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8/21/2017
IU's Indiana Institute on Disability and Community Receives Funding to Advance Policy and Practice (IN UCEDD)
Indiana University's Indiana Institute on Disability and Community has been awarded a five-year, $2.7 million grant to develop and advance the transfer of research and new knowledge in the field of disability studies from the university setting to communities around Indiana, the nation and the globe.
8/21/2017
Sandy Root-Elledge is Recognized by the Wyoming Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities
Congratulations to Sandy Root-Elledge, Executive Director of the Wyoming Institute for Disabilities. Sandy was honored with the Bright Star Award for a professional by the Wyoming Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities. The Bright Star Award is presented annually and recognizes a professional within the state who has made significant contributions to the field of disabilities.
8/21/2017
Work And College Opportunities (WACO) Project (TX UCEDD)
Student Voices | Summer 2017
Cekevia Degrate participated in the Leadership, Employability, and Advocacy Project (LEAP) during the summer of 2015 while she was about to be a Junior in High School. This year she has graduated from high school and is participating in the Work and College Opportunity (WACO) project at Texas A&M University. She describes how the programs helped her grow and prepare to achieve the goals she has set for her future.
8/15/2017
Tuesdays with Liz: Bob Bacon
Bob Bacon talks about his recent retirement from the University of Iowa Center for Disabilities and Development, the accomplishments he's seen in the disability movement, and his future plans.
8/14/2017
AUCD Statement in Response to Violence in Charlottesville
AUCD joins with many in the disability and civil rights communities to condemn the hate and violence that were on display this weekend at the University of Virginia campus and in Charlottesville, VA. We stand in solidarity with all who have been and may be targeted by these hate groups and call on bipartisan elected officials at every level of government to condemn the racism and hate that we witnessed this weekend. We recognize the important role that we can play as leaders in higher education to help create campus environments where all can learn, all are welcomed, and no one experiences harassment, bullying, or violence because of who they are.
8/14/2017
Bacon Receives Special Retirement Message from Senator Harkin
Robert Bacon, MA retired from Iowa's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) after 19 years as director. Bob joined the Center for Disabilities and Development at the University of Iowa in 1979, initially hired as the Coordinator of the Instructional Technology Unit back when the University of Iowa housed the University Hospital School.
8/14/2017
Using Improv to Teach Advocacy: RTC:Rural Advocacy Skill Building Toolkit now available Organization: RTC:Rural, at the Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities at the University of Montana (MT UCEDD)
RTC:Rural is excited to release the Advocacy Skill Building Toolkit, a new set of resources for Centers for Independent Living (CILs) and others to facilitate workshops to develop the advocacy skills of emerging Independent Living leaders and youth with disabilities.
8/14/2017
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (TN UCEDD, IDDRC, LEND) What we know about disability identity development
Author: Courtney Taylor
A new model of psychosocial identity development from a Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (TN UCEDD, LEND, IDDRC) researcher may provide a better understanding of the fluid processes that individuals with disabilities go through as they ask the question "Who am I?"
8/9/2017
Priorities for the new Assistant Secretary on Aging and Administrator of the Administration for Community Living Lance Robertson
ACL's mission of maximizing "the independence, well-being, and health of older adults, people with disabilities across the lifespan, and their families and caregivers" is critical. ACL currently serves more than 140 million Americans and this population continues to grow.
8/8/2017
Tuesdays with Liz: ABLE Accounts!
In this week's edition of Tuesdays with Liz: Disability Policy for All, Liz talks to Heather Sachs, Senior Advisor for the National ABLE resource Center, about the ABLE Resource Center's month-long campaign to increase the knowledge about opening ABLE accounts.
8/7/2017
New Research Explores Disability at the Household Level (MT UCEDD)
A new RTC:Rural Research Brief by RTC:Rural partner Christiane von Reichert, Ph.D., Professor of Geography at the University of Montana, presents research on disability rates at the household level. The brief, titled "Prevalence of Disability: Individual and Household Context" is available for download on the Geography and Rural Disability page on the RTC:Rural website.
8/7/2017
Reducing Relapse Focus of New Study at MMI (NE UCEDD/LEND)
The Munroe-Meyer Institute's Brian Greer, Ph.D., will be the site PI on a new grant written with principal investigator Timothy Shahan, Ph.D., of Utah State University, that will explore ways to reduce relapse in children who engage is severe problem behavior.
8/4/2017
Michael Knox, PhD Retires from The Boggs Center (NJ UCEDD)
Michael Knox, PhD, deputy director and assistant professor of pediatrics, retired after 33 years with The Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
8/4/2017
VIUCEDD Appoints New Executive Director
Join us in thanking Dr. Yegin Habtes for his tireless work as the founding and Executive Director for the Virgin Islands Center for Excellence in Developmental since 1994. Since its inception to now, we have seen VIUCEDD grow to serve as a community partner around issues pertaining to developmental disabilities. It has served as a resource for the VI community, and has provided many workshops and speakers addressing exemplary and evidence-based approaches for individuals with disabilities.
8/3/2017
AUCD Welcomes Daphnee Guillaume as Public Health Program Manager
Daphnee Guillaume is the Public Health Program Manager at the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD), under the supervision of the Senior Program Manager, Disability and Public Health.
8/2/2017
USM Institute for Disability Studies Honored with Above and Beyond Award (MS UCEDD)
The University of Southern Mississippi Institute for Disability Studies (IDS) has been presented with the Above and Beyond Award by the Mississippi Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense office.
