Virtual Assistant Apprentice Needed!

Know someone who wants to be a Virtual Assistant? Maybe a Mom who is home with a Special Needs Child and needs real, legitimate work at home? I’m looking for 2 apprentices to do some hands on training/work for two of my sites (this site is one of them!) and I’ll teach them the biz. [...]

Key Club Helps Matthew with Social Skills - and it’s fun too!

http://www.ourspecialfamiliesvillage.org helps Families with Special Needs Family Members find support, information and resources.

Special Olympics Summer Games

The 2009 Summer Games was a success for the athletes of Northern Santa Barbara County. Once again the campus of Long Beach State University played host to the 2009 Summer Games two day event.  Over 2,000 athletes from San Luis Obispo County through San Diego County came out to strut their stuff in athletics, aquatics, [...]

Use this letter template to write your elected officials!

As you know Respite, Inc. and many other programs that service our Special Needs Family Members are facing difficult times during this budget crisis. Diane Toevs, the Program Coordinator at Respite, Inc. was kind enough to share this letter template that you can use to contact elected officials and let them know that these programs [...]

End Autism Insurance Descrimination

Yesterday, a little after 5:00 pm, Matthew had his 4th Grand Mal Seizure. Apparently this is not uncommon in Autistic Teens but that doesn’t make it less scary. If you have never witnessed someone having a Grand Mal, there is no way I can describe it. Even as I watched him and I knew it [...]