Resources for Autism Families - Santa Clara County
Ability Path
AbilityPath has been a cornerstone of our community for 100 years, providing a lifespan of support services to individuals with special needs and developmental disabilities in the greater Bay Area. Our mission is to empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships. With educational, therapeutic, vocational, and family support services, we are distinctive in providing support to an individual throughout their lifetime.
AbilityPath has been a cornerstone of our community for 100 years, providing a lifespan of support services to individuals with special needs and developmental disabilities in the greater Bay Area. Our mission is to empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships. With educational, therapeutic, vocational, and family support services, we are distinctive in providing support to an individual throughout their lifetime.
Early Support Program for Autism
A joint program between Stanford Children’s Health and Children’s Health Council to provide supportive services at no cost to families after diagnosis. Services include parent education, health care guidance, and help connecting with providers.
A joint program between Stanford Children’s Health and Children’s Health Council to provide supportive services at no cost to families after diagnosis. Services include parent education, health care guidance, and help connecting with providers.
EvoLibri
EvoLibri Consulting provides a wide variety of services, including support groups geared primarily to those young adults who are neurodiverse, with Asperger's Syndrome, ADHD, Learning Differences, and Mood Disorders. Their challenges are often not severe enough to warrant state or federally-funded services, but nevertheless cause the client great difficulty in life.
EvoLibri Consulting provides a wide variety of services, including support groups geared primarily to those young adults who are neurodiverse, with Asperger's Syndrome, ADHD, Learning Differences, and Mood Disorders. Their challenges are often not severe enough to warrant state or federally-funded services, but nevertheless cause the client great difficulty in life.
Fiesta Educativa
Offers resources to Spanish speaking families to assist them in obtaining services and caring for their children with special needs.
Offers resources to Spanish speaking families to assist them in obtaining services and caring for their children with special needs.
Friends of Children with Special Needs
Provides programs for children and adults with disabilities to aid them in their development and integration into society. They offer recreation, adult day programs, and supported living services along with respite programs and support groups for parents.
Provides programs for children and adults with disabilities to aid them in their development and integration into society. They offer recreation, adult day programs, and supported living services along with respite programs and support groups for parents.
Jeena
Focusing on families from South Asia, Jeena is a volunteer-based organization that aims to provide support services and information to families of children with special needs.
Focusing on families from South Asia, Jeena is a volunteer-based organization that aims to provide support services and information to families of children with special needs.
Morgan Autism Center
A school for children with autism who need 1:1 attention, as well as an adult day program including employment, volunteerism, community involvement, and recreation services. Curriculum is tailored for each client to fulfill individual educational needs.
PACE
(Pacific Autism Center for Education)
Offers programs, schooling, and early intervention for children with autism, geared primarily toward non-verbal students and those with challenging behaviors. PACE also operates residential homes for children and adults.
(Pacific Autism Center for Education)
Offers programs, schooling, and early intervention for children with autism, geared primarily toward non-verbal students and those with challenging behaviors. PACE also operates residential homes for children and adults.
Parents Helping Parents
Supports parents and families of children with varying forms of disabilities with services such as trainings, a resource library, classes, mentoring, and support groups.
Supports parents and families of children with varying forms of disabilities with services such as trainings, a resource library, classes, mentoring, and support groups.
Santa Clara County Superior Court
Limited Conservatorship Workshop
The Santa Clara County Family Justice Center Courthouse offers a free, practical workshop on how to set up a limited conservatorship. The workshop comes highly recommended as free way to prepare your documents for the conservatorship petition process.
The workshops are held once a month and are usually filled up a few months into the future (expect to wait a few months on the waiting list and then a month or so for a workshop date). Click here to apply on the Court's website.
Limited Conservatorship Workshop
The Santa Clara County Family Justice Center Courthouse offers a free, practical workshop on how to set up a limited conservatorship. The workshop comes highly recommended as free way to prepare your documents for the conservatorship petition process.
