Around the state, or in the comfort of your home, we have learning sessions to help you advocate for and navigate the many services available to your child and family.
For children with intellectual and developmental disability practicing choice-making is especially important because it can lead to a more self-determined life as an adult. This means an adult with connections to the community, a sense of empowerment and a sense of safety because they know their opinions matter. We have everything you need to start choice-making for your child.
Early Choices Matter: Responses to Parents’ Questions
Early Choices Matter: What is Choice-Making?
Early Choices Matter: Ideas to Get Started Making Choices with Your Child
Early Choice Matter: Children Building Choice-Making Skills / En Español
Learning to Make Choices Early: Setting the Stage for Future Decision Making (videos and children’s books)
Early Choices Matter: Children Building Choice-Making Skills: Tips for Families / En Español
Knowing Your Child / En Español
A Day in the Life of our Family (for older children) / En Español
A Day in the Life of our Family (for younger children) / En Español
Mapping My Choices / En Español
Mapping My Choices with Examples / En Español
Deciding Together Guide / En Español
Early Choices Matter: A Resource for CLTS Program Support and Service Coordinators (13 minutes)
Early Choices Matter: Children Building Choice-Making Skills, Tip Sheet for Support and Service Coordinators
Learn about all the resources and services for children with disabilities and special health care needs from birth through young adulthood. Topics include private health insurance, Medicaid, long-term supports, how to coordinate services and so much more.
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If you have questions about Medicaid, this training is for you. We’ll tell you how Medicaid works for children with disabilities. We explain everything from funding to eligibility to how services are received, using an easy-to-understand format.
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Learn about the transition to adult life for youth with disabilities and special health care needs. This training covers the role of schools, long-term supports, public benefits, the change to adult health care, supported decision making options and other legal options, advocacy, employment, housing and living, the basics of self-determination, and imagining community life.
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