family support resource directory

This website gives advice and links to resources to caregivers. Some of the links provide information on eldercare, caring for someone with a disability, respite coalitions, medication management, nursing home information, how to take care of yourself, and additional resources.

The Down Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati empowers individuals, educates families, enhances communities, and celebrates the extraordinary lives of people with Down syndrome. The DSAGC serves southwest Ohio, northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana including Hamilton, Butler, Brown, Clermont, Warren, Highland, Clinton, Adams, Boone, Campbell, Kenton and Dearborn counties.

Dramakinetics (DK) of Cincinnati is the benchmark of excellence in integrated arts and education programs in Great Cincinnati. They use drama, music and movement to engage children, teens, and adults of all abilities to reach their full creative potential while experiencing, creating and performing art. To learn more, visit their website.

Eagle's Wings Stables provides mounted and unmounted equine assisted therapeutic activities in controlled situations which are directed to achieve functional goals or functional improvement specifically to children and adults with various physical and/or mental disabilities.

The American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Pediatrics created an Emergency Information Form (EIF), which can be downloaded on their website. This important document will assure prompt and appropriate care for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN). When patients present to emergency departments or health care professionals with an acute illness or injury, physicians, parents, EMS professionals, and nurses will be able to use the EIF as a tool to transfer critical information.

Emerging Horizons is an on-line magazine about accessible travel for wheelchair-users to slow walkers. It is published quarterly, with additional articles available exclusively to subscribers in the months when a new issue is not released. All subscribers receive a password that allows them access to a password protected section of the Emerging Horizons website, where all of their subscribed back issues and bonus content are archived. A searchable index is also housed in this section, which allows subscribers to find articles on specific topics or destinations.