Title ^ Center Fiscal Year
Name/Contact Info
! Advancing Students Toward Educ & Employment Prog FY18 ND-North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Amy Armstrong[email protected]
Advancing Students Toward Education and Employment Program (ASTEP) is a 2 to 3 year transition and postsecondary education (PSE) program for students with intellectual disabilities (ID). ASTEP is located on the campus of Minot State University (MSU) in collaboration with the satellite Dakota College at Bottineau (DCB) campus loc...[more]
! Advancing Students Toward Educ & Employment Prog FY19 ND-North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Amy Armstrong[email protected]
Advancing Students Toward Education and Employment Program (ASTEP) is a 2 to 3 year transition and postsecondary education (PSE) program for students with intellectual disabilities (ID). ASTEP is located on the campus of Minot State University (MSU) in collaboration with the satellite Dakota College at Bottineau (DCB) campus loc...[more]
! Advancing Students Toward Educ & Employment Prog FY20 ND-North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Amy Armstrong[email protected]
Advancing Students Toward Education and Employment Program (ASTEP) is a 2 to 3 year transition and postsecondary education (PSE) program for students with intellectual disabilities (ID). ASTEP is located on the campus of Minot State University (MSU) in collaboration with the satellite Dakota College at Bottineau (DCB) campus loc...[more]
! ASPIRE Year 5 ND-North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Amy Armstrong[email protected]
The ASPIRE project is a collaboration among multiple agencies in six states, North Dakota included, to combine expertise and share resources in order to improve the quality of life of many of our most vulnerable families. The collaboration will coordinate activities for the PROMISE national initiative. Specifically, the ASPIRE p...[more]
! Assist with Individual Placement and Support (IPS) ND-North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Michele Burney[email protected]
The goal of the project is for NDCPD to provide Community Options with assistance with Individual Placement and Support (IPS) fidelity reviews in accordance with the Supported Employment Fidelity Review Manual.
! LOCAL: ASTEP VR Employment Support ND-North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Amy Armstrong[email protected]
North Dakota Vocational Rehabilitation contributes funding towards employment activities within the ASTEP project.
! NDACP Conference Labor/NonLabor ND-North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kari Schmidt[email protected]
This 33rd annual conference provides information that is primarily targeted to employees of community DD providers in ND. Topics include supported employment issues, staff retention and recruitment, behavior management, health transitions for youth, nurtured heart approach, prevention of abuse and neglect, secondary education fo...[more]
! Statewide Customized Employment Specialist Training FY19 ND-North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Michele Burney[email protected]
The Statewide Customized Employment Specialist Training Project will coordinate and provide training and technical assistance to community rehabilitation providers to explore and implement innovative customized employment strategies to provide integrated employment for people that currently are receiving day supports and/or in n...[more]
! Statewide Customized Employment Specialist Training FY20 ND-North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Michele Burney[email protected]
The Statewide Customized Employment Specialist Training Project will coordinate and provide training and technical assistance to community rehabilitation providers to explore and implement innovative customized employment strategies to provide integrated employment for people that currently are receiving day supports and/or in n...[more]
! Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Customized Employment Training FY19 ND-North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Michele Burney[email protected]
The Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Customized Employment Training will coordinate customized employment training for State Vocational Rehabilitation Staff. The training will include an overview of customized employment, discovery, job development, and coaching and retention.
! Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Customized Employment Training FY20 ND-North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Michele Burney[email protected]
The Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Customized Employment Training will coordinate customized employment training for State Vocational Rehabilitation Staff. The training will include an overview of customized employment, discovery, job development, and coaching and retention.
09-Flutter Productions NEH Grant SD-Center for Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
John R. Johnson[email protected]
The Center for Disabilities was contacted by Flutter Productions to assist with an evaluation of a three-year initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities seeking to create humanities communities that can foster increased inclusion and interaction among disabled and non-disabled communities.
Goals and objec...[more]
1 - Core Funding: AIDD - Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities OH-The Nisonger Center, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Marc J. Tasse[email protected]
The Ohio State University Nisonger Center UCEDD was founded in 1966 as one of the original University Centers created to provide interdisciplinary developmental disabilities training and services, conduct research, and provide outreach to individuals with developmental disabilities, their families and those supporting persons w...[more]
1.03 E4Texas - Educate. Empower, Employ. Excel. TX-Texas Center for Disability Studies, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Amy Sharp[email protected]
The E4Texas - Educate. Empower, Employ. Excel. project will provide post secondary training to transitioning high school students with disabilities. The university-based project will focus on a career goal for students.
Need: There is a need for post secondary opportunities for young adults with disabilities.
Goals: Deve...[more]
1.1 Master's Program: Special Education (Montague) TX-Center on Disability and Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Marcia Montague[email protected]
Project provides Master's students with specialized expertise in serving the inclusive education, social and behavioral support, and transition needs of students with DD and other disabilities. This project will be accomplished in collaboration with special education faculty at Texas A&M University. Each year, the project will a...[more]
1.5 Bridge to Career (Glass) TX-Center on Disability and Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tracy Glass[email protected]
Bridge to Career
Postsecondary education has long been considered a pathway to community inclusion, independent living, and competitive employment for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and developmental disabilities (DD), just as it has been for people without ID/DD. The need for specialized knowledge and skills gain...[more]
1.5 Postsecondary Access and Training for Human Services (PATHS) Project (Glass) TX-Center on Disability and Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tracy Glass[email protected]
Postsecondary education (PSE) has long been considered a pathway to community inclusion, independent living, and competitive employment for persons with intellectual disabilities (IDD), and developmental disabilities (DD), just as it has been for the general population. The need for knowledge attainment and skill development thr...[more]
16-Alaska Customized Employment Project SD-Center for Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jon Wallner[email protected]
Customized Employment strategies are used to assist individuals with significant disabilities to obtain competitive, integrated employment. Participants will learn how to complete the discovery process and develop a vocational profile and a person-centered employment plan. Case studies for individuals with Intellectual and Devel...[more]
17-Kessler Just in Time Employment Project SD-Center for Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
John R. Johnson[email protected]
This project will pilot and assess the functionality and cost effectiveness of virtual technology platforms to increase supported employment service capacity and efficiencies in the Midwest; providing real-time information, supports, and services to workers with disabilities, their long-term job coaching staff, and their employe...[more]
2.03 TTAP - Texas Technology Access Program TX-Texas Center for Disability Studies, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Angela Standridge[email protected]
NEED: The Texas Technology Access Program (TTAP) leads the state's efforts to carry out the federal Assistive Technology Act of 1998 as amended in 2004 and earlier versions of the law. The Grant was first funded in 1992 as the Texas Assistive Technology Partnership.
