Applying For: Assistance for Children with Severe Disabilities

JUNE 05, 2023
The Assistance for Children with Severe Disabilities (ACSD) program provides financial assistance to parents to help with extraordinary cost related to their child’s severe disability.

Eligibility

If you are a parent or a guardian of a child who is under 18 years of age (17 and under), lives at home and who has a severe disability, you may be eligible to receive funding from the ACSD program.

Your eligibility and the amount of assistance you receive is based on a combination of factors:

  • your household income
  • size of your family 
  • severity of your child’s disability 
  • extraordinary costs related to your child’s disability