Parenting and Family Services
Action For Healthy Kids, Wyoming Chapter
Advocacy group focusing its efforts to ensure healthful foods and beverages are available throughout school campuses and to encourage schools to provide daily, quality physical education.
ARC of Laramie County
The ARC of Laramie County is committed to securing the opportunity for persons with developmental disabilities the right to choose and realize their goals and reducing the incidence and limiting the consequence of developmental disabilities through educat
Ascension Lutheran Church
Support for parents and siblings of children who have a developmental disability. Respite care is provided at no charge during the meetings.
Casey Family Programs
Foster care program for children ages 6-15 years.
Catholic Social Services/Charities of Wyoming
Services for pregnant females or females seeking to adopt.
Cheyenne Bethany Christian Services
Services for pregnant women seeking abortion alternative.
Cheyenne Respite Programs
Provides services for children of all ages, family of children who have a developmental disability. Programs include: Family Nights Out; Wings for Independence Dances; Summer Recreation Program; and In-Home Care.
City/County Health Department
Provides general services families in need.
Compassionate Friends - Laramie County
A non-denominational, mutual assistance support group offering friendship and understanding to bereaved parents and siblings. Features guest speakers and maintains a library of books and videos. - Only listed in Connect Wyoming.
Department of Family Services
Provides economic assistance services in the form of SNAP (food stamps), Medicaid, LIEAP (home heating help) and more at local field offices. Manages juvenile probation for the state, licensing all facilities housing and treating youth. DFS also is the state's child care licensing authority. The agency is the state's primary resource for child and adult protection matters. The agency also works to enforce existing child support orders or work with families to establish paternity, child and medical support orders.
FE Warren Air Force Base
They offer many programs to support single and married active duty military, guard, reserve, DoD civilian employees, retirees, and all family members.
Frontier Lions Club
Service club which sponsors the blind camp in Casper, provides needy children with glasses, and awards scholarships.
Governor’s Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities
Wyoming Governor's Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities seeks and advocates for activities which promote self sufficiency, community involvement and educational opportunities for people with disabilities, their families, and the Wyoming communit
Griefcare
Offer workplace consulting, individual support, and grief education to help individuals and families understand and cope with grief.
Help Me Grow-Safe Kids
A phone call to this program will reach a voice mail menu system which provides information concerning children.
La Leche League
Provides advice on breast-feeding techniques, prenatal classes, information on childbirth, child rearing, and nutrition. Call for information on breast feeding, telephone assistance available, not necessary to attend.
Laramie County School District #1
Provides information, emotional support, and training which empowers families and professionals to work together to help a child with special needs meet his/her potential.
LDS Family Services
Adoption Services.
Life Choice Pregnancy Care Center
Free pregnancy testing; options counseling; referral for free ultrasound; emergency diapers & formula; maternity & baby clothes & supplies; referrals to MDs and other services; info on STIs; referral for free STI testing; education on abortion risk; post-
Magic City Enterprises, Inc.
Provides the following services to adults living with handicaps and developmental disabilities: case management, residential & day habilitation, employment services, nursing services, specialized services, children services, recycling.
Norwood & Associates, PC Speech, Language and Rehab Clinic
Adult Waiver Services: speech therapy. Also, cognitive, language & speech services.
Parents Helping Parents of Wyoming
Helps families better understand education issues as they relate to their child's disability, and to provide support and encouragement to parents as they face their child's journey through life.
Prevent Child Abuse Wyoming
PCA Wyoming provides primary prevention services on child abuse including public education, information on and referral for reporting and interventions for child abuse and neglect statewide. The Wyoming Circle of Parents provides parent mutual self help
Safe Harbor - A Children’s Justice Center
Provides shelter for all in need of refuge. Safe Harbor is a forensic interviewing center dedicated to an interagency multidisciplinary approach to coordinating child abuse interviews and investigations to reduce the trauma of the investigation to child
Senior Activity Center
Circle of Parents for Grandparents groups support grandparents raising their children's children. These groups can be a natural support due to the history, tradition, wisdom and knowledge that come with grandparents.
Tri County Medical Center
Provides pelvic exams, pap smears, clinical breast exams, blood tests, urine screenings, sexually transmitted infection screening and treatment, AIDS counseling and testing, vaginitis screening and treatment, pregnancy testing and counseling, and contrace
UPLIFT Wyoming
UPLIFT works to encourage success and stability for children and youth with or at risk of emotional, behavioral, or learning disorders at home, school, and in the community through a variety of programs and services.
USDA Food & Nutrition Service/Francis E. Warren AFB
Supplementatl food and nutrition education for promotion of good health for pregnant or nursing women, infants, and children to age five. Nutrition counseling and referrals for health care when indicated.
USDA Food & Nutrition Service/Laramie County Health Dept
Supplementatl food and nutrition education for promotion of good health for pregnant or nursing women, infants, and children to age five. Nutrition counseling and referrals for health care when indicated.
WIND Family Support Network - Cheyenne Parent Coordinator
A coordinated network of parents who have children with special needs. These parents represent a wide variety of disabilities or special health needs. The Network includes an advisory board, director, and an executive assistant.
WY National Guard
The Family Readiness Program is committed to Guard families during peace and in times of war, providing a variety of resources for families, including a pre-deployment checklist and access to Family Assistance Centers.
Wyoming Children’s Society Adoptions
Adoption services for those with an unwanted pregnancy.
Wyoming Family Literacy – Cheyenne
The mission of Wyoming Family Literacy is to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by improving the educational opportunities of low-income families through the integration of the following four components into a unified family literacy program for parents and children, primarily from birth through age 7.We are successful in doing so by offering classes for Adult Basic Education/GED, English Learners, Parenting Enrichment/Transition, Parent and Child activities together and Early Childhood Education.
Wyoming Family Support Network
Advocates in their communities anyone who has a family member with a disability, special needs or self-advocates. Provides emotional support, technical support, and meets with agency providers.
Wyoming Kinship Advocacy Group Meeting Senior Activity Center
Monthly informational meetings on the third Thursday of the month with topics concerning the issues that face grandparents raising grandchildren or kinship care issues.
WyoSTEP, Inc.
Non-profit agency that provides services to children and adults with developmental disabilities and acquired brain injuries.
Youth Alternatives
Youth Alternatives provides family counseling, juvenile probation, court services, tutoring and mentoring. Also, various groups including: Parenting, Anger Management, Divorce, Girls Group, Teen Groups, GED.
