Recognizing Early Warning Signs - Easter Seals
NHCS Preschool Special Education and Child Find
Care Coordination 4 Children - CC4C - Is an at-risk population management program that serves children from birth to 5 years of age who meet certain risk criteria.
Smart Start - Smart Start brings together all the people in a child’s life – families, teachers, doctors, caregivers, social workers and many others – to ensure every child has all they need for healthy growth and development
Child Development Center - Is a non-profit agency, is committed to providing the highest quality education and therapeutic services in an atmosphere of dignity, respect, and caring. Our Child Development Center is a 5-star child care facility that serves children from 2-5 years of age in ten different classrooms including three NC Pre-K classrooms.
Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities - The Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities is a comprehensive program for services, research, and training relevant to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. The Carolina Institute provides a continuum of clinical services from complex, interdisciplinary evaluations on-site to more limited and selected clinical services and training in all 100 counties in North Carolina.
Autism Society of North Carolina
Family Support Network of North Carolina
Family Support Network of Southeastern North Carolina
Disability Rights - NC - Advocates
Support Group for Parents of Students with Learning Disabilities
Tri-county Community Collaborative - "Our Mission is to act as a forum for collaboration, advocacy, and action among families, agencies serving children, youth and families, and community partners from Brunswick, New Hanover & Pender Counties."
Parents of Students with Learning Disabilities - Parents of students with learning disabilities support group.
Legal Aid of North Carolina, Advocates For Children's Services - Advocates for Children's Services (ACS) is a statewide project of Legal Aid of North Carolina that focuses on serving children in the public education system. ACS' cases involve: short-term suspension; long-term suspension; expulsion; involuntary transfers to alternative school; denial of enrollment; discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, sex, or disability; mistreatment by school security personnel; special education; bullying; and academic failure.
NHCS Post Secondary Transition
Think College - College options for people with disabilities
Cape Fear Community College - Over 50 technical degree programs, College transfer programs, and Career and College Promise programs for qualified high school students.
U.S. Department of Education - Transition of Students With Disabilities To Postsecondary Education:A Guide for High School Educators
International Dyslexia Association - PDF handbooks for teachers and parents, fact sheets, webinars, conferences, and more!
Decoding Dyslexia North Carolina - Decoding Dyslexia North Carolina (DDNC) is a grassroots movement driven by individuals and parents in North Carolina who have children or know someone who struggles with dyslexia.
NHCS Special Education and Related Service Department
Exceptional Children's Assistance Center
Wilmington Health Access for Teens
North Carolina Parent Teachers Association - Is the state’s oldest and largest volunteer organization advocating for the education, health, safety and success of all children and youth while building strong families and communities.
North Carolina Center for Resilience and Learning - The NC Resilience and Learning Project works with high poverty schools across the state where trauma is prevalent in their student population.
Disability Resource Center - The mission of the disAbility Resource Center (dRC) is to empower persons with disabilities to become and maintain their independence in their communities. The disAbility Resource Center provides services to people with disabilities of all ages and all types of disabilities and those who support them.
New Hanover County Special Education Parent Teacher Association (NHC-SEPTA) - for more information, email denise.yannonesepta@gmail.com
US Department of Education - Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
Council for Exceptional Children - Professional association of educators dedicated to advancing the success of children with exceptionalities.
National Alliance on Mental Illness - The nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities
Understood.org - Resources for learning and attentional issues