CDI strives to be a complete resource for parents — offering training, education, and innovative, comprehensive intervention programs to meet the needs of the parents and families in the community that we serve. In order to ensure that we are meeting these needs we would like to invite parents to become more involved in not only the programs and services we provide here at CDI, but also a chance to create/connect to a network of parents, professionals, and resources in the community.

Our education series is held monthly at CDI and consists of speakers and presentations in areas such as advocacy, parenting, healthy eating and many others. We will be hosting each of these workshops either in the evening or on the weekends with child care provided for your children by our interns and interventionists.

The Kresco Family Resource Room (KFRR) is dedicated in honor of Steven Kresco and his family who, over the years have volunteered many hours to help CDI meet its mission. The Kresco Family also has a child with special needs and understands the stress that other families at CDI are under. The KFRR is a quiet space for parents to research and get work done, meet with other parents, or read; a kind of "Parent Time Out" space. We realize that it can be difficult to carve out some quiet time for yourself during the day, and we hope that this space can offer that opportunity to you.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cdimoms/
We could all use the help, support and encouragement from other parents going through the same things as you do. You don't have to be alone in this. CDI MOMS group is here for parents whose children attend or attended CDI and receive therapies now or in the past. It's a safe place to talk and support each other through good and rough times. It seems most of the time we find ourselves running from place to place just trying to keep up with our sanity. We hope you'll be able to support your friends and make new ones! We’d like to use this venue to exchange ideas, thoughts, plan play dates for the children as well as us parents, talk about therapies, what's new in interventions, exchange GFCF recipes, have fun, vent and especially laugh.... the list goes on and on...

www.forepath.org
Screenings provide quick, simple ways to monitor a child’s development. The above link provides a screening tool and resource site for parents who have concerns about their child’s development and behaviors. The PEDS tool will guide parents through questions concerning developmental milestones and help to identify risks for developmental delays or disorders. The PEDS tool will also suggest programs and resources to support a child and answer important questions that parents may have.

www.zerotothree.org
Zero to Three is an organization whose mission is to provide informative and engaging content and resources pertaining to a child’s first three years of life and the importance of early development. Zero to Three also provides relevant information to professionals in the early childhood development community and has a public policy center devoted to advocacy on behalf of infants and toddlers.

www.shanesinspiration.org
Shane’s inspiration is a unique organization established by parents whose mission is devoted to developing universally accessible playgrounds for children with and without disabilities throughout Southern California and as far away as Sri Lanka. These playgrounds provide integrated settings with challenging and inspirational play equipment enhancing the growth and development of all children.