The workshops are held once a month and are usually filled up a few months into the future (expect to wait a few months on the waiting list and then a month or so for a workshop date). Click here to apply on the Court's website.
Silicon Valley Independent Living Center
Housing Search Assistance
Do you need assistance in finding accessible, affordable, an integrated housing? People with disabilities experience greater discrimination in the area of housing than any other minority population. With a high cost of living in Santa Clara County, finding suitable and permanent housing can be a very difficult journey.
SVILC provides group workshop and opportunities to work with a Housing Specialist on the following:
• Developing housing search strategies
• Information about Section 8 and other subsidized and low income housing
• Information and referrals to other community housing resources
• Understanding your housing rights as a person with a disability
• Applying for emergency financial assistance for rent, security deposit, utilities, and other critical family needs – RESTRICTIONS APPLY
Location: 25 N. 14th Street, Suite 1000, San Jose, CA 95112
Housing Search Assistance
Do you need assistance in finding accessible, affordable, an integrated housing? People with disabilities experience greater discrimination in the area of housing than any other minority population. With a high cost of living in Santa Clara County, finding suitable and permanent housing can be a very difficult journey.
SVILC provides group workshop and opportunities to work with a Housing Specialist on the following:
• Developing housing search strategies
• Information about Section 8 and other subsidized and low income housing
• Information and referrals to other community housing resources
• Understanding your housing rights as a person with a disability
• Applying for emergency financial assistance for rent, security deposit, utilities, and other critical family needs – RESTRICTIONS APPLY
Location: 25 N. 14th Street, Suite 1000, San Jose, CA 95112
Stanford Autism Center
Provides behavioral consultation, treatment, and counseling for children with autism and other developmental disorders. Offers half-day conferences educating parents about ASD as well as a parent support group that meets monthly.
Provides behavioral consultation, treatment, and counseling for children with autism and other developmental disorders. Offers half-day conferences educating parents about ASD as well as a parent support group that meets monthly.
Stanford Adult Neurodevelopment Clinic
Newly expanded for 2020! This year, the Adult Neurodevelpment Clinic will be able to see more adult patients with autism for their co-occurring conditions such as Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Patients can be self-referred for evaluation by calling 650-498-9111.
The Adult Neurodevelopment Clinic is a specialty clinic providing evidence-based treatment to adult patients with neurodevelopmental conditions. The philosophy of the clinic is based on positive psychiatry and psychology. The goal of this clinic is to provide specialized mental health care with strengths-based approaches to neurodiverse adults. The clinic, housed within Stanford’s Psychosocial Treatment Services Program, serves neurodiverse patients aged 18 years and above.
Newly expanded for 2020! This year, the Adult Neurodevelpment Clinic will be able to see more adult patients with autism for their co-occurring conditions such as Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Patients can be self-referred for evaluation by calling 650-498-9111.
The Adult Neurodevelopment Clinic is a specialty clinic providing evidence-based treatment to adult patients with neurodevelopmental conditions. The philosophy of the clinic is based on positive psychiatry and psychology. The goal of this clinic is to provide specialized mental health care with strengths-based approaches to neurodiverse adults. The clinic, housed within Stanford’s Psychosocial Treatment Services Program, serves neurodiverse patients aged 18 years and above.
Via Services
Via Services offers weekend and weeklong respite programs to provide a much-needed break for parents of children with autism. Via also provides developmental assessments, speech therapy, and occupational therapy for children.
Via Services offers weekend and weeklong respite programs to provide a much-needed break for parents of children with autism. Via also provides developmental assessments, speech therapy, and occupational therapy for children.
Please note this is a partial list of resources and does not purport to include all organizations serving people with autism. Inclusion of any organization does not imply endorsement, and omission does not imply disapproval. Organizations are listed at the discretion of Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area. The information is gathered primarily from public sources and is not guaranteed to be accurate. To suggest additions, please email info@sfautismsociety.org.