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| Leadership: |
Principal Investigator Associate UCEDD Director | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Leadership Administrative Staff: | Associate Director for Research
Principle Investigator, Michigan National Core Indicators |
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| Primary Activity Coordinators: |
Research Director | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Specialty Resource Contacts: | Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Children and Adolescents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Involved in Child Welfare |
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| Project/Program/Clinic Contacts: | MI-LEND-Faculty, Mentor Coordinator | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline(s): |
Social Work |
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| AUCD Council Membership: |
Council on Research and Evaluation |
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| Research: | Children and Adolescents with disabilities involved in child welfare systems, sexual victimization and transactional sex
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| Service: | Transitioning from adolescence to young adulthood--health, supports and services
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders-identification, interventions, transition, justice system issues Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income | ||||||||||||||||||||
Vita/Bio
Ann Carrellas is the Associate Director for Research at the Michigan Developmental Disabilities Institute. Her projects at MI-DDI have included developing technical information pieces for the Autism Now website, collaboration in developing a pilot that addresses violence and women who have disabilities, and program management for the Michigan site of an empowerment intervention for adolescents. She currently serves as faculty and mentor coordinator for the MI-LEND program. She is the principal investigator for the Michigan National Core Indicators survey.
Ann's interest in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) developed while working for her local Arc providing advocacy to children and adults with FASDs to secure community supports and services. She currently coordinates the activities of the Michigan FASD Task Force, a collaboration of parents, advocates, professionals, and policy makers who work to impact policies and programs that serve families and individuals who have an FASD. Ann is a requested speaker on topics related to children with disabilities in child welfare, supporting youth with FASD in transition, and community supports and resources. She has taught university classes in social work practice and research. Ann served in the United States Peace Corps in Senegal from 1988 to 1992.
