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Contact your State Legislator or Members of Congress - click here.
Are You Eligible?
State Benefit Programs and
Federal Benefit Programs Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program - A comprehensive community-based Suicide Prevention Program. Call 1-800-615-1245 24 hours a day/7 days a week for Community Mental Health or 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433).
Parents as Teachers (PAT) is an international early childhood parent education and family support program serving families throughout pregnancy until their child enters kindergarten.
Parent Reviews Give an Inside View - How does your school do in meeting the needs of its students? Just click on Parent Reviews on any school profile to see personal, up-close comments about schools.
Contact your State Legislator or Members of Congress - click here.
Homework Help for Kids & Teens - click here.
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids - Law Enforcement support for programs preventing juvenile crime and violence.
For the substance abuse treatment facility nearest you, click here.
For the mental health treatment center nearest you, click here.
Find K-12 school information for your state - Visit Standard & Poors, Educational CyberPlayGround, SchoolMatch, or RateMyTeacher.
How to volunteer to help a child - click here.
Reading & Literacy Help for Children - click here.
Reading & Literacy Help for Adults - click here.
Check out your teacher's certification status with the Michigan Teacher Certification Lookup tool - click here.
Find help in your state or region for children with chronic, life-threatening illnesses or disabilities - click here. For resources in Spanish, click here.
U.S. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
U.S. Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
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Education Resources & Information
Michigan Department of Education - http://www.michigan.gov/mde/
Intermediate School District (ISD) Website Finder
Michigan
School Report Cards- Search by school or district for state
information about the performance of your schools. Find K-12 school information for your state - Visit Standard & Poors, Educational CyberPlayGround, SchoolMatch, or RateMyTeacher.
Find a charter school in your area: http://www.charterschools.org/pages/regions.cfm
Michigan Department of Education Parent Help Line for Student Issues: 888-323-4231
Download your state's educational profile -
click here (click on State Profiles)
1-800-Early On - Information on early childhood, the Early On program, parenting, early literacy, etc.
Michigan
Teacher Network - Michigan Teacher Network supports Michigan
educators in the successful use of technology by providing easy access
to information and materials that have been carefully evaluated for
quality, relevance, and effectiveness. The latest issue of Leading Change is now available.
Standard & Poor's School Evaluation Services - Here school administrators, policy makers, parents, educators, and all stakeholders can find: S&P Written Reports: Read about your school system’s academic results, spending, student population, financial condition, and more. Trends and Benchmarks: Measure progress with up to five years of data. Compare to the state, the county, similar schools, or set up your own comparisons. Better Performers: Identify schools that perform better on any academic indicator, for any student group. Return on ResourcesTM: Understand the relationship between spending and achievement.
Michigan Department of Education Office of Special Education & Early Intervention Services (OSE/EIS) - http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140-6525_6530_6598---,00.html
Learning Disabilities Association of Michigan - http://www.ldaofmichigan.org
CEN - Center for Educational Networking (State Improvement Grant) http://www.michigansig.org/ - A good resource for users to find products, news, and events. Users can also submit an event to be posted on our site and subscribe to electronic versions of our publications.
Education Law Center an organization that provides training and consultation services on school law issues.
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Agencies, Organizations, and State Government Contacts for Children At-Risk
Agencies & Organizations for Children with Disabilities - click here.
Everyone
Together - At an individual local network level we seek to
educate parents and increase their advocacy for inclusion of children
with disabilities in general education classrooms. As a group of
networks, we seek to support each other and to combine our voices to
advocate for the inclusion of all children who are routinely separated
and segregated based on disability. As a statewide coalition of
networks, we seek the fundamental changes to the education system that
are necessary if we are ever to achieve All Children, All Together,
All the Time. We seek to align ourselves with like-minded
organizations and to advocate for the adoption of policies,
legislation, and practices that support Universal Education. All
Children, All Together, All the Time. That is our mission.
Michigan Yellow Pages for Kids with Disabilities - http://www.fetaweb.com/help/mi.htm "We built the Yellow Pages for Kids with Disabilities so people can get reliable information and support. Your state Yellow Pages includes many resources - government programs, grassroots organizations, and parent support groups."
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Michigan - A bipartisan anti-crime organization of police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecuting attorneys and victims of violence. It is a project of the national Fight Crime - Invest in Kids, a nonprofit supported by tax-deductible contributions from foundations, individuals and corporations. It receives no public funding. The organization calls on public officials to adopt a four-part plan to reduce crime and violence, and help young people learn the skills and values they need to become responsible adults. The four-steps are: 1. Provide all school-age children and teens access to after-school youth development programs to shut down the "Prime Time for Juvenile Crime"; 2. Provide all families access to quality pre-kindergarten, school readiness, and educational child care programs proven to dramatically reduce crime; 3. Help schools identify troubled and disrupted children at an early age, and provide children and their parents with the counseling and training that can help kids get back on track; 4. Improve deficient parents and prevent child abuse and neglect by: * Offering high-risk parents in-home parenting-coaching; * Making sure child protective, foster care, and adoptive services have comprehensive policies and enough well-trained staff to protect and heal abused and neglected children. For more information, contact K. P. Pelleran, State Director at kppelleran@fightcrime.org or 517-371-3565.
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Find your local library by using the Michigan Library's Online Directory - click here.
The online directory contains
the most up to date information we have for approximately 2000
libraries and library related organizations.
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Visit the Bridges4Kids Breaking News section for timely state and national news about education, early childhood interventions, special education, at-risk children and youth, upcoming events and more - click here.
For articles specific to Michigan, Detroit or the State Superintendent of Education, click here.
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Miscellaneous Information & Resources
Mid-Michigan Autism Association was started 2 years ago in Lansing , MI and is a non-profit, grass-roots organization connecting families with autism with needed local supports, autism information, activities, and resource options in Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham Counties. Oversight is provided by a voluntary board and new initiatives are continually underway. There is no fee for being added to our e—mail distribution list! Go to www.midmichiganautism.org for more information!
National Centers for Independent Living - Map of U.S. leads to a listing of Centers for Independent Living by state.
The Arc of Michigan - 800-292-7821 -
http://www.arcmi.org
The Arc - Grosse Pointe Michigan: http://www.geocities.com/thearcgrossepointeharperwoods
Visit Resource Net's Directory of Resources in Michigan at http://www.resourcenet-hoho.org/orgsearch.html - find resources by keyword, location, type of service, or browse the directory alphabetically.
Autism Society of America's Oakland County Chapter - www.asaoakland.org
Project PERFORM provides free packets of information on specific disabilities and special needs. These packets are comprehensive and very useful. Find them on the web at http://wash.k12.mi.us/perform or call 800-552-4821.
Developmental
Disabilities Institute (DDI) - 313-577-2654 -
http://www.wayne.edu/DDI/
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