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Florida Links:

• The Advocacy Center for People With Disabilities: The Advocacy Center provides consumer-driven services to support people with disabilities and their families in achieving their goals.
• Agency for Persons with Disabilities: The Agency Supports Persons with Developmental Disabilities in Living, Learning and Working in their Community in the state of Florida.
• Family Café:A smorgasbord of training, education and networking for individuals with disabilities, special health care needs, self-advocates and their families. The Family Cafe Annual Conference is a statewide event designed to meet the informational and networking needs of individuals with disabilities or special health care needs and their families.
• Family Care Council: The Mission of the Family Care Council Florida (FCCF) is to advocate, educate and empower individuals wtih developmental disabilities and their families, partnering wit Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD) to bring quality services to individuals for dignity and choice.
• Family Network on Disabilities: is a statewide network of families and individuals of all ages who may be at-risk, have disabilities, or have special needs and their families, professionals, and concerned citizens. Our mission is to ensure through collaboration that Floridians have full access to family-driven support, education, information, resources, and advocacy and to serve families of children with disabilities,
• Arc Florida: The Arc of Florida is a nonprofit charity whose mission is to improve the quality of life for persons with developmental disabilities.
• Florida Department of Education: The Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services administers programs for students with disabilities and for gifted students.
• Florida Independent Living Center: FILC's purpose is to promote independent living opportunities for persons with disabilities throughout the state of Florida. This includes the promotion of a direct service philosophy that is consumer controlled and directed.
• Florida Institute for Family Involvement:is an organization dedicated to creating solutions, strengthening partnerships, enhancing community collaboration and building an information base for children and youth with special needs and their families.
• Florida Youth Leadership Forum: is an innovative, intensive four-day leadership training program for rising high school juniors and seniors with disabilities. Delegates are selected from around the state of Florida to gather in Tallahassee to cultivate leadership, citizenship and social skills.
• Florida Youth Council: part of the National Consortium on Leadership and Disability for Youth (NCLD/Y) is supported by a partnership between the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities and the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council. It is made up of a diverse group of young leaders with disabilities throughout the state.
• Waiverprovider.com: a directory of medicaid waiver providers in Florida. We provide detailed information about each provider including: services provided, areas covered, special skills, and experience.

National Links:

• Center on Human Policy: was founded by Dr. Burton Blatt in 1971. The Center is a network of academic programs, centers, student organizations, and affiliated faculty whose research, teaching, and advocacy seeks to promote the rights of people with disabilities locally, nationally, and globally, and to facilitate a critical examination of disability as an aspect of diversity in society.
• Disability World: A web-zine of international disability news and views.
• Family Support Center on Disabilities: Knowledge & Involvement Network (call us KIN for short!) offers you a centralized resource on the full range of options available to individuals with disabilities and their families.
• http://www.r-word.org/--Spread the word to end the word. Our language frames how we think about others. Help eliminate the use of the R-word in everyday speech.
• Inclusive Daily Express: The world's only independent daily disability rights news service since 1999.
  
• LD Pride: This set of links explains the meanings of LD Pride and  Deaf Pride and offers you a chance to contribute your own definition in the What is LD Pride to you? section of the site. It also offers suggestions on how to increase LD Pride in your community.
• Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities: provide
  information, education, and training to build knowledge, develop skills, and change attitudes
  that will lead to increased independence, productivity, self determination, integration and
  inclusion (IPSII) for people with developmental disabilities and their families.
• The Ragged Edge: Literature, and disability pride archives on many topics. Ragged Edge Online launched in January, 1997 -- back then we called the site "Electric Edge.
• TASH: TASH is an international grassroots leader in advancing inclusive communities through research, education and advocacy.
• Wrightslaw Topic: Self-Advocacy: Legal website with self-advocacy information.

National/ International Self-Advocacy Links:

• Advocating Change Together (ACT): We work to build self-advocacy. We have 30 years of experience on how to build leaders by working on issues. We have 30 years of knowledge on how groups of ordinary people with developmental disabilities--and their allies--can make change happen.
• Advocates in Action-Rhode Island State Association: Welcome to the Website for Advocates in Action, Rhode Island's Statewide Self-Advocacy organization.Our website is designed to share some tools and resources about Self-Advocacy, along with information to keep you up to date about Self-Advocacy events.
• Central England People First: We are people with learning difficulties speaking up for ourselves!
• New Jersey Self Advocacy Project: The New Jersey Self-Advocacy Project helps the advocates to form groups in their areas. To date, there are over 110 self-advocacy groups in the state!
• Kentucky Self Advocates for Freedom: Kentucky Self-Advocates for Freedom is a newly formed state-wide non-profit organization led by and for people with developmental disabilities in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
• People First of Missouri: is a statewide organization formed by, run by and which exists for persons with developmental disabilities. Currently there are over 40 chapters across the state of Missouri with approximately 1,000 members.
• People First of New Hampshire:A non-profit organization directed by people who have disabilities for the purpose of self-advocacy.
• People First of Illinois: is committed to empowering people with disabilities to make their own decisions and choices and to speak for themselves. We will continue to advocate to improve the lives of people with disabilities in our state, and will work to ensure that persons with disabilities are treated equally and are active members of their community.
• People First of Washington: We are people first, our disabilities are secondary!
  We’ve been a strong and growing state wide self-advocacy organization since 1981.
• Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE): The United State's national self-advocacy organization.  We are a national board of regional representatives and members from every state in the US.
• Self- Advocacy Association of New York State (SANYS): a not-for profit, grassroots organization run by and for people with developmental disabilities. Our goal is to help create a person-centered and person-directed system of supports.
• Self Advocate Leadership Network (SALN): SALN is a partnership between self-advocates across the country and staff at the Human Services Research Institute. Our purpose is to help people with developmental disabilities to become strong self-advocates.
• Self Advocacy Online: Self-Advocacy Online in an educational and networking website for those involved in making change for people with disabilities. Through our online Learning Center, you can build your skills in many areas of self-advocacy. And the national self-advocacy map will connect you with other across the country working on similar issues.
• Speaking For Ourselves: Pennsylvania State Self-Advocacy Association: help our members run their organizations, develop leadership skills through real-life experiences, learn to work together collectively to address their own issues, and increase their own self-sufficiency and independence.
  

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