Parent Resource, Information and Support Meetings

PRISM is a family-friendly opportunity for families of children with disabilities to access a network of support, education and information relative to their children's special needs.

Families face unique challenges when they have children with disabilities. Families manage a host of additional responsibilities because of their child's disability. Those responsibilities can include planning special education programs, coordinating a network of medical care, securing adaptive equipment, locating social and recreational opportunities, finding childcare, accessing job training opportunities, finding appropriate housing for adult children and providing for the future care and security of their child.

The PRISM Project is designed to help families get the emotional support and information they need to best care for their children with disabilities.

Concurrent educational and informational sessions on disability-related topics are offered including programs of interest to parents of children of all ages.  Disability-specific support groups also meet at The PRISM Project.

To make The PRISM Project accessible to families, childcare (and supervision for adult children with disabilities) is provided on a space available basis.   A light snack is served and some transportation is available.

Volunteers Needed: Child care providers; teens or adults who would like to spend one evening a month during the school year (except December and January) caring for children of families attending PRISM. The PRISM Project sessions are typically offered from 6:30 until 8:30 at Beveridge Magnet Center, 1616 South 120th Street (between Pacific and West Center Road).  

Please call 346-5220, ext. 14, for more information.

See the monthly calendar for current PRISM Project events and activities.

Click Here for the 2007-2008 PRISM Project Schedule