GOALS: TTAP goals are State Level Activities which reflec...[more]
2.1 Texas Transition Conference (Grenwelge/Day) TX-Center on Disability and Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Cheryl Grenwelge[email protected]
2.1 Texas Transition Conference
Purpose: Successful post school outcome rates in the area of post secondary education and employment for youth with disabilities continues to be considerably lower than for youth without disabilities. Comprehensive transition planning for youth with disabilities is the vehicle that ensures that...[more]
2.2.1 Leadership, Employability, and Advocacy Project (Grenwelge) TX-Center on Disability and Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Cheryl Grenwelge[email protected]
The Leadership, Employability, and Advocacy Project (LEAP) provides training and experiences to youth with disabilities to develop their leadership and advocacy skills. Project LEAP selects youth participants from among high school juniors and seniors across the state. Participants learn the history of the disability rights move...[more]
2.2.2 Work And College Opportunities (WACO) Project (Grenwelge) TX-Center on Disability and Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Cheryl Grenwelge[email protected]
2.17 Work And College Opportunities (WACO) Project
The Work and College Opportunities (W.A.C.O.) project at Texas A&M University is a 5-week program held in the Summer for students who are blind or have low vision.
TWC-VR Transition Program, Brazos Valley Center for Independent Living and Texas A&M Center on Disability an...[more]
2.4.4 Person Centered Employment Planning Training (Orsag) TX-Center on Disability and Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Meagan Orsag[email protected]
FY 2017
In collaboration with the Center on Disability and Development (CDD), the University of Texas Center on Disability Studies (TCDS), the Texas Division of Blind Services (DBS), the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI), Educational Service Center Region 6 (Huntsville) and Region 12 (Waco), and Fungin...[more]
2.6 Texas AgrAbility Project || Battle Ground to Breaking Ground (Grenwelge) TX-Center on Disability and Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Cheryl Grenwelge[email protected]
The Texas AgrAbility Projects focus is on connecting, assisting, and empowering agricultural producers, their family members, and employees with disabilities and chronic health conditions to stay engaged in production agriculture.
Agriculture work is considered one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States, ...[more]
2.7.1.3 Coalition of Texans with Disabilities (CTD) Collaborative (Orsag) TX-Center on Disability and Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Meagan Orsag[email protected]
Coalition of Texans with Disabilities
Annual Outreach Efforts
July 2019 - June 2020
The Coalition of Texan with Disabilities (CTD) is pleased to have the support of Texas A&M Center on
Disability and Development in providing outreach and training to a wide variety of consumers, providers and to private sector companies ...[more]
2.7.1.4 Family to Family Network (Orsag) TX-Center on Disability and Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Meagan Orsag[email protected]
The Mission of Family to Family Network is to help families with chidden with disabilities by providing information, training, referrals, and support, which includes the following:
1. Offer information and referral to resources; one on one ethnical assistance on the special education process or navigating other service syste...[more]
2.7.3 Brazos Valley Center for Independent Living (Pacha) TX-Center on Disability and Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jackie Pacha[email protected]
Brazos Valley Center for Independent Living (BVCIL)
Through the Brazos Valley Center for Independent Living, provide services that enhance community integration and quality of life for individuals with disabilities. Through the BVCIL, partner with the state Independent Living Council and other centers for independent living on ...[more]
20-Health Care Transition SD-Center for Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Emily Meier[email protected]
Training clinical professionals in the delivery of effective health care strategies for persons with disabilities and chronic health care needs. The focus is assisting clinical professionals with effective strategies for assisting adolescent patients and family members transition from pediatric to adult healthcare. In addition,...[more]
2a-1 Self- and family-advocacy projects, including projects in the Latino, African-American, and Asian communities CA-UC Davis at the MIND Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Robin Hansen[email protected]
CEDD works to strengthen advocacy skills for people with DD and their families, promoting the inclusion, integration, productivity, and human rights of people with DD and working towards creating a community that is enriched by their full and active participation and contributions. We have several advocacy projects underway, in...[more]
2e Support for transition to adulthood CA-UC Davis at the MIND Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Steve Ruder[email protected]
CEDDs transition program is designed to strengthen the preparation of teens and young adults with DD for adult life in the community. It includes the exploration of options for post-secondary education, purposeful work or volunteer service, and community living. Young adults and their parents learn to work together to define ...[more]
3.3 Improving Postsecondary Outcomes for Students with IDD/DD TX-Center on Disability and Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kelly Wilson[email protected]
During the Summer programs, 111 youth with disabilities participated in leadership, employability, independent living, social skills, transportation, and professionalism training. Data was collected via the WACO, LEAP, and Bridge to Career programs to further the understanding of this training on the postsecondary outcomes of st...[more]
3.8 Capacity Building (Zhang) TX-Center on Disability and Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Dan Zhang[email protected]
Individuals with disabilities face challenges in their transition from school to adult life, especially in the transition from school to employment. Federal legislation requires local and state education agencies to work with the state vocational rehabilitation agency to facilitate a smooth transition from school to employment. ...[more]
3.9 Project Basic Employability Skills Training (BEST) TX-Center on Disability and Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jacqueline Turner[email protected]
***Rationale***
Employment is a central aspect of the well-being for people with disabilities. Studies have shown that employment has positive impacts on social interactions, living arrangements, self- perspectives and self-esteem, economic safety, and productivity (Priebe, Warner, Jubschmid, and Eckle, 1998; Butterworth & Gilm...[more]
3a-4 Social Skills Clinic CA-UC Davis at the MIND Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Marjorie Solomon[email protected]
The Social Skills Program, under the direction of Marjorie Solomon, PhD, is a group training program for children and adults with ASD and other social communication disorders who have difficulty making friends, having successful interactions in school and the community, including employment. Groups are organized by age and ty...[more]
5c Website CA-UC Davis at the MIND Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Lori Llewelyn[email protected]
CEDD/MIND websites. CEDD provides online resources and reference materials on topics related to DD, health and wellness, environmental health, community resources, government resources, best practices, advocacy, cultural diversity, early identification and intervention, education, transition to adulthood, post-secondary educati...[more]
A Solution to Personnel Shortages in the Florida Public Vocational Rehabilitation System FL-Florida Center for Inclusive Communities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tammy Jorgensen-Smith[email protected]
The Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling Program at the University of South Florida, Tampa (Congressional district 15) is funded under the Rehabilitation Services Administration Long-Term Training Program to address personnel shortages within the Florida Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) system. New courses are proposed to t...[more]
ACCESS Employment WY-Wyoming Institute for Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sandra Root-Elledge[email protected]
Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND) and the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) have formed a strategic partnership to increase the number of students receiving Pre-employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS). Pre-ETS services are activities required by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014, br...[more]
Achieving Competitive Customized Employment through Specialized Services FL-Florida Center for Inclusive Communities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tammy Jorgensen-Smith[email protected]
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) encompass a group of neurodevelopmental disorders whose defining features include deficits in social communication across multiple contexts and restrictive, repetitive patterns of behavior, interest, or activities (APA 2000, 2011). ASD is an increasingly prevalent (1 in 68) and costly condition in...[more]
ACS Abt Associates-Subcontract for the Office of Research, Evaluation and Statistics. SSI Youth Community-Based Services and Supports. MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sheryl Larson[email protected]
Provide research reporting and analysis to the Social Security Administration on community-based employment services available to transition age youth and families in the United States, outline policy and services gaps, and make recommendations for future policy and practice to improve outcomes and access for transition age yout...[more]
ACS Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration. Maryland Statewide Positive Behavior Support MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jessica Simacek[email protected]
ICI is collaborating with with Maryland's Developmental Disabilities Administration (MD-DDA) leadership, Mid-Atlantic, and University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) to implement positive behavior support in organizations supporting people with disabilities in residential and employment settings. This project is establishing a ...[more]
ACS National Institute of Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). Field Initiated Development Grant. Subcontract UMass MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kelly Nye-Lengerman[email protected]
In partnership with the Institute for Community Inclusion (UMass), this project is to build ES-Coach, a performance coaching application that supports employment specialists to implement established standards of practice leading to improved employment outcomes of job seekers with disabilities.
