Alliance

    • Website: https://brigidalliance.org

    • Description: providing assistance for travel, food, lodging, childcare, and other logistical support for people seeking abortions, with numerous resources for reference.

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

  • Brigid Alliance (see above) - financial assistance

* Toolkits & More

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Renewable Energy

Climate Justice

An urgent crisis that impacts social, economic, public health, and underprivileged people. People must acknowledge the effects of climate change in order to foster climate justice

There is no such thing as ‘away’. So, when we throw anything away, it must go somewhere. – Annie Leonard 0 - Climate Justice Alliance

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Climate NASA

  • NAACP

  • Yale Climate Connections

    • Website: yaleclimateconnections.org

    • Description: Nonpartisan, multimedia service providing broadcast radio programming and web-based reporting on climate change

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

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College

Building knowledge through specialized professional or vocational training

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Child Mind Institute

    • Website: https://childmind.org

    • Description: Support for children who are struggling with mental health, behavior, and learning challenges, and support for college students managing social and emotional situations

  • Think Higher Education

    • Website: https://thinkhighered.net

    • Description: Inclusive postsecondary education, or IPSE, is a college for students with intellectual disability, it is attending college with other peers with or without disabilities, designed to expand opportunities beyond the disability.

  • 10000 degrees

    • Website: https://www.10000degrees.org

    • Description: To achieve educational equity and to support students from low-income backgrounds to and through college to realize their full potential and positively impact their communities and the world.

  • Charles Koch Foundation

  • Degrees of Change

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

    • Description: partner with community organizations, high schools, colleges, and employers to Prepare diverse, homegrown leaders to succeed in college and career

  • Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

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

    • Description: Defends and sustains the individual rights of students and faculty members at America’s colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process, legal equality, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

  • 10000 degrees (see above) - Database of scholarships

  • Act Six (see above) - Scholarship

  • Charles Koch Foundation - Scholarships

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Community

Helping communities heal and thrive

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

California

  • Atchison Foundation

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

    • Description: Grants to non-profit agencies serving economically, mentally and/or physically, addiction, at-risk children youth, families, immigrants, and elderly.

  • CCCNP - Central City Neighborhood Partners

    • Website: https://laccnp.org

    • Description: Advancing systemic change, ensuring equal access to housing, food, health, transportation, education to benefit low-income

Connecticut

  • AmeriCares

    • Website: americares.org

    • Description: Leading the charge to support accessible, reliable health care to people affected by poverty or disaster in Stamford, CT

  • Friends of Forgotten Children

    • Website: https://www.fofc-nh.org

    • Description: a volunteer-run provider of food, clothing and holiday gifts for low income and at-risk individuals and families

Florida

  • Harvest international

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

    • Description: Humanitarian organization with a mission to provide a hand up to children and families in Florida that are 200% below poverty level

  • The Giving Project

    • Website: https://givingclosetproject.org

    • Description: Provides basic needs resource for school communities and social service agencies that work directly with homeless and low income youth and their families in Florida.

Kansas

  • Hope Unlimited

    • Website: https://hope-unlimited.org

    • Description: provides emergency shelter, support groups, crisis intervention, court assistance, sexual assault advocacy, safety planning, and healthcare resources through the healthcare initiative project as well as offers a visitation center to victims in abusive and crisis situations related to family violence, sexual assault and sexual abuse in Southeast Kansas.

Kentucky

  • Hope Unlimited Family Care Center

    • Website: https://hopeunlimitedfcc.org

    • Description: Choose hope if in crisis. Provides pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, a prenatal care clinic, parenting classes, court ordered parenting classes and student development. Learn to earn in order to access necessities from hope’s closet

Illinois

  • Hope Unlimited Family Care Center

    • Website: https://hopeunlimitedfcc.org

    • Description: Choose hope if in crisis. Provides pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, a prenatal care clinic, parenting classes, court ordered parenting classes and student development. Learn to earn in order to access necessities from hope’s closet

Indiana:

  • We Bloom

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

    • Description: Empowering healthy communities adapting to the changing needs that emerge in Vietnam and Indiana.

Maine

  • Aid for Kids

    • Website: https://aidforkids.org

    • Description: Children’s Food, Healthcare, Shelter, and education fund: Distributes new articles of clothing, dental education and Bess the Book bus program

    • Location: Maine, Vietnam

Maryland

  • Kahlert Foundation

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

    • Description: Grants to non-profit organizations improving the quality of life and well-being of the community in the areas of health care, education, youth programs, veteran organizations, and human services

Minnesota

  • SemCAC

    • Website: https://www.semcac.org

    • Description: A community action agency in Minnesota dedicated to helping people help themselves and each other

New England

  • Annie’s Angels

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

    • Description: supports local families struggling financially through a life-threatening disease, or illness. Support disability connecting neighbor to neighbor, friend to friend, and business to business in a caring fundraising network.

New York

  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    • Website: www.jdc.org

    • Description: Jewish humanitarian organization, leading rescue and aid, public health emergencies, and natural disasters, New York, NY

  • Red Hook Initiative

    • Website: https://rhicenter.org

    • Description: RHI’s model gives young people and residents the tools, resources and opportunities they need to interrupt the systems and barriers that perpetuate historic inequities for the Red Hook community.

  • Rising ground

Ohio

  • Friends Helping Friends

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

    • Description: Kindless, love, care, no judging. Offering a little extra help for those that are too proud to ask for it or do not know how to go about finding ways to get the extra boost.

  • Shoes and clothes for kids

    • Website: https://sc4k.org

    • Description: In order to increase academic attendance, Cleveland kids should have the proper tools including shoes, clothing and school supplies.

