House of Charity

Healing Home

Since 1997, The House of Charity has housed the children we sponsor for medical care at local hospitals and clinics in apartments, hotel rooms and volunteers’ homes. In April of 2002 the board of directors of The House of Charity decided to move forward with its plan of purchasing a home that would be a permanent location to house these children providing:

We searched Houston for the perfect location and found a duplex in West Houston in the Walnut Bend subdivision. This home is more than just a place to stay for these children. We are providing a safe and comfortable environment for these children to not only heal physically but also heal the mental wounds they have received from a life of special challenges, neglect and ridicule. We are helping them grow confidence and self reliance by teaching them the necessary skills to survive this world. Just over three weeks after we closed on the property we were able to move the children from the apartment to The House of Charity Healing Home.

Healing Home

This home is more than just a place to stay for these children. It is a safe and comfortable environment for these children to not only heal physically, but to also heal the mental and emotional wounds they have received over years of difficult struggle, facing challenges, neglect, ridicule, and turmoil.

The most beautiful part about the Healing Home is that it brings children from different areas and backgrounds together to come and live under one roof, just like a family. We would love for all of you to come and visit the home, so whenever you have time, please call and arrange to come and spend some time with the children and take a glimpse of the magic that takes place in the Healing Home every single day.

The home can accommodate 25 children at a time, who are constantly under the care and supervision of a registered nurse and dedicated volunteers. All local children travel with one parent and 90% of the international children travel with an escort and stay in our healing home. Their stays can range from 6 months to 9 months to full one year, and most children require multiple surgeries

Disabled Children's Relief Fund

Disabled Children's Relief Fund


Disabled Children's Relief Fund (DCRF), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, provides disabled children with assistance to obtain wheelchairs, orthopedic braces, walkers, lifts, hearing aids, eyeglasses, medical equipment, physical therapy, and surgery. Blind, Deaf, Amputees, and children with Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Spastic Quadriplegia, Encephalitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Spina Bifida, Down's Syndrome, and other disabilities receive assistance. DCRF focuses special attention on helping children throughout the U.S. that do not have adequate health insurance, especially the physically challenged. In some cases, DCRF may be the last resort

Applications are available between April and September, by writing to:

Disabled Children's Relief Fund
P.O. Box 89
Freeport , New York 11520

Insure Kids Now

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that an additional $6 billion in new funds will be made available to states from the Children's health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA). The new funds will provide health care to millions of children nationwide.
More here

Wishing Well Foundation

The Wishing Well Foundation USA Inc. is a non-profit organization headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Foundation’s single goal is to bring joy to children with life threatening illnesses by providing them with their fondest wish in life.

Confronted with the tragedy of a family friend with a terminally ill child, the founders, Elwin and Lisbeth LeBeau, comforted their friend as best they could as their friend's child's life slowly ebbed away. That experience left an impression in the LeBeau's lives which caused them to wonder about other critically ill children and their families...families financially unable to provide their ill child with anything other than the basic needs.

Responding to that thought the LeBeau’s learned about some of the charitable organizations reaching out to these children and their families. But as Lisbeth so aptly states, "Can there be too many groups granting last wishes to children with life threatening illnesses". Since there are literally thousands of children in the United States who have unfulfilled wishes, the answer to that question is quite simple.

THERE CAN NEVER BE ENOUGH PEOPLE HELPING!

And so...Utilizing their own funds, the LeBeau’s began reaching out to families of children with life threatening illnesses by establishing the first The Wishing Well Foundation USA Inc., in Louisiana.

ShareKids

ShareKids.com is a co-parenting system designed to assist individuals in managing child sharing between homes. This tool facilitates planning for the welfare of the children. It minimizes stressful discussions and possible confrontations between custodians and parents who are divorced or separated.

ShareKids.com will make lives easier for everyone involved for the most important reason of all: OUR KIDS! Evolving from educational and child care management software developed by the authors since 1981, the ShareKids program continues to mature as new features are added regularly in response to requests from and requirements of our clients.
ShareKids currently serves families in all 50 United States, Washington D.C. and 21 other countries.

In addition to divorced families, the program is also utilized by military families with a parent stationed over seas and by many happily married families due to its intuitive and easy to use family management, accounting, documenting, tracking and information sharing capabilities.

SupportKids

Giving you the Choice

Supportkids exists because of the need for stronger, more effective child support enforcement. We provide an important option to custodial parents seeking the child support owed to their families.

If you’ve tried the government and have had little or no success in collecting your child support, you do have another choice. Supportkids offers you an alternative to government agencies, and we often succeed where the government has failed.

NICHCY

NICHCY is very pleased to offer you a wealth of information on disabilities! NICHCY stands for the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities. We serve the nation as a central source of information on:

* disabilities in infants, toddlers, children, and youth,
* IDEA, which is the law authorizing special education,
* No Child Left Behind (as it relates to children with disabilities), and
* research-based information on effective educational practices.

Feel free to communicate with us in English or Spanish. We're here, we're listening, and it would be our pleasure to help you. In the meantime, we invite you to explore our Web site and make full use of all that we offer here.
Quicklinks:

Building the Legacy: A Training Curriculum on IDEA 2004
The curriculum is intended to assist in understanding and implementation of the IDEA 2004 Part B regulations. The training curriculum has five overarching themes with multiple training modules within each theme.

NICHCY's Evidence for Education Series
Easy-to-read reviews of educational research relating to specific academic or behavioral interventions. Filled with practical examples and connections to more detailed resources.

Looking for OSEP Grants?
Use our directories or the online search to find out more about the 1000-plus disability-related projects OSEP funded last year.

Care.com

The Safe and Simple way to find Care

* Find babysitters, nannies, pet sitters and more
* Review references and background checks
* Match by experience, hourly rate, availability and more