Children and Families (not Education)

Links

• A Parent's Guide: Finding Help for Young Children with Disabilities (Birth-5)
  A publication of the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities.
• Attention Deficit Disorder Association
  "The World's Leading Adult AD/HD organization."
• Bridges4Kids
  Building partnerships between families, schools, and communities.
• Chafee Community Support Services
  Chafee Community Support Services may provide you free assistance in housing, medical care, education and employment as well as in emergency situations. Youth may be eligible if they are likely to remain in foster care until 18 and have not reached their 21st birthday; they are former foster care recipients, who age out of foster care at 18 or older and have not reached their 21st birthday.
• Child and Youth Advocacy Center
  The mission of the Child and Youth Advocacy Center (CYAC) is to develop a community-wide response that builds on existing resources to empower families, youth, professionals, and others in breaking the cycle of maltreatment and abuse.
• Children and Adults with ADD/ADHD
  Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD), provides education, advocacy and support for individuals with AD/HD.
• Children's Home of Wheeling
  The Children's Home of Wheeling offers young boys an opportunity to heal from past abuse and
  neglect and to stabilize their life, so that they can focus on their personal development.
• Children's Therapy Clinic
  We provide free comprehensive therapy to children with disabilities. Children's Therapy Clinic offers a team approach to focus on each child's needs and abilities by including parents, caregivers, family members, and other professionals involved with the child. Our therapists help each child to reach his or her full potential and help create the little miracles of a child's first step or word. We're located in Cross Lanes, just off the I-64 exit.
• Disability.gov
  Your online connection to the federal government's disability-related information and resources.
• Disabled Children's Relief Fund (apply April - September)
  Disabled Children's Relief Fund (DCRF) assists children with disabilities, particularly those who do not have insurance, get assistive technology.
• Easter Seals
  Easter Seals provides exceptional services, education, outreach, and advocacy so that people living with autism and other disabilities can live, learn, work and play in our communities.
• Family Support Center on Disabilities (KIN)
  The Family Support Center on Disabilities: Knowledge and Involvement Network (KIN) offers you a centralized resource on the full range of options available to individuals with disabilities and their families.
• Family Voices
  Keeping Families at the center of children's health care.
• Kids First: Hearing Services
  To provide hearing aid services and supplies for children ages 3, 4, 5, or 6 years who lack insurance coverage for this benefit. Ineligible are children who have Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance, or those children who have commercial coverage that includes this benefit.
• Learning Disabilities Online
  "The world's leading website on learning disabilities and ADHD."
• Legal Aid of West Virginia's Family, Advocacy, Support, and Training (FAST) Program
  The goal of the Family, Advocacy, Support, and Training (FAST) program is to develop a statewide parent-to-parent and youth support network that will empower families to participate in planning, management, and evaluation of their child's treatment.
• Make a Wish Foundation
  Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has given hope, strength and joy to children with life-threatening medical conditions.
• Mountain State Family Alliance
  Building a System of Care for West Virginia children and families.
• Mountain State Parents, Children, and Adolescent Network (MSP-CAN)
  Mountain State Parents Children and Adolescent Network (MSP-CAN), Incorporated, is a private non-profit, family-run organization that improves outcomes for children with serious emotional disorders and their families.
• National Resource Center for ADHD
  The nation's clearinghouse for science-based information about all aspects of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the NRC provides information on this disorder which affects how millions of children and adults function on a daily basis.
• Parents with Disabilities - Through the Looking Glass
  Provides direct services, information, and referral to a diverse group of parents with disabilities and their families.
• Region 2 Family Network
  To provide information and support to families of children with serious emotional disorders and
  other disabilities, so they can: Assist their children in improving their opportunities for success at home, school, community, and workplace; and reflect and voice the strengths and needs of their children and families.
• Right from the Start
  RFTS provides in-home care coordination services to high risk, low income pregnant women through the second postpartum month and Medicaid eligible high risk infants through one year of age.
• Sensory Processing Disorder Resource Center
  Information and resources about sensory processing disorders.
• Sound Beginnings Children's Hearing Aid Program
  Offers Quota International service clubs in the United States the opportunity to distribute up to 100 vouchers for free hearing aids supplied by Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc. Serves ages birth to 23.
• U.S. Department of Education 'ADHD Resources for Home & School'
  A publication from the United States Department of Education called 'Identifying and Treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Resource for School and Home'.
• West Virginia Birth to Three
  WV Birth to Three is a statewide system of services and supports for children under age three who have a delay in their development, or may be at risk of having a delay, and their family.
• West Virginia Bureau of Children and Families
  Meeting the needs of today's children and families: Children and Families Services Directory.
• West Virginia Court System Self-Help Center
  This on-line self-help center has been designed to provide valuable information to those persons wishing to represent themselves in court.
• West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services (WVDHHR) Children and Families Resource Guide
  A resource guide compiled by the WVDHHR.
• West Virginia Early Childhood Training Connections and Resources
  A statewide program designed to provide professional development opportunities for the early care and education community.