Member Updates

FREE ACCESS TO ONLINE VIDEOS
for 24 hours!!!

(Starting now and ending tomorrow 1/12/2021 @ noon)

Dave Griffin, Adult & Teen Program Manager just celebrated his birthday. To celebrate him and all he does to give a voice to the autism community, Autism Tennessee is going to make our membership only education videos available FREE for 24 hours.

Dave is passionate about maximizing independence for teens and adults on the spectrum. We believe our online education videos will help families, like yours, to achieve maximum independence.

Pandemic Updates

All events will continue virtually

Tornado Updates

HELPline is operating remotely at staff members' homes.
Please leave a message and allow 1-2 business days for a response.
The building remains closed and our return date is approximately May 2021.

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hear experiences from adults on the autism spectrum, parents, providers, staff, volunteers, and more....

Director's
Corner

2020 Year In Review

When 2020 began, I had already met with the Autism Tennessee staff and board of directors several times and felt really good about where we were headed. We recognized that our families were seeking more and more resources online and decided that we were going to meet them where they are. We invested in technology and created accounts to stream our education and adult programs. We had a great line-up of education topics and presenters, a handful of consulting projects moving forward to create more autism friendly venues in Middle Tennessee, and had moved our Teen & Adult Programming to Saturday mornings to make them more accessible. We added a web based phone system so that our HELPline staff could access our calls from home, which allowed staff more flexibility to maximize their work availability. We secured a web-video hosting site to house all of our new online education events to make them permanently available to our members. I spent the last quarter of 2019 uploading our DVD vault of educational videos from 2015-2018 so that our members could access those resources as well and rebuilt our website so that it had more functionality for our members to access information at their convenience. Our staff worked to vet our Community Partners and common referrals so that we were certain that the information we provide is high quality.

On March 3rd, I awoke to the storms at my home and turned on the TV. It was apparent to me, based on where the newscasters were reporting from, that our building in East Nashville was going to be significantly impacted. As the sun came up, and the images poured in, it was clear that we would be cleaning up for weeks, if not months. Unfortunately, the impact was even worse than we could have imagined. By 6am, I knew we had no power at the building, everything in my office was destroyed, and we were going to have to find a way to communicate with our families...
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