Offers individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities one-to-one friendships, employment opportunities, leadership development training, and group homes. Read more…
CARD developed a treatment approach for children with autism, up to age seven, that focuses on minimizing challenging behaviors and maximizing skill acquisition. Once new behaviors are mastered, they focus on generalization with the goal of transitioning each child into the mainstream educational system. If necessary, they also provide school shadowing services so children have the support they need in Read more…
Web site for identifying local resources including food, housing, goods, transit, health, money, care, education, work, and legal resources. Read more…
Give Back helps students who face significant financial challenges and those who have experienced barriers to success such as foster care, homelessness, or the incarceration of a parent. We are empowering these students to build resilience, overcome adversity, and find pathways to become self-reliant adults and leaders of their communities by providing academic assistance, long-term coaching, and support services. Read more…
Our programs help older kids in foster care and orphanages find meaningful, lasting connections with adults and families. Whether that relationship is with a mentor, a host family, or an adoptive forever family, our kids get a voice and a choice in who they get to know and who becomes their family. Read more…
Michiana Special Friends Community is a group of people called to share life together. We enter into intentional community in order to celebrate and support people with disabilities, sharing both our vulnerabilities and our gifts with each other and with our neighbors. We live in this intentional manner in order to be heralds of hope to our neighbors and the Read more…
We help churches help at-risk youth in their community, For youth, there is a mentoring program, for aged-out foster youth there is a group home. Read more…