Nonprofit organizations dealing with children with disabilities in western Pennsylvania

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Redstone Highlands’ Partners with Goodwill to Provide Employment to Students

Seven High School Students Will be Recognized for Participation in Transition WORKS! Program Redstone Highlands and Goodwill of Southwestern PA will celebrate the success of its first group of Transition WORKS! high school students during a special event at Redstone’s Greensburg campus. Students, their families, school support staff and teachers, Redstone residents and employees, Goodwill executives… Continue Reading

Posted on 09/05/12 Filed under Goodwill Southwestern PA, Redstone Highlands

Star Wars Pin a Great Collectors Item and for a Great Cause

George Lucas (Lucasfilm) Teams Up With Variety to Help Children! The Gold Heart Pin Campaign is one of Variety Pittsburgh’s signature fund raising promotions in partnership with a different motion picture studio every year. Variety the Children’s Charity is thrilled to partner with Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox to bring you this year’s Gold… Continue Reading

Posted on 30/04/12 Filed under Variety the Children's Charity

What is OCD?

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a disorder that illustrates disturbing thoughts that causes restlessness, making a person severely anxious, with fear, and worries through repetitive and rhythmic behaviors to cope and minimize the anxiety felt combined with thoughts and obsessions or compulsions. They usually do repetitive actions and behaviors such as hand washing, being extremely… Continue Reading

Posted on 13/03/12 Filed under Renewed Life Christian Co..

Accessibility for Children With Mental and Physical Disabilities

Variety the Children’s Charity of Pittsburgh helps children with mental and physical disabilities realize the freedom of accessibility, allowing them to develop continuous and sustained social interaction, friendship, and inclusion. It’s through the generosity of our supporters that Variety can deliver a singular range of medical equipment and services to assist with the specific needs… Continue Reading

Posted on 12/03/12 Filed under Variety the Children's Charity

Summer Camp for Children With Motor Disabilities

Confidence, Self Esteem, Mobility for a Brighter Future Steps to Independence will hold Summer Camp for children with motor disabilities. 2 sessions this summer: June 18-July13, 2012 July 16-August 10, 2012 For more information, please visit our website at www.stepstoindependence.org, or call 412-254-4784. Steps to Independence (STI), began in 1998 as Conductive Education of Pittsburgh. … Continue Reading

Posted on 08/03/12 Filed under Steps to Independence

Pet Therapy for Children at Pressley Ridge

Pressley Ridge’s Home Places Gets a New Kind of Therapy From Four-Legged Friends At Pressley Ridge’s Home Places, a small residential program in Pittsburgh that provides services to children and adolescents with developmental delays and behavioral problems, Sue Ezzo, RN and Corinne Lane, FLS Coordinator at the Allegheny County Day School, bring their dogs to… Continue Reading

Posted on 22/02/12 Filed under Pressley Ridge

Side by Side Helps Single Moms and Children With Special Needs

Our mission is to provide practical help to single mothers (with children of all ages) and to families who have children with special needs. … Continue Reading

Posted on 20/12/11 Filed under Side by Side