Our Partners
We work with several community serving and national organizations to help us fulfill our mission and provide quality services to young people with disabilities, their parents, and to schools.
Arkansas Support Network (ASN)
6836 Isaac’s Orchard Road
Springdale, AR 72762
www.supports.org
ASN offers a variety of programs to provide opportunities for individuals with disabilities and their families. These programs include family support, supported living services, supported employment, and affordable housing. ASN supports AYU by providing office space, administrative support, and training and technical assistance to our staff.
Arkansas People First (APF)
6836 Isaac’s Orchard Road
Springdale, AR 72762
www.arkansaspeoplefirst.org
APF is the statewide self-advocacy organization of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Arkansas. Their mission is: “Working together for our rights as People First, speaking for ourselves as members of the community.” We work with Arkansas People First to educate and involve young adults in the local, state, and national self-advocacy movement.
Arkansas Transition Services (ATS)
www.arkansastransition.com
ATS Transition Consultants regionally work with school staff, families, and others regionally to help prepare youth to transition from high school to adulthood. Paul Johnston is the Transition Consultant that serves NW Arkansas. Paul represents ATS services on our Resource Panels to bring information directly to participants.
Human Services Research Institute
7690 SW Mohawk Street
Tualatin, OR 97062
503-924-3783 x 14
www.hsri.org
HSRI is our original sponsor through a federal grant from the US Administration on Developmental Disabilities. They are a national 501c3 nonprofit organization operating since 1976 in the fields of child welfare, mental health, substance abuse, physical disabilities, and developmental disabilities. HSRI continues to support AYU with staff support and expertise.
Northwest Arkansas Community Parent Resource Center
614 E Emma
Springdale, AR 72764
479-927-4100
www.supports.org/CPRC
Arkansas Support Network’s (ASN) Family Support Program received a federal grant to fund the Northwest Arkansas Community Parent Resource Center (CPRC)—the first in the state—to serve families of children with disabilities ages birth through 26. The Center serves four counties: Benton, Carroll, Madison, and Washington. While advocating for children in special education, their work emphasizes training and information for immigrant families, foster families, parents who are working to reunite with their children, and finally the young people in the juvenile justice system as well as their parents (if involved). They also work with professionals affiliated with these three groups.