Web Site Resources

This page contains links to other web sites.

•	New Link

Bills

•	Olmstead Decision nformation
	U.S.Department of Health & Human Services provides links and information on the Olmstead Decision

California State Government

•	California State Assembly
•	California State Council on Developmental Disabilities
	A federally-funded independent state agency established in federal and state law to assist in planning, coordinating, monitoring and evaluating services for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.
•	California State Senate
•	Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

General

•	California Association of Psychiatric Technicians - CAPT
	CAPT is the labor organization representing more than 4,000 licensed Psychiatric Technicians and related direct-care employees in the five developmental centers and the two specialized community facilities for people with developmental disabilities.
•	California State Council on Developmental Disabilities
•	Department of Developmental Services California
	DDS is the agency through which the State of California provides services and supports to children and adults with developmental disabilities. These disabilities include mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism and related conditions.
•	Disability.Gov
	Online access to resources, services, and information available throughout the Federal government for disabled Americans.
•	Health Care Providers
	The primary goal of this site is to improve the health of persons with developmental disabilities in California by educating physicians and other healthcare providers.
•	Oakland Tribune Newspaper
•	Official California Legislative Information
	Official site for state legislative information including daily updates, assembly bills, and senate bills.
•	Sacramento Bee Newspaper
•	The Library of Congress
•	U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
	The Department of Health and Human Services is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
•	Voice of the Retarded
	The Mission of VOR is to unite in advocacy, educate and assist families, organizations, public officials, and individuals concerned with the quality of life and choice for persons with mental retardation within residential options including home, communit

Medical

•	About Network -- Medical Articles
	Use this site to investigate medical conditions and problems.
•	California Digital Library
	Online University of California sponsored web site.
•	California Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities Center (MHDDC)
	The MHDDC is an information and training center dedicated to the mental health needs of people with developmental disabilities.
•	Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
	Learn more about these programs and the Olmstead Act
•	Family Village
	Disability Related Resources
•	Medline
	The world's most comprehensive source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information, with nearly eleven million records.
•	Medline Plus Health Information
	A service of the national library of medicine and national institutes of health.
•	Online Drugstore
•	Pub Med
	Similar to Med Line. Provides medical articles.

Publications

•	Calif Dept of Developmental Services Publications - Free
	Use form to fax or mail for free publications provided by DDS
•	Surgeon General Report on Mental Retardation
	Surgeon Generals Report, Closing the Gap: A National Blueprint to Improve the Health of Persons with Mental Retardation. The report is in Adobe PDF format.

Support Groups/Organizations

•	Disability History Mueseum Online
	A searchable, theme-based digital collection that exists only online --offering documents and images related to disability history in the United States, drawn from public and private collections around the country.
•	National Parent to Parent Network
	MUMS is a National Parent to Parent Network whose mission is to help parents who have a child with any disorder, medical condition, mental or emotional disorder or rare diagnosis make connections with other parents whose children have the same or similar

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