PREVENTION & WELLNESS
11/2/2015
UM Rural Institute Receives $2.5 Million Health Promotion Development Grant (MT UCEDD)
Researchers at the University of Montana will develop a state-of-the-art health promotion program to advance the ability of people with disabilities to live independently in their communities through a new five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research.
9/1/2015
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (TN UCEDD, LEND, IDDRC) Hosts Positive Development and Parent Stress Reduction Conference
The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (TN UCEDD, LEND, IDDRC) held its first Parent Stress Intervention Program (PSIP) Conference this summer. Instructors delved into each of the two intervention manuals created by Vanderbilt Kennedy Center researchers to teach parents of children with disabilities how to manage stress. The PSIP manuals "Positive Adult Development (PAD) and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)" were developed as part of an intervention research study for stress reduction in parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. Adapted by principal investigator and VKC director Elisabeth Dykens, Ph.D., and a group of dedicated parent mentors, the curricula is intended to provide tools for learning and practicing these techniques, and for teaching them to parent groups.
3/3/2015
RENEW Program Travels to Denmark (IOD NH UCEDD/LEND)
In December 2014 Institute on Disability (IOD) staff members Dr. JoAnne Malloy and Jonathon Drake travelled to Denmark to train 25 Danish Mental Health and Vocational Education Practitioners to implement the Rehabilitation for Empowerment, Natural Supports, Education, and Work (RENEW) program in their practice.
5/6/2014
AUCD Congratulates CDC: 'Vital Signs' Emphasizes Importance of Physical Activity for People with Disabilities
With growing public health concern of disability, the impact of obesity and nutrition, good health is still a frontier for many Americans. "Today's Vital Signs from CDC shines the light on the need to include people with disabilities in health promotion efforts like obesity prevention and physical activity," says Andrew Imparato, AUCD's Executive Director.
7/21/2008
New healthfinder.gov - available in beta
from 7/2/2008
Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Report
7/2/2008
The Center for Managing Chronic Disease Launches Website
4/16/2007
"Fitness a Struggle for Disabled People" AP article quotes AUCD network member from UIC UCEDD
This April 16 article from the Associated Press on physical fitness for people with disabilities quotes AUCD network member Dr. James Rimmer of the Institute on Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois-Chicago.