ACS RRTC on Employment for individuals with IDD: THINK WORK (subcontract) MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Amy Hewitt[email protected]
Research suggests that employment professionals do not consistently implement promising or evidence based practices (Butterworth, Nord, & Migliore, in press; Butterworth, Migliore, Nord, & Gelb, 2012, Migliore, Butterworth, Nord, Cox, & Gelb, 2012; Migliore, Hall, Butterworth, & Winsor, 2010). Moreover, the evidence base for pra...[more]
ACS RTCCL College of Direct Support MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Amy Hewitt[email protected]
Offers a nationwide, online, competency-based training curriculum to enhance the skills and knowledge of Direct Support Professionals (DSPs), frontline supervisors, and managers supporting individuals with disabilities in community settings. It is part of DirectCourse, a suite of competency-based, online curricula for profession...[more]
ACS RTCCL DirectCourse MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Amy Hewitt[email protected]
Offers a suite of competency-based, online curricula for professionals providing services to people with intellectual, developmental, physical, and psychiatric disabilities, and to older adults. Operated by a partnership of the Institute's Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC) and Elsevier, a world-leading provi...[more]
ACS RTCCL Diversity Fellowships MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jennifer Hall-Lande[email protected]
Aims to (1) increase the knowledge and capacity of disability within a community-based organization (CBO) that serves diverse and/or underrepresented families, and (2) inform ICI about how to increase staff/trainee diversity, support underserved individuals and families, and better serve diverse communities. This project is part...[more]
ACS RTCCL ES Coach with UMass Boston MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kelly Nye-Lengerman[email protected]
The goal of this project is to build ES-Coach, a performance coaching application that supports employment specialists to implement established standards of practice leading to improved employment outcomes of job seekers with disabilities. The objectives are to(1) develop a completeES-Coach application that supports employment s...[more]
ACS RTCCL MCRI Day Support Consulting MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jennifer Hall-Lande[email protected]
Provides specialized consultation on integrated day services and staff training for MRCI, Inc., an employment provider. ICI develops new tools for staff training to support increased community inclusion and participation for individuals with disabilities in MRCI's day services programs in greater Minnesota.
ACS RTCCL MN Employment Training and Technical Assistance Project (MN-TAP) (subcontract to UMass) MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kelly Nye-Lengerman[email protected]
MN-TAP is a two-year project funded by DHS designed to improve employment outcomes for people with disabilities. This project will provide technical assistance to two groups of provider agencies. A total of 12 agencies will participate over the course of two years. This project will help providers offer better support to people ...[more]
ACS Understanding Developing, and Supporting Meaningful Work for Youth with Disabilities in Bhutan: Networks, Communities, and Transitions MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Brian Abery[email protected]
Supports the inclusive community employment of youth and young adults with disabilities in Bhutan, a mountainous kingdom in south central Asia. This program of research and development will be conducted in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan. I...[more]
ADD UCEDD Core Grant CA-USC, Childrens Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Larry Yin[email protected]
The USC UCEDD is one of three UCEDDs in California. Among the first UAPs funded in 1966 at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, the USC UCEDD has a $19.4 million annual budget and is home to a Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) interdisciplinary graduate training program funded by the Maternal Child Healt...[more]
ADDPC Adaptive Sports (ADDPC-AS) AZ-Institute for Human Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kelly Roberts[email protected]
The goal of the proposed project is to increase the involvement of persons with I/DD in adaptive alpine ski and snowboarding activities with a targeted number of 100 unique participants during the 2019-2020 ski season, while focusing on the rehabilitative, therapeutic, and whole life health that adaptive sports opportunities hav...[more]
Advancing Employment GA-Institute on Human Development and Disability, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Doug Crandell[email protected]
The goal to achieve in this project is as follows: to increase opportunities for individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) to seek and obtain employment through providers using best-practice approaches such as customized employment, self-employment, and individualized placements and supports. Many people st...[more]
Aggies Elevated UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jefferson Sheen[email protected]
Aggies Elevated provides an inclusive, post-secondary education experience for young adults with intellectual disabilities. We recognize that young adult learners with disabilities want what their typically developing peers want: a traditional college experience, the chance to learn and live independently, and to work in a field...[more]
AIDD Access to Integrated Employment: National Data Collection on Day and Employment Services for Citizens MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
John Butterworth[email protected]
For the past 30 years the Access to Integrated Employment project has described day and employment outcomes and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and contributed to a comprehensive understanding of the factors that influence employment outcomes at an individual, employment support practic...[more]
AIDD Core - UCEDD Administration OR-Oregon Institute on Development & Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Rhonda Eppelsheimer[email protected]
GCDRC0234ESD3?
