Local offices
Connect with local organizations like FHFGNO and FHFNola for support services tailored to families of children with Down syndrome.
families helping families of greater new orleans
As your resource center, we are here to provide you with the information you need to make decisions for yourself or your children with disabilities. We like to consider ourselves a one-stop-shop for information, resources, education, training, and peer-to-peer support.
families helping families nola
Families Helping Families NOLA offers core services, programs, and resources for individuals with disabilities and their families in Orleans, Plaquemines, and St. Bernard Parishes.
gigi's playhouse
We change lives through consistent delivery of free educational, therapeutic-based and career development programs for individuals with Down syndrome, their families and the community, through a replicable playhouse model.
legal support
Access resources to understand guardianship, tutorship, and supported decision-making for individuals with Down syndrome.
NDSC - Legal Guardianship Options
The National Down Syndrome Congress (NDSC) recognizes that the guardianship system needs major reform. Further examination of the guardianship system is needed to ensure that people with Down syndrome retain, to the greatest extent possible, all of their civil rights and constitutional due process protections and to ensure that a less restrictive alternative is available should it meet a person’s needs.
DRL - Disability rights center
We provide people with disabilities the tools, resources and assistance that empower them to exercise maximum independence and self-determination.
drl - supported decision making
We serve adults with disabilities by working to eliminate barriers to exercising autonomy and promote practices and policies that allow for enhanced independence and self-determination.
