The Utah Parent Center (UPC or Center) is an award-winning, statewide, nonprofit organization founded by parents of children, youth, and young adults with disabilities and special needs to help other parents facing similar challenges. Since 1984 the caring competent staff of the UPC have utilized a parent-to-parent model to help many thousands of parents and to represent a wide variety of disabilities, ages and families in many systems-level activities. The mission of the Utah Parent Center is to help parents help their children with disabilities to live included, productive lives as members of the community.