The Intellectual Disabilities Guide initiative, or IDGuide in short, is a data initiative that aids families and individuals with highly curated local support information for newly diagnosed individuals. Ranging from infancy to adulthood, IDGuide provides a community directory by providing comprehensive healthcare and human service provider data. 

National experts and advocates have routinely expressed a dire need for an all-inclusive resource guide and system to keep the extensive master list of data updated in real time. To begin work on a technical solution for the existing challenge, Mindy Allen partnered with Dr. Iris Junglas from the School of Business at the College of Charleston to create a data initiative. 

IDGuide categorizes lists of available service data, empowering individuals to make informed decisions. Families, agencies, non-profit organizations, and service providers alike, now have access to this interactive and first-of-its-kind data pool, finding the resource(s) they need in real-time. 

In using Texas as the national model for dissemination, IDGuide is able to transfer state-proven strategies to our nation at large. As we expand IDGuide to other states, it is our ambition to offer the best data possible and simultaneously provide vital knowledge tools for the Intellectual Disability community.