The UCEDD in the Institute on Development & Disability of Oregon Health & Science University has a 40-year history in promoting the well being of persons with developmental and other disabilities through training, research and evaluation, community services, technical assistance, information dissemination, and po...[more]
AIDD/UCEDD Grant TN-Center on Developmental Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Bruce Keisling[email protected]
Edits per BK entered by ZD on 3/12/19 - With support and guidance of the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, the Boling Center, as Tennessee's UCEDD, is committed to base all program planning on the values of personal dignity and self-determination, demonstrated community need and broad-based consumer advice and partic...[more]
American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Training and Technical Assistance Center (AIVRTTAC) AZ-Institute for Human Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kelly Roberts[email protected]
The purpose of the proposed project is to provide training and technical assistance to governing bodies of Indian Tribes that have received and American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Services (AIVRS) grant. The training and TA will be provided utilizing state-of-the-art e-learning solution that are accessible and engaging AI...[more]
Appalachian Rural Health Integration Model WV-Center for Excellence in Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Lesley Cottrell[email protected]
The IMPACT WV project is working with communities to create opportunities and address needs of children diagnosed with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) or exposed to substances in utero. The programs goal is to improve the health and well-being of children diagnosed with NAS, women who were, or are, using substances, and their...[more]
Appalachian State University Scholars with Diverse Abilities Program NC-Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Deborah Zuver[email protected]
The Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD) works collaboratively with the Appalachian State University Scholars with Diverse Abilities Program (SDAP) to evaluate this program. SDAP supports an inclusive transition program for students with intellectual disabilities in higher education. The evaluation includes d...[more]
Appalachian State University Scholars with Diverse Abilities Program NC-Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Deborah Zuver[email protected]
The Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD) works collaboratively with the Appalachian State University Scholars with Diverse Abilities Program (SDAP) to evaluate this program. SDAP supports an inclusive transition program for students with intellectual disabilities in higher education. The evaluation includes d...[more]
Arizona Employment First AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Susan Voirol[email protected]
Unemployment is high for people with ID/DD and other disabilities in Arizona. The Employment First Arizona Initiative is a Statewide coalition that has developed an employment first strategic plan, with updated goals/objectives, and continues to engage stakeholders to move towards employment first policies and practices in the S...[more]
Arizona Recruitment and Retention - TAESE UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
John Copenhaver[email protected]
Project Context.
The national Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) supports State Education Agencies in improving results for children with disabilities. The State Personnel Development Grants (SPDG) are funded to work with the SEAs to improve their systems of professional development, technical assistance, and dissemina...[more]
Arizona Youth Leadership Forum AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jacy Farkas[email protected]
Partnership with Diverse Ability Incorporated to host AZYLF week-long conference annually at UArizona as one of the 5 sites/session. SUCEDD staff also support efforts and provide TA to Diverse Ability youth initiatives.
ASSIST: State Grant for Assist (UATP) UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sachin Pavithran[email protected]
The Utah Assistive Technology Program is an initiative of the Center for Persons with Disabilities (CPD) at Utah State University. The UATP puts assistive technology (AT) into the hands of people in Utah who need it.
AT is any item, piece of equipment or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified or...[more]
Assistive Technology for Kansans KS-Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sara Sack[email protected]
Purpose of Assistive Technology for Kansans: Increase statewide access of assistive technology devices and services to people of all ages and abilities. Kansans of all ages with any type of disability or health condition can request information/referral, evaluation, technical assistance or training supports by calling 1-800-KAN-...[more]
Assistive Technology: NYS Commission for the Blind Loan Program NY-Westchester Institute for Human Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Izel Obermeyer[email protected]
The purpose of this program is to support services to individuals who are legally blind through an established Equipment Loan Closet (ELC). ELCs provide adaptive technology to meet the needs of the Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped (CBVH)consumers who are participating in vocational rehabilitation services such a...[more]
Assistive Technology: Technology Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities (TRAID) Loan Program NY-Westchester Institute for Human Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Izel Obermeyer[email protected]
TRAID - TECHNOLOGY RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES-
Through a federal grant from the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA), the NYS Commission on Quality of Care and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities (CQCAPD) provides statewide coordination of assistive technology (AT) activities for people with...[more]
Association of People Supporting Employment First AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Susan Voirol[email protected]
Association of People Supporting Employment First local Chapter. Working with variety of stakeholders to address expanding and increasing successful employment outcomes for people who have disabilities.
AZ mission is to expand inclusive employment opportunities for all people with disabilities through education, advocacy and ...[more]
Augmentative Communication and Empowerment Supports PA-Institute on Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kim Singleton[email protected]
ACES is a 10 - 14 day campus-based program for augmented communicators to designed to increase their ability to use their speech-generating devices for communication, self-advocacy, independent living, post-secondary education (if desired), and employment.
AUTISM - Autism Spectrum Disorders Clinic OH-The Nisonger Center, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Andrea Witwer[email protected]
Autism Spectrum Disorders Clinic
The Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Clinic provides families with initial autism evaluations, as well as re-evaluations and behavioral consults. The evaluation assesses the child or adolescent?s developmental strengths, skills and needs. Parents are able to discuss their child with a psychologi...[more]
Benefit Counseling Work Incentives Consortium - LA BPS LA-Louisiana State University Human Development Center - New Orleans, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Donald Leger[email protected]
Disseminating accurate information about work incentives programs and related issues to Social Security beneficiaries with disabilities is met by extensive networking and state-wide collaboration among organizations that assist these individuals in entering or re-entering the workforce. The complexity of the Social Security Admi...[more]
BLAIR: Movin' On in Montana MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Martin Blair[email protected]
Program Objective:
To give high school students an on-campus educational experience which prepares them for transition from high school to college and self-advocacy while in college.
Movin On is a 4 day, 3 night campus experience that provides students who are within 20 months of school completion an opportunity to learn...[more]
BOEHM: Living Well / Working Well with a Disability (Sales & Service) MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tracy Boehm Barrett[email protected]
Living Well is ten week wellness workshop for people with disabilities that helps participants achieve full participation through health maintenance and health promotion activities.
