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• NEW !! Winter-Spring 2012 catalog available-workshops for parents and professionals at the Westchester Institute for Human Development. Click HERE to access the catalog electronically. It is available in PDF format for printing and sharing with your networks and colleagues.
   
• Healthy Kids Program. Website Here.
   
• UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation - The UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation is accepting applications for grants that provide funding to children who need critical medical treatment, services or equipment not covered or not fully covered by their parents’ health benefits plans. Types of services covered by the grants include (but are not limited to) speech therapy, physical therapy, wheelchairs, hearing aids, and prescriptions. Awards of up to $5,000 per applicant are available.
  • Eligibility: Children 16 years old and under. Families must meet economic guidelines, reside in the United States, and be covered by a commercial health benefit plan.
  • Funding: Up to $5,000 per grant.
  • Deadline: Applications accepted on a continual basis.
  • Contact: See application for details. Visit: http://www.uhccf.org/apply_applicant.html
     
• The New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) and the New York State Department of Health (DOH) are developing a new waiver application that will allow them to redesign their social service service system. The waiver, known as the People First Waiver, is an opportunity to develop community-based services for everyone, in which services are planned and delivered according to each individual¹s unique needs and abilities.  Visit the People First Waiver web page HERE.
  Parents are invited to submit comments at 1-866-946-9733 or via email to people.first@opwdd.ny.gov
   
• College Options Nationwide for People with Intellectual Disabilities - Think College

• Webinars:
  • Archived National Down Syndrome Society Webinars for Review
    
    Information and Resources:

• Get the 2012 Membership Application HERE.