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Through the Looking Glass was founded in 1982 to address the unique needs of families made up of people both with and without disabilities. Instead of focusing just on the individual living with a disability, Through the Looking Glass addresses the family living with a disability as a whole, looking at their physical, psychological and logistical needs.

Through the Looking Glass has three key areas of work focus:
-the National Resource Center for Parents with Disabilities
-the local service offerings in the San Francisco Bay area
-research the organization conducts to help better illuminate the needs of families that have members with disabilities

The National Resource Center for Parents with Disabilities provides everything from online information to counseling referrals to parents living with a disability. Topics that have experience addressing include pregnancy and childbirth, adoption, and custody issues. In fact the legal program at Through the Looking Glass is involved in almost 1,000 cases a year related to custody challenges on the basis of a parent's disability.

The Resource Center is also committed to putting parents with disabilities in touch with each other both online and off to help them learn from each other's experiences. To that end, the Resource Center runs workshops and training programs and can even provide information on adaptive baby care equipment.

In the Bay Area, Through the Looking Glass is able to provide more immediate, in-person services. Counseling and intervention services based in the home for a wide range of families living with disabilities are available. This includes services for families with Deaf members, support groups for parents living with different types of disabilities - physical, visual and cognitive -or parenting children living with disabilities, as well as child development assessments and parenting classes.