Check out these Resource Ideas for our Bert’s Big Adventure Families
Financial/Legal Assistance
Angel Flight Soars, Inc.
The Mission of Angel Flight is to arrange free air transportation to those who need it most. We serve the community by flying patients to distant medical facilities, delivering supplies to disaster areas and reuniting families during desperate times.
Website: http://www.angelflightsoars.org
Phone: 770-452-7958
Brain Tumor Foundation for Children, Inc.
Provides financial assistance, social support, and information for families of children with brain and spinal cord tumors.
Website: http://www.braintumorkids.org/
Phone: 404-252-4107
Cancer Warriors, Inc.
For years, Cancer Warriors has been a source of support to families and children with cancer by providing emotional and financial support through programs and services that allow these families to be sponsored by caring individuals, schools, churches, businesses, etc.
Website: http://www.cancerwarriors.org
Phone: 770-789-6346
Champions for Children
Helps provide financial assistance for supportive services to help cover the cost of caring for their children at home. The Champions for Children Program is designed to primarily assist children and families who do not meet the eligibility requirements for the TEFRA/Katie Beckett Medicaid program.
Website: http://www.championsforchildrenga.org/
Phone: 1-866-584-3742
Mark’s Money
Mark’s Money provides financial assistance to persons with Down syndrome or other developmental disabilities to improve their quality of life by meeting their daily living, employment, medical, residential, or social needs.
Website: http://www.marksmoney.org
Phone: 678-642-8787
National Kidney Foundation of Georgia
The National Kidney Foundation, Inc., a major voluntary health organization, seeks to prevent kidney and urinary tract diseases, improve the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by these diseases, and increase the availability of all organs for transplantation. Provides dialysis clinical referral, vocational rehabilitation, financial assistance, summer camp etc.
Website: http://www.kidneyga.org/
Phone: 770-452-1539
Medical Assistance
Angel Flight Soars, Inc.
The Mission of Angel Flight is to arrange free air transportation to those who need it most. We serve the community by flying patients to distant medical facilities, delivering supplies to disaster areas and reuniting families during desperate times.
Website: http://www.angelflightsoars.org
Phone: 770-452-7958
Atlanta Ronald McDonald Houses
Provides temporary housing and emotional support to families of critically ill and injured children who must travel to Atlanta area hospitals.
Website: http://www.armh.com/
Phone: 404-847-0760
Bayada Nurses
Founded in 1975, Bayada Nurses provides nursing, rehabilitative, therapeutic, and personal home health care services to children, adults, and seniors in the comfort of their own homes. We have over 13,000 nurses, home health aides, and therapists working from more than 170 offices in 18 states.
Website: http://www.bayada.com/
Phone: 770-856-1876
Chastain Horse Park Therapeutic Program
NARHA Premier Accredited Center. Offers year-round equestrian assisted activities and therapies for children with physical, cognitive or emotional challenges.
Website: http://www.chastainhorsepark.org/
Phone: 404-252-4244
Diane Shearer
Diane Shearer is an experienced counselor, mediator and trainer, who has specialized in working with families in transition for almost 20 years. She is author of “Solo Parenting: Raising Strong & Happy Families”. She also writes a self-syndicated monthly column for regional parenting magazines entitles “Successful Single Parenting.” Diane has offered her services to BBA families for low-cost or no-cost, depending on financial need.
Website: http://www.dianeshearer.com
Phone: 404-218-1739
Easter Seals of North Georgia
Provides services, education, outreach, and advocacy so that people living with disabilities can live, learn, work and play in our communities. Pediatric therapy services in-home, at childcare centers or at Easter Seals locations.
Website: http://www.easterseals.com
Website: http://www.northgeorgia.easterseals.com/
Phone: 404-943-1070
Embraced
The mission of Embraced is to ensure that all people have access to quality orthopedic and prosthetic medical equipment that can improve the quality of their lives.
Website: http://embracedatlanta.org/
Phone: 404-592-4569
FODAC – (Friends of Disabled Adults & Children)
Provides assistance with donated and refurbished medical equipment and may assist towards funding to build a ramp for home accessibility.
Website: http://www.fodac.org/
Phone: 770-491-9014 or 866-977-1204
Fragile Kids Foundation
Fragile Kids provides medical equipment for medically fragile children that are not covered by insurance or Medicaid programs. Children living with genetic/traumatic disorders can receive wheelchair lifts, ceiling and stair lifts, ramping, bathing, toileting and seating equipment, therapy bikes, standers, gait trainers, specialized car seats and other items for therapy and quality of life. The Foundation serves children from birth to age 21 in every county in Georgia.
Website: http://www.fragilekids.org/
Phone: 770-951-6111
Handicapped Driver Services, Inc.
Handicapped Driver Services is a specialized team of adaptive equipment professionals. Our compassionate and committed workforce is dedicated to providing increased vehicular mobility and independence to individuals not fully served by the traditional automotive market. Our team provides innovative solutions and superior products to assist each client in obtaining the highest quality of life possible.
