Career Readiness Certificate in Tennessee (CRC)

Career readiness Certificates are the key to attracting employers who are looking for specific skills when hiring.  Give yourself an edge over other applicants and improve your opportunities. Job skills are assessed in three areas:  Applied Math, Reading for Informtion,   Read more…

Habitat for Humanity

Applicants will buy their homes from Habitat for Humanity.  They must have the ability to a 30 year, 0% interest rate mortgage.  The mortgage payment includes principal, property taxes and homeowner’s insurance.  The requirements are:  read more…

Tennessee Disability Coalition

The Tennessee Disability Coalition is an alliance of organizations and individuals joined to promote the full and equal participation of people with disabilities in all aspects of life. The Coalition and its member organizations represent Tennesseans of every age, economic background, political persuasion and disability. Some are disability-specific groups like the Autism Society of Middle…

Vanderbilt University Supporting Families with Disabilities

Vanderbilt University helps families with disabilities and children with siblings with disabilities.  They provide information on positive aspects, challenging aspects, questions about the child with a disability, questions about one’s parents, read more…

ARCC–Applied Resources of Chattooga County

Mission Statement: The Arc of Chattooga County promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation into the community throughout their lifetimes What began as a grassroots effort of family and friends of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, The Arc of Chattooga…

Parent and Family engagement

Parent and Family Engagement is an ongoing process that increases active participation , communication, and collaboration between parents, schools, and communities with the goal of educating the whole child to ensure student achievement and success.  This is through Title 1 to enable all children to stay in school without having many absences.   Read more…

Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency

VR operates five integrated and interdependent statutory programs that share a primary goal–to help people with disabilities to become fully productive members of society by achieving independence and meaningful employment.    If eligible, VR could work for you–discuss the imact of your disability on your ability to work, develop a work plan, outlining responsibilities and services…

Disability Law and Advocacy Center of Tennessee

Disability Rights Tennessee (DRT) was founded as E.A.C.H. in 1978. Most recently the agency was known as Disability Law & Advocacy Center of Tennessee. Today, DRT is Tennessee’s Protection & Advocacy System and has served—at no cost—more than 40,000 clients with disabilities. Our mission is to protect the rights of Tennesseans with disabilities.   Read more

Talisman programs

Talisman programs provide exceptional ADHD, Autism, and Asperger camp opportunities for young people, ages 6-22 with Autism Spectrum disorders, ADHD and other learning differences.  There are several activities that consist of for this camp.  They are:  read more