When appropriate, individuals are encouraged to consider health behavior as one tool for increasing participation. Individually chosen goals are t...[more]
Bridgerland Literacy UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Alice Shepherd[email protected]
Bridgerland Literacy is an adult literacy program that helps adults who struggle with literacy in reading, writing and math. We work with individuals who need to improve their literacy skills to improve their lives, employment, and education. We work with individuals who have basic literacy issues, need help with language co...[more]
Bridgerland Literacy/BRAG UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Alice Shepherd[email protected]
Bridgerland Literacy is an adult literacy program that helps adults who struggle with literacy in reading, writing and math. We work with individuals who need to improve their literacy skills to improve their lives, employment, and education. We work with individuals who have basic literacy issues, need help with language co...[more]
BROWN: Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kim Brown[email protected]
This project will increase the capacity of the DPHHS Childrens Special Health Services to support children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) to transition successfully into adulthood. Activities will include expanding the Rural Institute Consumer Advisory Council to include CYSHCN representatives; developing and ...[more]
Camp Yes And (Indpls): An Improv Summer Camp... Expires 8/31/19 IN-Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Cassandra Cole[email protected]
Camp Yes And combines communication and social skills instruction for teens with autism as well as deep professional learning for general and special educators, speech-language pathologists, school psychologists, counselors, and social workers (https://yesand.indiana.edu). The camp utilizes innovative instructional methods deriv...[more]
Career & Life Studies Certificate DE-Center for Disabilities Studies, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Brian Freedman[email protected]
The Career and Life Studies Certificate (CLSC) Program is a two-year, certificate program for students with intellectual disabilities (ID) providing academic, career/technical and independent living instruction in preparation for gainful employment with an option to inclusively live on campus in the residence halls. CLSC student...[more]
Career Pathways for Arizona's Future (Pre-ETS) AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Wendy Warren[email protected]
This four-year project is focused on improving post-school outcomes and employment rates of high school youth.
This will be done through the delivery of effective Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS).
The project, implemented in collaboration with vocational rehabilitation, schools, and adult service providers acr...[more]
CCDD - Self Advocacy - Health Initiative KY-Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Chithra Adams[email protected]
The evaluation unit of the Human Development Institute (HDI) at the University of Kentucky (UK) will provide research and technical assistance services to the leadership and staff of the Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities (CCDD). As such, the services include: Collaborating with CCDD leadership to identify resea...[more]
CCLC State Appropriation IN-Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Judith Gross[email protected]
The mission of the Center on Community Living and Careers is to promote partnerships between schools and support organizations to bring about positive changes in the lives of individuals and families as they live, work, and participate in their communities.
CDHD Core UCEDD ID-Center on Disabilities and Human Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Julie Fodor[email protected]
The University of Idaho Center on Disabilities and Human Development (CDHD) is improving lives for people with disabilities and their families through exemplary and innovative education, outreach, research, and service. We believe that these individuals and their families have the right to live, learn, work, and play in their o...[more]
Center for RENEW Implementation NH-INACTIVE-Institute on Disability, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
JoAnne Malloy[email protected]
RENEW is a structured school-to-career transition planning and individualized wraparound process for youth with emotional and behavioral challenges. Developed in 1996 by staff at the Institute on Disability (IOD), RENEW is being provided by schools, community mental health centers, community-based providers, and IOD staff member...[more]
Center for RENEW Implementation NH-Institute on Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
JoAnne Malloy[email protected]
RENEW is a structured school-to-career transition planning and individualized wraparound process for youth with emotional and behavioral challenges. Developed in 1996 by staff at the Institute on Disability (IOD), RENEW is being provided by schools, community mental health centers, community-based providers, and IOD staff member...[more]
Center on Disability Studies, a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities HI-Hawaii Center on Disability Studies UCEDD/JABSOM LEND Program
Fiscal Year: 2020
Patricia Morrissey[email protected]
The goal of this project will be to continue and expand activities to achieve the mission of the UH-CDS to support the quality of life, community integration, and self-determination of all persons with developmental disabilities and their families. Due to its particular strengths and resources, the UH-CDS has decided to focus i...[more]
Citizens Reutilizing Assistive Technology Equipment UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sachin Pavithran[email protected]
The Utah Assistive Technology Program is an initiative of the Center for Persons with Disabilities (CPD) at Utah State University. The UATP puts assistive technology (AT) into the hands of people in Utah who need it.
AT is any item, piece of equipment or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified or...[more]
City of Tempe Employment First & BEST Program AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Susan Voirol[email protected]
The Sonoran UCEDD has worked together with the City of Tempe to assist with enhancing their employment practices to increase the number of people with disabilities who are employed by Tempe City government. This is being done through training, education and technical assistance.
CLEE - Self-Determination and Transition TN-Center on Developmental Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Aaron Kohring[email protected]
Last updated by ZD per MJ edits 9/11/17 -
CLEE Transition and Self-Determination Project Description
Objective II.G. Promote best practices in transition and self-determination to at least 22 school districts and 700 teachers and parents per year.
SERVICES PROVIDED BY CLEE:
CLEE staff can assist students, teachers and sch...[more]
CLEE - Supported Employment TN-Center on Developmental Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Aaron Kohring[email protected]
Through a network of account representatives throughout the state, this program provides statewide disability resources and employment services to assist Tennessee businesses in recruiting, hiring, and retaining employees with disabilities.
Our Center has a long-standing commitment to developing a strong and diverse workforce t...[more]
CMHAM Supported Employment MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
John Butterworth[email protected]
The Community Mental Health Association of Michigan (CMHAM) is the state association representing the states public Community Mental Health (CMH) centers, the public Prepaid Inpatient Health Plans (PIHP) public health plans formed and governed by the CMH centers) and the providers within the CMH and PIHP provider networks.
Toda...[more]
College to Career CA-Tarjan Center UCLA, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Elizabeth Laugeson[email protected]
This project aims at improving employment outcomes for young adults with ASD.
