The OSEP-funded National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavior and Intervention Supports was established to address the behavioral and discipline systems needed for successful learning and social development of students. The Center provides capacity-building information and technical support about behavioral systems to assist states and districts in the design of effective schools.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Annie E. Casey Foundation and its direct services agency, Casey Family Services, are among the partner organizations involved in promoting stable and permanent family connections for children.

“Helping Children Cope With Loss.” The article begins, “Helping a child cope with loss is perhaps one of the most important roles an adult can play. In effect, you are helping that child develop skills that can last a lifetime. The death of a loved one is always difficult. For children, the death of a loved one can affect their sense of security. Like adults, children express loss by grieving. Yet children may not demonstrate the grief in the same manner as adults.

“Bereavement and Grief: Information for Military Families and Communities.” This article is intended to assist families and children in dealing with the grief associated with losing a family member in the military. According to the introduction, “The death of a loved one is always difficult. When the death results from a war or a disaster, it can be even more troubling given the sudden and potentially violent nature of the event.

“Operation Healthy Reunions,” a website and program of Mental Health America. The website’s homepage reads: “Mental Health America is proud to champion Operation Healthy Reunions, a first-of-its-kind program that provides education and helps to bust the stigma of mental health issues among soldiers, their families, and medical staff to ensure that a greater number of military families receive the prompt and high-quality care they deserve.

Coping.org, home of the Tools for Coping Series - onsite manuals for coping with a variety of life's stressors, authored by: James J. Messina, Ph.D., & Constance M. Messina, Ph.D.

For parents and providers searching for information and connections, we hope this Web site is a valuable resource. This site includes links to various ongoing trainings.

The Foster Club is an online source of information and support for teens involved in foster care.

Special Olympics
Special Olympics Alaska provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for people eight years of age and older with mental retardation, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community. 

Parents Helping Parents
Parent directed family resource center for children with any kind of special need (mental, physical, emotional, or learning disabilities).

Exceptional Parent Magazine
EP’s on-line resource. Continuing 35 award-winning years of providing information, support, ideas, encouragement & outreach for parents and families of children with disabilities, and the professionals who work with them.

Alaska Chapter of National Down Syndrome Congress
The Chapter's purpose remains to provide education and disseminate information for members, new parents and the community as a whole; to provide parent-to-parent support to families of children with Down syndrome; to gather socially and share experiences; and to he an advocacy group for political effectiveness.

Information about Self Injury, how to help a friend or yourself  http://www.siari.co.uk/ The Self-Injury Hotline is 1-800-DONT CUT or 1-800-366-8288 and on the web at http://www.selfinjury.com

This public education Web site desifned by SAMHSA, was developed to support the efforts of parents and other caring adults to promote mental health and prevent the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs among 7 to 18 year-olds. It provides information for parents to discuss piercings, tatoos, drinking, drug use and smoking. The web site also has information about setting rules, being a role model and the choice of friends.

Basic information about brain injury and how the law defines it in different situations, what is considered an injury and outcome of lawsuits (American Disability Act, woker's compensation,social security etc). Links to support groups and other legal information, such as the Neurotrauma Law Nexus at http://www.neurolaw.com .

JAN is a free consulting service that provides information about job accommodations, disability legislation, and the employability of people with disabilities. JAN is a service of the Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor.

The National family-run organization dedicated exclusively to helping children with mental health needs and their families achieve a better quality of life. We: Provide leadership to develop and sustain a nationwide network of family-run organizations. Focus the passion and cultural diversity of our membership to be a potent force for changing how systems respond to children with mental health needs and their families. Help policy-makers, agencies, and providers become more effective in delivering services and supports that foster healthy emotional development for all children.

The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) represents 26,000 members in 172 chapters throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and China working to advance philanthropy through advocacy, research, education, and certification programs. The site has links to conferences, resource material, membership/consultant directory,fundraising dictionary etc.

The objects of the American Psychological Association shall be to advance psychology as a science and profession and as a means of promoting health, education, and human welfare by the encouragement of psychology in all its branches in the broadest and most liberal manner the promotion of research in psychology and the improvement of research methods and conditions the improvement of the qualifications and usefulness of psychologists through high standards of ethics, conduct, education, and achievement the establishment and maintenance of the highest standards of professional ethics and conduc

The AACAP developed Facts for Families to provide concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families. The AACAP provides this important information as a public service and the Facts for Families may be duplicated and distributed free of charge as long as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is properly credited and no profit is gained from their use. The AACAP has produced the Facts for Families in English and Spanish. Other translations available on the same site.

Basic information about what is a psychiatrist, how to choose one, medications and general information from a psychiatric point of view

Major site with health information, library services and access to research and publication databases.

Information for consumers to learn about psychological symptoms and disorders; provides detailed technical articles on disorders, symptoms, treatment modes; medications; links to electronic support groups and national advocacy efforts

An online directory of federal, national, state, and local resources available for families and service providers of children with disabilities providing information about advocacy, education, employment, health, housing, recreation, technical assistance, and transportation covering a broad array of developmental, physical, and emotional disabilities. From the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.

Electronic mailing lists and newsletters for youth development professionals. Add yourself to a number of listservs to receive information about new ideas and conferences.

Canadian web site developed to provide information about Canadian information of psychological treatment and medication, providing access to articles for consumers and professional.