Rhode Island

  • Children’s Friend

    • Website: https://www.cfsri.org

    • Description: Supports abandoned and abused children, prevention and intervention crisis intervention, education, literacy servicesHands in Service

Pennsylvania

  • Mitvah Circle

    • Website: https://mitzvahcircle.org

    • Description: fill the gaps, to provide items that are not covered by government assistance, includes clothing, toothpaste, diapers, period items, and deodorant in Pennsylvania.

Tennessee

  • Glass House Collective

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

    • Description: Founded to bring life back to Glass Street, and Glass Street back to life in East Chattanooga, with various projects and community events.

Utah

  • Kahlert Foundation

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

    • Description: Grants to non-profit organizations improving the quality of life and well-being of the community in the areas of health care, education, youth programs, veteran organizations, and human services

Other

  • Lund

    • Website: https://lundvt.org/

    • Description: Breaking the cycles of poverty, addiction, and abuse by supporting pregnant and parenting teens, young adults, and adoptive families through adoption, education, residential treatment, outpatient treatment, family support services, screening and assessment

  • One Hope United

    • Website: https://onehopeunited.org

    • Description: a nonprofit serving over 10,000 children and families. Available to assist with education centers, child and family services, counseling, and residential programs. They use evidence-based and trauma-informed practices to empower children and families to see and create a future full of potential with the goal of building skills to live life without limits

  • The Mustard Seed

    • Website: https://mustardseedfla.org

    • Description: Furniture and clothing bank in central Florida, furnishing an entire home for economically qualifying families and individuals

  • Restore Global

    • Website: https://restoreglobal.org

    • Description: Restore Global assists non profits in purchasing supplies at a discounts. They also collect overproduced items, often-new, excess goods from corporations, manufacturers, government organizations, and retailers.

  • Tides Foundation

    • Website: https://www.tides.org

    • Description: Social justice, world prosperity, equity, human rights, economic empowerment, sustainable environments, healthy communities, quality education

    $ Funding Opportunities

    • Avery-Fuller-Welch foundation

    • Bothin Foundation

    • Chavez Family Foundation

    • Community fund of Chattanooga

    • Delaplaine Foundation

    • Dallas Foundation grants

    • Sand Hill Foundation

    * Toolkits & More

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Congenital Heart Disease

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Children’s Heart Link

    • Website: Https://childrensheartlink.org

    • Description: Trains in-country pediatric heart teams to treat children in Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

  • $ Samantha Remington Angel Heart Foundation

    • Website: https://sammyangelheart.com

    • Description: financial and emotional support to families of children diagnosed with critical congenital heart defect, organ transplantation and life changing medical conditions

$ Funding Opportunities

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Crisis

Crisis (Intense difficulty, trouble or danger) can look like acting-out behaviors stemming from changes in relationships, instability, inability to manage stress, impulsiveness, unresolved family and peer pressures, and developmental issues, separation and autonomy issues, the need for acceptance and belonging, ineffective coping mechanisms, indifference in school, social phobias, truancy, rebelliousness, social deviance, family disruptions, sexual identity, or sex-related (Parsons, 2003).

“The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow” Robert Tew

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

  • Call 911 (if applicable) -

  • Family Crisis Response Helpline: 833-441-2240 - in certain cases, EMS, law enforcement, and/or the mobile crisis response unit will be contacted to assist

  • Mandated Reporting -Kansas Protection Reporting Center - 800-922-5330

  • Inform Police (if applicable)

  • Get screened in emergency rooms, by nurses and physicians. Report family structure, communication patterns, past and current relationships, the strength of marital relationships, and parental experiences. Nurses should provide patient-centered planning, helping patients understand the perception and impact of the problem (risk of self-harm, coping skills, and skills tried to cope with conflict), offering financial, social, and community resources, possible intervention strategies to help return to previous levels of functioning while referring to appropriate mental health service providers. Examine social relationships including who is living in the household, extended family members, friendships, trusted people, community or other activities, financial resources, transportation needs, and occupations (Parsons, 2003).

  • Contact mental health agencies for direct case management services, children and adolescent services, social-emotional waiver services, school services, individual and group therapy services, parent training, medication management, and wrap-around services.

  • Contact developmental disability organizations to ask about support such as waivers or other programs

Advocacy & Resources

  • ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center

  • Boys Town Crisis Line

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

    • Phone: 800-448-300

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

  • Child Inc.

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

    • Description: offers prevention, treatment, emergency shelter and advocacy services that strengthen families.

  • Northwest Arkansas Children’s Shelter

    • Website: https://nwacs.org

    • Description: provides a safe haven and loving care to more than 12,000 children

    • Location: Arkansas.

  • Wichita Family Crisis Center

  • $ Kansas Department of Aging and Disabilities

    • Website: https://kdads.ks.gov

    • Description: Lists community developmental disabilities organizations (CDDO) for persons with developmental disabilities and coordinates with affiliate agencies and other providers. Information on ways to apply for Medicaid funding for staffing and exceptional funding.

  • The Shade Tree

    • Website: https://theshadetree.org

    • Description: Provides safe shelter to abused and homeless women and women with children in crisis; as well as, offer life-changing services promoting stability, dignity, and self-resilience

$ Funding Opportunities

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Cultural Competence

Build self-esteem, learn resiliency, explore, be adventurous, make decisions for independence, meet new people

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC)

    • Website: https://nccc.georgetown.edu

    • Description: Increase capacity of healthcare and mental health care programs to design and implement and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity. Register to take a self-assessment (MCH Knowledge Base/Context, Self-Reflection, Ethics, Critical Thinking, Communication, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility, Honoring Lived Experience, Teaching, Coaching and Mentoring, Interdisciplinary and interprofessionalism Team Building, Systems Approach, Policy)

      $ Funding Opportunities

      * Toolkits & More

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