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North Bay Regional Center

August 10, 2021
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Serving Sonoma, Solano, and Napa counties.

North Bay Regional Center provides advocacy, services, support, and care coordination to children and adults diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families in Napa, Sonoma, and Solano counties.

We partner with community-based organizations and agencies to empower our clients to thrive and live as independently as possible within the geographically, culturally, and ethnically diverse communities we serve.

Two programs are available at NBRC for individuals to receive services from: Early Start and the Lanterman Act.

Early Start is a federally-funded program is for infants and children ages birth to 3 years focusing on early intervention services:

  • Must be a resident of Solano, Sonoma, or Napa County
  • No financial qualifications

Eligible children include those infants or toddlers who:

  • have a significant delay in at least one area of development,
  • have an established risk condition with a known probability of causing a disability or delay, or
  • have severe vision, hearing, or orthopedic (“solely low incidence”) conditions,
  • are at “high risk” of experiencing developmental delays or disabilities due to a combination of biomedical risk factors.

For more information, see our Early Intervention page here.

NBRC’s Lanterman Program is funded through both state and federal contracts and is for children 3 years and older, adolescents, and adults thus centered around a lifetime of services:

  • Must be a resident of Solano, Sonoma, or Napa County
  • No financial qualifications to apply
  • Individuals must be diagnosed with a developmental disability (see below) that begins before a person’s 18th birthday, is expected to continue indefinitely, and which presents a substantial (Sec 4512 W & I Code) disability:
  • Autism – A neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent impairment in reciprocal social communication and social interaction as well as restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests or activities.Symptoms are present from early childhood. Other disabling conditions -that are closely related to intellectual disability or require similar treatment to that required by persons with an intellectual disability.