NISEC, along with the Parent Network, continually seeks out resources that may offer additional information to help support and guide parents of students with special needs. Educational resource links are also provided to aid teachers and other NISEC staff members in their pursuit to provide quality education and related services to exceptional children. Links are changed from time to time as new sites of interest become available.

Activities

• Purdue University / Indiana 4-H: Find out what 4-H can offer children with special needs.
• Hammond YMCA
• Southlake YMCA
• YMCA: Locate a YMCA in your area.

Educational

• CADRE: Consortium for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education
• DOE: Division of Exceptional Learners Task Force on Autism Spectrum Disorders
• National Center for Learning Disabilities: The power to hope, to learn, and to succeed.

Financial

• Family Involvement Fund:

  Effective October 1, 2007, INSOURCE will not be administering the Family Involvement Fund (FIF).  Parents interested in applying for funds should contact Cathy Beard at the Early Childhood Center, 2853 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN  47408 for more information. She can also be reached by telephone at (800) 825-4733 or (812) 855-6508 or via email at fif@indiana.edu.

• SSA: Social Security Administration

Resources

• ASK: About Special Kids
• InSource: Indiana Resource Center for Families with Special Needs
• Family to Family: Linking Indiana families to people, information, and resources within their own communities.
• Early Childhood Meeting Place: Connecting Indiana's early childhood communities to education, resources, and news.
• Our Kids: Devoted to raising special kids with special needs.
• Safe Escape: Learn about free adapted evacuation products for patients of the Riley Hospital for Children
• Yahoo Group NWI Parents of Special Needs Children: This is a group of parents of kids in Northwest Indiana with any type of special needs.  Feel free to chart, share information, meet new people who truly know where you're coming from, offer support, vent, or brag about an accomplishment your child has made.
• Indiana Parent Information & Resource Center (pirc):  View/print Partners in Learning monthly newsletters.
• Center of Possibilities: Striving to improve the quality of life for young children and adults with developmental disabilities and their families.
• IPAS - Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services:  View/print Priorities and Objectives for Fiscal Year 2010.