Planning Across the Spectrum: Their mission is to make individuals with autism/disabilities and families’ financially free with specialized planning, ongoing coaching, and other services. Planning Across the Spectrum has a active national autism /disability event calendar that covers all social, advocacy and informative events. Lastly, they offer speaking engagements for anything financial, autism, driving, and benefits related topics.
planningacrossthespectrum.com/
Disability Rights Connecticut: They provide legal and advocacy protection rights to people with disabilities. They help people with problems like discrimination, voting rights, abuse and assistive technology. They also provide educational workshops and advocates policy changes to the Connecticut States Capitol to enrich the disability community.
www.disrightsct.org/
The Arc of Connecticut: The Arc of Connecticut is a advocacy organization that protects the rights of people with disabilities and provides inclusive opportunities for people to be fully integrated into their community.
thearcct.org/
CT Council on Developmental Disabilities: This council engages in creating systematic change by advocacy and activities that contribute a self-determined system of person-based supports by people with disabilities and for them. They assist parents in this population to be more involved in their children's community activities. They also help with creating employment and transportation opportunities for people with developmental disabilities as well.
https://www.facebook.com/ctddcouncil/
Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center: CPAC is a Connecticut nonprofit that offers information and resources to parents about disabilities from birth through 26. They believe that parents can be effective advocates for their children, upon them knowing the special education laws. CPAC does a series of workshops for parents and special education staff all around Connecticut and virtually on any special education topics. Their programs include Parent Training and Information, Family Connections, Reach for Transition (REACH), and Next Steps.
https://cpacinc.org/default.aspx
National Alliance on Mental Illness: This organizations aims to bring a world where people with mental health conditions experience the best possible quality of life. They educate, empower and engage with people with mental health. NAMI CT have support groups all over the state, online resources, a six week program called NAMI Basics that goes over mental illness. As with other organization, NAMI does work in the public police and advocacy.
https://namict.org/
planningacrossthespectrum.com/
Disability Rights Connecticut: They provide legal and advocacy protection rights to people with disabilities. They help people with problems like discrimination, voting rights, abuse and assistive technology. They also provide educational workshops and advocates policy changes to the Connecticut States Capitol to enrich the disability community.
www.disrightsct.org/
The Arc of Connecticut: The Arc of Connecticut is a advocacy organization that protects the rights of people with disabilities and provides inclusive opportunities for people to be fully integrated into their community.
thearcct.org/
CT Council on Developmental Disabilities: This council engages in creating systematic change by advocacy and activities that contribute a self-determined system of person-based supports by people with disabilities and for them. They assist parents in this population to be more involved in their children's community activities. They also help with creating employment and transportation opportunities for people with developmental disabilities as well.
https://www.facebook.com/ctddcouncil/
Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center: CPAC is a Connecticut nonprofit that offers information and resources to parents about disabilities from birth through 26. They believe that parents can be effective advocates for their children, upon them knowing the special education laws. CPAC does a series of workshops for parents and special education staff all around Connecticut and virtually on any special education topics. Their programs include Parent Training and Information, Family Connections, Reach for Transition (REACH), and Next Steps.
https://cpacinc.org/default.aspx
National Alliance on Mental Illness: This organizations aims to bring a world where people with mental health conditions experience the best possible quality of life. They educate, empower and engage with people with mental health. NAMI CT have support groups all over the state, online resources, a six week program called NAMI Basics that goes over mental illness. As with other organization, NAMI does work in the public police and advocacy.
https://namict.org/