Barbara Kopp Miller
Caregiving Continuum Resources:
Catherine Pratt

Families of Children with Special Health Care Needs:

  • Family Voices
    "Family voices, a national grassroots network of families and friends, advocates for health care services that are family-centered, community-based, comprehensive, coordinated and culturally competent for all children and youth with special health care needs; promotes the inclusion of all families as decision makers at all levels of health care; and supports essential partnerships between families and professionals."

    Family Voices Ohio
    (937)208-7547
    Local contact: Carol Keltner

  • Council for Exceptional Children: Division for Physical and Health Diabilities
    The Division for Physical and Health Disabilities (DPHD) advocates for quality education for individuals with physical disabilities, multiple disabilites, and special health care needs served in schools, hospitals, or home settings.

    (888)-232-7733

  • KIDS TOGETHER, Inc.
    Strategies for helping families develop a "vision" for their child's future.


  • Ohio Department of Health: Children with Medical Handicaps (BCMH)
    "The mission of the Bureau for Children with Medical Handicaps is to assure, through the development and support of high quality coordinated systems, that children with special health care needs and their families obtain comprehensive care and services which are family-centered, community-based, and culturally sensitive."

    (614)-466-1547

  • Ohio Department of Health: Help Me Grow Early Intervention Birth to Three Services
    Help Me Grow is a program for Ohio's expectant parents, newborns, infants, and toddlers that provide health and developmental services so children start school healthy and ready to learn. Help Me Grow provides the building blocks for success for Ohio's families.

    (614)-644-8389

  • The Family Information Network of Ohio (FINofOhio)
    A statewide parent network designed to keep family perspecitves at the forefront of Ohio's Help Me Grow (HMG) system by offering support through information and education to families of young children and the professionals who serve them.

    (330)633-2055

Alzheimer's References:

  • Alzheimer's Association
    Toledo Office
    (419)537-1999
    Email: Alzheimers@nwoalz.org
    Wheeling Street location (Toledo)
    (419)720-4940
    Lima Office
    (419)527-7632
    Mansfield Office
    (419)522-5050
    Toll free: 1-800-272-3900
    Findlay Office
    (419)425-5409

  • Area Office on Aging of Northwest Ohio
    (419)382-0624
    Toll free: 1-800-472-7277


Debra J. Sorensen & Associates, Inc.
Elder Care Management, Counseling and Consulation

(419)367-8835

National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers, Inc.

(520)881-8008

Center for Successful Aging

(419) 383-4289