Mississippi Center for Autism

11/28/2025

Voting is still happening! Please vote for us - it takes 30 seconds! 🙋🏾‍♀️🙋‍♂️

Vote now - 👇🏾 https://ipbiloxi.boydgaming.com/explore/offers/ip-trees-of-hope

MCARDD decorated a tree for the IP Casino's Trees of Hope competition, 🎄and voting is LIVE right now through December 12th. First place gets $3,000; money that goes directly to serving families navigating autism.

Here's how ridiculously easy this is:

1. Click the voting link or scan the QR code in the image.
2. Click the "VOTE HERE" button.
3. Select the tree for Mississippi Center for Autism and Related Developmental Disabilities (the tree with the Grinch sticking out)
4. Scroll down and click next.
5. Enter your information, and you're done!

That's it. You can vote once per day, every day until December 12th.

Set a reminder. Make it part of your morning coffee routine. Vote from the carpool line. Vote while you're pretending to listen to a meeting, lol! 🤭

The trees are displayed at The IP Casino & Resort in Biloxi, MS if you want to see them in person, but you can vote from anywhere. 🌎

$3,000 funds assessments for families on our waiting list. It covers therapy sessions for kids who need them. It helps parents get answers when they're drowning in questions about their child's diagnosis.

Your 30 seconds matters more than you think.

Vote now - 👇🏾 https://ipbiloxi.boydgaming.com/explore/offers/ip-trees-of-hope

or Scan the QR code...

Vote daily. Share this post. Tag someone who'll vote with you.

Let's bring this home for our families.

11/27/2025

Gobble Gobble! 🦃 Happy Thanksgiving!

The center is closed today and tomorrow to spend time with our families. We'll see you on Monday!

Have an amazing day!

11/26/2025

Ms. Senior World Cares, a 501(c)3 extension of Ms. Senior World Pageants, just handed us a check for Support of Autism Awareness, and we're standing here thinking about what this actually means.

This is therapy sessions for kids on our waiting list. This is assessments for families who've been searching for answers. This is parent training that helps someone feel less alone in navigating their child's diagnosis. This is proof that when a community decides to show up, real change happens.

The Ms. Senior World Pageant could have chosen any organization. They chose families fighting for their kids. They chose parents who need support. They chose a mission that doesn't make headlines but changes everything for the people we serve.

To everyone who organized, participated, voted, and supported this partnership: you didn't just raise money. You told autism families in Mississippi that they matter. That their struggle is seen. That they're not doing this alone.

To the incredible delegates, Queens, and staff of Ms. Senior World, and everyone behind this movement: thank you for using your platform to create impact that will ripple through our community for months to come. You're proof that strength, grace, and service aren't just words—they're actions that change lives.

We're getting to work. Families are waiting, and because of you, we can serve them.

11/25/2025

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11/24/2025

🙋‍♂️🙋🏾‍♀️🙋We need your vote today! It takes 30 seconds and could win us $3,000.

MCARDD decorated a tree for the IP Casino's Trees of Hope competition, 🎄and voting is LIVE right now through December 12th. First place gets $3,000; money that goes directly to serving families navigating autism.

Vote now - 👇🏾 https://ipbiloxi.boydgaming.com/explore/offers/ip-trees-of-hope

Here's how ridiculously easy this is:

1. Click the voting link or scan the QR code in the image.
2. Click the "VOTE HERE" button.
3. Select the tree for Mississippi Center for Autism and Related Developmental Disabilities (the tree with the Grinch sticking out)
4. Scroll down and click next.
5. Enter your information, and you're done!

That's it. You can vote once per day, every day until December 12th.

Set a reminder. Make it part of your morning coffee routine. Vote from the carpool line. Vote while you're pretending to listen to a meeting, lol! 🤭

The trees are displayed at The IP Casino & Resort in Biloxi, MS if you want to see them in person, but you can vote from anywhere. 🌎

$3,000 funds assessments for families on our waiting list. It covers therapy sessions for kids who need them. It helps parents get answers when they're drowning in questions about their child's diagnosis.

Your 30 seconds matters more than you think.

Vote now - 👇🏾 https://ipbiloxi.boydgaming.com/explore/offers/ip-trees-of-hope

or Scan the QR code...

Vote daily. Share this post. Tag someone who'll vote with you.

Let's bring this home for our families.

11/20/2025

Businesses interested in partnering with us to help make this a meaningful experience for students, please contact Beth Robertson at 228.214.3422 or beth.robertson@usm.edu.

11/20/2025

11/20/2025

11/15/2025

🌟 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐈𝐍 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐎𝐗𝐈 🌟

Come see us at the FAMILY FRIENDLY Autism Spectrum Disorder Family Resource Fair at the Biloxi Visitors Center (1050 Beach Blvd, Biloxi, MS 39530)!

🗓 Saturday, November 15, 2025
⏰ 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM
💲 FREE for families

There will be expert presentations, lots of amazing vendors, and so many chances to learn about resources and supports for families on the Coast. We’ll be set up right next to our friends at Caiden's Corner—stop by, say hi, and learn more about how we are supporting families across the Mississippi Gulf Coast. 💙

Tag a friend who should be there with you and make plans to join us!

11/15/2025

Big news deserves a big celebration… and we want YOU there with us! 🎉

Recently, South Mississippi Smiles announced the winners of their Caring4Community contest live on the 4:00 show on WLOX—and we were selected as this year’s FIRST PLACE winner. We are still so humbled and grateful.

Now it’s time to celebrate together as a community:

📅 Saturday, November 22
🕒 3–5 PM (check presentation at 4 PM)
📍 TrainTastic Interactive Model Railroad Museum

The Caring4Community Holiday Celebration will include:
🥁 A performance by Bay Ratz Marching Battery (2nd place winner)
🎅 Free pictures with Santa for guests
🧡 A special check presentation for the Caring4Community winners

Our team will be there, and we’d LOVE to see our Embrace Abilities families, friends, and supporters come out and celebrate this milestone with us.

Just 19 months ago, we were a small group of families meeting at a park, dreaming of something more. Today, because of YOUR support, we’re being recognized for building a more inclusive, supportive space for families across the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

🧡 How you can join in:
▪️ Bring your family to enjoy the celebration
▪️ Snap a picture with Santa and the trains
▪️ Share this post to help spread the word and cheer on all of the Caring4Community winners

To our families, volunteers, partners, and friends: thank you for believing in Embrace Abilities and walking this journey with us. The best is yet to come!