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Through the Looking Glass
www.lookingglass.org
Founder & Executive Director: Megan Kirshbaum PhD
Work: (510) 225-7502
Cell: (510) 725-2253
Mission
To provide and encourage respectful and empowering services — guided by personal disability experience and disability culture — for families that have children, parents, or grandparents with disability or medical issues.
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Through the Looking Glass (TLG) provides incredible support to our community. They are one of very few organizations in our area that welcome individuals with disabilities with open arms and provide neurodivergent-affirming care and support to their clients. Their inclusive Early Head Start program is a model for multidisciplinary collaboration in early childhood education. TLG serves a racially, linguistically, and neurodevelopmentally diverse population with respect and expertise. As a pediatrician who cares primarily for children with disabilities, I value TLG immensely. I encourage you to support TLG, so it can continue to provide its invaluable services to our community.
Help Expand Life-Changing Disability Programs
Through the Looking Glass practices a holistic approach to disability care where the whole family is supported and nurtured.
To expand its parenting adaptation services and continue its critical early prevention work, TLG needs to raise $150,000. This will ensure their occupational therapists can provide more adaptive baby care solutions, expanding these services to families in San Francisco and Contra Costa counties, and TLG can provide early intervention for families who are marginalized and need the most help.
Founder and Executive Director Megan Kirshbaum warns that not doing effective early prevention work is much more costly in the long run. “We’re not just keeping families together,” she says, “We’re nurturing their potential.”
Key Supporters
TLG Board of Directors
Individual Donors
Sunlight Giving
Quality Counts
Regional Center of the East Bay
First 5 Alameda County
Alameda County
Behavioral Health Services
City of Berkeley
Oakland Fund for Children
and Youth
National Institute for Disability,
Independent Living
and Rehabilitation Research,
Administration for Community
Living, HHS
Head Start, Administration
or Children and Families, HHS