Mississippi Family Corner

Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) Contact and Program Information

Family Voices: www.familyvoices.org/st/MS.htm
Partnering with professionals and families to advocate for health care services that are family-centered, community-based, comprehensive, coordinated and culturally competent. Family Voices of Mississippi has developed and opened a Resource Library for children/youth with special health care needs and their parents through the funding from the Children’s Medical Program under MS Department of Health. The Resource Library is located at 754 North President Street in Jackson, Mississippi. Family Voices of Mississippi helps to ensure that children and youth with special health care needs and their families have up to date and valuable information needed to live healthy in Mississippi.

NAMI of Mississippi (National Voice on Mental Health): web.nami.org/about/amims/
Education, advocacy and support for persons with brain disorders (mental illnesses) and their families.

Living Independence for Everyone website www.lifeofms.com
The purpose of Living Independence For Everyone is to empower people with significant disabilities to be as independent and as fully involved in their communities as they can and want to be. The primary goal of LIFE is to assist in the independent living empowerment of people with significant disabilities by:

• Providing or coordinating the provision of devices, equipment, aids, modifications, or other services or forms of support that improve their capacity to live independently.
• Supplying information and referral services to allow sufficient access and utilization of available assistance.
• Furnishing peer counseling and guidance, encourage, establish, and maintain independent living attitudes and philosophies.
• Rendering advocacy support on and individual or systems-wide basis.
• Providing skills training instruction to improve specific independent living abilities and competencies.
• Contributing any other help that aids people with significant disabilities in acquiring, retaining, or enhancing their capacity to live independently

Family Village: www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/index.htmlx
A global community that integrates information, resources, and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with cognitive and other disabilities, for their families, and for those that provide them services and support. This site offers informational resources on specific diagnoses, communication connections, adaptive products and technology,adaptive recreational activities, education, worship, health issues, disability-related media and literature, and much, much more!

Parent Partners: www.parentpartners.org/
Parent Partners is the parent training and information center for the state of Mississippi. They provide education for parents of children with disabilities on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

The Association for Retarded Citizen (Arc) Family Resource Guide www.thearc.org/familyguide/mississippi.doc
This guide is written for families raising children with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities. It tells families about benefits, supports and services in their state that might help their child.

Note: The information provided on the state pages was submitted by the state medical home teams.As this is not an exhaustive list, please let us know if you have additions for your state resource page. You can contact us at: medical home@aap.org.

Last Updated August 12, 2005