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COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE g n i n n a l P n o i t i s n a r KLEIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

T OFFICE OF STUDENT SERVICES Community Resource Guide

This is a list of community resources to assist you in planning for your child's needs. The agencies and organizations are listed alphabetically and cover a broad range of services for students with moderate to severe disabilities. Please keep this guide for your files and refer to it as you provide for your child's needs, now and in the future.

SPECIAL THANKS GOES TO WESTSIDE HIGH SCHOOL FOR PROVIDING MUCH OF THE MATERIAL IN THIS GUIDE.

Agencies and Organizations with Services for Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities

2 Advocacy Inc. http://www.advocacyinc.org/index.htm Monica Navy 7457 Harwin Drive, Suite 100, Houston, Tx 77036-2017 Phone: 713-974-7691 Fax: 713-974-7695 Advocacy, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation funded by the United States Congress to protect and advocate for the legal rights of people with disabilities in Texas. It provides protection and advocacy for persons with developmental disabilities and mental illnesses in the following areas: violations of ADA and Fair Housing Act Amendments, denial of accommodated services, access and benefit from rehabilitation services leading to employment, independent living and community participation, and assistance to persons receiving SSI or SSDI who would like to work and are experiencing difficulties.

American Red Cross http://www.houstonredcross.org/ Ercel Albert 2700 Southwest Freeway, P.O. Box 397 Houston, TX 77001 Phone: 713-526-8300, 713-313-1623 Fax:713-313-1777 Email: [email protected]

The American Red Cross provides care-giving courses, disaster services, services to the active military and veterans of the Armed Services, International Services, health and safety education, HIV/AIDS education, transportation services, volunteer services, and youth services.

Angelman's Syndrome Foundation http://www.angelman.org/ Norma Juenke, Texas Regional Representative 3841 Wingtail, Pearland, TX 77584 Phone: 281-489-7008 The Angelman's Syndrome Foundation provides support and information on this syndrome to families and professionals. Initially presumed to be rare, it’s now believed thousands of Angelman Syndrome cases have gone undiagnosed or misdiagnosed as cerebral palsy, autism or other childhood disorders.

ARC of Greater Houston http://www.thearcofgreaterhouston.com/ Judy Kantorczyk P.O. Box 924168 Houston, TX 77292 Phone: 713 957-1600 Fax: 713-957-1699 The ARC offers a wide variety of services including parent support groups, advocacy, and social activities for persons with disabilities.

Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans (AAMA) Darlene McCort http://www.buscapique.com/latinusa/buscafile/sud/aama.htm 6001 Gulf Freeway, Bldg B-1 Suite 102 Houston, TX Phone: 713-923-3089, 713-926-4756 Fax: 713-926-8035 AAMA provides education, social services, cultural awareness, and economic and community development to Mexican Americans.

Association for Developmental Disabilities, (ADD) James Olsen 9193 Winkler Suite G, Houston, Texas 77017 Phone: 713-926-3025 Fax: 713-926-4842 ADD provides a transitional bridge from high school to competitive employment. They place individuals into jobs who have successfully completed work adjustment and personal/social adjustment training. They are free of charge as per state funding through DARS and DARS, Blind division. They provide extensive on-the-job supported employment training to maximize chances of success. They train individuals in light janitorial services. Avondale House http://www.avondalehouse.org/

3 Barbara Boyett, CEO 3737 O’Meara Dr., Houston, Texas 77025 Phone: 713-993-9544 Fax: 713-993-0751 Avondale House is a 501(c)(3) non-profit agency that provides services for children and young adults with autism and other pervasive developmental disorders and their families. Programs include a preschool, a TEA accredited school, a day habilitation program, residential services, parent support, and community education and outreach.

Bethesda Lutheran Homes and Services, Inc., Good Samaritan Campus Sylvia/Karen Shannon Beal http://www.blhs.org/home.asp Phone: 281-516-4027 Fax 281-351-5897 [email protected] P.O. Box 729, Cypress, Texas 77410-0729 Bethesda Lutheran Homes and services provides benefits and services to individuals who have developmental disabilities, their families and others who support them, in a Christian environment.

