Better lives for kids with special needs worldwide

Our mission with Advocacy4All is to help families become stronger advocates for their children with special needs. We are pleased to report that we have continued to accomplish our goals by expanding upon our library donation program and having given away over 3000 downloads of The Special Needs Parent Handbook in both...

Volunteers have continued to deliver copies of The Special Needs Parent Handbook through our library donation program. Excerpts from the book have been published in NY Metro Parents Magazine: http://www.nymetroparents.com/article/Family-Outings-and-Your-Child-with-Special-NeedsGet-Out-ThereTogether...

We are excited to report that with the help of volunteers, The Special Needs Parent Handbook is now available in over 300 US libraries and will soon be in over 100 more including locations in Montreal, Canada.  We have been donating books to libraries to expand availability of the book to families unable to afford...

We are very excited to announce that The Special Needs Parent Handbook - Special Edition - is now available for electronic lending as an e-book to any library around the world that uses OverDrive. There are English and Spanish editions and libraries that are OverDrive partners simply have to elect to add them to their...

The Special Needs Parent Handbook Library Donation Program The Special Needs Parent Handbook - Special Edition - has shipped from the printer and volunteers will begin distributing copies to local libraries over the next month.  This will enable families unable to afford a copy to gain access to the book to help them...

We are very excited that my book, The Special Needs Parent Handbook, has received a wonderful review from Library Journal, one of the leading sources of book reviews for libraries around the US.From LibraryJournal.com By Julianne J. Smith Feb 17, 2011Singer, Jonathan. The Special Needs Parent Handbook: Critical Strategies...

Thank you again for your support and Happy New Year!We are pleased to announce that United Cerebral Palsy of NYC has purchased 1500 copies of The Special Needs Parent Handbook - Special Edition - to distribute to families unable to afford one.Here is what Ed Matthews, their Executive Director, had to say about the...

We are excited to announce that the parents of a child with autism, who want to help all parents to become stronger advocates for their children with special needs, have donated $5000 to kick off The Special Needs Ambassador Program. After hearing about the $5000, another very generous donor agreed to match their donation...

In continuing to fulfill our mission of giving away 1000+ free copies of The Special Needs Parent Handbook - Special Edition, to families unable to afford one, we were put in touch with an organization in China that will translate the book into Chinese and distribute free ebooks and/or a locally printed version.We are also...

We've added two new free resources to DriveForRebecca.org for parents and caregivers that have been downloaded over 1000 times in the past few weeks. Your Child Handbook A free organizer to help parents of children with special needs put together a binder containing everything there is to know about their child,...

Here are our latest updates on our Advocacy For All initiative through The Drive For Rebecca. 1) We continue to give away free electronic copies of The Special Needs Parent Handbook to families unable to afford them through Autism Cares. 2) We are in discussion with a number of organizations about establishing free...

As part of our mission, we continue to distribute free copies of The Special Needs Parent Handbook to families that are unable to afford them and are reaching out to several national charities about helping us to expand our reach. In the meantime, The Academy of Special Needs Planners, a national organization...

Thank you again for your generous support of Advocacy for All, a project of The Drive For Rebecca. As part of our mission to help parents become stronger advocates for their children with special needs, we have begun giving away free copies of The Special Needs Parent Handbook to families unable to afford one. Autism...

Thank you for your generous support. With your help, we raised over $5000 from 65 people. We have already added links to state advocacy organizations on our Resource page on www.DriveForRebecca.org/resources.htm and are in discussions with a national advocacy organization about providing free advocacy services to...

We are very excited that we are halfway there (a check for $125 was mailed and has not been entered into the system). Because of the funds raised to date, we will be mailing another $1000 to organizations that provide advocacy services and will provide a minimum of 400 free copies of the Special Needs Parent Handbook to...

Thanks for your support. Despite the long holiday weekend you helped raise over $1200 in the first week - and we still have three weeks to go. That means 240 free copies of the handbook to families that can't afford one and it pays for 48 hours of advocacy services via hotlines from Autism New Jersey and Autism...