Resources

Websites

  • Agency for Persons with Disabilities
    The Agency Supports Persons with Developmental Disabilities in Living, Learning and Working in their Community.
  • Band of Angels
    Mission Statement: Band of Angels celebrates children with Down syndrome and supports them in reaching their full potential, beginning with providing accurate and positive information about Down syndrome at diagnosis.
  • Brighter Tomorrows
    The purpose of this Website is to provide families with balanced and accurate information about receiving a diagnosis of Down syndrome either during their pregnancy or at birth.  We began this project at the request of parents of children with Down syndrome who felt that other parents and prospective parents could be helped if physicians knew how to provide a diagnosis of Down syndrome with up-to-date, balanced information delivered in an emotionally supportive fashion. Families recognized that, in the past, they had often been given this news with limited information, balance, and little sense of hopefulness for the future.  Website includes a Q & A section; Family Resources; Life Glimpses - a section where parents share personal stories.
  • Downs City
  • Downs Syndrome Association of Central Florida (Orlando)
  • Family Care Council Florida
    The mission of the Family Care Council Florida advocate, educate and empower individual with developmental disabilities and their families, partnering with the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to bring quality services to individuals for dignity and choice.
  • The Florida Lions Camp
    The Florida Lions Camp proposes to help insure a better future for all youth, including those who are blind, visually impaired and those with physical or developmental disabilities, through programs and facilities designed to promote cooperation, leadership, self-esteem and where they are nurtured, encouraged and challenged to be independent.
  • Heartland for Children
    Heartland for Children is the system administrator for foster care and related services including, intake and placement, temporary shelter, case management, in-home protective services, kinship care, out-of-home placement, foster care supervision, post placement supervision, foster home recruitment/licensing/retention, independent living, adoption, intensive residential treatment, family preservation, family reunification, family prevention and intervention services. HFC contracts with local agencies the provision of services to the children and families within the system, as well as work with the community as a whole to support the residents of this tri-county area.
  • Hope Haven
    A Clinic in Jacksonville, FL that specializes in children with DS
  • National Downs Syndrome Association
  • Peace (Autism Support Group)
    Nicole Torres (Contact person/group leader)
  • Pediatric Health Choice
    Pediatric Health Choice (PHC) specializes in providing a comprehensive array of health care services to children with short-term, intermittent and/or complex chronic care needs.
  • The R-Word
    The r-word is hate speech that perpetuates the negative stereotypes that face people with intellectual disabilities every day. Yet, its use continues to gain in popularity.Our choice of language frames how we think about others. It is time to respect and value people with intellectual disabilities. It is time to accept and welcome them as our friends and neighbors.

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