Utah Parent Center(UPC) is an award-winning, statewide, no-profit organization founded in 1984 by parents of children and youth with disabilities to help parents facing similar challenges throughout Utah. For more than 20 years, the caring, competent staf of the UPC has utilized a parent to parent model to hlep many thousand of parents and to represent a wide variety of diabilities, ages, and families in many sytems-level activities. UPC staff built collaborative networks with education, health, and human service professionals, agencies, organizations, and the Center pomotes change within the community through several projects and activities.
Their mission: To help parents hlep their children with disabilities to live included, productive lives as members of the community. They accomplish this by providing accurate information, empathetic support, appropriate referrals, individual assistance, vauluable training, peer support, and effective advocacy based on the concept of PARENTS HELPING PARENTS.
It's grounded in the philosophy that parents are full partners in the decision-making processes that direct their children's care and programs and, as such, can provie significant support to other parents in similar situations.
Their information for those of you interested:
2290 East 4500 South, Suite 110
Salt Lake City, Utah 84117-4428
Phone 801-272-1051 toll free: 800-468-1160
Spanish LIne 801-272-1067
email: upcinfo@utahparentcenter.org
Website: www.utahparentcenter.org
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