Black United Fund of Texas HTTP://WWW.BUFTX.ORG / Felix Glenn 5407 Chenevert #101 Houston, Texas 77004 Phone: 713-524-5767 Fax: 713-527-5769 1-800-443-2838 The Black United fund promotes self-help as a way of life. It encourages education, work ethics, community involvement and grooming for the next generation. It is a system that organizes human and financial resources to improve the quality of life in the Black community.

Boy Scouts of America, Special Needs Scouting District http://www.scouting.org/ Ken Jacobs 2225 North Loop West Houston, 77008 Ken's # 713-756-3351 Special Needs Scouting serves youth with physical and mental disabilities through the formation of scouting units in self-contained classrooms. It especially meets the needs of students with mental retardation, hearing impairments, emotional disabilities, multiple impairments, physical impairments and learning disabilities.

Brain Injury Association of the Texas Gulf Coast http://www.biatx.org/ Blanca Ventura 2600 South Loop West, Suite 300, Houston, Texas, 77054 Phone: 1-800-392-0040 Fax 713-661-5908 The Brain Injury Association provides information to friends, families and survivors of brain injuries. It provides support groups, disseminates information on conferences and legal issues.

Bridgewood Farms Flo Nelson, Exec. Director www.bridgewoodfarms.org 11680 Rose Road Conroe, TX 77303 Phone: 866-856-6460 Fax: 936-856-2629

Brookwood Community http://www.brookwoodcommunity.org/ Rick Demunbrun 1752 FM 1489 Brookshire, TX 77423 Phone: 281-375-2100 Fax: 281-375-2169 Brookwood is a residential community designed to enrich the lives of adults with developmental disabilities

4 Camp Camp P.O. Box 27086 Center Point, TX 78010

Career and Recovery Resource Center [email protected] JoAnn Caldwell-Long 2302 Fannin, Suite 110, Houston, Texas 77002 Phone: 713-759-0827 Career and Recovery Resource Center provides career counseling and testing services, job leads, job retention training, specialized programs for individuals with hearing impairments, summer youth program, substance abuse program, and educational and support services.

The Center (Serving Persons with Disabilities) http://www.cri-usa.org/ Lezette Irvin 3550 West Dallas, Houston, Texas 77019 Phone: 713-525-8400 Fax 713-525-8489 The Center provides many services to persons with disabilities. They include: Adult Activities Service Center; Adult Training and Employment; Education and Day Care (3-21), Lifecare (support to caregivers of persons with mental retardation), Center Respite Services, Cullen Residence Hall (adult residential hall); Supported Living Program; and Willow River Farms (rural living alternative for adults with developmental disabilities).

Center for People with Disabilities Http://home.earthlink.net/~mmjournal/cfpwd/ Mitchell Rappaport, P.O. Box 31724 Houston, Texas 77231-1724 Phone: 713-541-0688 The Center for People with Disabilities is a both a virtual and physical center for research and development of people with disabilities including a space institute, educational institute, a civil rights institute, and a Jewish Institute, for people with disabilities.

Clarewood Work Training Center Annette Byrd 5419-A Clarewood Drive Houston, Texas 77081 Phone: 713-660-6200 Fax: 713-660-7755 Clarewood Work Training Center provides supported employment for persons with developmental disabilities. They receive funding from the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services.

Lone Star College – Cy-Fair – PALS Program Noemi Jenkins, PALS Coordinator [email protected] 9191 Barker Cypress MOD I Building Cypress, TX 77433 832-482-1069 Vocational certification, including internship, in customer service, office skills, and food service. Enrichment learning opportunities are available as well.

Darla's School www.darlas.org Esther Hobbs 1129 West Gray, Houston, Texas 77019 Phone: 713-523-2114 Fax: 713-523-3909 Darla's Learning Center is an adult educational learning center for females with mental retardation.

Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS)-Blind Division Elizabeth Washington Southeast Regional Office: 10060 Fuqua Houston, Texas 77089 Phone: 713-944-9924 Fax: 713-944-0851

5 DARS-Blind Division provides services for people of all ages, with visual impairments. School programs begin at birth and continue to age 22. Persons with visual impairments having vocational potential, can receive transition services beginning at age 10. These services assist students as they move from high school into the world of work. DARS provides workshops, summer employment, summer camps, evaluations and vocational assessments. Students interested in attending college can receive a technology evaluation in their senior year of high school, to determine their technology needs in college.

Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) (formerly Texas Rehabilitation Commission-TRC) [email protected] Evette Johnson, Program Transition Specialist Houston Regional Office: 6220 Westpark Drive, Suite 110, Houston, Texas 77057 Phone: 713-735-3470 Fax: 713-735-3476 DARS assists clients with mental and physical disabilities in all aspects of obtaining jobs and training. They will provide financial and professional support to clients capable of maintaining employment, if they meet criteria.

Diversity Day Activity and Health Services Pat Duncan http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0EIN/2002_May_1/85366804/p1/article.jhtml 2317 Bingle Rd, Houston, Texas 77055 and 945 Eldridge, Sugarland, Texas 77478 Phone: 281-494-1881 Fax: 281-494-2242 Diversity Day Activity and Health Services is a day program that provides independent living skills, respite, HCS, supported employment, after school care, adult day care and functional activities for the developmentally delayed individual.

Down Syndrome Association of Houston http://www.dsah.org/ Ellen Lachney [email protected] 417 Smith Lane League City, Texas 77572 Phone: (281) 554-2192 The Down Syndrome Association provides advocacy, information, referral, parent training, education, and social/recreational services.

Endeavors www.ECOLSF.com Thelma Scott [email protected] P.O. Box 680161, Houston, Texas 77269 or 988 Bissonnet, Suite 420, Houston, TX 77034 Phone: 713-271-1177 Endeavors is dedicated to assisting students with disabilities with the following services: personal and social adjustment training, job application training, interviewing skills training, job seeking training, resume development, vocational adjustment training, and job placement. Scholarships are available through Circle of Friends foundation.

Epilepsy Association http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/setexas/ Shannon Robins-Program Director 2630 Fountainview, Suite 210, Houston, Texas 77057 Phone: (713) 789-6295 Fax: 713 789 5628 Toll Free: (888) 548-9716 The Epilepsy Association provides information, guest speakers, materials, and vocational services for individuals with epilepsy and their families.

Estate Planning for Persons with Disabilities http:///www.stemark.com Steve Rhatigan P.O. Box 8129 The Woodlands, Texas 77387 Phone: 281-364-7211(office), 281-292-5167(home), 713-858-0950(mobile) Fax: 281-367-6643

6 Stemark & Associates provide information, support and assistance necessary to negotiate the multilevel governmental and legal system, help create a realistic crisis and life plan, help generate the absolute best short or long-term outcomes for the individual with a disability and their caregivers.

Family to Family Network www.familytofamilynetwork.org Eve Cugini 13150 FM 529, Suite 106, Houston, TX 77041 Phone: 713-466-6304 Fax: 713-466-6319 Family to Family is a support group for friends and families of students with disabilities.

Garden Oaks Adult Day Care [email protected] Jim Parker or Victoria Davis. 905 W 34th St. Houston, TX 77018 713-868-1515 Fax 713-868-3022 The Garden Oaks Adult Day Care serves aged and disabled individuals from ages 20 to 90. It supplies breakfast and lunch, and if on-site after 3:00 p.m., a snack. Crafts, Bible study, special scouting group for males and females and much more are available.

