ACL Awards Grants for UCEDD Diversity Fellowships

October 2, 2015

This week AIDD, a part of ACL, awarded National Training Initiative grants to 14 University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDDs) to support a one-year diversity fellowship at each UCEDD. The fellows will work to:

Improve the recruitment and employment of under-represented groups, including people with disabilities, within the UCEDD and in the workforce
Increase the diversity of leadership, staff, and governing bodies across the DD network
Build cultural competence with the leadership, staff, and governing bodies across the DD network
Increase the number of people from under-represented groups and disadvantage backgrounds who benefit from AIDD- supported programs.

The grants total over $350,000 and are being awarded to:

Center for Disabilities, Sanford School of Medicine at The University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, S.D.
Center for Disabilities Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, Del.
Center for Excellence in Disabilities, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.
Center for Leadership in Disability, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga.
Center for Persons with Disabilities, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Center on Disability and Development, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Human Development Institute, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.
Institute for Community Inclusion, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass.
Institute for Human Development, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo.
Institute on Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
JFK Partners, University of Colorado, Denver School of Medicine, Denver, Colo.
Mailman Center for Child Development, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Fla.
University of Cincinnati UCEDD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Westchester Institute for Human Development, Valhalla, N.Y.