The U.S. Department of Education recently announced the award of $2.5 million in grants to operate 23 Community Parent Resource Centers in 17 states and a Parent Training and Information Center to serve American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Republic of Palau. The centers provide parents with the training and information they need to work with professionals in meeting the early intervention and special needs of children with disabilities. For a list of Department-funded parent training and information centers, visit www.parentcenterhub.org.
The following is a list of grantees and their contacts.
| City | State | Organization | Contacts | |
| Wasilla | AK | LINKS Mat-Su | Eric Wade | eric@linksprc.org |
| Springdale | AR | Arkansas Support Network, Inc. | Candia Nicholas | cnicholas@supports.org |
| Berkeley | CA | Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund | Susan Henderson | shenderson@dredf.org |
| Napa | CA | Napa Valley Child Advocacy Network, Inc.—Parents CAN | Marlena Garcia | marlenag@parentscan.org |
| San Francisco | CA | Support for Families of Children with Disabilities | Joe Goyos | jgoyos@supportforfamilies.org |
| Denver | CO | THRIVE Resource Center | Yvette Burkhalter | Yvette@thrivectr.org |
| Hartford | CT | African Caribbean American Parents of Children with Disabilities | Ann Smith | asmith@afcamp.org |
| Miami | FL | Parent to Parent | Isabel Garcia | igarcia@ptopmiami.org |
| Gulf Breeze | FL | Project Empower of Northwest Florida | Gary Walby | gwalby@comsysinn.com |
| Hewitt | NJ | Association for Special Children & Families | Angela Abdul Julie Rikon |
ascfamily@hotmail.com |
| Albuquerque | NM | EPICS | Alvino Sandoval | asandoval@epicsnm.org |
| Buffalo | NY | Parent Network of Western New York | Kim Walek | kmw@parentnetworkwny.org |
| Queens | NY | United We Stand of New York | Lourdes Rivera-Putz | lriveraputz@uwsofny.org |
| Asheville | NC | FIRST | Gaile Osborne | gaile@firstparentcenter.org |
| Morganton | NC | Family Support Network HOPE | Vickie Dieter | vbdieter@fsnhope.org |
| Panama | OK | Pervasive Parenting | Kodey Toney | kodeytoney@hotmail.com |
| Philadelphia | PA | HUNE | Luz Hernandez | lhernandez@huneinc.org |
| Erie | PA | Mission Empower | Jill Hrinda-Patten | advocate@missionempower.org |
| Charleston | SC | Family Resource Center for Disabilities and Special Needs | Bev McCarty | bevmccarty@frcdsn.org |
| El Paso | TX | Children’s Disabilities Information Coalition | Patricia Santibáñez | patricia.santibanez@cdicelpaso.org |
| Fairfax | VA | Formed Families Forward | Kelly Henderson | formedfamiliesforward@verizon.net |
| Tacoma | WA | Open Doors for Multicultural Families | Ginger Kwan | gingerk@multiculturalfamilies.org |
| Milwaukee | WI | Alianza Latina Aplicando Soluciones | Elsa Diaz-Bautista | elsa@alianzalatinawi.org |
| Honolulu | HI | Learning Disabilities Association of Hawaii | Michael Moore | MMoore@LDAHawaii.org |
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