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• ABC Therapeutics - Provides developmental services to young children through: Developmental, Occupational and Social Therapies for young children.

• Aspire of WNY - Helps children and adults with developmental disabilities, cerebral palsy, and conditions with similar personal and family effects live their lives to the fullest in keeping with their informed choices. 
• Autistic Services, Inc. - Delivers a range of individualized services to people with autism spectrum disorders.
• Baker Victory Services - Non-profit agency providing a range of services for children, youth and families in need.
• Bornhava – “an early intervention and preschool program, nurturing and educating children with developmental disabilities.”
• Child & Family Services - Provides children, adults, families and businesses with a vast array of mental health and human service programs
• Children's Growth Foundation - An independent, non-profit organization that supports children with growth disorders by providing for the whole child. Disability
• Community Services for the Developmentally Disabled (CSDD) - Provides individuals with developmental disabilities a wide range of services, including service coordination, housing, job training, and day activities
• Diocese of Buffalo - Disabilities Resources – “is to increase awareness and inclusion of all individuals with disabilities in parishes throughout the Diocese”
• Early Childhood Direction Center - A program to assist in finding services, to help parents of children with special needs from birth to age five.
• EPIC - Every Person Influences Children - Provides programs and resources for parents, teachers and school personnel that help adults raise responsible and successful children. General Parenting
• Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy(SMA)  - Helps families cope with SMA through information, support and research.
• Gateway-Longview - Provides a continuum of treatment services for children, youth, and families facing behavioral, emotional or educational difficulties.
• Heritage Centers - Provides an array of services to students with special needs aged birth to 21 years and their families.
• Lutheran Social Services of Jamestown - A multifaceted program serving the needs of youth with special problems.
• Neighborhood Legal Services - Provides free legal services to persons with low-income and persons with disabilities.
• New Directions - Non-Profit Agency that helps children with emotional and behavioral problems, along with their families.
• People Inc. - WNY's leading non-profit human services agency providing a variety of services to help seniors, families and people with disabilities live more healthy, independent and productive lives.
• Preschool Learning Center - Provides center-based preschool services as well as therapeutic and special education services at home or other community settings.
• Summit Educational Resources - A private, not-for-profit organization that provides educational and therapeutic services to children with learning, communication and behavioral challenges.
• The Independence Foundation - Provides support and assistance to individuals with physical disabilities so that they may live independent, self-directed lives.
• Yad B' Yad (Hand in Hand) – “provides outreach, advocacy and program support that assists people with disabilities to achieve full participation, membership and inclusion in Jewish life in Western New York.”

Directories/Resources/Informational Sites

• Buffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network, Inc. - healthy mothers and healthy babies for Buffalo.
• DD Info Link  An online, searchable directory of programs specifically designed for people with developmental disabilities, their family members and service providers.
• Disabled Dealer Magazine  Provides people with disabilities and the elderly access to new and pre-owned adaptive equipment, services, resources, and events throughout the area.
• Kaleida Health Library - Dedicated to meeting the complete information needs of affiliated health care providers and their patients.
• Main Mobility - Assists families of those with physical disabilities in converting vehicles, finding equipment, making adaptations to enhance independence.
• Navigating Adult Services - A cheat sheet for eligibility requirements for receiving services from community based agencies.
• Supporting Family Safety - A Erie County Family Court booklet to provide guidance to your family if you find that there is a conflict between your culture and the community in which you live.
• Supporting Family Safety for Muslim Families - A booklet created to provide guidance to your family if you find that there is a conflict between Muslim culture and the community in which you live.

