Project: Project Equity
This project involves the collaboration of three organizations. Advocates for Children assists parents of children who face barriers to receiving appropriate services due to disability, poverty, race and other factors. C UNY Law School is a public-interest law school. The Hunter College School of Social Work trains graduate students to become social workers. The FAR Fund will provide a planning grant to establish a project that will train legal and social work advocates to provide much-needed legal and social work assistance to children on the autistic spectrum from New York City 's poorest families.

Project: NYFAC Advocates Training Program
New York Families for Autistic Children provides trainings, workshops, seminars and professional development opportunities to help parents and other individuals related to children affected by autism. Support from the FAR Fund will enable NYFAC Advocates Training Program to provide parents and family members with the basic knowledge of how to navigate the various systems within New York City for people with autism spectrum disorders and other disabilities.

Project: Improving Transition Services in New York City
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) provides access to legal and advocacy services to New York 's most underrepresented and vulnerable residents. With support from the FAR Fund, NYLPI will establish a multi-pronged strategy to ensure that students with disabilities, particularly those with autistic spectrum disorders, in New York City begin to receive appropriate transitional services. 

Project: Person Centered Transitional Planning for People with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Building Meaningful Lives in the Community
The Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD) administers and funds a network of largely community-based day and residential services that are state-operated, and also contracts with hundreds of voluntary not-for-profit agencies around the state that provide certified services under its auspices. The FAR Fund will provide grants of $50,000 a year for three years to three agencies selected through a Request-For-Proposal process in collaboration with OMRDD. Each grant recipient will provide Person-Centered Case Planning for ten individuals with an autism spectrum disorder who will be able to make the transition from the residential care to a community apartment.

Project: Autism Project, Year II
The Institute for Education and Social Policy is an inter-disciplinary research institute based in New York University 's Steinhardt School of Education. It is engaged in research and strategic support for community involvement in public school reform. A grant from the FAR Fund will enable the Institute to provide training, planning and conceptual support to Community School District 15's effort to develop a district-wide educational program for higher-functioning children with autistic spectrum disorders.

Project Title: Transition Matters: From School to Independence Directory
Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc. (RCSN), founded by parents of children with disabilities in 1983, is an independent, not-for-profit organization that works to insure that all New York City children from birth to 21 with disabilities or special needs have access to and obtain the full range of services to which they are entitled. With support from the FAR Fund, RCSN will produce their first Transition Matters directory, a practical guide to the process of transition for New York City youth with autistic spectrum disorders and other special needs ages 14 to 21 and older. RCSN will also design and conduct training sessions for parents and professionals on the laws, regulations, programs, and resources available to help youth with autistic spectrum disorders and other disabilities move from school to work.