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Services for the disabled are those government or
other institutional services specifically
provided to
enable people who are disabled to participate on equal grounds in society.
Some such services are mandated or required by law, some are assisted by
technologies that have made it easier to provide the service, and others
are commercially available not only to disabled people, but to everyone
who might make use of them.
Foster care is a system by which a
certified, stand-in "parent(s)" cares for minor children or young people
who have been removed from their biological parents or other custodial
adults by state authority. Responsibility for the young person is assumed
by the relevant governmental authority and a placement with another family
found.
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Alcohol Information & treatment centers
Biofeedback Therapy and Training
Crisis
Intervention Abuse, Rape, Sexual Assault,
Child Abuse, Suicide Prevention
Drug abuse & addiction Information & treatment centers
Disabled
/ Handicapped Services
Eating Disorders Info & Treatment Centers
Foster care, services
Handicapped Services / orgs
Hypnotists
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Marriage & Family Counselors
Mental Retardation & Dev.
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Psychiatrists
Nursing Homes
Senior Guide
Shelters
Social
Services
Social Workers
Suicide Prevention
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Mental retardation is a
term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and
language skills ("milestones") during childhood, and a significantly
below-normal global intellectual capacity as an adult. One common
criterion for diagnosis of mental retardation is a tested intelligence
quotient (IQ) of 70 or below and deficits in adaptive functioning.
Suicide prevention is an umbrella term for the
collective efforts of mental health practitioners and related
professionals to reduce the incidence of suicide through proactive
preventative measures.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an informal
society for recovering alcoholics. Members meet in local groups that
vary in size from a handful to many hundreds of individuals. In 2001
there were 100,000 groups worldwide, making a global community of more
than two million members.
The stated primary purpose of the society is "to stay sober and help
other alcoholics to achieve sobriety." AA teaches that an alcoholic,
in order to recover, should abstain completely from alcohol on a daily
basis
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