Our current Projects:

• Community Parent Resource Center Grant Project
• United Way of King County New Solutions Grant Project
• Seattle People's Fund 2012 Project
• Neighbor to Neighbor Fund Project

Past projects include:

• Seattle People's Fund Project 2010
• City of Seattle Technology Booster Grant Project

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

Should you not see the languages listed here, please contact us and we will try our best to locate the languages you need.