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A parent of a child with ASD was seeking a grant online and found a website link for bsm GrantSearchAssistant.com. The site offered information on getting a grant which could be downloaded for $1.00 . It was necessary to provide a credit card. Not only was the information not helpful but the company and apparently its sister companies continued to charge the parent $40.00 each day. That parent has shared the names of these Companies hoping that you would be spared the same fate. The companies are as follows: bsm Grant Search Assistance" their web site is "bsm Grant Search Assistant.com". Other companies that are working along with them are as follows: INE Grant Search, NETworkagenda.com, and Business Fund.
If you want to see the complaints on this company go to www.complaintsboard.com, and in the search window type in bsm Grant Search Assistant. Please exercise caution as you search for help for your loved ones over the internet.
Build your Own Care Notebook Available Now at the National Center of Medical Home Initiatives for Children with Special Needs Web Site
Dr. Charles Onufer, Director, Division of Specialized Care for Children at the University of Illinois at Chicago and his Title V CSHCN staff, created a web site called
“Build Your Own Care Notebook”. They are working with staff from the National Center of Medical Home Initiatives for Children with Special Needs. This web site is designed to assist families to build their own care notebooks for their own children with special needs. The web site allows parents to select different versions of care notebooks and put them together to build their own customized care notebook.Dr. Onufer took 20 complete care notebooks and developed a template consisting of 6 major sections with their corresponding subsections. For each of these subsections, up to 20 versions of that subsection was created in MS Word and Adobe PDF formats. A parent then has the capability to review these different versions of the subsections that they would like to include in their child’s care notebook, and download those Word or PDF files to their computer.
The next step was creating an online tutorial for parents to guide them in "how to" use the online care notebook for their child or patient. A field test of the tutorial was held for parents and health care professionals February 5, 2008 at the Illinois Center for Rehab and Education. Dr. Onufer and his staff are revising the tutorial based on comments from the field test and will work with National Center Staff on uploading the tutorial.
Currently, the care notebook web site is live and is located at:
http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/tools/care_notebook.html.
Go to this website http://www.childrenofdestiny.org/pdf/Turning_the_Tide_2008.pdf and download a Prayer focus
calendar for family and friends of those with Autism. Then do the most powerful thing you can do to make a
difference. Pray. - We are asking each of you to pray each day during Autism Awareness Month.