College to Career Transition Program CA-Tarjan Center UCLA, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Elizabeth Laugeson[email protected]
An estimated 80 percent of adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are unemployed. The UCLA College to Career Transition Program is an innovative offering for undergraduate and graduate students with ASD or suspected ASD who are interested in acquiring job-related, social, and practical skills for a successful transition from...[more]
Colorado Office of Employment First CO-JFK Partners/University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Patricia Henke[email protected]
Employment First is a philosophy that individuals with significant disabilities have the right to engage in employment at or above minimum wage in an integrated environment, which allows for meaningful interaction with co-workers without disabilities. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) definies Competitive Integ...[more]
Community Conversations PA-Institute on Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Julia Barol[email protected]
Temple Universitys Institute on Disabilities will, along with the Leadership and Career Studies Students, organize, extend invitations, facilitate, and provide an outcomes report from community conversations in the students communities. We anticipate that there will be 4 Community Conversations in which the 4 students who are e...[more]
Community Life Engagement (Field Initiated Research) MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jennifer Sulewski[email protected]
The Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI), in partnership with the American Network of Community Options and Resources (ANCOR) and the Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE), will address NIDILRRs community living and participation outcome domain through the design and testing of a Community Life Engagement (...[more]
Community Work Transition Program KY-Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kathy Sheppard-Jones[email protected]
The Community Work Transition Program (CWTP) is a statewide collaborative program with the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Kentucky Department of Education (KDE), Human Development Institute (HDI) and Local Education Agencies (LEA). The goal of the programs is for each student to have a variety of experiences and exposure t...[more]
Community: Employment NY-Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Susan Hetherington[email protected]
Pathways to Employment
Competitive Integrated Employment Services MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Cindy Thomas[email protected]
The Institute for Community Inclusion provides employment services for individuals with significant disabilities referred by the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission and the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind. All services and support are community based and with a goal of competitive integrated employment, with support ...[more]
Comprehensive Statewide Needs Assessment PA-Institute on Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sally Gould-Taylor[email protected]
The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation in Pennsylvania works to help individuals with disabilities to overcome barriers and achieve their employment goals. To meet the requirements of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 every 3 years a Comprehensive Statewide Needs Assessment (CSNA) is performed in order to ascertain and describe th...[more]
CONDON: Competitive Integrated Employment and Transition Projects (Sales & Service) MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Ellen Condon[email protected]
The University of Montana Rural Institute has been a leader in the area of transition planning for youth with disabilities since 1995. Activities have included:
Provision of education and training to schools, families, students and agencies
Development of innovative strategies and transition models;
Demonstration, outreac...[more]
CONDON: NCDB: Transition Outcomes for Youth with Deaf-Blindness MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Ellen Condon[email protected]
The National Center on Deaf-Blindness contracts with the Rural Institute to provide support and technical assistance with the center's outreach to state deaf-blind projects around transition for students with deaf-blindness and additional disabilities.
Conversion Institute RI-The Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
A. Anthony Antosh[email protected]
The Conversion Institute was created in the Consent Decree between the United States Department of Justice and the State of Rhode Island with the intent of increasing access to employment in integrated settings.
Coordination of Pre Employment Transition Services AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Wendy Parent-Johnson[email protected]
The Sonoran UCEDD Career Pathways to Arizona's Future project is funded by the Arizona Department of Economic Security, Division of Rehabilitation Services Administration. This four-year project is focused on addressing the high unemployment rates for Arizona transition aged youth with disabilities., This will be done through th...[more]
CReATE: Citizens Reutilizing Assistive Technology Equipment UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sachin Pavithran[email protected]
The Utah Assistive Technology Program is an initiative of the Center for Persons with Disabilities (CPD) at Utah State University. The UATP puts assistive technology (AT) into the hands of people in Utah who need it.
AT is any item, piece of equipment or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified or...[more]
Creating a "Picture of a Life" for Transitioning Youth with DD in Foster Care AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jacy Farkas[email protected]
The Sonoran UCEDD was asked by the AZ Department of Economic Security/Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD) to partner with DDD on a project to improve outcomes for foster youth with developmental disabilities (DD). The DDD then met with the Arizona DD Planning Council about collaborating on the project. The Arizona DD P...[more]
CSHCN Nutrition Network WA-Center on Human Development & Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Mari Mazon[email protected]
The Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Nutrition Network project is designed to improve the availability of quality, community-based nutrition services for children with special health care needs in Washington State. This objective is achieved through providing ongoing training opportunities and resources to over...[more]
Customized Employment for Individuals with Serious Psychiatric Disabilities - NIDILRR AK-Center for Human Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Karen Ward[email protected]
Customized Employment for Individuals with Serious Psychiatric Disabilities
The University of Alaska Anchorage Center for Human Development in partnership with
community rehabilitation providers and vocational rehabilitation (VR), in the course of this
three-year project, will research a customized employment (CE) model with ...[more]
DARS WIOA 511 Career Counseling & Training VA-Partnership for People with Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Dana Yarbrough[email protected]
The Partnership for People with Disabilities (Partnership) at Virginia Commonwealth University and Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) agree to work collaboratively to meet WIOA Sub Minimum Wage Section 511 Requirements.
Scope of Work
1. The Partnership will:
a. Recruit, train, and maintain a cadre of app...[more]
DD Network Collaboration AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Wendy Parent-Johnson[email protected]
The Sonoran UCEDD works with the other DD Network members in a strategic manner to positively impact individuals with disabilities and their families. All four DD network partners have signed a Memorandum of Understanding describing our coordinated activities on a yearly basis. Partners meet at least quarterly, and usually mon...[more]
DDS Employment Supports MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Cindy Thomas[email protected]
ICI provides employment services and supports for individuals served by the Department of Developmental Services. The outcome is competitive integrated employment with support provided as needed including supported and customized employment.
