OASN GENERAL # (352) 462-0168 K-12 Education # (352) 509-4085

HOURS OF OPERATION August-May 8:45am-2:30pm Monday-Friday June 8:40am-12:15pm Tuesday-Friday

WE ARE CLOSED DURING THE FOLLOWING TIMES: Spring Break, Good Friday, the last week in May, the entire month of JULY, August 1-12th, Thanksgiving Week, Christmas Break, staff work days and all major holidays.

Additional note: Our hours of operation are subject to change. We close for all inclement weather. 

You can make a difference in the lives of the families we serve! Even small donations help! We are a local grassroots organization-not a national non profit organization. Monies raised here stays here. 

OASN is a faith based non-profit organization founded 5/12/2011 serving families in the state of FL within driving distance of Ocala, FL. Outreach Alliance Supporting Neurodevelopment  serves the following neurodevelopmental disorders:

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD), Global Developmental Delay, Intellectual Developmental Disorder (ID), Learning Disorders and autism. 

MISSION STATEMENT

To facilitate the best outcomes for individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders. This is accomplished by offering educational programs, support meetings, events and referrals to the individuals, families & caregivers served. All that we do is lead by faith and hope to impact our community in a positive way.

Our new name reflects our alliance with:

• The families OASN serves

• Our Community Partners

• Functional, Holistic & Traditional Medical Providers

•Therapeutic Providers 

Our goal is to focus on the development of the brain (including the gut/brain connection). In our programs, services & events, we focus on what is possible. The children we serve are seen holistically, not just as a number.  We focus on what the brain can do, even if it takes a little longer to accomplish or if it has to be done in a different way.

It is important to nourish the body with good quality food, water, & nutrients (please see our list of functional medicine providers in our resource guide to make an appointment for specific recommendations and strategies) to help the brain to function at an optimal level. We welcome functional medicine and holistic providers to offer webinars to aid students, staff, and the families we serve to learn the best strategies for healthy living. We encourage companies or providers interested in offering webinars (must be no cost to our families & OASN) to email us at inquiries@oasn.info. 

Our alliances in the community help us to refer out for medical/therapeutic interventions (see below for more information on this). With funding available, we can expand and offer more to the growing community we serve. Until then, we will refer families to our parent recommended resources in our resource guide and expand our community alliances to ensure that individuals with neurodevelopmental diagnoses are being supported (not financially).

At OASN, we get it because we have walked down the road with our own children (just ask our executive and associate directors).

Please note: OASN is not a medical or therapeutic clinic-however, we do refer out to medical and therapeutic providers.

Everything we do is dependent upon donations & funding received. 

WHAT DOES OASN DO?

Post 2020, donations have decreased significantly. Due to this, our offerings have decreased. If funding increases, we would love to offer more programs, as we did in the pre 2020. We currently provide educational programs and referrals for individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders ages 5 to 21 (to 22nd birthday) with an intake form on file. When notated by an asterisk (*), indicates offered for all ages. Please see our resource guide that offers resources compiled by our staff for all ages.

COMMUNITY DINNERS* Our first community dinner will be offered in the spring of 2025.

K-12 EDUCATION Ocala Preparatory Academy is our subsidiary K-12 private school, offering holistic, faith-based (Christian) education (we do offer ESE & Inclusion classes-meaning we offer additional supports whenever possible). You must complete a pre admissions appointment request or be added to our waitlist to start the admissions process. Completing an intake form is a separate process from our private school admissions application. SUFS Empowerment Scholarships accepted (out of pocket costs associated with enrollment).

PARENT SUPPORT GROUP (Facebook) This private group is available to parents of children that have an intake form on file with OASN. Complete an intake form (see the top header area and look for the red intake button). Once you have completed an intake form, Click here to request to join our forum.

