Family Voices National is a grass roots network of families and friends which advocates for health care services and provides inforamation for families of children and youth with special health care needs: www.familyvoices.org
Family Village is a global community of disability-related resources: www.familyvillage.wisc.edu
DisabilityInfo.gov is the federal government's one-stop Web site for people with disabilities, their families, employers, veterans, workforce professionals and many others: http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/digov-public/public/DisplayPage.do?parentFolderId=500
The National Center for Cultural Competence's (NCCC) mission is increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems: www11.georgetown.edu/research/gucchd/nccc.
The Catalyst Centeris a national center dedicated to improving health care insurance and financing for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN): http://www.hdwg.org/catalyst.
Bright Futures for Families offers a variety of materials and resources developed specifically for families to complement the Bright Futures publications and materials used by health care professionals. Families want and need materials that have the same information used by their health care providers, written in a way that they can understand and easily refer back to when needed. Here is a link to their web-site and materials: http://www.brightfuturesforfamilies.org/materials.shtml
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Families USA has collected information on several new reports and resources that you may find interesting and useful. From the Kaiser Family Foundation, Covering the Uninsured: Growing Need, Strained Resources explains the continued increase in the number of uninsured Americans and examines how federal programs have struggled to stem these increases. State of the States: Building Hope and Raising Expectations reports that state leaders are increasingly willing to address the rising number of uninsured Americans and are investing in efforts to expand coverage. It outlines the specific developments in a few key states, and it identifies trends that many new state plans have in common. To read these and many otherreports from Families USA: www.familiesusa.orgSpanish Language Website for Families of Children with Autism Launches: We are pleased to share with you the launch of a new Spanish language website by families for families of children and youth with autism— Manitas por Autismoat www.manitasporautismo.com. The mission of this website, created by Maria Abinader, a Support Parent and Peer Consultant for the Statewide Parent Advocacy Network (SPAN), for Latino families, is to share information, hope, guidance and resources with Latino families; to promote understanding of autism; to create a data base specific to autism; and to defend the rights of children and youth with autism. By helping Latino families exercise their lawful rights for their children and for themselves we are working towards eliminating disparities in the health and educational system. A directory with links to programs for children with autism in New Jersey, USA and Spanish speaking countries, a parent forum and many additional resources are available through this website. Be sure to share this exciting new website with others.