Resources for Families

In addition to our specialists, The Children’s Hospital also provides the following resources for your family:

Children’s Family Health Library

The Children’s Hospital’s main campus location offers a Family Health Library to provide information in broad areas such a parenting, child development, and medical diagnosis in children. Please feel free to stop by and use this great resource as you would like.

Website Resources

Autism Society of Colorado

www.autismcolorado.org

Promotes education, awareness and advocacy for individuals with autism, parents, friends, professionals and advocates.

Parent to Parent Colorado

www.p2p-co.org

Resources for parents of children and adults with disabilities or special healthcare needs.

The National Library of Medicine 

www.nlm.nih.gov
Site of the National Institutes of Health. Provides links to resources for a variety of developmental and other disorders.

Family Voices of Colorado 

www.familyvoicesco.org

Family Voices of Colorado is a chapter of the national, grassroots organization composed of families and friends who care for and about children with special healthcare needs.

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)

www.nichcy.org

Serves as a central source of information on: disabilities in infants, toddlers, children and youth; IDEA, the law authorizing special education; No Child Left Behind, as it relates to children with disabilities; and research-based information on effective educational practices.

PEAK Parent

www.peakparent.org

Provides training, information and technical assistance to equip families of children birth through 26 including all disability conditions with strategies to advocate successfully for their children.

National Down Syndrome Society

www.ndss.org

Benefits people with Down syndrome and their families through national leadership in education, research and advocacy.

Healthcare Program for Children with Special Needs

http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/ps/hcp/index.html

Provides information, referral to services and support for children with special health needs.

Community Centered Boards

http://ccbpartners.org

Builds partnerships to find innovative, practical and quality solutions to the challenges faced by people with developmental disabilities.

For additional resources, please visit JFK Partners at http://jfkpartners.org/links.asp