We have collected a list of resources that focus on various disabilities, populations, and needs. The list of resources below is in no particular order.
*Resources were shared by disability advocate and professor Samantha Fuld, DSW, MSW, LCSW-C (MD), LCSW (NY)
Provides siblings of individuals with disabilities the information, support, and tools to advocate with their brothers and sisters and to promote the issues important to them and their entire families.
A community dedicated to helping each other in our journeys through life with chronic illness. Together, we are more than the sum of our parts, we are chronically awesome!
A disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ/gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized.
Free resources and self-study programs for helping young people with intellectual disabilities overcome anxiety.
"Special Olympics is founded on the belief that people with intellectual disabilities can, with proper instruction and encouragement, learn, enjoy, and benefit from participation in individual and team sports."
“On Our Own of Maryland, Inc. (OOOMD) is a statewide peer-operated behavioral health advocacy and education organization which promotes equality, justice, autonomy, and choice about life decisions for individuals with mental health and substance use needs.” Provides:
* Peer-Run Alternatives
* Person-Centered Training
* Systems-Level Advocacy
“People On the Go Maryland is a group of advocates with intellectual and developmental challenges who use their voices to be heard and recognized.”
Nonprofit with the mission of “promoting and protecting the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supporting their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.”
