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ARCH
National Respite Network and
Resource Center (ARCH)
Chapel Hill
Training-Outreach Project
800 Eastowne Dr., Suite 105
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
The mission of the ARCH
National Respite Network is
to assist and promote the
development of quality
respite and crisis care
programs; to help families
locate respite and crisis
care services in their
communities; and to serve as
a strong voice for respite
in all forums.
The ARCH National Respite
Network includes the
National Respite Locator
Service, a service to help
caregivers and professionals
locate respite services in
their community, and the
National Respite Coalition,
a service that advocates for
preserving and promoting
respite in policy and
programs at the national,
state, and local levels.
ARCH is a service of the
Chapel Hill
Training-Outreach Project,
Inc. (http://www.chtop.org/).
Administration on
Developmental Disabilities
(ADD)
U. S. Department of Health
and Human Services/ACF
Mail Stop HHH 405 - D
370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW
Washington, DC 20447
The major goal of the
Developmental Disabilities
Programs of the ADD is to
partner with State
governments, local
communities, and the private
sector to ensure that
individuals with
developmental disabilities
and their families
participate in the design of
-- and have access to --
culturally competent
services, support, and other
assistance and opportunities
that promote independence,
productivity, and inclusion
in the community. The
programs address all facets
of the life cycle:
diagnosis, early
intervention, therapy,
education, training,
employment, and community
living and leisure
activities.
Adopt
America Network
National Headquarters
1025 N. Reynolds Road
Toledo, OH 43615
The Adopt America Network, a
private adoption exchange,
is supported by donations,
grants, and the purchase of
services. Their mission is
to find permanent and loving
adoptive homes for
special-needs children who
are awaiting adoption.
Association of
Administrators of the
Interstate Compact on
Adoption and Medical
Assistance (AAICAMA)
American Public Human
Services Association
810 First Street NE
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20002-4267
The Association of
Administrators of the
Interstate Compact on
Adoption and Medical
Assistance facilitates the
administration of the ICAMA.
The Compact is the legal
mechanism by which member
States regulate and
coordinate the interstate
delivery of services to
children with special needs
who are adopted pursuant to
adoption assistance
agreements. Along with
advocating State
participation in the ICAMA,
the Association provides
technical and legal
assistance, education and
training, and materials on
practice and policy issues.
Association of University
Centers on Disabilities (AUCD)
1010 Wayne Avenue
Suite 920
Silver Spring, MD 20910
The Association of
University Centers on
Disabilities (formerly the
American Association of
University Affiliated
Programs for Persons with
Developmental Disabilities)
promotes and supports the
national interdisciplinary
network of university
centers on disabilities. The
network includes University
Centers for Excellence in
Developmental Disabilities
Education, Research, and
Service (UCEDD), Leadership
Education in
Neurodevelopmental and
Related Disabilities (LEND)
programs, and Developmental
Disabilities Research
Centers (DDRC). Through its
members, AUCD serves as a
resource for local, State,
national, and international
agencies, organizations, and
policy makers concerned
about individuals with
developmental and other
disabilities and their
families.
Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
1600 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30333
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The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention is
the lead Federal agency for
protecting the health and
safety of people at home and
abroad. CDC serves as the
national focus for
developing and applying
disease prevention and
control, environmental
health, and health promotion
and education activities
designed to improve the
health of people in the
United States.
Child
Abuse and Neglect Disability
Outreach Project
CAN-Do
Arc Riverside
8138 Mar Vista Court
Riverside, CA 92504-4324
General Scope: CAN/Do
is the Child Abuse and
Neglect Disabilities
Outreach Project. Under
funding from the California
Governor's Office on
Criminal Justice Planning (OCJP),
CAN/Do is seeking to
establish Statewide
collaboration through
meetings of a multi-agency
Think Tank, to compile and
disseminate "best practices"
so that agencies and
organizations can succeed in
the mission of preventing
the abuse of children with
disabilities, and to improve
data-gathering so that those
who work with children with
disabilities, and are
concerned about child abuse,
will know the size and scope
of the problem.