Website: http://www.hdsvans.com
Phone: 877-437-8267
Metro Atlanta Respite & Developmental Services
Offers respite services as well as an early intervention program, inclusive childcare center and therapy services.
Website: http://www.mards.org/
Phone: 404-691-5570
Southwest Christian Care- Hope House Children’s Respite Center
Provides onsite respite care for medically fragile children and in-home respite care for other special needs children
Website: http://www.swchristiancare.org/
Phone: 770-969-8354
Tech Able
Provides individuals with disabilities, their families and support professionals access to assistive technology devices through a lending library, demonstrations, training classes, information and referrals.
Website: http://www.techable.org/
Phone: 770-992-6768
The Marcus Institute
Services include evaluations, pediatric feeding disorder program, speech language pathology and a mental health psychotherapy clinic for children ages birth-22 with developmental or learning disability.
Website: http://www.marcus.org/
Phone: 404-419-4000
Thriving Lives- Dr. Jennifer Gale
Dr. Jennifer Gale is a licensed psychologist who specializes in providing comprehensive psychological evaluations, psycho-educational evaluations, developmental evaluations, and child custody evaluations. She works with children, adolescents, and adults who have a wide variety of presenting problems including Autism, Asperger’s Disorder, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Learning Disabilities, processing problems, communication problems, medical disabilities, developmental delays, as well as social delays, depression, and anxiety.
Website: http://thriving-lives.com/
Phone: 770-485-7522
Community Support Program
American Association of Adapted SPORTS Programs
Interscholastic sports for kids with physical disabilities–elementary through high school.
Website: http://www.adaptedsports.org/
Phone: 404-294-0070
BlazeSports
Sports summer camps for youth ages 10-18 with physical disabilities.
Website: http://www.blazesports.com/
Phone: 770-850-8199
Blue Skies Ministries
Blue Skies is a ministry that offers weeklong family retreats to bring the hope of Christ to families living through the challenges of pediatric cancer and other life-threatening pediatric illnesses. Our hope is that children who are sick will laugh and play again; that siblings, who often compete with illness, will feel cherished and valued; and, that marriages and families will be strengthened.
Website: http://www.whereskiesareblue.org
Phone: 678-486-5585
Brain Injury Association of Georgia
Provides community support programs assisting individuals and their families to have a better understanding of the effects of brain injury and to facilitate rehabilitation opportunities.
Website: http://www.braininjurygeorgia.org/
Phone: 800-444-6443
FOCUS (Families of Children Under Stress)
FOCUS provides emotional, informational, and physical support to parents of children with disabilities or with ongoing medical needs. FOCUS families deal with a variety of developmental delays, including rare syndromes, cerebral palsy, heart problems, immune deficiencies, and neurological involvement.
Website: http://www.focus-ga.org/
Phone: 770-234-9111
Georgia’s Unlock the Waiting List Campaign
Advocates working to eliminate waiting list for home and community based services for people with disabilities
Website: http://www.unlockthewaitinglists.com/
Phone: 877-WAITLIST
Give Kids the World
Give Kids The World is a non-profit organization that exists only to fulfill the wishes of all children with life-threatening illnesses and their families from around the world to experience a memorable, joyful, cost-free visit to the Central Florida attractions, and to enjoy the magic of Give Kids The World Village for as long as there is a need.
Website: http://www.gktw.org/
Phone: 407-396-1114
The Golden Soldiers
The Golden Soldiers, Inc. provides resources and assistance to individuals with special needs. The message behind The Golden Soldiers is so simple, yet so powerful. In order to understand the message, all you have to do is look at someone in need and say to yourself what would I want people to do if this someone were me. This is The Golden Rule, “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.”
Website: http://www.thegoldensoldiers.org/
Phone: 404-735-8980
Kate’s Club
Kate’s Club is a non-profit organization that empowers children and teens facing life after the death of a parent or sibling. By creating friendships with kids and young adults that share the experience, Kate’s Club guides children through their grief journey in a comfortable, safe, and uplifting setting.
Website: http://www.katesclub.org/
Phone: 404-347-7619
The Lighthouse Foundation
Lighthouse Family Retreat serves children with cancer and their families at a seaside retreat to help them to laugh, restore family relationships and find hope in God.
Website: http://www.lighthousefamilyretreat.org
Phone: 678-290-2955
Parent to Parent of Georgia
Statewide network of parents whose children have disabilities or chronic illnesses.
Website: http://www.parenttoparentofga.org/
Phone: 800-229-2038
Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research (Rally)
Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research (Rally), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, empowers volunteers across the country to raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer research to find better treatments with fewer long-term side effects and, ultimately, cures.
Website: http://rallyfoundation.org
Phone: 404-847-1270
Special Olympics Georgia Family Action Network
Special Olympics Georgia provides year-round sports training and athletic competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.Our goal is to help bring persons with intellectual disabilities into the larger society under conditions whereby they are accepted, respected, and given the chance to become useful and productive citizens.
Website: http://www.specialolympicsga.org/
Phone: 770-414-9390
Spina Bifida Association of Georgia, Inc.
