211 Resource Directory

Phone: 211

2-1-1 - Community Resource Directory Nationwide resources Enter your zip code for the 2-1-1 service for your area.

Access Lynx

Public Transportation

Location: Orlando Florida

Phone: 407-423-8747

Door to door transportation for individuals with a disability that prohibits them from accessing the bus. Individuals must complete application for eligibility determination.

Adaptive Cycling

Bicycle sales, rental & adaption for kids w/special needs

Location: 1426 Lindzlu St, Winter Garden, FL 34787

Phone: 407-832-9020

Email: dennis@adaptivecycling.net

We provide a recreational service to all families with children and/or children with special needs adults. Making it possible to help almost anyone regardless of their physical or mental challenge enjoy cycling with their family and/or friends.

Amerigroup Community Care

Insurance for persons with disabilities

Location: 604 Courtland St., Ste. #350, Orlando, FL 32804

Phone: 407-622-7960

Email: KLuyand@AmerigroupCorp.com

Amerigroup improves healthcare access and quality for the financially vulnerable, seniors and people with disabilities by developing innovative managed health services for the public sector.

Beyond Play Catalog

Early Intervention Products

Phone: 1-877-428-1244

Category: Developmental Toys

Bright Feats

Free Resource Guide for the Special Needs Community

Location: 522 Hunt Club Dr

Phone: 407-461-4847

Email: Allie@Brightfeats.com

Bright Feats directory is a list of medical providers and commercial businesses that is helpful to families with children of ranging abilities. We bring to this directory our own expertise as a nurse and a teacher who are both parents of special needs children. Bright Feats is a full color publication distributed quarterly.

Center for Independent Living

Helping people with disabilities achieve their self-determined goals for independent living

Location: 720 N Denning Drive Winter Park, FL 32789

Phone: 407-623-1070

Email: rgallert@cilorlando.org

CIL serves individuals of any age with any type of disability residing in Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Arcadia, Polk, Hardee, Highlands, and DeSoto counties. They also provide peer support groups,independent living skills, deaf services, sign language classes, employment services, personal assistant registry, disability related equipment is available, housing referrals based upon income, provide home and vehicle modifications(wheelchairs, ramps, hand controls, toilet seats, canes...)

Central Florida Group Homes

Location: 2112 S. Dean Road Orlando, FL 32825

Phone: 407-381-1954

Group homes for children and adults with severe behavioral involvement and adults with sensory impairments.

Central Florida Parent Center

Information, training, assistance, & empathetic support for parents of children with special needs.

Location: 1021 Delaware Ave., Palm Harbor, FL 34683

Phone: 888-612-9273

Email: info@cflparents.org

The majority of our staff are parents or family members of children with disablites. Just like you, we understand the challenges families face, because we have experienced them first hand. Our mission is to provide parents of children and young adults with all disabilities and special needs (ages 0-26) in central and northeast Florida with accurate information, interactive training, quality assistance, and empathetic support.

Compassion Outreach Center

Greater Orlando Food Outreach

Location: 150 West Michigan, Orlando, FL 32806

Phone: 407-849-0079

Email: scottdestiny@aol.com

Hunger relief, children's clinic

Destiny Foundation of Central Florida

Our mission is to assist individuals and families in Central Florida break the cycle of poverty.

Location: 150 West Michigan, Orlando, FL 32806

Phone: 407-849-0079

Email: dominiquegreco@battlepoverty.org

Destiny Foundation of Central Florida, Inc. was founded in September 2001, by Pastor Scott George with a new and innovative food assistance program to financially assist the "working poor" in Central Florida. What is now the Greater Orlando Food Outreach began to offer a long-term food subsidy program directly to families in the community just days before the tragedy of September 11th. Thousands of families have joined the Greater Orlando Food Outreach, a program that provides them with access to high quality foods for a small contribution per item.

In 2006, as part of our Healthy Families Initiative, staple foods such as eggs, bread, produce, and other nutritional items became available at no cost to all members. This "hand up," as opposed to a "handout," restores dignity to families by actively involving them in their road to self-sufficiency.

Devereux Center for Child Development

Provider of mental health, developmental disabilities and child welfare services to children in FL

Location: 1010 Executive Center Dr, Ste. 100, Orlando, FL 32803

Phone: 321-281-3840

Email: kschaffe@devereux.org

The Devereux Center for Child Development is the newest addition to the Florida network of services. Children birth to 22 years old who are diagnosed with autism, developmental disorders, or have learning or behavioral concerns are now able to receive behavioral and educational services based on their individual needs.

Dream Tours, Inc.

Location: 201 Longview Ave., Suite 10102, Celebration, FL, 34747

Phone: 321-939-2200

Email: ryan@dreamtoursflorida.com

Supervised all-inclusive vacations for adults with developmental disabilities. Resource for families with special needs children to visit the Orlando theme parks.

Enabling Devices

Toys for Special Children

Enabling Devices, a division of Toys for Special Children, Inc., is dedicated to providing affordable learning and assistive devices for the physically challenged.

Families of Kids with Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Connecting Families and Communities Through Understanding

Location: Tampa, FL

Phone: 813-907-1398

Email: FKMAD@fkmad.org

Families of Kids with Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Inc. supports child and teen mental health by empowering Florida families through increased community awareness and stigma reduction programs. They passionately strive to involve the whole community in education, care, and support programs to reduce stigma and increase self-confidence so all youth may openly be accepted and understood for who they are.

