Active Minds: Develops and supports student run chapters on college campuses that focus on mental health awareness, education, and advocacy. The website includes a list of national chapters including 13 located on college campuses in Maryland.
Adolescent Transition Maryland Resource Finder: Provides valuable resources on developmental disabilities for consumers, families, and professionals.
Family NET Work: An online resource for disability-related information and supports specific to the needs of Maryland families that include a member with a developmental disability.
HEATH Resource Center: A national transition website directory developed by George Washington University, Graduate School of Education & Human Development.
Kids As Self Advocates (KASA): KASA is a national grassroots project created by teens and young adults with disabilities that advocates and provides support for teens and youth adults with disabilities and special health care needs.
Maryland 2-1-1: An online database for community health and human service resources statewide provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in over 150 languages.
Maryland Coalition of Families: A grassroots coalition of family and advocacy organizations dedicated to improving services for children with mental health needs and their families.
Maryland Community Service Locator (MDCSL): An online database for health, social service and criminal justice resource programs in Maryland.
Maryland Foster Youth Resource Center (MFYRC): Founded and staffed by adults formerly in foster care, the organization actively connects transitioning and former foster youth in Maryland with resources and programs already provided by local non-profit organizations.
Maryland Learning Links: A resource for educators and families about issues related to special education in Maryland.
Maryland Problem Solver: The State’s service webpage, providing Marylanders with access to state and federal resources.
Maryland Seamless Transition Collaborative (MSTC): MSTC is a transition planning initiative located in multiple Maryland counties that focuses on improving postsecondary outcomes, including employment and postsecondary education, for high school students with disabilities.
Maryland Workforce Exchange (MWE): A web-based program that lets you manage your own career account and links you to job search resources including other job sites.
Montgomery County Transition Work Group (TWG): TWG is comprised of adult service providers, government/school staff and parents dedicated to improving the transition of young people with disabilities from school to full lives in the community.
Montgomery County Transitioning Adults: A grassroots discussion and e-group for families of adults with mild to significant disabilities as they transition from school age entitlements to young adulthood and beyond.
NAMI StrengthofUs: An online community designed to empower young adults with mental health needs through resource sharing and peer support and to build connections for those navigating the unique challenges and opportunities in the transition-age years.
National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability Guideposts for Success: An online resource providing guideposts to steer families, institutions, and youth through the transition process. Topics include: education, career preparation, self advocacy, family involvement, and connecting activities such as health care and financial planning.
Network of Care: An interactive, single information website for consumers, community-based organizations and professionals.
Parents’ Place of Maryland: Staffed primarily by parents of children and youth with disabilities or special health care needs, Parents’ Place of Maryland provides peer support to families, and information and education to families, professionals and the community at large.
Pathfinders for Autism: A nonprofit organization founded by Maryland parents of children with autism and includes resource listings by age group.
Selective Service System (SSS): Is responsible for providing manpower to the armed forces in an emergency and to run an Alternative Service Program for men classified as conscientious objectors during a draft. Young men are required to register with SSS within 30 days of their 18th birthday. Failure to register will result in ineligibility of student financial aid and federal job training and employment.
Teens Against Bullying: Created by the PACER Center to provide information to youth with disabilities on identifying and responding to bullying.
THINK College: An initiative of the Institute for Community Inclusion which conducts research, training, and technical assistance for students, families, and professionals interested in postsecondary education for individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.
TransCen, Inc.: A national organization that develops and implements new strategies in improving education and employment outcomes for people with disabilities.
Voices4Hope: Created by a group of young adults with mental health challenges, this website is a place for youth and young adults to talk with each other and gain access to information that will help them live happily and independently.
Youth MOVE Maryland: A national organization led by youth to create positive change in the lives of youth people and the systems (child welfare, juvenile services, mental health, and others) that serve them.