A new National Center for Parents with Disabilities and their Families has been established in Berkeley, California under the auspices of Through the Looking Glass,  non-profit organization founded in 1982. 

The Center will oversee several national research studies concerning parents with disabilities and their families, as well as provide consultations, trainings and publications to parents, family members and professionals.

Parents with disabilities include mothers and fathers in all disability categories - such as parents with physical disabilities, deaf parents, blind parents, parents with psychiatric or cognitive disabilities. 

The new Center will focus its research and resource activities on four critical areas that impact parents with disabilities:

* Custody, family roles and personal assistance
* Paratransit
* Intervention with parents with cognitive disabilities and their children. 

One of the notable activities planned over the next three years is a scholarship program for high school seniors and college students whose parents have disabilities.