Family Services of Metro Orlando

Protecting Children, Strengthening Families

Location: 2600 Technology Dr, Suite 250

Phone: 407-398-7381

Email: ghosmer@fsmetroorlando.org

A not-for-profit children's services organization dedicated to protecting children and strengthening families. As the lead agency for Community-Based Care in Orange and Osceola counties, Family Services of Metro Orlando is responsible for the management of family safety services, such as foster care, adoption, protective supervision and emergency shelters. Our goal is to ensure a safe and nurturing home for every child.

Family Voices, Inc.

Location: 2340 Alamo SE Suite 102 Albuquerque, NM 87106

Phone: 888-835-5669

Family Voices, Inc. is a National Clearinghouse with materials written to educate families of children with disabilities. Materials are focused on health care services. This organization works with families as advoctes to obtain needed health care services for children.

Florida Bar Lawyer Referral Service

Location: 650 Apalachee Parkway Tallahassee, FL 32301

Phone: 800-342-6060

You may request a copy of the Pro Bono Directory from The Florida Bar. The directory is a complete listing of low cost and free legal assistance.

Florida Kid Care Insurance Program

Phone: 888-352-5437

Call for application or go onto the website to enroll.

Frank Nisi Law Firm

Location: 587 Lake Howell Rd, Maitland, FL 32751

Phone: 407-622-2550

Estate planning, guardianships and advocacy plans.

Gluten Free Casein Free Support Group

Location: PO Box 1692 Palm Harbor, FL 34683

Gluten-free/ Casien-free diet (GFCF) The Official GFCF Diet Support Group, nutritional support, books, DVD's, forums, dietary intervention treatment for autistic spectrum disorders

Healing the Children

Florida

Location: 25156 Celestial St., Christmas, FL, 32709

Phone: 407-592-9885

Email: rhodenbeck@hotmail.com

Donated medical treatment for uninsured special needs children.

KAPLAN

Concepts for Exceptional Children

Category: Developmental Toys

Law Office of Hoyt & Bryan, LLC

Location: 251 Plaza Drive, Suite B Oviedo, FL 32765

Phone: 407-977-8080

Information regarding guardianship

MAAP Services, Inc.

Location: PO Box 524 Crown Point, IN 46307

Phone: 219-662-1311

Email: info@maapservices.org

A Nonprofit organization dedicated to providing information and advice to families of more advanced individuals with Autism, Asperger's syndrome, and Pervasive developmental disorder (PDD).

Mobility Freedom

Location: 20354 U S Highway 27, Clermont, FL, 34715

Phone: 352-429-3972

Email: carol@mobilityfreedomvans.com

Handicapped-accessible vehicle sales and rental service.

NOAH'S ARK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

Location: P. O. Box 92221, Lakeland, FL 33804-2221

Phone: 863-687-0804

Email: Jack.Kosik@NoahsArkFlorida.org

Noah's Ark advocates on behalf of individuals who have disabilities and provides or facilitates choices of meaningful employment, recreational and social social opportunities and affordable housing.

Orange County Library System

Location: 101 E. Central Blvd., Orlando, FL, 32801

Phone: 407-835-7483

Storytime for special needs children. Also books, CD's, DVD's, electronic resources, computer classes, programs, storytelling, summer reading program.

Preschool Evaluation Center

Location: 434 N. Tampa Avenue Orlando, FL 32805

Phone: Ph: 407-317-3503

Children ages 3-5 must begin eligibility determination for special education in the public school through contact with the PEC.

Sammon Preston Pediatrics

Special needs products for schools and clinics

Category: Developmental Toys

Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation

Location: P O Box 690507, Orlando, FL 32869-0507

Phone: 407-222-5026

Email: beccy.hosoda@starlight.org

Helps seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear and isolation through entertainment, education, and family activities.

Suntastic Tours International

Location: 52 Riley Road, Ste. 188, Celebration, FL, 34747

Phone: 321-284-4507

Email: info@suntastictours.com

Personal VIP and Concierge service to Central Florida.

Teachers Hands Academy

Location: 3057 Curry Ford Rd # 2, Orlando, FL 32806

Phone: 407-897-7477

The Sibling Support Project

Location: 6512 23rd Ave NW, #213 Seattle, WA 98117

Phone: 206-297-6368

A national program dedicated to the interests and life-long concerns of brothers and sisters of people who have special health, developmental or mental health concerns.

Transition Center

at the University of Florida

Location: G315 Norman Hall University of Florida P.O. Box 117050 Gainesville, FL 32611-7050

Phone: 352-392-0701

Email: wrogers@coe.ufl.edu

The Transition Center is to serve as a catalyst for coordination of research, education, and service relating to adolescents and adults, especially those with disabilities, as they make community, employment, personal and social choices.

The Transition Center is located in Norman Hall at the University of Florida. Our goal is to be a resource for all those working in the area of transition across the state of Florida. We strive toward achieving this goal through workshops, research, dissemination of products, involvement in the state's Transition Task Force, and Project CONNECT.

UCF Center for Autism & Related Disabilities

Location: 12001 Science Drive, Ste. 145, Orlando, FL, 32826

Phone: 407-737-2566

Free resources & training for professionals and parents of children/adults with autism spectrum disorders.