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Statewide Resources
Community Organizations
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Access Alaska encourages and promotes the total integration of people who experience a disability and Senior Alaskans to live independently in the community of their choice.
Alaska Center for Resource Families
The Alaska Center For Resource Families (ACRF) provides support, information and training to foster, adoptive, kinship, and guardianship families in Alaska.
Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
The Alaska Center for the Blind & Visually Impaireds mission is to eliminate vision loss as the barrier to employment, community participation or quality of life. This is the only statewide training and resource center for vision rehabilitation for all Alaskans with uncorrectable sight loss.
The Alaska Down Syndrome Network is open to all individuals with Down Syndrome, their families, educators, healthcare professionals, and anyone interested in making a difference i the lives of those with Down Syndrome. ADSN is also known as the Alaska Chapter National Down Syndrome Congress.
Alaska Infant Learning Program
Partnering with families to support healthy development of infants and toddlers.
Alaska Mental Health Consumer Web
The Alaska Mental Health Consumer Web (The Web) provides peer-driven, peer support in a safe environment guided by unconditional positive regard using a recovery-based philosophy. The Web also offers hope with no red tape and no strings attached.
Alaska Newborn Bloodspot Screening Program
Alaska's Newborn Bloodspot Screening Program screens Alaskan infants for inherited and congenital conditions that may not be obvious at birth but could cause disability or death if not treated.
Alaska Youth and Family Network
A peer-run, peer delivered service, to create a more effective and inclusive behavioral health treatment system for Alaska's children, youth & families.
Assistive Technology of Alaska (ATLA) is a resource for Alaskans to learn about AT. We provide access to this education through awareness activities and providing information and assistance to all inquiries.
Catholic Social Services - Family Disability Services
Family Disability Services was established in 1981 to provide children and adults with disabilities and to strengthen families by providing individualized home and community based services that promote dignity, respect, and self advocacy.
Challenge Alaska strives to improve the lives of people with disabilities and the whole community through adaptive sports, therapeutic recreation and education.
Disability Law Center of Alaska
The Disability Law Center of Alaska is an independent non-profit law firm providing legal advocacy for people with disabilities anywhere in Alaska.
An agency dedicated to promoting healthy child development and family strength statewide. We do this by providing support, information, and connection to resources for families, teachers, and caregivers.
Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education
The Council uses planning, capacity building, systems change, and advocacy to create change for people with disabilities.
Provides services and supports, that are requested and designed by individuals and families who experience disabilities, that result in choice, control, family preservation and community inclusion.
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill-Alaska
NAMI Alaska is a nonprofit, support, education and advocacy organization of consumers, families, and friends of people with severe brain disorders such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic and anxiety disorders, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
North Star Behavioral Health is one of Alaska’s top behavioral health providers, specializing in helping young people with life’s challenges. We have served children and adolescents through our acute care and residential treatment programs in Anchorage since 1984, and we now treat service members and veterans at the Chris Kyle Patriots Hospital.
No cost assessments.
Call 800-478-7575
The Office of Public Advocacy (OPA) provides legal advocacy and guardianship services to vulnerable Alaskans.
Programs for Infants and Children, Inc.
Programs for Infants and Children, Inc. provides early intervention services for children ages 0 - 3 with developmental delays or disabilities.
SERRC – Alaska's Educational Resource Center
SERRC provides customized direct student services, school and district support services, and community services (including adult education) to students of all ages, educators, schools and school districts throughout Alaska.
Special Education Service Agency
SESA provides consultation and training to support the unique educational needs of individuals and the Alaskan communities that serve them.
Special Olympics Alaska provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
Stone Soup Group is a statewide non-profit agency based in Anchorage, Alaska that provides information, support, training and resources to support families caring for children with special needs. SSG is staffed almost entirely by parents and family members of children with special needs and they work with a family-centered philosophy.
University of Alaska Anchorage, Center for Human Development
The mission of the UAA Center for Human Development (CHD) is to improve the quality of lives for people who experience disabilities and their families, across the life span, through interdisciplinary training, technical assistance, exemplary service development, applied research and dissemination of information.
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