The Early Referral and Follow-up Project of the University of Nebraska Medical Center was designed to facilitate developmental assessment and intervention with long-term or repeatedly hospitalized children from birth to 3 years of age. Developmentally delayed children, handicapped children, and children at risk for delays were eligible for services. A major project activity involved assisting in the referral and transition of children from the hospital into appropriate services in their local school districts, accomplished through consultation with hospital and school district staff and through follow-up services. Evaluation services available to clients included developmental, speech, physical therapy, and occupational therapy assessments. Detailed procedures are outlined for implementing referrals from the hospital setting to schools, accompanied by planning forms for assessment of family needs. Appendixes, which constitute the bulk of the document, include: (1) a list of organizational resources that offer assistance and information to disabled children and their families in the areas of alternative care options, child care, counseling, social services, funding, housing, income tax, recreation, speech and hearing, and transportation; (2) lists of Nebraska pediatric occupational and physical therapists, Headstart programs, and dentists willing to treat handicapped patients; (3) funding resource materials; (4) reading materials on such subjects as hospital discharge planning, psychological testing of disabled children and alternatives for community living; (5) toll-free telephone numbers for specific service organizations; and (6) related pamphlets. (JDD)