PARENT SUPPORT MEETINGS Offered once a month in our office or Zoom (online) on the 2nd Wednesday of the month 12pm-12:45pm during the instructional year (August-May) TBD for summer 2025. To register to come either in person or via Zoom, please email inquiries@oasn.info to request the link to our private page.

REFERRALS* Our knowledgeable staff assist OASN families with referrals to medical providers, social & community resources.

RESOURCE GUIDE* (CHILDREN & ADULTS) All resources are parent or agency recommended.

SUMMER PROGRAM (1/2 DAY-FOUR DAYS A WEEK) This fun educational program is offered during the month of June. Costs are defrayed by donations received.

*notates is open for all ages. 

Help us fundraise if you want a service or event funded you do not see listed. Email us at inquiries@oasn.info to find out how you can help! 

HOW IS OASN FUNDED?

OASN Programs and Events are dependent on grant funding and donations received. 

Our subsidiary school, Ocala Preparatory Academy (an inclusion holistic faith based Christian private school) is funded by choice scholarships & parent financial participation.

Help us sponsor child to attend our holistic school! Your sponsorship help can defray or eliminate a family's out of pocket costs not covered by a choice scholarship. Email avonsander@oasn.info for more information. 

Non-profit organizations are sorely underfunded post 2020! Your tax-deductible donation truly helps LOCAL families! (CH39857)

Please remember this when you talk to our staff that work at OASN because they feel led by their faith to be in service.

What can YOU do to help?

Making a tax deductible donation helps us continue assisting our community with the increasing costs that are affecting all non profit organizations. You can also help us fund a desperately needed larger building. This cannot be done without additional funding. You can ask local businesses, government officials, foundations or anyone to fund OASN and the work we do by providing tax deductible donations (CH39857).

You can make a difference in the lives of the families we serve! Even small donations help! We are a local grassroots organization-not a national non profit organization. Monies raised here stays here. 

All that we do is lead by our faith. 

This organization was started in 2011 because our executive director could not find services, support or assistance in Marion County, FL for her own children. Currently, we refer out and strive to provide educational programs, events, support meetings, etc. (when funding is in place) for children ages 5 to 22 with the following diagnoses:

Attention Deficient/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD), Global Developmental Delay, Intellectual Developmental Disorder (ID), Learning Disorders and autism. There may be others diagnoses.

Services are still, after all these years, grossly underfunded. Due to this, OASN's role in the community is to point families to resources available regionally (& sometimes statewide since other counties are having similar issues of having limited services available) and to attempt to get funding to provide needed services (which, unfortunately, has become increasingly more difficult post 2020).

OASN is an Alliance because we align with our community partners, families and the community at large to support those with neurodevelopmental disorders. Collectively, we must all work together as a group to support one another. We will not have all the programs and services that are needed due to drastically decreased funding (this is an issue for most non profits post 2020). That is why we need to form alliances to ensure the families we serve are getting pointed to resources available in the community. If you know of an organization, person or clinic that OASN should be in alliance with, email inquiries@oasn.info.

OASN FOREVER HOME 

We continue our search for our forever home for OASN! Our needs are as follows:

1. A lodge, church, school, or similar type of building with a minimum 6500 square feet and at least 2 acres of land. This property must be zoned PUD or B2 and not part of a homeowner's association.       

OR

 2. PUD or B2 land (we must have this zoning to be able to build an building for educational purposes) and at minimum, 2 acres to be able to expand.

Our current location is in SW Ocala (on SW 60th Avenue near 200) so we are searching for a location between 484 and 200 (or just a bit north or south) near 75 (preferably west of 75 but would consider just east of 75 as well). Staying within this boundary area will enable us to continue to serve families that have moved close to our current location that has been our home since 2016.

Many of our staff and families we serve are Marion Oaks residents, so we would love to serve in this community! 

Finding our forever home means that we can expand our offerings to the community. Help us help the community by your donations or creating an alliance with OASN!

You can contribute financially to our forever home fund by clicking here. We also appreciate your prayers to help us with getting funding to build or to purchase a property.