We offer great benefits with membership at many levels,
but that’s just one reason to join.
Your support of POAC helps assure that everyone who is involved
with a child with autism has access to the training they need
to help that child realize his or her fullest potential. Parents
and teachers can sometimes feel at a loss as to how to teach
a child functional communication skills or how to respond appropriately
to unwanted behavior. POAC’s many training opportunities
help participants develop the skills necessary to really make
a difference in the lives of the children they love and teach. Membership
dollars make programs like POAC’s 5
Part Training Series a source of free training for public
school teachers and parents.
With your help, we have been able to provide free course
work at the university level to future teachers of children
with autism. In most cases, this was the only comprehensive
information on the disability and teaching techniques these
students received.
Your support insures that families of children with autism
will have events, like the POAC Free
Family Picnic, to enjoy year after year. This has
become one of the most highly anticipated events in the special
needs community. It provides some families with the only
safe and enjoyable outing they get all year.
You are helping our communities become safer for our children. POAC’s Autism
Shield project provides specialized training to law enforcement
professionals and emergency services providers in autism awareness
and response. Participants receive the information they need
to successfully resolve contacts with children and adults with
autism. This can potentially be life-saving.
Your support helps keep the flow of information going. Our
web site is visited by thousands of people every month and our
newsletter, The Difference, is published quarterly. Both
of these provide important information needed to run a Verbal
Behavior class and/or home program, as well as a link to everyone
in the autism community.
There is still so much about autism that is not known and
there is so much information available that many people can
feel easily overwhelmed and confused. POAC’s commitment
to “making a difference now” ensures that
the families who are struggling with this disorder today will
have the information and support they need to ease the path
for their children and themselves.
Make a difference. Join POAC. |
