The Center for Parent Information and Resources (CPIR) is the federally funded central hub of information and products for the national network of Parent Training and Information Centers (PTIs) and Community Parent Resource Centers (CPRCs). An OSEP-funded project operated by the SPAN Parent Advocacy Network, CPIR supports families and youth with a focus on children with disabilities, delivering resources through the Parent Center Hub website, the Buzz from the Hub newsletter, webinars, glossaries and an events calendar. CPIR runs no developer program and publishes no API documentation, but its own host serves a real anonymous read-only JSON API: the WordPress REST API at parentcenterhub.org/wp-json exposed 34 namespaces and 717 routes on 2026-09-05, including the Connections directory namespace cn-api/v1 that carries the national Parent Center directory (784+ geocoded centers across 55 state and territory terms), plus ISO 3166-1 country reference data, US state geography and GeoJSON, an oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint, and schema.org structured data. The WordPress content collections (posts, pages, media, users, search) are closed to anonymous callers and return 401 rest_forbidden; article content is available through the site RSS feed.
Center for Parent Information and Resources publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including CPIR Parent Center Directory API, CPIR Geography Reference API, CPIR oEmbed API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Disability, Education, Families, Federal-Government, and Parent Centers.
Center for Parent Information and Resources’ developer surface includes engineering blog, support, authentication, and 18 more developer resources.
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the
Education & Research regime, so
Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite.
If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your
provider repo — the
applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it
carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts
themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already
holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in
front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created.
Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet,
not penalised by it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them,
because the conditional facet above carries the other
25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped
maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal
weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
Public, unauthenticated read access to the national Parent Center directory - the machine-readable form of the Find Your Parent Center finder. Each entry is a Parent Training an...
Public, unauthenticated reference data served alongside the Parent Center directory: ISO 3166-1 country records with alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes, ISO 4217 currency and calling cod...
Public, unauthenticated oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint for parentcenterhub.org. Given the URL of any CPIR page it returns a conformant oEmbed document naming the provider, title, ...
The anonymously readable metadata layer of the parentcenterhub.org WordPress REST API - the discovery root enumerating 34 namespaces and 717 routes with their argument schemas, ...
aid: center-for-parent-information-and-resources
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/center-for-parent-information-and-resources/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Center for Parent Information and Resources
tags:
- Disability
- Education
- Families
- Federal-Government
- Parent Centers
- Parent Training
- Parents
- Special Needs
tags_raw:
- Disability
- Education
- Families
- Federal Government
- Parent Centers
- Parent Training
- Parents
- Special Needs
type: Index
deliveryModel:
model: provider-hosted
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: true
label: 'Provider-hosted, non-commercial: CPIR serves the API from its own host at no cost'
confidence: high
source:
- live probe of https://www.parentcenterhub.org/wp-json/ on 2026-09-05
generated: '2026-09-05'
method: probed
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: none
trial: false
try_now: true
public: true
label: Free and anonymous — no signup, no credential, no quota
confidence: high
source:
- live anonymous 200 responses from https://www.parentcenterhub.org/wp-json/cn-api/v1/entry on 2026-09-05
generated: '2026-09-05'
method: probed
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/center-for-parent-information-and-resources.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-09-05'
position: Consuming
specificationVersion: '0.23'
description: 'The Center for Parent Information and Resources (CPIR) is the federally funded central hub of information and
products for the national network of Parent Training and Information Centers (PTIs) and Community Parent Resource Centers
(CPRCs). An OSEP-funded project operated by the SPAN Parent Advocacy Network, CPIR supports families and youth with a focus
on children with disabilities, delivering resources through the Parent Center Hub website, the Buzz from the Hub newsletter,
webinars, glossaries and an events calendar. CPIR runs no developer program and publishes no API documentation, but its
own host serves a real anonymous read-only JSON API: the WordPress REST API at parentcenterhub.org/wp-json exposed 34 namespaces
and 717 routes on 2026-09-05, including the Connections directory namespace cn-api/v1 that carries the national Parent Center
directory (784+ geocoded centers across 55 state and territory terms), plus ISO 3166-1 country reference data, US state
geography and GeoJSON, an oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint, and schema.org structured data. The WordPress content collections
(posts, pages, media, users, search) are closed to anonymous callers and return 401 rest_forbidden; article content is available
through the site RSS feed.'
