Child Mind Institute
Website: https://childmind.org
Description: Support for children who are struggling with mental health, behavior, and learning challenges
“My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once too.” - Barack Obama
Legal Service Providers:
Canal Alliance
Website: https://canalalliance.org
Description: Offers social justice immigration legal services, education and career programs, and social services to help Latino immigrants and their families overcome the barriers to success.
Website: https://www.girlforward.org
Description: A mentoring program, education program, and safe space program in Chicago and Austin for Girls ages 14-21, in grades 9-12 who identify as refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers
Open door NYNJ
Website: http://www.theopendoornjny.org
Description: Immigrant families get support through weekly English, TASC, and computer classes as well as community-building activities
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Website: https://www.ilrc.org
Description: Provides advocacy and immigrant civic engagement in order to educate immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector building a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people, including training, technical assistance, and education materials.
Immigration Direct:
Description: Ways to become a citizen
National Immigration Law Center
Website: https://www.nilc.org
Description: Defends and advances the rights of immigrants with low income. Information on DACA, Health Care, Immigration Enforcement, Workers Rights, and more
Equal access to opportunities and resources
It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars. - Richard Evans
The Able Gamers Charity
Website: https://ablegamers.org
Description: AbleGamers partners with various organizations, including hospitals and rehabilitation centers, giving people with disabilities the same opportunities as everyone else for positive experiences through play, providing them with a nearby location to assist in setup to enter the world of gaming.
Soar Special needs
Website: https://soarspecialneeds.org
Description: Empowering families with special needs to SOAR in their local and faith communities.
$ Special Kids Therapy
Website: Https://www.specialkids.us
Description: Raising money for Michigan’s developmental, physical, and emotional difficulties not covered by private or public insurance
TIES center
Website: https://tiescenter.org
Description: Using evidence-based training and resources to design high-quality inclusion classrooms for all students with disabilities with emphasis on communicative support, inclusive leadership and system change, peer engagement, inclusive instruction, and positive behavior supports
Abused products include Spray Paint, Hairspray, Air Fresheners, Room Deodorizers, Fabric Cleaners, Computer Cleaners, Cooking Spray, Whipped Cream, Nail Polish Remover, Toxic Markers, Fire Extinguishers, Dry Erase Board Cleaners, Glues, Kitchen and Bathroom Cleaners, Lighter Fluid, Gasoline, Helium, Chloroform, Propane Tanks and more…
Alliance for Consumer Education (ACE)
Website: https://www.consumered.org
Description: Outlines risks and prevention of inhalant abuse, raising awareness, educating individualism, and preventing an epidemic abuse among children, offering a $5 kit for to aid schools with presentations, videos, classroom activities, and FAQs.
Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (TASC)
Website: https://nationaltasc.org
Description: Works with the criminal justice systems (drug courts) and treatment systems, monitoring progress, advocating for treatment resources, linking institution-based abuse treatment services and community based supervision and aftercare services. Also includes common products used for inhalant abuse
Healthy Starts at Home
Invisible Disabilities Week October 15 – 21, 2023
(ASD, Dyslexia, ADHD, Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Juvenile Diabetes, Epilepsy, Anxiety, Depression, Distress, Speech, Anxiety, Depression)
Invisible disabilities are diverse, complex and disclosure waivers due to stigmas,social disapproval, and misunderstandings. Academic settings can evoke overpowering symptom(s) that are varied, multiple and severe. Symptoms may include but are not limited to fatigue, high cholesterol, digestive problems, headaches, panic attacks, fainting, memory lapses, chronic diarrhea, vertigo, nausea, cold sores, dandruff, tachycardia, low mood, or suicidal depression. Treatment is impacted by medical, social and academic barriers. Incorrect or lack of diagnosis may result from seeing a variety of doctors out of convenience, lack of financial resources, as well as self-insecurity, social pressures, fears, rejection. Untreated difficulties focusing, waking, and completing tasks may be exasperated. Self-medication may not address the underlying cause(s). More education and training on disability inclusion is necessary to improve the well-being of those living with an invisible disability (Sowinska & Tdela, 2023)
Discover a New Dawn “Dandability”
Website: https://www.dandability.org
Description: Inclusion of persons with disability in all walks of life and bringing them into the mainstream of society.
Invisible Disability Association
Website: https://invisibledisabilities.org
Description: Advocating for those with invisible disabilities such as illness and pain. Individuals can order a national disability ID, share a memory, engage in advocacy efforts, attend a presentation, or listen to a podcast. Individual disabilities Week is October 15 – 21, 2023.
Invisible Disability Project
Description: Helping people with unseen disabilities fight barriers related to personal relationships, health care, community, education, employment, technology, media representation, laws, and policy.
$ The Orange Effect Foundation
Description: https://theorangeeffect.org
Description: Making sure children with speech disorders receive therapy and technology
The Understood
Website: https://www.understood.org
Description: shapes the world for difference with resources and support so people who learn and think differently can thrive.
References:
Sowinska, A., Tudela, R. P. (2023). Living with invisible medical disabilities: experiences and challenges of Chilean university students disclosed in medical consultations. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being. 18. 2221905
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