Goodwill Industries http://www.goodwillhouston.org/ Tamara Palacio Job Connection Coordinator [email protected] 5200 Jensen Drive Houston, Texas 77026 713-699-6311 Fax: 713-692-0923 Goodwill Industries provides sheltered employment, vocational training, skills training, business skills training, life skills training and vocational diagnosis.

The Greater Houston Chapter of the Autism Society of America Vicki Fleming www.houstonchapterasa.org [email protected] P.O. Box 2871, Houston, TX77252-2871 Meeting site 1300 Moursund Drive, University of Texas Mental Sciences Institute Phone 713-513-7575 281-580 2217 fax Eladia Garcia (Spanish Language contact 713-676-0455) The Greater Houston Chapter of the Autism Society of America provides parent support, education, information, advocacy at the state and federal levels, and promotes public awareness and parent choice in treatment options. Meetings held at 1300 Moursand Drive, UT Mental Science Institute, Houston , Tx.

Guardianship Attorney Michelle Goldberg 6750 West Loop South, Suite 120 Bellaire, TX 77401 Phone: 713 218-8800, 8801 Fax: 713-218-8858 Michelle Goldberg provides legal assistance in the following areas, probate law, special needs trust, disability benefits, family law and obtaining guardianship.

HCC Central; VAST (Vocational Advancement & Social Skills Training) Program Sue Moraska, Program Manager [email protected] 1301 Alabama #101b (JB Whitley Bldg.) Houston, TX 77004-3961 www.HCCs.edu 713-718-6833 713-718-6832 VAST programs provide training in academics, vocational, personal/social adjustment, job readiness, life skills and independent living for students with. developmental and learning disabilities.. VAST programs are part of the continuing education division therefore students do not earn college credits.

7 Home Place of Texas [email protected] Michael A. Jones, CPA, B. June Jones, M.Ed., Directors 6515 Hill Haven Ct. Spring, TX 77379 281-655-7257 Fax: 832-442-3185 A nondenominational, Christian community for adults with disabilities.

Hope Village Roger Proulx 15403 Hope Village Road, Friendswood, TX 77546 Phone: 281-482-7326/ 281-482-1667 Hope Village has residential care, residential respite, and sheltered employment. Students must have a diagnosis of MR with IQ under 70. Must be toilet trained with no behaviors and able to walk.

Houston Center for Independent Living (HCIL) http://coalitionforbarrierfreeliving.com Tony Koosis (Director) or Anabell Rios (Independent Living Specialist) 7000 Regency Square, Suite 160, Houston, TX 77036 Phone: 713-974-4621 Fax: 713-974-6927 HCIL provides advocacy, architectural access review, attendant referral, sign language instruction, independent living skills training, information and referral, outreach services, peer counseling, and social security services information.

Houston Parent Information Network (HPIN) http://autism-ascc.org/texev.htm Elaine Hime [email protected] 4502 Woodside, Houston, Texas 77023-1222 Phone: 713-926-2580, 713-743-5435 HPIN is a support group for parents of students with disabilities.

Jewish Community Center http://www.jcchouston.org/ Gail Rockoff 5601 Braeswood, Houston, Texas 77096 Phone: 713-729-3200 x250 The Jewish Community Center provides social/recreational, programs provided for individuals with mental retardation.

Klein Champions Special Olympics Sharon Veach, Head of Delegation 16715 Steubner-Airline Klein, TX 77379 832-484-4000 A Special Olympics program designed for students attending Klein ISD schools.

Klein STARZ Dian Petersen, Head of Delegation 17611 Tall Cypress Spring, TX 77388 281-350-3304 A Special Olympics program designed for graduated athletes.

Life Resource Center/Parents as Case Managers, Inc. Norma Archer 14300 Cornerstone Village Dr., Suite 321 Houston, TX 77014 Phone: 281-397-8183

8 Provides day habilitation for persons with disabilities including curriculum and supported employment. Ms. Archer also directs Parents as Case Managers. Parents as Case Managers provides training for parents in working through the system.