DDS Employment Training and Technical Assistance MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Cindy Thomas[email protected]
Supports implementation and development of the DDS Employment Outcomes Information System including data cleaning and review of the 2008 data, maintaining the DDS Employment Outcome Data web site, providing TA to DDS personnel on use and interpretation of these data, and updating the data display on the web site to meet DDS stra...[more]
Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution ID-Center on Disabilities and Human Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Janice Carson[email protected]
Advances in technology have dramatically changed the way in which we communicate. The wide variety of digital and Internet based voice, text, and video communication methods allow individuals to achieve greater independence, productivity, safety and security. The creation of these technologies has enabled a wide range of consume...[more]
Designing VR Employment Training MS-Institute for Disability Studies, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jerry R. Alliston[email protected]
The Virtually Getting Ready to Work Program will support capacity building activities focused on the DD Act Emphasis Area of Employment. The program will purchase virtual reality equipment, develop pre-employment training using virtual reality technology, pilot the training and then provide training to youth and young adults wi...[more]
Development of an inclusive postsecondary education (PSE) program for students with intellectual and other developmental disabilities NC-Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Deborah Zuver[email protected]
This project proposes to develop an inclusive postsecondary education (PSE) program for students with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (IDD) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, consistent with the University mission to support student diversity and enhance the quality of life for all people in th...[more]
Developmental Skills Laboratory UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Susan Olsen[email protected]
Adults with developmental disabilities need to participate in meaningful activities that are age- and developmentally appropriate and that are goal directed. These activities need to be individually planned to train and maintain the individual in the areas of communication, self care, independent living skills, fine and gross mo...[more]
Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) Program: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA National Network) IL-Institute on Disability & Human Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Robin Jones[email protected]
The purpose of NIDILRRs DRRPs, which are funded through the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program, is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act by generating new knowledge or developing methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies that advance a wide ra...[more]
Disability Employment Initiative - 7 MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
David Hoff[email protected]
DEI V & VII
DMH Employment First and Technology First (PA20004) MO-University of Missouri, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
George Gotto[email protected]
Need
DODD - (NCI) National Core Ohio Indicators Data Collection OH-The Nisonger Center, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Marc J. Tasse[email protected]
The National Core Indicators (NCI) Project is a voluntary effort by public developmental disabilities agencies to measure and track their own performance. The Core Indicators are standard measures used across states to assess the outcomes of services provided to individuals and families. Indicators address key areas of concern ...[more]
Driver Rehabilitation Services KY-Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kathy Sheppard-Jones[email protected]
HDI, in conjunction with the University of Kentucky Hospital Occupational Therapy Outpatient Services, facilitates HDIs Driver Rehabilitation Services program. Our Driver Rehabilitation Services program provides high quality driver evaluation and training services for people with disabilities who have a desire to become independ...[more]
DVR Quality Assurance AK-Center for Human Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Larrisa Cummings[email protected]
1. The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) utilizes the services of benefits planners otherwise known as Community Work Incentive Coordinators (CWICs)to provide benefits planning services for their clients who are looking for employment or self-employment options. There is no oversight of the CWICs who provide these serv...[more]
Edith Baker Integrated Behavioral Health Care Fellowship PA-LEND Center of Pittsburgh, LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Valire Copeland[email protected]
Edith Baker Fellows are trained to become Behavioral Health Specialists, Mental Health Practitioners, Behavioral Disorder Counselors, Rehabilitation Counselors, Chronic Disease Case Managers, Implementation Specialists, Integrated Behavioral Health Consultants, and Licensed Clinical Social Workers with a concentration in integra...[more]
EmployAbility Clinic UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Susan Olsen[email protected]
The EmployAbility Clinic is a model employment service in partnership with the Utah State Office of Rehabilitation (USOR), to provide employer and employee side supports to facilitate increased competitive integrated employment for individuals with disabilities in Cache Valley. The Employability Clinic is dedicated to finding c...[more]
Employment - The Learning Academy at USF FL-Florida Center for Inclusive Communities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Beth Boone[email protected]
The Learning Academy at the University of South Florida is a 30 week program designed to provide a structured employment-focused curriculum for individuals diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, between the ages of 18-25 after they have graduated from high school. The Learning Academy provides services, supports and experie...[more]
Employment - The Learning Academy Employment Services at USF (TLA Auxiliary Account) FL-Florida Center for Inclusive Communities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Beth Boone[email protected]
Employment Services assist individuals in preparing for, securing, maintaining, or retaining employment, and to assure satisfaction of the employer and individual. Services could include employer contacts, job analysis and modifications, support in job seeking and retention skills, job development and follow activities until job...[more]
Employment Development Department CA-Tarjan Center UCLA, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Olivia Raynor[email protected]
The Tarjan Center will join the collaboration, with a primary focus on improving employment outcomes and statewide system policies and practices for youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Tarjan Center collaborates with state and local agencies including Californias Department of Development...[more]
Employment Education - CCDD KY-Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Chithra Adams[email protected]
video efforts around employment will be coordinated through this project.
Employment Services WV-Center for Excellence in Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jennifer Tenney[email protected]
The employment services include a variety of programs designed to increase resources and services to individuals with disabilities who are interested in paid employment. Services incorporate placement through Project SEARCH, assessment and technical assistance through the vocational rehabilitation services as a CRP, and addition...[more]
Employment Services: Job Coaching and Job Development IA-Center for Disabilities and Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Judith Warth[email protected]
CDD provides job coach and job development supports via a fee-for-service contract with Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services and other entities such as school districts and community rehabilitation providers.
Employment Supports RI-The Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Vicki Ferrara[email protected]
This project provides ACRE approved training to employment specialists in Rhode Island,
Employment Training - College of Employment Services Plus RI-The Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Vicki Ferrara[email protected]
College of Employment Services - CES Plus - ACRE based training
Employment Training - Supporting Meaningful Employment RI-The Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Vicki Ferrara[email protected]
ACRE based Employment Specialist Training
ES-Coach: A smartphone and web-based Performance Coaching Application MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Alberto Migliore[email protected]
The goal of this project is to build ES-Coach, a performance coaching application that supports employment specialists to implement established standards of practice leading to improved employment outcomes of jobseekers with disabilities. The objectives are to: (1) develop a complete ES-Coach application that supports employment...[more]
Evaluation - CCDD KY-Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Chithra Adams[email protected]
The evaluation unit of the Human Development Institute (HDI) at the University of Kentucky (UK) will provide research and technical assistance services to the leadership and staff of the Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities (CCDD). As such, the services include: Collaborating with CCDD leadership to identify resea...[more]
Family and Consumer Leadership Series NH-INACTIVE-Institute on Disability, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Deborah Genthner[email protected]
The goal of the New Hampshire Leadership Series is to support the development of self-advocacy and leadership skills in individuals and their family members who wish to affect change at a personal, community, and statewide level to support the full inclusion of individuals with disabilities in their schools and communities. Seve...[more]
Family and Consumer Leadership Series NH-Institute on Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
The goal of the New Hampshire Leadership Series is to support the development of self-advocacy and leadership skills in individuals and their family members who wish to affect change at a personal, community, and statewide level to support the full inclusion of individuals with disabilities in their schools and communities. Seve...[more]
Family Employment Awareness Training/AWS IN-Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Judith Gross[email protected]
For this project, we propose that we partner with IN*SOURCE to deliver nine Family Employment Awareness Training (FEAT) over three years across the northeastern region of Indiana targeted by the AWS Foundation. Each FEAT training includes a two-day intensive training (Part 1 and Part 2) and follow-up individual and group technic...[more]
FCPD - Partners for Employment NM-Center for Development & Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tanya Baker-McCue[email protected]
Provider agencies - particularly provider agencies that serve individuals with significant disabilities - need to have increased capacity to improve employment outcome. The goals of this project funded by the Department of Health and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation - are to (a) provide targeted technical assistance ind...[more]
FEAT (Oklahoma PCDD) IN-Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Judith Gross[email protected]
IU shall train the ODDC and their partners, who will implement the FEAT trainings statewide through the provision of the following activities:
Consult online with ODDC regarding planning the FEAT train-the-trainer event.
