Resources & Support

Help and Information Online: A list of local and national non-profit resources.

Please let us know if you have other resources you think should be listed.

A

AIDS/HIV

• Health Information Network: www.healthinfonetwork.org
• Lifelong AIDS Alliance: www.lifelongaidsalliance.org
• People of Color Against AIDS Network: www.pocaan.org
• Rosehedge: assisted living for people with HIV/AIDS: www.rosehedge.org
• Seattle & King County Public Health Department HIV/AIDS Program: www.metrokc.gov/health/apu

Alcohol Abuse and Dependence

• Alcohol Anonymous (AA)/Seattle: www.seattleaa.org
• MetroKC Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention program: www.metrokc.gov/health/atodp
• MetroKC Mental Health & Substance Abuse Links: www.metrokc.gov/dchs/mhd/mhlinks.htm
• Northeast Seattle Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking: www.preventionworksinseattle.org
• Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator: http://FindTreatment.samhsa.gov/

Allergies

• Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America – Washington State Chapter: www.aafa.org

Alzheimer’s Disease

• Alzheimer’s Association of Washington: www.alzwa.org
• Alzheimer’s Disease Education & Referral Center (NIH site): www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers
• UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center: www.depts.washington.edu/adrcweb

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (also known as ALS and Lou Gehrig’s Disease)

• ALS Association Evergreen Chapter: www.alsa-ec.org

Asian Health

• Asian Counseling & Referral Services: www.acrs.org
• Asian Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center: www.apiwfsc.org
• International Community Health Services (community clinics): www.ichs.com
• National Asian Pacific Center on Aging: www.napca.org
• Washington State Asian Pacific Islander Hepatitis B Taskforce: www.apihepbwa.org

Asthma

• Washington air quality information: www.fortress.wa.gov/ecy/enviwa
• Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America – Washington State Chapter: www.aafa.org
• American Lung Association of Washington: www.alaw.org

Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)

• Learning Disabilities Association of Washington: www.ldawa.org

Autism (including autism spectrum disorders and Asperger’s syndrome)

• Asperger’s Northwest: www.aspergersnw.org
• Autism Society of Washington: www.autismsocietyofwa.org
  
• Autism Spectrum Treatment and Research Center (ASTAR): www.astarcenter.org
• Families for Effective Autism Treatment of Washington: www.featwa.org
• UW Autism Center: www.depts.washington.edu/uwautism

B

Bats and Rabies

• MetroKC Bats and Rabies Information: www.metrokc.gov/health/prevcont/bats.htm

Bipolar Disorder

• National Alliance on Mental Illness: www.nami.org/MSTemplate.cfm?Site=NAMI_Washington

Birth Defects

• March of Dimes, Washington Chapter: www.marchofdimes.com/washington

Blindness

• National Federation of the Blind and Partially Sighted: www.nfbw.org
• Community Services for the Blind: www.csbps.com
• Washington Council of the Blind: www.wcbinfo.org

Blood

• Puget Sound Blood Center: www.psbc.org

Brain Injury

• Brain Injury Association of Washington: www.biawa.org

Breastfeeding

• Breastfeeding Coalition of Washington: www.breastfeedingwa.org

Breast Cancer

• Puget Sound Susan G. Komen for the Cure (breast cancer advocacy group): www.pskomen.org
• Washington Breast and Cervical Health Program:  www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/chronic/bchp.aspx

Burns

• Burned Children Recovery Foundation: www.burnedchildrenrecovery.org
• Northwest Burn Foundation: www.nwburn.org

C

Cancer

• American Cancer Society: www.cancer.org
• Gilda’s Club: programs for men, women and children with cancer: www.gildasclubseattle.org
• Public Health – Seattle & King County colon cancer screening information page
• Seattle Cancer Care Alliance: www.seattlecca.org
• Team Survivor: fitness and education programs for women cancer survivors: www.teamsurvivornw.org
• Washington Breast and Health Program: www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/chronic/bchp.aspx

Cardiology

• American College of Cardiology – Washington Chapter: www.accwa.org
• American Heart Association – Washington Chapter: www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200279&division=PMA023
• CardioSmart (patient information from American College of Cardiology); www.cardiosmart.org