Archer Case Management Steven C. Rhatigan, C.E.P., ChLAP, President 14300 Cornerstone Village Dr., Suite 321 Houston, TX 77014 Phone: 281-397-8183

Marbridge [email protected] Will Hoermann P.O. Box 2250 Manchaca, TX 78652

Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) http://www.ci.houston.tx.us/disabilities/ Pearline Noblesberg [email protected] 611 Walker, 20th Floor, Houston, Texas 77002 Phone: 713-837-9000 Fax: 713-837-9060 MOPD provides several services. It assists Houston citizens in modifying streets to make them accessible. They have a "Home of Your Own" program that provides money to make homes accessible. Also, they have a referral service that provides information on various social service agencies in the City of Houston.

MHMRA Resource Coordination Services Monique DaSant Crawford [email protected] 7011 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX 77074 Phone: 713-596-2158 The Mental Retardation Authority of MHMRA provides services to allow individuals to remain in their or their family's home. They include service eligibility determination, service coordination, community support, respite, employment assistance, nursing, behavioral support, specialized therapy, vocational training, day habilitation, and In Home and Family Support. Waiver services for individuals either in their own or family's home or other home-like settings include community-based services and supports. Individuals must be Medicaid eligible in order to receive this service.

Metro www.ridemetro.org Maryann Dendor, ADA Administrator Transportation Programs; Susie Edrington 1201 Louisiana P.O. Box 61429 Houston, TX 77208-1429 Phone: 713-225-0119 Fax: 713-615-7140 Provides information on Metropolitan Transit Authority bus and rail systems, and accommodations for persons with disabilities.

Mountain Top Development Inc Willie Drew, President P.O. Box 680946 Houston, TX 77268-0946 (town home at I10 and federal road and in southwest HCS) Phone: 281-440-7334 Fax: 281-251-7129 Provide transitional living for low-income families. Provide special housing for special needs transitional people who graduated high school. They provide residential and nonresidential services including continuing education. They work with Worksource and other agencies to provide vocational training. They are funded through grants and medicaid/medicare, but they are working towards providing special funds for those who do not qualify.

9 Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) http://www.mdausa.org/ Annie Clary 5615 Kirby Drive #500, Houston, Texas 77005 Phone: 713-522-3941, 1-888-522-3941(toll free) MDA serves individuals with 43 neuromuscular diseases by providing physical therapy evaluation, information and referral, follow-up clinic, occupational therapy evaluation, and transportation to MDA clinic. MDA also has a one-week camp for children between the ages of six and 21 living with a neuromuscular disease.

New Danville www.newdanville.org Kathy Sanders, Administrator [email protected] P.O. Box 7181 The Woodlands, TX 77387-7181 Phone: 936-344-6200 Fax 936-756-4602 Vocational training, self-help skills, residential services for adults with disabilities.

Nightingale Vocational Rehabilitation Services Ethel Tabb 5802 Holly, Houston, Texas 77074 Phone: 713-981-1543 Fax: 713-995-6376 Nightingale provides services in the following areas: job quest training, job evaluation and placement for special needs clients referred from DARS, sheltered workshop, alternative day program for persons with brain injuries, persons who are deaf/hard of hearing and/or blind and for clients with autism

Larry Pollock, PhD & Associates www.projectreentry.com Larry Pollock, President 7707 Fannin, Suite 200, Houston, Texas 77054 Phone: 713-797-6773 Fax: 713-797-6210 Larry Pollock & Associates provides vocational evaluation, rehabilitation and job placement. They specialize in services for persons with brain injury.

PDD/IDA www.pddida.org Gina Pepchinski [email protected] Phone: 713-660-0944 PDD/IDA's mission is to help individuals with Autism Spectrum disorder become healthy functioning adults. They provide telephone support in both English and Spanish. They meet the fourth Tuesday of every month (except December), 7:00 p.m. at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 345 North Piney Point in Houston.

