Nonprofit Spotlight: Dylan’s Super Friends

BY ANGIE ARLINGTON

The mission of Dylan’s Super Friends is granting wishes to individuals with autism, to allow them to lead a sensoryfriendly, safe, and fun-filled life. They are a new non-profit and one of their goals is to let families know that they exist and can help them.

“My son’s name is Dylan. I started the non-profit in the summer of July 2022 to honor him and my late husband Steve,” said Katie Griffin, Dylan’s mom. “We had been doing Autism Speaks walks for several years and our team name was always Dylan’s Super Friends, for all the people that helped us navigate Dylan’s autism diagnosis and his first IEP.”

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“We support individuals and families that need equipment/ resources that insurance doesn’t cover, or after insurance coverage has run out,” Katie continued. “Also, since the family support waiver waitlist is very long, most parents/guardians have to provide childcare/after-school care/adult care on their own, and their careers/ incomes suffer. We exist to help families obtain helpful items that might be financially out of their reach. We have provided a special needs bike trailer for a family that was not able to ride bikes together as a family before, a crash pad to a newly diagnosed family, and a weighted blanket and compression sheet to a family whose little boy was having trouble sleeping.”

For more information or to donate, visit us at https:// dylanssuperfriends.com/

“We support individuals and families that need equipment/ resources that insurance doesn’t cover, or after insurance coverage has run out,”

— KATIE