1. The State of Iowa has a vision to build and implement a coordinated system for Iowans with mental illness, mental retardation, other developmental disabilitites, or brain injury, where individuals receive necessary, high quality services and supports on an equitable, timely and convenient basis, enabling them to live, learn, work, recreate and otherwise contribute in their chosen communities. Click HERE to access the Iowa Dept of Human Services.

2. Looking for a cookbook that is easy enough for anyone to use. Click here for more information on this "Cooking Made Easy" cookbook. Every recipe is coded from 1-5 according to level of difficulty.

3. Take time to take care of YOU! Click here for tips and suggestions on self-care for family caregivers.

4. Click here for Iowa Respite & Crisis Coalition.

5. Visit the ADAPT webpage - There's no place like home; and they mean real homes, not nursing homes. This group is fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions.

6. The Red Cross has many helpful brochures for families with special needs: Your Family Disaster Plan, Your Family Disaster Supplies Kit, Removing the Barriers: A Fire Safety Factsheet for People with Disabilities and their Caregivers, Disaster Preparedness Coloring Book, and Preparing for Disaster for People with Disabilities and other Special Needs.

7. Click here for the Easter Seals article, "Myths and Facts about People with Disabilities.".

8. Click here for the link to "The Autism Society of America."

9. Click here for the link to Joni and Friends,"Wheels for the World". It is a program that makes unuseable wheelchairs and parts useable again. After refurbishing, they are sent overseas to undeveloped countries.