Specialized Information Resources

Provides on-line community support for Utahns who have a food allergy or eosinophilic disorder.
Includes information about food allergies, anaphylaxis, organization meetings, initiatives, and news.

Provides education and support services to people affected by lupus. We collaborate with experts to provide clear, easy-to-use information, programs and resources to help you navigate every step of your journey with lupus. An online community, an expert series, a resource database, a nurse and certified health educator call line.

Chapter Finder: Find support and connection in your community.

Provides exceptional services, education, outreach, and advocacy so that people living with autism and other disabilities can live, learn, work and play in our communities.

Information and Referral
Library Services

Get essential information on costs for thousands of procedures and learn insurance basics. A national independent, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to bring transparency to healthcare costs and health insurance information through comprehensive data products and consumer resources. Search for medical and dental costs.

Internet-based service

MaleSurvivor fosters a healing community where tens of thousands of men from more than 200 countries come together to find support, information and — most importantly — hope. Services include online forum, support groups, find a therapist, and resources for family members and loved ones of victims.

Support Groups: Find support groups, events, and reading recommendations.

Find a Therapist: Search clinics and clinicians by name or location.

For parents: Resources for parents of sexual abuse survivors.

• Specialized Information and Referral

• Medical Care Expense Assistance
• Specialized Information and Referral

Online resources

• Specialized Information and Referral
• Patient/Family Housing

web-based services locator

Information on HIV/AIDS conferences, news and events, public policy, resources, technical assistance, treatment information and hotlines.

AKA National Minority AIDS Council

A community for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Deaf-Blind and their families: Promoting connections, awareness and equity, while inspiring greatness.

• Assistive Technology Training
• American Sign Language Instruction
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Telecommunication Relay Services
• Health/Disability Related Social Clubs
• Specialized Information and Referral
• Special Education
• Sign Language Interpretation
• Health/Disabilities Related Volunteer Opportunities
• Hearing Aids
• Health/Disability Related Support Groups

A locator tool allows cancer patients and oncology professionals to search for fertility preservation services in their area, and to submit referrals or request appointments through a secure online system.

• Court Community Service Sites
• Crime Victim Support
• Specialized Information and Referral
• Sexual Assault Prevention
• Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
• Sexual Assault Counseling
• Sexual Assault Hotlines

Also offers services through the Salt Lake Area Family Justice Center located at 344 East 300 South, Salt Lake City.

• Specialized Information and Referral

Provides education and support to those struggling with infertility.

• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
• Infertility Support Groups
• Specialized Information and Referral

Provides dynamic, highly specialized community, summer and out-of-school-time programming with academic and prevention focus at 14 neighborhood centers throughout the city of South Salt Lake.

COVID-19 UPDATE: Programs currently suspended at this time, except summer virtual programs.

• Computer and Related Technology Classes
• Specialized Information and Referral
• Tutoring Volunteer Opportunities
• Youth Enrichment Programs
• Summer School Programs

Provides one-on-one mentoring, monthly support meetings, retreats, service opportunities, and family activities all aimed at helping breast cancer survivors and their families heal.

• Disease/Disability Information
• Health/Disability Related Support Groups
• Specialized Information and Referral
• Retreat Centers

• Disease/Disability Information
• Specialized Information and Referral

Supporting treatment and research for familial dysautonomia. FD is a hereditary disease of the sensory and autonomic nervous systems.

Information and Referral
Library Services

• General Health Insurance Information/Counseling

Provides information and treatment options for eating disorders.

Confidential Helpline Monday-Thursday (800-931-2237) from 9am to 9pm ET and Friday from 9am to 5pm ET.

24/7 crisis support: text 'NEDA' to 741741

• Disease/Disability Information
• Health Related Advocacy Groups
• Specialized Information and Referral

Internet resources, use search to find local resources.

Supporting International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR)

• Specialized Information and Referral
• Disease/Disability Information
• Internet Information Resources
• Research Funds
• Health/Disability Related Support Groups

Govbenefits.com is a free confidential prescreening tool for state and federal government programs. Search for benefits you may be able to receive.

Internet resource, State and Federal resources
Partners with USA.gov

• Public Awareness/Education
• Medical Equipment/Supplies
• Advocacy
• Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
• Centers for Independent Living
• Independent Living Skills Instruction
• Disability Rights Groups
• Specialized Information and Referral
• Event Coordination Volunteer Opportunities

Also a Tooele Satellite Office

• Specialized Information and Referral
• Disaster Relief/Recovery Organizations

Delivering comprehensive support resources, and driving research to accelerate the discovery of DM therapies. A digital library of educational videos. Find a doctor nationwide locator. Find a support group, including a virtual group. Anesthesia guidelines. Founded by families with DM seeking to help one another.

AKA Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation

Non-medical information on blindness, and referrals to various sources of help, state services for the blind, and state libraries for the blind.

