The Arc’s Center for Future Planning aims to support and encourage adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and their families to plan for the future.

The Center provides reliable information and assistance to individuals with I/DD, their family members and friends, professionals who support them and other members of the community on areas such as person-centered planning, decision-making, housing options and financial planning.

The Community Online Resource Directory allows you to search for agencies and programs by county, category, agency or by keywords for the following counties: Coles, Clark, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham, Jasper, Moultrie and Shelby.

Find Food IL is a community food map that provides a list of places offering free food or meals in your community. You can find food pantries, stores and markets that accept SNAP/LINK or WIC coupons, and more resources that are close to you.

PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center provides free digital resources that you can use to continue engaging your child or student in social and emotional learning. Information includes infographics showing the relationship between COVID-19, distance learning and the potential for cyberbullying.

Everyone’s ability to make decisions changes across a lifetime including people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

The Arc’s Center for Future Planning created this handout to help individuals with IDD and their families learn how to make, review and adjust a decision-making plan throughout a person’s life to maximize their ability to make their own decisions.

There are many myths about guardianship that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families should understand.

The Arc’s Center for Future Planning has created this handout to help.

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have the same right to make decisions about their lives as people without disabilities. It is important to recognize and respect that right.

This handout from The Arc’s Center for Future Planning provides information about available supports to help people with IDD to make decisions.

HealthyChildren.org, the parenting website of the American Academy of Pediatrics, provides articles and information for parents and caretakers of children with a cleft lip, cleft palate or craniofacial disorder.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) developed this flyer to provide Housing Choice Voucher, Public Housing, and Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation participants with important information and resources about paying rent during the national emergency concerning the coronavirus pandemic.

HUD also provides Resources for Renters which includes:

• Eviction prevention resources
• HUD-certified housing counselors
• Fair housing resources and discrimination help
• Emergency rental assistance

UIC The Resource Center for Autism and Developmental Delays (RCADD) provides support for those who care for, teach and serve children with an autism spectrum disorder or other developmental delays. RCADD serves families currently enrolled in an Early Head Start or Head Start program as well as others throughout the Chicagoland area.

Anyone can also visit RCADD’s website for:

• Free autism trainings/webinars in English and Spanish
• Printable visuals
• Activity ideas