Promotes the achievement of full potential for persons born with spina bifida while emphasizing the prevention of this birth defect.
Website: http://www.spinabifidaga.org
Phone: 770-939-1044
The Starlight Foundation-Great Escapes
For more than 25 years, Starlight Children’s Foundation has been dedicated to improving the quality of life for children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses and life-altering injuries by providing entertainment, education and family activities that help them cope with the pain, fear and isolation of prolonged illness.
Website: http://www.starlight.org/georgia
Phone: 404-969-3021
Support for Special Needs
A web community where people with special needs, or their caregivers can exchange wisdom and ideas with each other. Website includes support groups, live chats, articles, etc.
Website: http://www.supportforspecialneeds.com
United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Atlanta
Since its founding, UCP of Georgia has grown into a comprehensive service organization offering a range of supports for people living with any developmental disability (not just those with cerebral palsy). The array of services includes engaging day supports for seniors, in-home supports, community living supports, after school care, and day supports.
Website: http://www.ucpga.org/
Phone: 770-676-2000
Education/Child Care Program
Adaptive Learning Center
Maximizes the potential of young children with disabilities, and creates awareness and acceptance between people with and without disabilities.
Website: http://www.adaptivelearningcenter.org/
Phone: 770-509-3909
Atlanta Alliance on Developmental Disabilities
Provides advocacy, collaborative recreation programs, referrals, transportation services, life skills training for students and more.
Website: http://www.aadd.org/
Phone: 404-881-9777
Camp Braveheart
For kids with heart defects and heart transplant recipients.
Website: http://www.choa.org/campbraveheart
Phone: 404-785-6735
Camp Courage
For kids with craniofacial disorders.
Website: http://www.choa.org/campcourage
Phone: 404-785-4425
Camp Inspire
For individuals with intellectual disabilities.
Website: http://www.specialolympicsga.org/
Phone: 770.414.9390
Camp Kudzu
For kids with type I diabetes and their families.
Website: http://www.campkudzu.org
Phone: 404-250-1811
Camp New Hope
For kids with Sickle Cell Disease.
Website: http://www.sfrpatlanta.org/Site/Camp_New_Hope.html
Phone: 404-755-1641
Camp No Limb-itations Family Camp
For kids with amputations and their families.
Website: http://www.choa.org/Childrens-Hospital-Services/Orthopaedics/Programs-Services/Orthotics-and-Prosthetics/Amputee%20Family%20Camp
Phone: 404-785-7361
Camp Rainbow
For kids with cancer and rare blood disorders.
Website: http://www.mcghealth.org/georgia-kids-first/McgContentPage.aspx?nd=2474
Phone: 706-721-3957
Camp Sunshine
For children with cancer.
Website: http://www.mycampsunshine.com
Phone: 404-325-7979
Camp Sweet Life
For kids with type I and insulin-dependent diabetes.
Website: http://www.mcghealth.org/childrens-medical-center-community-programs/McgContentPage.aspx?nd=2433
Phone: 706-721-0749
Camp Walk ‘N’ Roll
For kids with Muscular Dystrophy.
Website: http://www.kidney.org/site/205/camp_independence.cfm?ch=205
Phone: 770-452-1539 ext. 20
Elaine Clark Center for Exceptional Children
Accredited, non-profit early-intervention program dedicated to special needs children from 6 weeks to 12 years old.
Website: http://www.elaineclarkcenter.org/
Phone: 770-458-3251
Frazer Center
The Frazer Center is a not-for-profit organization that provides exceptional care-giving services to infants, preschoolers and adults with physical and developmental disabilities such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, Down syndrome, sickle cell anemia, autism spectrum disorders and other genetic anomalies.
Website: http://www.thefrazercenter.org/
Phone: 404-377-3836
FOCUS Under the Stars
For children and teens with developmental and physical disabilities and their families.
Website: http://focus-ga.org/stars.htm
Phone: 770-234-9111
Lekotek of Georgia
Teaches new and creative ways to make play successful and interactive for children with special needs. Loans adapted and traditional toys for families to use at home and provides individualized support and resources to build on existing family strength.
Website: http://www.lekotekga.org/
Phone: 404-633-3430
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Provides informational materials, networking/matching, referrals to local resources and summer camps.
Website: http://www.mdausa.org/
Phone: 770-973-3269
Quality Care for Children
Quality Care for Children ensures all children have superior early learning experiences and are ready for school. We are Georgia’s leader in equipping parents and child care providers with the tools they need to receive and provide high quality, affordable child care.
Website: http://www.qualitycareforchildren.org/
Phone: 877-ALL-GA-KIDS
Second Chance Family Weekend
For kids with solid organ transplants and their families.
Website: http://www.choa.org/Childrens-Hospital-Services/Transplant/Family-Support-Services/Programs-and-Events/Family-Weekend
Phone: 404-785-6735
Toni’s Camp
An interfaith camp retreat for youths and adults with developmental disabilities.
Website: http://www.archatl.com/ministries/disabilities/toniscamp.html
Phone: 404-888-7809
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