Progressive Rehabilitation Services Toni and Marcia Davenport [email protected] 10101 Fondren, Suite 240 Houston, Texas 77096 Phone (713) 774-5216 Fax: (713) 774-2307 Progressive Rehabilitation Services provides vocational services, job placement, job training and support. They specialize in supported employment for clients with mental retardation, learning disabilities, emotional disabilities, and autism who have graduated from high school.

Providence Treatment (Life Skills) Center Anita Venditti 311 Present Street, Houston, Texas 77489 [email protected] Phone: 281-208-1117 Fax: 281-208-0047 Pager: 832-868-2252 Providence Treatment Center provides programs for children and adults that have been "hard to place" due to behavior problems. They concentrate on behavior, pre-vocational and functional skills. Respite services during school holidays are also provided as well as full summer program. An adult program 10 designed for consumers not yet ready for sheltered workshop is also available. Clients must have some type of disability.

Reach Unlimited, Inc. Roxanne Hoover 12777 Jones Road, Suite 103, Houston, Texas 77070 Phone: 281-469-8058 Fax: 281-469-5030 Reach Unlimited provides housing, independent life skills training, and vocational training to adults with primary diagnosis of Mental Retardation.

River Oaks Academy Luis Valdes, Ph.D., Director [email protected] 10600 Richmond Ave., Houston, Texas 77581 Phone (713) 783-7200 Fax (713) 783-7286 River Oaks Academy (ROA) was established in 1988 to provide parents and the community a private school with tailored programming that welcomes students with unique circumstances and conditions. We specialize in using teaching strategies and skill building techniques designed to help those with problems related to attention, distractibility, impulse control, emotional control, noncompliance, learning differences and developmental delays. Our small student teacher ratios increase academic success and allow a high level of participation in school life.

Javier Ruiz-Nazario, M.D. Behavioral Services of Houston, P.A. 17207 Kuykendahl Dr., Suite 100 Spring, TX 77379 Phone: (281) 374-8555 Psychiatry services; consultation for other mental health services.

Shiloh Treatment Center Rita Savage [email protected] 3926 Bahler Ave, Manvel, TX 77578 Phone: 281-489-1290 Fax: 281-489-8806 Shiloh is a residential and day treatment center for children and youth (3-22) with a mental illness, emotional disorder, autism, mental retardation, or a behavioral disorder that does not require an acute care hospital. They provide evaluative and diagnostic services, recreation and leisure activities, case management and social services, education, medical, counseling and psychological services.

Social Security Administration (SSA) WWW.SSA.GOV Andrew Hardwick 7324 Southwest Freeway, Suite 500, Houston, TX 77074 [email protected] Phone: 713-219-5636 ext. 3039 Fax: 713-219-5650 SSA provides services for children with disabilities, additional income, and access to Medicaid/Medicare. Vocational rehabilitation services for those who wish to return to the work force are also available.

Special Home Care Living Center Chuck Okeadu 10101 Fondren, Suite 340 Houston, Texas 77096 Phone: 713 771-3133 Fax 713-771-3113 Special Home Care Living Center provides supported employment, respite care, nursing services, and all around health care services to Home and Community Based Services recipients. They serve children to adults with mental retardation.

11 Special Kids, Inc. Agnes Johnson 5055 Bellfort, Houston, TX 77033 Phone: 713-734-5355 Special Kids, Inc, provides community support and parent resource center, parent-training information and parent support regarding disabilities. They can go into schools and attend ARD meetings.

A Special Kind of TLC Paula Dodd (Rene Enriquez, President/CEO) 604 Roberts Street, Houston, TX 77003 Phone: 713-926-3666 Cell: 832-651-4110 Fax: 713-224-2357 A Special Kind of TLC provides the following services: Behavioral plans, community-based services, day habilitation, on-the-job training, pre-vocational training, recreation/camps, respite, HCH, and transitional school services.

