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Outreach Grantee: Georgia

July 11, 2002

The Institute on Human Development and Disability, University Center for Excellence at the University of Georgia 

Location

Georgia, Alabama, and either Mississippi or Louisiana

Program Summary

The University of Georgia will make the inclusion of men and women with cognitive disabilities in national service a reality. They plan to do this through increasing service programs' awareness of the capacities of men and women with cognitive disabilities to perform national service. The University of Georgia will help programs understand why it is important to include people with disabilities in national service programs. They will increase programs' abilities to develop opportunities for inclusion of people with cognitive disabilities, and increase capacities to recruit, support, and evaluate these efforts. The program will create a website, develop curricula, and provide training at three state self-advocacy conferences.

Goals

  • Increase awareness of and interest in opportunities for national service among men and women with cognitive disabilities.
  • Increase national service programs' awareness of the capacities of men and women with cognitive disabilities to perform national service and understanding of why it is important to include them in national service.
  • Increase national service programs' abilities to develop opportunities for inclusion of people with cognitive disabilities.
  • Increase national service programs' capacities to recruit individuals with cognitive disabilities.
  • Increase national service programs' capacities to support individuals with cognitive disabilities as fully-contributing members.
  • Increase national service programs' capacity to evaluate their efforts to include individuals with cognitive disabilities in their programs.

Activities

  • Formation of a National Service Committee with Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE).
  • Creation of a National Service web page at the SABE web site.
  • Presentations on opportunities for national service at the conference of three state self-advocacy organizations.
  • Development of a curriculum on the inclusion of people with disabilities in national service programs.
  • Provision of training for national service project directors in three southeastern states.
  • Site visits to two programs in each of the participating states for the purpose of program review.

Partners

Partners include the Institute on Human Development and Disability (IHDD) at the University of Georgia and Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE).

Contact Information

Catherine E. Ford, Project Director
The Institute on Human Development and Disability-UCE
University of Georgia
850 College Station Road
Athens, GA 30602-4806
(706) 542-3907
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://www.uap.uga.edu