Children

• American Academy of Pediatrics, Washington Chapter: www.wcaap.org
• American Academy of Pediatrics: www.healthychildren.org
• Breastfeeding Coalition of Washington: www.breastfeedingwa.org
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Children’s Hospital): www.cshcn.org/resources/mentalhealthtoolkit.cfm
• Children’s Alliance: www.childrensalliance.org
• Children’s Home Society of Washington: www.childrenshomesociety.org
• Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Washington: www.withinreachwa.org
• Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Seattle: www.injuryfree.org
• Northeast Seattle Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking: www.preventionworksinseattle.org

Community Clinics

• Community Health Care (Tacoma & Pierce County): www.commhealth.org
• Country Doctor Community Clinic: www.countrydoctor.org
• International Community Health Services (community clinics): www.ichs.com
• Puget Sound Neighborhood Health Clinics: www.psnhc.org
• Sea-Mar Community Health Center: www.seamar.org
• Seattle Indian Health Board, Inc.: www.sihb.org
• Seattle-King County Public Health Department: www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health.aspx
• To search for a community clinic near you go to: http://findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov

Cystic Fibrosis

• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation – Washington Chapter: www.cff.org/Chapters/washington

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Dental Health

• Access to Baby and Child Dentistry: www.metrokc.gov/health/kgc/abcd/default.aspx
• Citizens’ Watch for Oral Health: www.oralhealthwatch.org
• Washington State Dental Association: www.wsda.org
• Washington Dental Service Foundation: www.kidsoralhealth.org

Depression

• National Alliance on Mental Illness – Washington: www.nami.org/MSTemplate.cfm?Site=NAMI_Washington

Diabetes

• American Diabetes Association: www.diabetes.org
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Northwest Chapter: www.jdrfnorthwest.org
• National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse: www.diabetes.niddk.nih.gov

Diet and Fitness:

• Washington State Department of Health: Physical Activity & Nutrition information page
• Partners in Action: Nutrition and Physical Activity in Washington
• Washington Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity
• Public Health-Seattle & King County site for physical activity
• King County Overweight Prevention Initiative

Disabilities

• Aging & Disabilities Services – Seattle/King County: www.agingkingcounty.org
• ARC of Washington State (Advocates for the Rights of Citizens with Developmental Disabilities): www.arcwa.org
• Center for Children with Special Needs (Children’s Hospital): www.cshcn.org
• Foot Loose Sailing Association (sailing program for those with disabilities): www.footloosesailing.org
• Learning Disabilities Association of Washington: www.ldawa.org
• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities: www.nichcy.org
• Northwest ‘s Child (serving disabled teens and adults): www.northwestchild.org
• PROVAIL: Life Opportunities for People with Disabilities: www.provail.org
• Seattle Public Schools Special Education: www.seattleschools.org/area/speced
• Special Olympics – Washington: www.sowa.org
• Washington Access Fund: www.washingtonaccessfund.org
• Washington Assistive Technology Act Program: www.watap.org
• Washington Association on Postsecondary Education and Disability: www.wanp.org

Drug and Substance Abuse

• Alcohol Anonymous (AA)/Seattle: www.seattleaa.org
• MetroKC Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention program: www.metrokc.gov/health/atodp
• MetroKC Mental Health & Substance Abuse Links: www.metrokc.gov/dchs/mhd/mhlinks.htm
• Northeast Seattle Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking: www.preventionworksinseattle.org
• Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator: http://FindTreatment.samhsa.gov/

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Emergency Medicine

• American College of Emergency Medicine – Washington Chapter: www.acep.org
• Red Cross – Seattle: www.seattleredcross.org

End-of-Life Care

• Washington State Living Will Registry: www.doh.wa.gov/livingwill
• AHRQ: Advance Care Planning: Preferences for Care at the End of Life
• American Bar Association’s Commission on Law & Aging: Consumer’s Tool Kit for Health Care Advance Planning
• Aging with Dignity: Five Wishes
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization: Caring Connections
• AARP: Advance Directives – Planning for the Future
• AARP: Talking about your final wishes
• National Long-term Care Ombudsman Resource Center: Helpful Contacts
• Washington State Hospice and Palliative Care Organization: www.wshpco.org

Epilepsy

• Epilepsy Foundation Northwest: www.epilepsyfoundation.org/local/northwest

Ethics

• Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics: www.bioethics.seattlechildrens.org

