Diversity Fellowship Program

2018

The Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities at Kennedy Krieger Institute (MCDD) recruited a diversity fellow in partnership with the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The fellowship complements a number of efforts underway at MCDD to ensure that individuals with developmental disabilities across the lifespan from varied racial and ethnic minority backgrounds and their families enjoy increased and meaningful opportunities to access and use community services. During the course of the fellowship, the fellow will work with a statewide advocacy group of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, People On the Go of Maryland (POG), to develop initial goals around diversity, cultural competency, and inclusion. The fellow will work with regional and local groups of under-represented minorities in disability advocacy to identify and prioritize group needs. Other work includes assisting self-advocates with improving the quality of their member data, and working with POG and MCDD to develop a plan for a multi-year approach to improving diversity, inclusion, and cultural competency within the self-advocacy network.

Training Trainees

Education & Early Intervention

Students/Trainees (long or intermediate trainees)

Racial or Ethnic Minorities

State

N/A