Children
This is a supplemental nutrition program that provides nutrition services and healthy foods to eligible pregnant, breastfeeding, non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to their 5th birthday.
What is the Women, Infant & Child program (WIC)?
This federally funded, state-administered program provides temporary cash assistance and support (like job training, childcare, food, housing help) to low-income families with children.
What is Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)?
This a legal process where a court appoints a guardian to make personal, medical, and/or financial decisions for an adult deemed incapacitated and unable to care for themselves and can be applied for as early as 17 1/2.
What is guardianship?
This is a joint federal and state program that helps cover medical costs for people with disabilities under the ABD (aged, blind and disabled) program. Adults with disabilities can qualify based on their own income.
What is Medicaid?
This state program helps people with physical, intellectual, mental health, and sensory disabilities find jobs and gain more independence.
What is Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)?
This landmark law levels the playing field, ensuring adults with disabilities aren't excluded from everyday life and have the supports needed to be employed with reasonable accommodations, be independent and contribute to their communities.
What is the American with Disabilities ACT (ADA)?
A network of 22 pediatric hospitals in the U.S., Canada and Mexico that provide pediatric surgery care to children with orthopedic conditions, burns, and spinal cord injuries at no charge and eligibility is not based on income.
What is Shriner's Hospitals?
This confidential 24/7 call center connects people with locally available help. In 2024, 211 fielded 16.8 million requests for help in the US. It connects you with vital community resources like housing, food, healthcare, and more.
What is 211?
Regular rate is $2.50 for a one-way ride. Discounted rate is available for those with disabilities, youth, seniors and people with qualifying income.
What is the UTA bus fare?
This program runs in every charter school and school district and starts transition planning at age 14 by developing a transition plan and inviting agencies to the IEP with parents permission.
What is Special Education?
This agency is the primary resource for reporting abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults.
What is Adult Protective Services (APS)?
This is a tax-advantaged savings account for individuals with disabilities, allowing them to save money for disability-related expenses without jeopardizing eligibility for government benefits like SSI or Medicaid.
What is an ABLE Account?
This organization provides specialized support through therapies (speech, physical, occupational), home visits, and family training for families with children under the age of three who have developmental delays and disabilities.
What is Early Intervention or DDI Vantage (Tooele)?
This organization provides year-round sports training and competition for children (at least 8) and adults with intellectual disabilities.
What is the Special Olympics?
This is an organization providing Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) for students with disabilities (ages 14-22) through summer camps, helping them with career exploration, college readiness, and life skills, often working with Voc Rehab and the local school district.
What is Bloom Consulting, *PCG or LSI?
This organization advances and enforces the legal rights, choices, and opportunities of Utahns with disabilities.
What is the Disability Law Center or Protection and Advocacy agency?
This is a non-profit organization that is part of a nationwide network of community based, non-residential organizations that empower people with disabilities to live independently and participate fully in their communities.
What is the Utah Independent Living Center (UILC)?
A department within the Utah Department of Health and Human Services that provides support and services to individuals with disabilities to help them live self-determined lives. It offers a variety of services such as community living, day services, and supported employment.
What is the Division of Services for People with Disabilities (DSPD)?
This agency promotes child safety and well-being by working with communities to strengthen families, keeping children in their homes whenever possible, and providing stable, supportive placements when needed.
What is Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS)?
Tooele County has a variety of businesses that offer this scientifically proven therapy to children of all ages with autism.
What is Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)?
This program helps people who are currently receiving Social Security disability benefits (SSI/SSDI) and would like information on how work may affect their Social Security and other benefits (Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, housing, etc).
What is Utah Work Incentive Planning Services (UWIPS)?
This organization helps youth age 16-24 gain experience and skills needed to earn a high school diploma, start a career, go on to college, or join the military. They also provide reasonable accommodations based on the Americans with Disabilities Act.
What is Job Corps?
This federal program of last resort provides monthly payments to adults and children with limited income and resources who are aged 65+, blind, or disabled. Adults with disabilities who live with their family can qualify based on their own income and not the income of the combined family.
What is Supplemental Security Income (SSI)?
A statewide resource who will design, build and fabricate custom devices needed to extend their range of independent activity for employment or every day living.
What is Utah Center for Assitive Technology (UCAT)?
Working Utah families who do not have other health insurance may qualify for this state health insurance plan for children.
What is Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)?
This is an Facebook support group that holds in person and virtual meetings for families who have children on the DSPD waitlist or are in DSPD services.
What is the Tooele County Family to Family Network?
This program provides food benefits to low-income families to supplement their grocery budget so they can afford the nutritious food essential to health and well-being.
What is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or food stamps?
This non-profit statewide organization has an amazing transition project called Transition University. They help youth and families with self-advocacy, disability rights, education, employment, daily life skills, and future planning by caring individuals who are also parents themselves.
What is Utah Parent Center (UPC)?
This office helps adults with disabilities by enforcing laws like the ADA and Section 504, investigating disability discrimination in areas like healthcare, education, and public services.
What is the Office of Civil Rights (OCR)?
This program is designed to support individuals 18+ with disabilities within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, providing socialization and activity opportunities tailored to their needs. Anyone is welcome, religious lesson is at 6 pm and activity is at 7 pm for those who don't want to attend the lesson.
What is Tooele Valley Special Needs Activity Program (SNAP)?