Our services are driven by diverse families’ needs. We strive to provide culturally competent services based on our values and belief, including:

• Family centered support that respect family’s culture and language
  
• People with intellectual disabilities are valuable, positive contributors of our society
• Equal access opportunities, equity and social justice
• Inclusive and collaborative community for people with disability
• Reciprocal relationship in family professional partnership and collaboration
• Family helping family; parent mentoring parent

Family Services

• Individualized Family Support: home visits, language and cultural assistance, etc.

• Advocacy and Policy Making Training and Involvement

• Parent Mentors and Helping Parents

• Parent Leadership and Involvement Development

• Parent Information and Education Support Group

• Senior Parents Support

• Multicultural Family Gatherings

• Inclusive Respite and Recreation Opportunities

• IDEA/IEP/IFSP Training and Special Education Support

• Information, Referral, and Resources

Cultural Competence Training

• Understand Cultural Diversity and Disabilities

• Effective Diverse Family/Professional Partnership

• Culturally and linguistically responsive practices and service delivery

• Working effectively with and supporting direct service staff from diverse backgrounds

• Multicultural Early Childhood Team Training

• Family Support, Self-Determination and Disability Training

• Cultural Broker Training for bilingual/ bicultural direct service staff

• Diverse Parent Mentor Training

Community Partnership and Collaboration

• Disability awareness presentation and outreach to diverse communities

• Professional phone consultation and site visits

• Joint partnerships for grant applications

• Facilitating parent focus groups for research purposes

• Formation of family member and community liaison panel for reviewing translated materials

• Interagency collaborative services for specific ethnic community

• Cultural Brokers’ Network

• Information and Referral

Our staff, board members and volunteers are fluent in various languages. Currently, family support services are available in English and the following languages:

• African: Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya,Somali

• Asian: Cambodian, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin and Taiwanese), Korean, Japanese, Laotian, Vietnamese, Tamil, Hindi

• European: French, German, Italian,

• Eurasian: Russian, Ukrainian

• Spanish

• Middle Eastern: Arabic, Kurdish