Virginia Family to Family Health Information Center
Parent to Parent of Virginia has been a lead partner in the establishment and implementation of Virginia’s Family to Family Health Information Center (knows as the F2F Center; formerly known as the VA INFO Center). Through a collaborative effort with the Partnership for People with Disabilities, Medical Home Plus, Inc., and the Federation for Families, the F2F Center assists families of children and young adults with special health care with timely access to information, resources, supports and services. For more information, please visit www.va-info.org

Consumer-Directed Services Resource Network
Parent to Parent of Virginia is a member of the Consumer-Directed Services Resource Network operated by the Partnership for People with Disabilities. Network members provide information to parents, individuals with disabilities, and service providers on self-direction and consumer-directed services in Virginia's Waivers. If you would like to learn more about self-direction and/or consumer-directed services, visit www.vcu.edu/partnership/cdservices/

State Action Team for Family Support
Since 2000, Parent to Parent of Virginia has supported grassroots legislative efforts to educate parents, individuals with disabilities, and elected officials about best practice in family support. Through these efforts Parent to Parent of Virginia has worked with legislators to support a Bill to pilot a self-determination project and a Bill to introduce a Independence Plus Medicaid Waiver in Virginia; conducted the “Friends and Neighbors legislative” initiative; and joined the State Action Team.

Products

Community Tool Kit (2000) TO ORDER
Is comprised of information on the roles and responsibilities of the family support trainers, and resource materials on family support, self-determination, Medicaid waivers, the legislative process, nuts and bolts of advocacy, telling your story, conducting media campaigns, and state and local disability agencies.

My Choice, My Control, My Community Booklet (2001) TO ORDER
A resource booklet that features:

• The faces of many of Virginia's children and adults with disabilities
• Details Virginia's history of not adequately supporting people with disabilities in their communities
• What advocates can do to affect system's changes
• Lets us imagine our state disability system founded on the principles of self-determination and person-centeredness

Virginia's Friends and Neighbors Campaign (2001) TO ORDER
When Virginia's 140 Senators and Delegates returned to Richmond for the 2001 General Assembly Session, each received either a "friend" or "neighbor." Stories from individuals with disabilities and stories from prarents about their children with disabilities were collected statewide and affixed to large cardboard cutout "friends" and "neighbors." As legislators heard testimony from citizens about issues affecting their lives, and as they attended meetings to vote on laws and state budget, they carried our friends and neighbors with them.

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