Stone Soup Group

Families statewide will be empowered to make informed decisions that will ensure every child who experiences special needs receives long-term, quality, coordinated care, and family support.

Stone Soup Group is a nonprofit organization created 1992 by parents of children with disabilities, healthcare providers and social workers who shared a common vision for interconnected, collaborative, family-driven assistance for Alaskan families of children with special needs.

This spirit of collaboration and input of varied experience and knowledge is the philosophy behind the work we do at Stone Soup Group.

Stone Soup Group works with families of children with special needs from birth up to age 26. Our services are available statewide to help families with medical, disability, mental health, and special education issues. Our programs focus on a specific need based on each family’s unique story and most are at no cost to families.

There is no way to describe what it feels like to find out your child will grow up with a disability that will affect them the rest of their life. You are thrown into a world of specialists, therapists, bureaucracy, insurance and evaluations. You need to learn a whole new language of disability acronyms and have to miss work for medical appointments and to find specialized childcare. This is only the beginning...

Later, when your child is old enough to enter school you face a whole new set of challenges, including setting up an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), classroom modifications, after school activities and bullying prevention strategies. The school doesn’t seem to be listening. You know you and your child have rights but what are they? How do you advocate for your child outside of home?

Finally, you’ve made it through school, but now your child is graduating and needs assistance transitioning into more independent living. New guardianship and SSI papers need to be filled out, vocational rehab needs to be set up and you are unsure if you and your child are ready for this next step.

These are scenarios we see every day at Stone Soup Group. Navigating the systems and resources is an overwhelming and complicated process. Families just want to find the best options for their children. YOUR DONATIONS THROUGH PICK.CLICK.GIVE. SUPPORT FAMILIES THROUGHOUT ALASKA who are dealing with these situations.

Stone Soup Group Parent Navigators work closely with families throughout Alaska by providing resources, information, and training that help parents understand the numerous systems required to get their children assistance when they need it most. In addition they offer emotional support to families who feel overwhelmed or scared. The majority of staff at Stone Soup Group are parents or family members of a child with special needs so they know the journey and can help others as they navigate through the process. Here at Stone Soup Group
We are family!