Resources
Philadelphia Intellectual Disability Parent Support Groups
The Philadelphia Parent Support Groups are grassroots groups organized by families for families of persons receiving or seeking Intellectual disAbility Services through the City of Philadelphia. Members share and network with one another to become better informed about resources in their community and around the state. There are Parent Support Groups located throughout the City of Philadelphia.
Click link for more information: PPSG
Resourceful Videos:
Resourceful Links:
- Bucks County Services
- Benefit Bank "Connecting Communities to Resources"
- Cerebral Palsy Guide
- Cerebral Palsy Group
- Chester County Intellectual Disability Program
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's "Little Rock" Resource Room
- Community Meals (soup kitchen in Philadelphia)
- Delaware County Human Services
- Disability Scholarships
- Education Law Center
- Emergency Notification System for Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties
- Exceptional Parent Magazine
- Federal Emergency Managment and Disaster Kits
- Heat Help, 2013 list of Cooling Centers
- Homeless Shelter Directory by State
- Kids Together Inc. Info & Resources for Children with Disabilities
- Liberty Resources the Philadelphia Center for Independent Living
- Medicaid Resource Booklet
- Montgomery County Human Services
- National Down Syndrome Society
- PA Assistive, Augmentative, & Alternative Communication
- PA Assitstive Technology Foundation
Resourceful Links (cont.):
- Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
- PA Disability Rights Network
- PA Elks Home Service Program
- PA Heating Assistance/LIHEAP
- PA Network of Care for Behavioral Health & Intellectual Disability Services
- PA Office of Developmental Programs (ODP)
- PA Providers.org
- PA Spanish guide to IDS & Autism
- PA Training Partnership for People with Disabilities and Families
- PA voter Information
- Philabundance Food Help Line
- Philadelphia City Government
- Philadelphia County Department of Behavioral Health & Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS)
- Philadelphia County Healthy Mind
- Philadelphia County Soup Kitchens
- Philadelphia Department of Human Services (DHS)
- PGW Assistance Programs
- Philadelphia Housing Authority
- Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation
- Philadelphia PET Food Pantry for Low-income Pet Owners
- Philadelphia Special Needs Surgical Dentistry in NorthEast
- Institute on Disabilities at Temple University (Philadelphia Branch)
- Speaking for Ourselves (Self Advocates)
- Special Needs Alliance, Non-profit Attorneys
- Transportation - SEPTA Paratransit
- United Cerebral Palsy Association
- York County Human Services