F

Family Medicine

• American Family Physicians: www.wafp.net

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

• National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: www.nofas.org

Fitness

• Evergreen State Volkssport Association: www.ava.org/clubs/esva
• Foot Loose Sailing Association (sailing program for those with disabilities): www.footloosesailing.org
• King County Overweight Prevention Initiative
• King County Walking Maps
• Northwest Striders Volkssports: www.ava.org/clubs/northweststriders
• Partners in Action: Nutrition and Physical Activity in Washington
• Public Health-Seattle & King County site for physical activity
• Washington Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity
• Washington Health Foundation: www.whf.org
• Washington State Department of Health: Physical Activity & Nutrition information page

G

Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Health

• MetroKC: Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Health webpage: www.metrokc.gov/health/glbt

• Washington Newborn Screening program: www.doh.wa.gov/EHSPHL/PHL/Newborn

Global/International Health

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: www.gatesfoundation.org
• Global Washington provides a directory of non-profit organizations, companies and academic organizations in Washington involved in global health and development: www.globalwa.org
• PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health): www.path.org
• Seattle Biomedical Research Institue: www.sbri.org

H

Hazardous Waste

• King County Hazardous Waste Management Program: www.govlink.org/hazwaste/

Health Policy

• Code Blue Now!: www.codebluenow.org
• Community Health Network of Washington: www.chnwa.org
• Healthy Washington Coalition: www.healthywacoalition.org
• Washington Health Foundation: www.whf.org
• Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility: www.wpsr.org
• Washington Policy Center: www.washingtonpolicy.org
• Washington Research Council: www.researchcouncil.org
• Washington Rural Health Association: www.wrha.com
• Washington State Hospital Association: www.wsha.org
• Washington State Biomedical Association: www.bmet.org
• Washington State Dental Association: www.wsda.org
• Washington State Medical Association: www.wsma.org
• Washington State Nurses Association: www.wsna.org
• Washington State Pharmacy Association: www.wsparx.org
• Washington State Psychiatry Association: www.wapsychiatry.org
• Washington State Psychology Association: www.wapsych.org
• Washington State Public Health Association: www.wspha.org

Health Services

• Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Washington: www.withinreachwa.org
• Washington state and local health department listings: www.doh.wa.gov/LHJMap/LHJMap.htm

Hearing, hearing loss and deafness

• Hearing Loss Association of Washington: www.hearingloss-wa.org
• Hearing, Speech & Deafness Center: www.hsdc.org
• UW Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center: www.depts.washington.edu/hearing
• Washington Speech and Hearing Association: www.wslha.org
• Washington State Office of the Deaf and Hard of  Hearing: www1.dshs.wa.gov/hrsa/odhh/depts.washington.edu/hearing
• National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders: Hearing, Ear Infections and Deafness.

Heart

• American Heart Association – Washington Chapter: www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200279&division=PMA023

HIV/AIDS

• See AIDS/HIV above under “A”.

Hepatitis

• Hepatitis Education Project: www.hepeducation.org
• Washington State Asian Pacific Islander Hepatitis B Taskforce: www.apihepbwa.org

Hospitals

• Go to our Home page and click on the Hospitals tab at the top for information about Seattle area hospitals.
• HealthGrades, a health-care quality rating company.
• Hospital Compare – a website maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that shows how well hospitals care for patients with certain medical conditions: www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov
• Leadfrog Group, a health-care quality initiative.

I

Immunizations

• Immunization Action Coalition of Washington: www.immunizewa.org
• Washington State Department of Health Immunization Program: www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/immunize

Insurance

• Children’s Health Program (for non-citizens, visitors, undocumented): http://fortress.wa.gov/dshs/maa/chip
• COBRA: Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
  • Department of Labor: Info on COBRA for Employers and Employees
  • COBRA Internal Revenue Service: COBRA – Questions and Answers for Employer
• Community Health Plan: www.chpw.org
• TRICARE (military insurance, families, retired, etc.): www.tricare.osd.mil
• Washington’s Apple Health for Kids (insurance assistance): http://fortress.wa.gov/dshs/maa/applehealth/
• Washington Basic Health (insurance assistance): www.basichealth.hca.wa.gov/understanding.shtml
• Washington Health Plan: www.washingtonhealth.hca.wa.gov
• Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner: www.insurance.wa.gov
• Medicare: www.mymedicare.gov