Training Specific:
One of CAN-Do's objectives
is to provide
State-of-the-art training.
To achieve this goal, the
CAN-Do Project is searching
to identify the best
training technologies on
child abuse and children
with disabilites. The goal
is to create a
state-of-the-art training
system that can be
customized and disseminated
Statewide, and later
nationwide. For more
information about this
training resource, see the
CAN-Do website at
http://disability-abuse.com/cando/abt.htm.
Children
and Adults with
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder (CHADD)
PO Box 25173
St. Louis, MO 65801
Deaf
Adoption News Service (DANS)
The Deaf Adoption News
Service is a special
interest group of the World
Federation of the Deaf. It
is a text-only, free listing
service for waiting foreign
and domestic deaf and
severely hearing-impaired
children.
Institute of Applied
Research (IAR)
111 North Taylor
St. Louis, MO 63122
The Institute of Applied
Research (IAR) is an
independent research and
consulting organization that
specializes in providing
research and technical
assistance services to state
governments and agencies and
other public service and
community organizations.
Areas of special expertise
include child welfare and
child protection, childcare,
juvenile delinquency,
substance abuse,
developmental disabilities,
welfare and welfare reform,
poverty, employment and
training, and issues
affecting women and
minorities.
Little
People of America Adoption
Committee (LPA)
5289 NE Elam Young Parkway
Suite F - 700
Hillsboro, OR 97124
The purpose of the Little
People of America Adoption
Committee is to find a
loving home for every dwarf
child. The role of LPA is to
act as a link between
prospective parents and
adoption agencies that
represent dwarf children.
LPA is not an adoption
agency, but a referral
source only. By outreaching
to adoption agencies,
doctors, hospitals,
geneticists, and others, LPA
is are able to locate
available dwarf children for
adoption and prospective
parents who are interested
in adopting them.
Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB)
Parklawn Building Room 18-05
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
The Maternal and Child
Health Bureau strives to
provide national leadership
and to work in partnership
with States, communities,
private agencies, and
families to strengthen the
maternal and child health (MCH)
infrastructure, assure the
availability and use of
medical homes, and build
knowledge and human
resources to assure
continued improvement in the
health, safety, and
well-being of the MCH
population. The MCH
population includes all
America's women, infants,
children, adolescents and
their families, fathers, and
children with special health
care needs.
National
Adoption Center (NAC)
1500 Walnut Street
Suite 701
Philadelphia, PA 19102
General Scope: The
National Adoption Center
expands adoption
opportunities for children
throughout the United
States, particularly
children with special needs
and from minority cultures.
Training Specific:
Through the Learning Center,
adoptive parents and
prospective adopters can
take an online parenting
course, The Adoption
Roadmap, to expand and
enrich their understanding
of adoption. The course
focuses on parenting skills,
especially those needed to
raise children with special
needs, advocacy strategies
to help a family identify
and secure services for its
child, and an appreciation
of adoption as a distinct
form of family building. The
Learning Center is funded by
the Dave Thomas Foundation
for Adoption. For additional
information, please see
http://www.adopt.org/whatwedo/index.html#The%20Learning%20Center.
National
Adoption Information
Clearinghouse (NAIC)
330 C Street SW
Washington, DC 20447
NAIC offers information on
all aspects of adoption for
professionals, policy
makers, and the general
public. The Clearinghouse
develops and maintains a
computerized database of
books, journal articles, and
other materials on adoption
and related topics, conducts
database searches, publishes
materials on adoption, and
gives referrals to related
services and experts in the
field. NAIC also maintains a
database of experts
knowledgeable in various
areas of adoption practice.
NAIC's primary audiences are
adoption professionals and
adoptive parents and
children.
National
Child Welfare Resource
Center for Adoption
Spaulding for Children
16250 Northland Drive --
Suite 120
Southfield, MI 48075
General Scope:The
National Child Welfare
Resource Center for Adoption
assists States, Tribes, and
other Federally funded child
welfare agencies improve
their ability to ensure the
safety, well being, and
permanency of abused and
neglected children through
adoption and post-legal
adoption services, program
planning, and policy
development. The Center,
which believes every child
is adoptable and every child
deserves a permanent family,
provides training,
consultation, and
informational materials for
professionals,
organizations, and parents.
The Center is a service of
the Children's Bureau, U.S.
Department of Health and
Human Services.
Training Specific:
Curricula are available on
assessment and preparation
of children and families for
adoption, cultural
competency in child welfare,
and adoption support and
preservation services.
National
Clearinghouse on Child Abuse
and Neglect Information
330 C Street SW
Washington, DC 20447
The National Clearinghouse
on Child Abuse and Neglect
Information, a service of
the Children's Bureau, helps
professionals locate
information on child abuse
and neglect and related
child welfare issues. Among
its resources, the
Clearinghouse offers a
bibliographic database of
child maltreatment and
related child welfare
materials, summaries of
State laws concerned with
child abuse and neglect and
child welfare, fact sheets,
resource lists, bulletins,
and other publications.
Jointly with the National
Adoption Information
Clearinghouse (NAIC), the
National Clearinghouse on
Child Abuse and Neglect
Information publishes the
Children's Bureau Express,
an online digest of news and
resources for professionals
concerned with child
maltreatment, child welfare,
and adoption.
National
Fathers' Network (NFN)
Kindering Center
16120 NE 8th Street
Bellevue, WA 98008-3937
The Fathers Network provides
current information and
resources to assist all
families and care providers
involved in the lives of
children with special needs.
National
Information Center for
Children and Youth with
Disabilities (NICHCY)
P.O. Box 1492
Washington, DC 20013-1492
National Information Center
for Children and Youth with
Disabilities is a national
information and referral
center providing information
on disabilities and
disability-related issues
for families, educators, and
other professionals. The
Center's special focus is
children and youth (birth to
age 22). Services include
personal responses to
questions, publications,
referrals, database and
library searches, and
materials in Spanish.
National
Organization on Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS)
900 17th Street NW
Suite 910
Washington, DC 20006
The National Organization on
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is
dedicated to eliminating
birth defects caused by
alcohol consumption during
pregnancy and to improving
the quality of life for
those affected by fetal
alcohol syndrome/fetal
alcohol effect. NOFAS is
committed to raising public
awareness of fetal alcohol
syndrome and to developing
and implementing innovative
ideas in prevention,
intervention, education, and
advocacy in communities
nationwide. NOFAS also
operates a national
clearinghouse for regional,
State, and local fetal
alcohol syndrome
organizations.
National
Respite Coalition (NRC)
4016 Oxford Street
Annandale, VA 22003
The mission of the National
Respite Coalition, an
initiative of the ARCH
National Respite Network, is
to secure quality,
accessible, planned, and
crisis respite services for
all families and caregivers
who need them to strengthen
and stabilize families and
enhance child and adult
safety. The Coalition works
to achieve these goals by
preserving and promoting
respite in policy and
programs at the national,
State, and local levels.
Partnership for People with
Disabilities
Virginia Commonwealth
University (VCU)
700 East Franklin Street,
10th Floor
Richmond, VA 23284
General Scope: The
Partnership for People with
Disabilities, formerly known
as the Virginia Institute
for Developmental
Disabilities (VIDD), is
recognized by the Federal
Administration on
Developmental Disabilities
as a university center for
excellence in developmental
disabilities. The
Partnership currently
operates more than 20
federal and state programs,
supporting individuals with
disabilities and their
families.
Training Specific: In
collaboration with seven
University Centers for
Excellence (UCEs) and five
Protection and Advocacy
(P&As) Agencies across the
nation, theMaltreatment
Education for Health
Professionals project
addresses deficits in the
knowledge and skills of
health professionals in
responding to the
maltreatment of individuals
with disabilities. This
three-year project is
developing, field-testing,
and disseminating
state-of-the-art distance
education materials (funded
by the Association on
Developmental Disabilities
and the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services)
to help prevent, identify,
and report abuse and neglect
of persons with
disabilities. For more
information about this
project, see
http://www.vcu.edu/partnership/abuse_ed.htm.
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