For Families

SEEC recognizes that everyone is a unique individual - with specific goals, interests and needs. Our staff apply person-centered planning to help people with significant disabilities identify and pursue their dreams for a happy life. All services and supports are provided totally in the community, offering a vast array of opportunities to explore new experiences, unveil hidden talents and form long lasting friendships with nondisabled peers.

Witht he closing of our Rockville facility in April of 2009, SEEC became one of a very few agencies nationwide to shift its entire service delivery to be fully community-based. We are committed to the philosophy that people with significant disabiltiies belong in our community and deserve our support to have choice and control over their daily lives.

Community inclusion gives people with developmental disabilities the opportunity to show their abilities, develop new interest and talents, and contribute to our workforce. Their presence in all aspects of our community life changes public perception from "needy" to "able" and promotes the realization of our commonality.

Adult Vocational and Community Living Supports

Our Adult Services include Vocational and Community Living supports to help men and women pursue and achieve their dreams for employment, education, recreation, good health, and a happy home life.

Important Information Regarding Our Family Support Services

For the past decade SEEC’s Family Support Services provided financial assistance and information referral to hundreds of Montgomery County families to ease the financial strains of raising a child with significant disabilities.Our involvement in the distribution of what was then called Rolling Access Funds was extremely rewarding. SEEC was able to help families cover the costs of assitive equipment and technologies, therapies not covered by health insurance, in-home supports, camp tuitions, and more. In the fall of 2009 the Maryland Developmental Disability Administration (DDA) changed the administration of providing funds to Marylanders who have children with significant developmental disabilities. The Rolling Access program has been changed and SEEC is no longer able to provide this service to county residents.

As an alternative to the Rolling Access funds that supported SEEC's Family Supports Services, the DDA now funds a statewide program called Low Intensity Support Services (LISS). Information regarding eligibility and application for this program is listed below: We urge families in need to apply for these resources. Remember to send your application to the address noted below, and not to SEEC.

Eligibility for LISS:

Be a Maryland Resident
Have a Developmental Disability
Currently not receiving any DDA funded services (with the exception of Resource Coordination)

To apply for LISS:

Complete LISS application and provide documentation within 10 business days
Provide Valid Identification
Copy of Social Security Card
Verification of Maryland Residency
Documentation of Disability

For additional information, contact:

Montgomery County
Karen Patterson
11600 Nebel Street
Rockville, MD 20852
301-984-5792 ext. 241
karenp@arcmontmd.org

Parent to Parent Mentoring and Parent/Caregiver Meetings

Our Parent 2 Parent program, launched in January 2009, provides networking and parent-to-parent mentoring to help families dealing with common challenges.

P2P is currently recruiting mentors and welcomes referrals of families looking for support.

SEEC holds monthly Parent/Caregiver Meetings on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Meetings are held at the Rockville Library from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Topics address issues affecting adults with developmental disabilities. These meetings are open to the public, but do require pre-registration. Please contact Nancy Householder for registration and information on meetings.

Montgomery County Transitioning Youth Roundtable

SEEC has also spearheaded a Montgomery County Transitioning Youth Roundtable to coordinate efforts between local schools educating children with developmental disabilities and providers of adult services to better prepare students and families for life after the school years.

Please visit our resources and links page to access information and services that may be of value to your family.

Contact Information

Stay informed! Help us keep our records up to date. Please send us an email, if any of your contact information should change, or call 301-576-9024.