J

K

Kidney Disease

• National Kidney Foundation: www.kidney.org
• Northwest Kidney Centers: http://www.nwkidney.org/www.nwkidney.org/

L

Laboratory Tests

• Lab Tests Online (explains laboratory tests to patients): www.labtestsonline.org

Leukemia

• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society – Washington and Alaska Chapter: www.leukemia-lymphoma.org

Liver

• Hepatitis Education Project: www.hepeducation.org
• Washington State Asian Pacific Islander Hepatitis B Taskforce: www.apihepbwa.org

Lou Gehrig’s Disease: also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS

• ALS Association Evergreen Chapter: www.alsa-ec.org

Lung

• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation – Washington Chapter: www.cff.org/Chapters/washington
• American Lung Association: www.lungusa.org
• Washington air quality information: www.fortress.wa.gov/ecy/enviwa

Lupus

• Lupus Foundation of America – Pacific Northwest Chapter: www.lupuspnw.org

Lymphoma

• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society – Washington and Alaska Chapter: www.leukemia-lymphoma.org

M

• Medicare: www.mymedicare.gov

Mental Illness

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Children’s Hospital): www.cshcn.org/resources/mentalhealthtoolkit.cfm
• King County Mental Health, Chemical Abuse and Dependency Services Division: www.metrokc.gov/dchs/mhd/welcome.htm
• NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) – Washington: www.nami.org/MSTemplate.cfm?Site=NAMI_Washington

Multiple Sclerosis

• Multiple Sclerosis Association of King County will merge with the Greater Washington Chapter of the National MS Society by the end of 2008: www.mswashington.org

N

Native American Health

• Seattle Indian Health Board: www.sihb.org

Naturopathic Medicine

• Washington Association of Naturopathic Medicine: www.wanp.org

O

Organ Donation

• LifeCenter Northwest: www.lcnw.org

P

Pacific Islander Health

• Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations: www.aapcho.org
• ‘Imi Hale ‘ Native Hawaiian Cancer Network: www.imihale.org
• Washington State Asian Pacific Islander Hepatitis B Taskforce: www.apihepbwa.org

Parkinson’s Disease

• American Parkinson’s Disease Association of Washington: www.parkinsons.org
  
• Northwest Parkinson’s Foundation: www.nwpf.org

Q

R

Rural health

• Washington State Office of Community and Rural Health: www.doh.wa.gov/hsqa/ocrh/

S

Safety

• Evergreen Safety Council: www.esc.org
• Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Seattle: www.injuryfree.org
• Washington State Department of Health Children’s Health & Safety: www.doh.wa.gov/children/
• Washington State Department of Social and Health Services: Aging & Disability Services Administration.

Seniors

• Senior Services (referral to adult daycare and other services): www.seniorservices.org
• King and Pierce County’s Healthy Aging Partnership: www.4elders.org
• National Asian Pacific Center on Aging: www.napca.org

SIDS: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

• SIDS Foundation of Washington: www.nisa-sids.org

Student Health

• University of Washington health information for students

Substance Abuse

• Alcohol Anonymous (AA)/Seattle: www.seattleaa.org
• MetroKC Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention program: www.metrokc.gov/health/atodp
• MetroKC Mental Health & Substance Abuse Links: www.metrokc.gov/dchs/mhd/mhlinks.htm
• Northeast Seattle Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking: www.preventionworksinseattle.org
• Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator: http://FindTreatment.samhsa.gov/

Surgery

• American College of Surgery – Washington : www.facs.org

T

Teens and Tweens:

• Northeast Seattle Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking: www.preventionworksinseattle.org

Tuberculosis (TB)

• Seattle & King County Public Health TB Information webpage: www.metrokc.gov/Health/tb/

Transplantation

• LifeCenter Northwest: www.lcnw.org

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V

Vaccines

• Immunization Action Coalition of Washington: www.immunizewa.org

Vision

• National Federation of the Blind: www.nfbw.org
• Washington Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons: www.eyeacademy.org

W

West Nile Virus

• Seattle & King County Public Health West Nile Virus Information website: www.metrokc.gov/health/westnilewww.metrokc.gov/health/westnile
• Washington State Department of Health West Nile Virus Information: www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/ts/Zoo/WNV/WNV.html