| | A Manual: Accessible and Safe Outdoor Recreation Areas
Are your playgrounds safe and accessible? Having trouble explaining what changes are needed and why? This document can is a great place to start and can help you get the information you need to be effective. The introduction even provides a guide ...
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| | ADA Minnesota
ADA Minnesota is a volunteer organization comprised of representatives from government, business, non-profit organizations, and people with disabilities. ADA Minnesota provides the following services at no cost: Technical assistance regarding ADA co...
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| | ADA Watch -- An ADA monitoring organization
ADA Watch is an international network based in Washington DC. The network is designed to activate grassroots responses when any aspect of the ADA is threatened or violated. ADA Watch also educates and informs the public regarding threats to the civ...
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| | Arc Minnesota
Arc Minnesota provides advocacy and support for people with developmental disabilities and their families. A part of the national Arc and affiliated with local chapters, Arc Minnesota is a statewide, voluntary organization. They're dedicated to ens...
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| | Children's Home Society & Family Services
This organization offers a broad range of family services, including services specific to people with disabilities. The learning disability program offers information regarding assessment, rights and laws, as well as assistance with educational plan...
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| | Cornucopia Of Disability Information (CODI)
CODI serves as a community resource for consumers and professionals by providing disability information in a wide variety of areas. It consists of both an Internet Directory of Disability Information and a repository of electronic disability document...
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| | Great Lakes Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center
The Great Lakes ADA & IT Center is one of 10 regional centers funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), a division of the U.S. Department of Education. Great Lakes ADA's purpose is to provide technical assis...
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| | Homes & Communities
This web site is from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD). It was created for people with disabilities to help provide information about housing. The site contains information, from many different parts of HUD's web site, that wi...
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| | Internet Resources for Special Children
Internet Resources for Special Children (IRSC) is dedicated to children with disabilities and other health related disorders worldwide. The mission of this site is to improve the lives of children with disabilities by providing valuable information ...
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| | Long Term Care Planning - Web Tool from the Federal Government
This web site is a national clearinghouse for long-term care info, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It serves to provide information and resources to help you and your family plan for future long-term care (LTC) needs.
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| | Minnesota Department of Education
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) is the education agency for the State of Minnesota. This agency implements learning programs for children, from birth to adulthood. MDE's Special Education Program provides school districts and parents with...
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| | Minnesota Department of Human Services
DHS helps people meet their basic needs by providing or adminstering health care coverage, economic assistance, and a variety of services for children, people with disabilities, and Seniors. Use the contact information below to get ahold of DHS.
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| | Minnesota Disability Law Center
Minnesota Disability Law Center (MDLC) is the place to go if you need information about your rights or the rights of your family. They're a legal resource that was created for people with disabilities! MDLC's mission is to promote, expand, and prot...
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| | MinnesotaHelp.info
MinnesotaHelp.info is an online directory of services designed to help people in Minnesota identify resources such as human services, information and referral, financial assistance, and other forms of aid and assistance within Minnesota. It is especi...
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| | MN Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities
The Governor's Council's mission is to work toward assuring that people with developmental disabilities receive the necessary support to achieve increased independence, self determination, productivity, integration and inclusion into the community. ...
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| | MnDACA -- Working for people with developmental disabilities
MnDACA is an group of agencies working for people with developmental disabilities. MnDACA member organizations work for the DD community in a variety of important ways, including: Legislative work, public relations, conferences, seminars, forums, s...
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| | National Clearinghouse for Long-Term Care Information
Welcome to the National Clearinghouse for Long-Term Care Information. This is a new web site developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide information and resources to help you and your family plan for future long-term care...
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| | Not Dead Yet - A Self-Advocacy organization against assisted suicide
Not Dead Yet was founded on April 27,1996, shortly after Jack Kevorkian was acquitted in the assisted suicides of two women with non-terminal disabilities. In a 1997 Supreme Court rally, the outcry of 500 people with disabilities chanting "Not Dead Y...
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| | Office of the Ombudsman for Mental Health and Mental Retardation
This independent state agency was created in 1987 "to promote the highest attainable standards of treatment, competence, efficiency, and justice...for persons receiving services for treatment for mental illness, mental retardation or a related condit...
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| | PACER Center
The mission of PACER Center is to expand opportunities and enhance the quality of life of children and young adults with disabilities and their families, based on the concept of parents helping parents. PACER provides a wide range of services for ind...
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| | Program Development Associates
Program Development Associates distributes multimedia training and educational resources on an up-to-date list of disability topics.
We supply disability professionals in social service agencies, k-12 special education teachers in public and priva...
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| | Service eligibility screening tool: CoveringAllFamilies.org
The Covering All Families web tool was designed to help community volunteers and service providers assist low-income families in Minnesota determine their eligibility for a broad range of services. It also strives to make the application processes f...
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| | Special Needs Advocates for Parents (SNAP)
SNAP aims to provide information, education, advocacy, and referrals to families with special needs children of all ages and disabilities. While they are based in California, their website may be of assistance to any family. Visit the site to revie...
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| | Victims of Crime with Disabilities Resource Guide
Funded by the Department of Justice’s Office of Victims of Crime, the project is focused on making information accessible on ending crimes against people with disabilities. The site includes resources, funding opportunities, events, and news items.
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| | WorkWORLD - A Computer Program for the Disability Community
WorkWORLD© is a FREE computer program that can do amazing things for people in the disability community. The software is designed to help people with disabilities, advocates, benefit counselors, and others explore and understand how to best use the w...
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