Your place for finding Resources and contact information for most every need.
Local and Regional Resources
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TEA Special Education Information Center - provides information and resources that can help you understand your child’s disability, your rights, and responsibilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and facilitate collaboration that supports the development and delivery of services to children with disabilities in our state.
Parent-Directed Special Education Services (PDSES) - The Parent-Directed Special Education Services (PDSES) program, previously, the Supplemental Special Education Services (SSES) program is a one-time $1,500 online grant for parents/guardians of eligible students served by special education and who are enrolled in a Texas public school.
Disability Rights of Texas - is the protection and advocacy agency for Texans with disabilities. People with disabilities have a right to be included in all aspects of their communities. Our mission is to help people with disabilities understand and exercise their rights under the law, ensuring their full and equal participation in society.
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Community Healthcore - Serves Bowie, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Red River, Rusk, and Upshur counties
Andrews Center - Serves Smith, Henderson, Rains, Van Zandt, and Wood counties.
ACCESS - Serves Anderson and Cherokee counties
Lakes Regional - Serves Camp, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Lamar, Morris, and Titus counties
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Outreach, Screening, Assessment, & Referral (OSAR) - programs are available to all persons looking for information about substance use services. OSAR programs can be the starting point for people who want help accessing substance use services and are unsure where to begin.
Fostering Collective - Offers a a virtual resource library, a sensory area, and a closet. Due to generous donations and grants they are able to give items away that help meet tangible, emotional, behavioral and spiritual needs. Come spend time with our staff as we work together to identify and meet needs with helpful on hand resources and recommendations.
For the Sake of One (Bowie and Cass Counties)- We offer clothing, shoes, diapers, wipes, car seats and cribs through our Blessing Boutique. We have monthly support groups and Parents' Night Out for foster, adoptive, and kinship families. We also offer connection through our Bible study, Mom Talk and Dad Chat (cookouts) .
Christy's Safe Haven - Provides a number of services to youth Ages 10-19 including but not limited to: Sexual Risk Avoidance Education, Counseling, Mentoring, Community Resource Referrals, Behavioral Intervention, Vocational/Workforce Readiness, & access to Christy’s Clothing Closet. They are working to help improve the lives of young people by offering learning opportunities geared toward promoting positive youth development.
LGBTQ+ Advocacy - A website organized by SMU that contains links to organizations that help with Health and Wellness, Anti-discrimination, and Legal and Civil Rights.
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Every Child Texas - Supports family life for children with disabilities who would otherwise grow up in facilities. They want all children to grow up in a safe, loving, and nurturing family with whatever support is needed for families and children to thrive.
Personal Care Services (PCS)- Personal Care Services is a Medicaid benefit that helps clients with everyday tasks. These tasks are called activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living. This service is applied for through your local DSHS Office.
Social Security Administration - you can apply for retirement, disability, and Medicare benefits online, check the status of an application or appeal, request a replacement Social Security card (in most areas), print a benefit verification letter, and more.
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CHOSEN - is dedicated to supporting children and youth in overcoming trauma by creating strong, stable relationships within foster, kinship, adoptive, and reunified families.
Heart Gallery of Texas - works with 42 community partners and post-adoption service providers across Texas to provide additional supports to help adoptive families thrive and to reduce the number of adopted children returning to DFPS Conservatorship.
Creating a Family - Strengthening foster, adoptive, & kinship families with expert-based, trauma-informed resources and trainings.
C.A.S.E. - Helping to improve the well-being and permanence of children and their families by providing adoption competent mental health services, advancing learning to build a responsive national network of professionals, and transforming policy and practice through research and advocacy.
Families Rising - Amplifying those with lived experience, assist adoptive, foster, and kinship parents, educate child welfare professionals, and champion the well-being of children and families.
Institute of Child Psychology (ICP) - Mission is to empower caregivers (i.e., parents, teachers, therapists, social workers, psychologists) by giving them pertinent skills, tools, training & a shame-free community.
Robyn Gobbel - Author, podcasters, clinical therapist for 20 years.
TX Alliance of Children & Family Services - is a network of mission-driven organizations that have embraced the call to serve these children and families, and are working together to improve our care, services, and outcomes statewide.
Parenting Today’s Teen (Mark Gregston) - equip parents of teenagers with biblically-based resources, training and education that will create and encourage deeper and longer-lasting parent-teen relationships.
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Harkla - Also offers sensory trainings and courses for parents
Generation Mindful - Also offers parenting courses
National Autism Resources - Also contains resources focused on parenting a child with Autism