Current topics of note:
How to Find an Accessible Apartment
Features of Accessible Apartments
Creating a Sensory Friendly Home
Special Needs Trusts: What Parents and Caregivers Need to Know
Guide to Life Insurance for Parents of Children with Disabilities
Neurodiversity in the Modern Workplace
Accommodations & Traveling Safely with a Disability
PACER School Accommodation Ideas for Students who Receive Section 504 or Special Education Services
Western NY and Finger Lakes area resources:
Child Care Council
Child Care Council is a Child Care Aware® Quality Assured agency that provides information, training, and resources to child care providers and parents in Livingston, Monroe, and Wayne counties in the State of New York.
595 Blossom Road, Suite 120
Rochester, NY 14610
Monroe County: (585) 654-4720
Toll Free: (800) 743-KIDS (or 5437)
Link to our intake form and our portal for parents to search: https://childcarecouncil.com/for-parents/find-child-care/
Fingerlakes Parent Network
We focus on the needs of adults, children and youth with emotional, behavioral, developmental, and/or mental disorders and their families. Services are offered in Allegany, Chemung, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Wayne, and Yates counties.
25 West Steuben Street
Bath, NY 14810
Phone: (607) 776-2164www.flpn.org
flpninc25@flpn.org
Legal Aid Society of Rochester
Attorney for the Child, Education Law, Family Law, Housing & Consumer Law, Immigration Law.
www.lasroc.org
585-232-4090
Mental Health Association Family Support
We offer Support by phone, in person, in groups or individually; assistance with school issues (education advocacy; assistance in identifying and developing natural supports; caregiver discussion, education and skill-building groups.
320 N. Goodman Street
Rochester, NY 14607
Contact Angie Coville, Intake Coordinator
(585) 325-3145 x117
www.mharochester.org
Parent to Parent
Services include, Parent Matching Program, Information and Referral, Medicaid Service Coordination Family Training, Health Care Information – Family to Family Health Care Information & Education Center, Education Information – Parent Training & Information Center (PTIC), Housing Information – NYS Cares Outreach Pilot.
590 South Avenue Rochester, NY 14620
(585) 546-1700, ext. 244
http://www.parenttoparentnys.org
Starbridge, Inc.
Starbridge partners with people with disabilities, their families, and others who support them, to realize fulfilling possibilities in education, employment, health, and community living.
1650 South Avenue, Suite 200 Rochester, NY 14620
585-546-1700
www.starbridgeinc.org
http://www.wrightslaw.com
Parents, educators, advocates, and attorneys go to Wrightslaw for accurate, reliable information about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities.