Community Event

Meet the Need returns to put action steps to four priority I/DD goals. Ann Rodriguez and Linda Kendall Fields will guide participants through the next steps of the collective impact process. Don’t worry if you were not able to attend Part 1 – we will help you to catch up.

Youth Leadership Forum is an event for youth and young adults with disabilities between the ages 15 and 30. This event is to support them with transition skills whether it is going from high school to college, college to work, moving out of parents’ home to living independently, or any other transition phase that may

Often when we think of related services listed in the IEP, the first things to come to mind are OT, PT and Speech. Did you know that related services also include parent counseling and training? Parent counseling and training means: Assisting parents in understanding the special needs of their child Providing parents with information about

Reality Ministries is hosting Dr. Brewer Eberly, a longtime friend of Reality and family physician at the Fischer Clinic. Dr. Brewer Eberly would love to offer primary health care to the Reality community and those with I/DD.  He is interested in starting to see patients in Durham and wants to know what is needed by

PACID is a grassroots organization of over 300 families with adult children who have intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Most of the families are from the Research Triangle region of central North Carolina. Their mission is that each adult child is able to move into safe and appropriate housing in the coming months and years, whether

Black Families and Providers Accessing Service Together (BFAST) was created in partnership with members of the Black community to create easily accessed, culturally sensitive, and personally tailored information to allow successful connection to early intervention services for Black autistic children across North Carolina. BFAST is a UNC TEACCH Autism Program project in collaboration with the Autism Society of North Carolina and Frank

March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month! Through advocacy, capacity building and systems change, the North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities (NCCDD) improves the opportunities and lives of over 180,000 North Carolinians with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and their families. Tune into learn more about their advocacy in action, and important updates and information regarding the Innovations Waiver,

Join the ECAC to learn about questions parents can ask in spring IEP meetings to anticipate opportunities and challenges their kids may face next school year. Whether your child is moving up a “level,” or just going to the next grade, you’ll benefit from learning how to think it through and gather more information. Presented

The Parent Connect meeting on March 5th will feature a special guest, Anne Stull, LPA, BCBA, who will speak briefly on her work as a psychologist working with autistic people.  The remainder of the meeting will be open for questions, concerns and discussion as usual. Anne has been working with people with special needs since

The Monica Chibuogu Nneji Foundation is hosting Dr. Diana M., Cejas, MD, MPH to speak in observance of Developmental Disabilities & Brain Injury Awareness Month 2024. Dr. Cejas is a neurologist at UNC with clinical interests in autism spectrum disorders and intellectual and neurodevelopmental disabilities. She will discuss how disability develops, the concept of disability