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Project

Family Voices: Empowering Youth with Intellectual and Development Disabilities

Center:

MO-University of Missouri, UCEDD/LEND

Fiscal Year:

2025

Contact Information:

Michelle Reynolds
[email protected]
816-235-1759

Project Description:

Family Voices, SPAN, Got Transition and UMKC-IHD are partnering to develop a National Center for Empowering Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to Manage Their Healthcare Transitions (HCT) on this five-year grant. This funding is intended to create and maintain a national person-centered, culturally competent resource center to empower youth with ID/DD in directing their own healthcare transitions from pediatric to adult models of care. Specifically, UMKC-IHD will partner with the project team to build out LifeCourse Online App for HCT, provide technical assistance on implementing the Community of Practice and will develop resource materials, utilizing the LifeCourse framework, on HCT.

Keyword(s):

Health Care Transition, Charting the LifeCourse; Community of Practice

Core Function(s):

Continuing Education/Community Training

Area of Emphasis

Quality of Life

Target Audience:

Professionals and Para-Professionals, Family Members/Caregivers, Adults with Disabilities

Unserved or Under-served Populations:

Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Geographic Areas, Rural/Remote, Urban, Specific Groups

Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:

National