Resources: Offers a variety of resources, including Job Connection, Blind/Low Vision resources, peer support, and more

Scholarships: Scholarships for freshman, undergraduate, and graduate students. To be eligible for a scholarship, applicants need to be legally blind, maintain a 3.0 GPA to be eligible for most scholarships, be a full-time student (as well as students who work 32 or more hours per week and attend college part time), and be involved in their school/local community.

Programs and Services: Audio Description Project, Advocacy and Governmental Affairs, Radio, and more.

• Specialized Information and Referral

GARD provides the public with access to current, reliable, and easy-to-understand information about rare or genetic disease. In addition to website-based information you may contact a GARD Information Specialist. Also, GARD develops guides with tips on general topics, important resources, and answers to questions that patients, their families, and friends often ask us.

GARD is a program of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) and is funded by two parts of the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NCATS and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).

Satellite program of the Division of Services to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DSDHH). Provides education, advocacy and accessible support services which enhance the quality of life for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

• Hearing Screening
• Assistive Technology Training
• Case/Care Management
• General Counseling Services
• Disability Related Libraries
• Health/Disability Related Support Groups
• Health/Disability Related Social Clubs
• Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
• Specialized Information and Referral

You can apply for health insurance, tax credits, and Medicaid through the Marketplace via HealthCare.gov, myCase, or at your local DWS employment center.

If you have already applied for or are receiving medical assistance, you can sign up or log in to myCase to get information, recertify and manage your benefits.
"case" refers to case number

If you'd like to obtain free assistance applying for Medicaid/CHIP visit www.takecareutah.org or call 211.

internet-based, statewide

• Specialized Information and Referral
• Clinical Trials
• Disease/Disability Information

Seeks to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects and reducing infant mortality. Campaigns for Healthier Babies, which includes programs of research, community service, education and advocacy.

Information and Referral
Library Services

• Dating Abuse Hotlines
• Specialized Information and Referral

• Certificates/Forms Assistance
• Legal Information Services

M - Th 11 - 5 Services provided by phone.
Text: 801-SHC-1TXT (742-1898)
Internet resources.

Provides a variety of programs focusing on both community well-being and community organizing to help individuals from the immigrant and refugee communities become healthy, self-reliant, and participatory members of society.

• Mobile Health Care
• Community Involvement Programs
• Specialized Information and Referral
• Diabetes Screening
• Cholesterol/Triglycerides Tests
• HIV Testing
• Food Stamps/SNAP Applications
• Disease/Disability Information
• Immigrant Benefits Assistance
• Wellness Programs
• Blood Pressure Screening
• Health/Disabilities Related Volunteer Opportunities
• Comprehensive Immigration/Naturalization Services

Provides information regarding options, counseling, and physical and emotional support to individuals facing unplanned pregnancies.

• Specialized Information and Referral
• Pregnancy Counseling
• Sexuality/Reproductive Health Education
• Baby Clothing
• Pregnancy Testing
• Maternity Clothing
• Fetal Ultrasound
• Postabortion Support Groups

Assists parents, provider, and community partners by providing referrals, collaboration, early childhood education and resources to promote quality child care and information about available financial aid. People needing child care may call, email, walk into the office or do a search on the website.

COVID-19 UPDATE: Office closed and events canceled until further noticed. Emails will be answered Monday through Friday.

• Specialized Information and Referral
• Child Care Provider Referrals
• Child Care Provider Training

Mailing address CC&R: 800 West University Parkway, Orem, UT 84058-6703

Provides temporary Medicaid insurance coverage for low income pregnant women who have no insurance or inadequate prenatal insurance. Other services include helpful information from referrals to financial help to preparing for pregnancy, for parents and their children statewide.

• Prenatal Care
• General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
• Specialized Information and Referral

• Peer to Peer Networking
• School to Adult Life Transition Services
• Specialized Information and Referral
• Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
• Adult Out of Home Respite Care
• Orientation and Mobility Training
• Health/Disability Related Social Clubs
• Advocacy
• Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
• Independent Living Skills Instruction

Also Red Rock - Beaver County Outstation, Red Rock - Iron County Outstation, Red Rock - Sevier County Outstation.

Offers the Big Red Safety Box for families. Also offers downloadable digital safety toolkits:

• Caregiver Toolkit
• First Responder Toolkit
• Teacher Toolkit

Offers a variety of resources for different audiences. These include Where to find swimming lessons; accidental drowning accounts for approximately 90% of lethal wandering outcomes.

Wandering defined: Wandering is the tendency for an individual to try to leave the safety of a responsible person’s care or a safe area, which can result in potential harm or injury. This might include running off from adults at school or in the community, leaving the classroom without permission, or leaving the house when the family is not looking. Wandering dangers include Drowning; Exposure; Dehydration; Hypothermia; Traffic Injuries; Falls; Physical Restraint; Encounters with strangers; Encounters with law enforcement.

The Autism Wandering Awareness Alerts Response and Education (AWAARE) Collaboration is a working group of six national non-profit autism organizations whose mission is to prevent autism-related wandering incidents and deaths.