Disability Services

Developmental Disabilities

• Aspire of WNY - Helps children and adults with developmental disabilities, cerebral palsy, and conditions with similar personal and family effects live their lives to the fullest in keeping with their informed choices. 
• Autistic Services, Inc. - Delivers a range of individualized services to people with autism spectrum disorders.
• Baker Victory Services - Non-profit agency providing a range of services for children, youth and families in need.
• Community Services for the Developmentally Disabled (CSDD) - Provides individuals with developmental disabilities a wide range of services, including service coordination, housing, job training, and day activities
• Developmental Disability Alliance of WNY (DDAWNY) - A collaborative group of member voluntary agencies that provide services to people with developmental disabilities.
• Heritage Centers - Provides an array of services to students with special needs aged birth to 21 years and their families.
• Lutheran Social Services of Jamestown - A multifaceted program serving the needs of youth with special problems.
• People Inc. - WNY's leading non-profit human services agency providing a variety of services to help seniors, families and people with disabilities live more healthy, independent and productive lives.
• Summit Educational Resources - A private, not-for-profit organization that provides educational and therapeutic services to children with learning, communication and behavioral challenges.
• The Independence Foundation - Provides support and assistance to individuals with physical disabilities so that they may live independent, self-directed lives.   

Mental Heath

• Baker Victory Services - Non-profit agency providing a range of services for children, youth and families in need.
• Child & Family Services - Provides children, adults, families and businesses with a vast array of mental health and human service programs
• Erie County Department of Mental Health - Provides planning, directing, coordinating, and monitoring programs of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation involving mental health, mental retardation-developmental disabilities.
• Gateway-Longview - Provides a continuum of treatment services for children, youth, and families facing behavioral, emotional or educational difficulties.
• New Directions - Non-Profit Agency that helps children with emotional and behavioral problems, along with their families.

Physical Disabilities

• Children's Growth Foundation - An independent, non-profit organization that supports children with growth disorders by providing for the whole child. Disability
• Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy(SMA)  - Helps families cope with SMA through information, support and research.

Educational Resources

Early Childhood Programs (Birth-8 years old)

• ABC Therapeutics - Provides developmental services to young children through: Developmental, Occupational and Social Therapies for young children.
• Bornhava – “an early intervention and preschool program, nurturing and educating children with developmental disabilities.”
• Early Childhood Direction Center - A program to assist in finding services, to help parents of children with special needs from birth to age five.
• Preschool Learning Center - Provides center-based preschool services as well as therapeutic and special education services at home or other community settings.

General

• EPIC - Every Person Influences Children - Provides programs and resources for parents, teachers and school personnel that help adults raise responsible and successful children. General Parenting 

Public Schools’ Educational Resources

• Buffalo Public Schools - Provides information on the public schools in the Buffalo school district.
• Buffalo Public Schools/UB Special Ed. Collaboration - Offers information and resources for parents/teachers of children in special education programs in WNY. 
• Western Region Parent Teacher Association (PTA) - A branch of the New York State PTA®; covers Erie (with the exception of the City of Tonawanda and Grand Island), Genesee and Wyoming counties.
• Williamsville SEPTSA - Special Education Parent Teacher Student Association in the Williamsville school district.

Transitions

• WNY Independent Living Project - A multi-cultural, grassroots, peer directed, civil rights organization that provides a full range of assistance, programs and services to enhance the quality of life for all individuals with disabilities.
• WNY Collegiate Consortium of Disability Advocates - A group of education professionals, community and government agency representatives who are directly involved in working with students with disabilities

Family/Community Services

• Care Management Coalition of WNY - A collaboration of agencies sharing resources to improve and ensure the quality of care for children and families in need.
• Coalition of Adoption and Foster Family Agencies (CAFFA) – “Agencies providing foster care and adoption services in WNY organized … to promote children's permanency through advocacy, education and support.”

Religious Resources

• Diocese of Buffalo - Disabilities Resources – “is to increase awareness and inclusion of all individuals with disabilities in parishes throughout the Diocese”
• Yad B' Yad (Hand in Hand) – “provides outreach, advocacy and program support that assists people with disabilities to achieve full participation, membership and inclusion in Jewish life in Western New York.”

Legal

• Neighborhood Legal Services - Provides free legal services to persons with low-income and persons with disabilities.