Special Olympics http://www.sotx.org/contactus/localOffice.do?locationId=11 Renee Klovenski 4140 Directors Row, Suite B. Houston, Texas 77092 Phone: 713-290-0226 Fax: (713) 290-0049 Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic- type sports for persons eight years of age and older with mental retardation. It gives them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience, joy and participate in the sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympians and the community. See also: Klein Champions and Klein STARZ

Special Texas Homes, Inc. - HCS Cynthia Franks Address: P.O. Box 87489, Houston, Texas 77287-7489 Phone: 713-475-2228 x113 Special Texas Homes, Inc. provides HCS and ICF-MR group homes in East Harris County, NW Harris County, Pasadena, Deer Park, LaPorte and Baytown. Most of their clients are involved in day programs.

Spring Klein Superstars [email protected] Spring Klein Sports Assoc. P.O. Box 12022 Spring, TX 77391 832-442-4422

St. Giles Living Center Marcus Hill 1801 Branard, Houston Texas, 77098 and 616 West Bell, Houston, Texas 77019 Phone: 713-942-8887 Fax: 713-942-8802 Develocepts provides residential services and vocational training.

Team Project, A Project of Partners Resource Network [email protected] Olga Guerra www.PartnersTX.org 3311 Richmond, Suite 334 Houston, TX 77098 713-524-2147 Fax: 713-524-2147 The mission of Partners Resource Network is to empower parents of children with disabilities to be effective advocates for their children and to promote positive parent/professional partnerships. It is also

12 a resource for professionals who work with families that have children with disabilities. The staff of TEAM Project helps parents and professionals to work together so children with disabilities can learn to be responsible, independent adults. There is no cost for these services. Services are available in English and Spanish.

Texas Department of Human Services http://www.dhs.state.tx.us/regions/06/ Carol Harrell 5425 Polk St., Suite 1301 77023 Phone: 713-767-2155, 713-767-2156 Fax: 713-767-2150 Mailing address: P.O. Box 16017 Houston, Texas 77222-16017 Texas Department of Human Services provides services to the aged and persons with severe functional disabilities. In-home family and support, one time grants for capital improvements (e.g. ramps, doorways, etc.) and six-month grants for services.

The Trend Health Care Services Janet Williams 10101 Harwin, Suite 100 Houston, Texas 77036 Phone: 713-777-0051 Fax: 713-777-0211 The Trend Health Care Services provides services for Home and Community Based Services recipients that include: case management, counseling, occupational and physical therapies, foster care for persons eighteen years and older, hourly and daily respite care, day habilitation, adaptive aids, minor home modification and dental services. Clients can be serviced in their own homes or in Trend Health Care Services residential facilities.

United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Houston (UCP) http://www.ucphouston.org/ Dina Day 4500 Bissonet Houston, Texas 77401 713-838-9050 x303 UCP provides respite care, in-home sitters, host family, and respite vouchers.

United Way of Gulf Coast http://www.uwtgc.org/index2.html David Jobe 2200 North Loop West Houston, Texas 77018 Phone: 713-685-2309 Fax: 713-685-2735 211 Resource Hotline. Provides information 24/7 regarding services in the area. (Jan Johnston works with Kidsway - a youth group that gets kids involved in philanthropy within their community 713-685- 2313. )

University of Houston Parent Education Project www.las.uh.edu/pep Angie Grindon [email protected] 210 Student Services Center #1, Houston, TX 77204-3025 Phone: 713-743-5491 The Parent Education Project is a University of Houston grant-funded project that provides these services: Families CAN: Provides Information, Resources & Parent Casework Services to families of children (0-18 years) with physical/medical disabilities and chronic illness (Funding- State Dept. of Health Services) and R.A.P.P. (Relatives As Parents Program) which provides Information, Referral & Support Groups for grandparents and other relatives raising grandchildren.

Vita Living Renee Wallace 3300 South Gessner, Suite 150, Houston TX 77063 Phone: 713-271-5795 Fax: 713-271-1250

13 David Natham, Executive Director, 713-292-1806 Vita Living provides respite care, residential services, day habilitation, and recreation.