apis:
- aid: center-for-parent-information-and-resources:cpir-parent-center-directory-api
name: CPIR Parent Center Directory API
description: Public, unauthenticated read access to the national Parent Center directory - the machine-readable form of
the Find Your Parent Center finder. Each entry is a Parent Training and Information Center (PTI), Community Parent Resource
Center (CPRC) or regional Parent Technical Assistance Center, carrying organization name, work address, geocoded latitude
and longitude, telephone numbers, email addresses and a public link, in vCard/hCard field naming. Verified live on 2026-09-05
at 784+ published entries across 55 state and territory categories. Anonymous access is read-only; the collection answers
Allow GET without credentials, and CPIR issues no API keys.
humanURL: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/find-your-center/
baseURL: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/wp-json
tags:
- Directory
- Disability
- Education
- Families
- Parent Centers
- Geolocation
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-parent-center-directory-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-parent-center-directory-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-data-model.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-rate-limits.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-conformance.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
url: mcp/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-mcp.yml
- aid: center-for-parent-information-and-resources:cpir-geography-reference-api
name: CPIR Geography Reference API
description: 'Public, unauthenticated reference data served alongside the Parent Center directory: ISO 3166-1 country records
with alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes, ISO 4217 currency and calling codes; administrative subdivisions with centroids and bounding
boxes (US states and territories); and country boundary geometry as GeoJSON (RFC 7946). This is the geography layer the
Find Your Parent Center map is built on. Verified live on 2026-09-05.'
humanURL: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/find-your-center/
baseURL: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/wp-json
tags:
- Geolocation
- Reference Data
- GeoJSON
- Countries
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-geography-reference-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-geography-reference-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-data-model.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-conventions.yml
- aid: center-for-parent-information-and-resources:cpir-oembed-api
name: CPIR oEmbed API
description: Public, unauthenticated oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint for parentcenterhub.org. Given the URL of any CPIR page
it returns a conformant oEmbed document naming the provider, title, author and embeddable HTML - the standards-based way
for another site or an agent to cite or embed CPIR content. Verified live on 2026-09-05 returning provider_name 'Center
for Parent Information and Resources'.
humanURL: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/the-cpir-resource-center/
baseURL: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/wp-json
tags:
- oEmbed
- Content
- Embedding
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-oembed-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-oembed-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-conformance.yml
- aid: center-for-parent-information-and-resources:cpir-site-metadata-api
name: CPIR Site Metadata API
description: 'The anonymously readable metadata layer of the parentcenterhub.org WordPress REST API - the discovery root
enumerating 34 namespaces and 717 routes with their argument schemas, the registered content types, taxonomies and publication
statuses, and the Yoast SEO head document carrying schema.org JSON-LD for any CPIR URL. Note that the WordPress content
collections on this host (posts, pages, media, categories, tags, users, search) are NOT public: every one returns 401
rest_forbidden to an anonymous caller, verified 2026-09-05. Article content is available through the site RSS feed instead.'
humanURL: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/
baseURL: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/wp-json
tags:
- Metadata
- Discovery
- SEO
- Structured Data
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-site-metadata-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-site-metadata-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-problem-types.yml
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.parentcenterhub.org
- type: Newsletter
url: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/buzz/
- url: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/feed/
type: Blog
- type: Contact
url: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/contact-us/
- type: Support
url: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/contact-us/
- type: About
url: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/whatiscpir/
- type: Events
url: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=cpir.calendar%40gmail.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York
- type: Login
url: https://www.parentcenterhub.org/parentcenter-login
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-llms.txt
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-data-model.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Packages
url: packages/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-packages.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
url: mcp/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/center-for-parent-information-and-resources-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-09-05'
status: enriched
artifacts_added: 25
pass: local-v3
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