Conduct eight one-hour FEAT Training Webinars (to be recorded and archived) for ODDC designated trainers ...[more]
Fidelity Scale Research UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tim Riesen[email protected]
The purpose of the project is to continue the validation process and conduct an exploratory data analysis of scored DFSs to determine (a) if items on the DFS accurately and reliably measure the discovery construct (internal consistency) and (b) to determine whether scores on completed DFS correlate to valued employment outcomes ...[more]
Field Initiated Development 2020-2022 MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Alberto Migliore[email protected]
Bridging the gap between evidence-based employment supports and what is implemented
by employment specialists is necessary for ensuring job seekers with disabilities receive high
quality employment services and achieve jobs that support career growth and self-sufficiency.
The goal of this project is to build ES-Coach, a perfo...[more]
Florida Alliance for Assistive Services and Technology South Florida Regional Demonstration Center FL-Mailman Center for Child Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Michelle Schladant[email protected]
The Mailman Center for Child Development (MCCD) located at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine will establish the Florida Alliance for Assistive Services and Technology (FAAST)'s South Florida Regional Demonstration Center (SFRDC), a portal to increase access to and acquisition of assistive services and technolog...[more]
Florida DDC Postsecondary Models - 2019 MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Debra Hart[email protected]
Expanding Inclusive Higher Education Options for
Students with Intellectual and Development Disability in Florida
Florida has significantly expanded higher education options for individuals with intellectual disability (ID) by establishing the Florida Center for Students with Unique Abilities (FCSUA) at the University of Cent...[more]
Florida DDC Postsecondary Models - 2020 MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Debra Hart[email protected]
Expanding Inclusive Higher Education Options for
Students with Intellectual and Development Disability in Florida
Florida has significantly expanded higher education options for individuals with intellectual disability (ID) by establishing the Florida Center for Students with Unique Abilities (FCSUA) at the University of Cent...[more]
Fostering Positive Outcomes: Assessing transition needs and supports for youth with disabilities in foster care AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jacy Farkas[email protected]
The transition to adulthood can be an exciting time, as well as one of many challenges. For many young people, this is a unique period of change where they take on more responsibilities and become more independent, finding their way in the adult world. The goal and hope is for all youth to be healthy, happy, self-sufficient, co...[more]
FY19 Professional Fellows Program on Inclusive Disability Employment MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Heike Boeltzig[email protected]
FY19 Professional Fellows Program on Inclusive Disability Employment
Georgia DD Network GA-Center for Leadership in Disability at Georgia State University, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Daniel Crimmins[email protected]
CLD collaborates regularly with the other members of the DD Network. Activities have included work on Inclusive Postsecondary Education, Georgia History Alliance, Advocacy Days at the Capitol, and the Children's Freedom Initiative. The current five-year plan identifies five topics for future exploration as a network -- Olmstead ...[more]
Georgia Employment Outcome Data MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
John Butterworth[email protected]
Develop a web based employment outcome data collection system with a companion public facing reporting website.
Georgia Pathways to Work / Explore-Engage-Employ GA-Center for Leadership in Disability at Georgia State University, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Andrew Roach[email protected]
E3 is a GVRA program designed to connect individuals with disabilities to real jobs that fill real needs for employers by improving how organizations support independence, employment, and career advancement of students and youth with disabilities. CLD personnel are leading the program evaluation efforts.
Gibney Foundation Van Purchase UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sachin Pavithran[email protected]
The Utah Assistive Technology Program is an initiative of the Center for Persons with Disabilities (CPD) at Utah State University. The UATP puts assistive technology (AT) into the hands of people in Utah who need it.
AT is any item, piece of equipment or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified or...[more]
Harkin Summit Employment Policy Research AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Wendy Parent-Johnson[email protected]
Since 2015, the Harkin Institute has conducted an annual international Employment Summit focused on disability policy, practice, and outcomes with representatives from more than 50 countries. Bringing together more than 400 individuals from business, governmental, non-profit organizations, and people with disabilities, has resul...[more]
Hawaii Jobs Now Partnership HI-Hawaii Center on Disability Studies UCEDD/JABSOM LEND Program
Fiscal Year: 2020
Chin Lee[email protected]
JNP is developing and implementing a comprehensive set of policies, procedures and evidence based practices that remove barriers, decrease funding redundancies, and facilitate the transition process from secondary, postsecondary, and prevocational training settings, and improve competitive employment outcomes in integrated commu...[more]
Hawaii Positive Engagement Project (H-PEP) HI-Hawaii Center on Disability Studies UCEDD/JABSOM LEND Program
Fiscal Year: 2020
Naomi Rombaoa Tanaka[email protected]
Project Objectives and Activities. The project objectives are to 1) Improve early learning outcomes for at-risk preschool students through a unique grouping of research-based school and home interventions, 2) Build protective factors of families with preschool students by facilitating parental positive engagement through the use...[more]
Higher Education for All MS-Institute for Disability Studies, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jerry R. Alliston[email protected]
The goal of the Higher Education for All Program is to increase the number of individuals with intellectual and other disabilities that attend postsecondary education and receive needed supports and services. To accomplish this goal, the Higher Education for All Program will develop, pilot, implement and evaluate a postsecondar...[more]
Ho'oku'i III: Na Kumu Alaka'i (Ho'oku'i) AZ-Institute for Human Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kelly Roberts[email protected]
The goal of Project Hookui III: Na Kumu Alakai (Project Na Kumu Alakai) is to continuously increase enrollment of Native Hawaiian students in postsecondary education or in postsecondary certification programs, leading to employment. This will be done by implementing professional development programs designed for Hawaii Departmen...[more]
HRSA BHWET - Hawaii Paraprofessional Training Institute HI-Hawaii Center on Disability Studies UCEDD/JABSOM LEND Program
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tammy Tom[email protected]
The purpose of the Hawaii Paraprofessional Training Institute (PTI) is to build statewide capacity to train and employ skilled behavioral health paraprofessionals, especially in rural and underserved areas of the State of Hawaii. Under a 2017-2021 HRSA BHWET training grant, the main PTI objective during this time period is to p...[more]
HUD-Assisted Residents with Disabilities NH-INACTIVE-Institute on Disability, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Debra Brucker[email protected]
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - assisted adults with disabilities reside within all types of housing assistance yet do not always receive targeted assistance nor supports. By identifying gaps in quality of life, employment patterns and health disparities, this research grant will highlight areas that polic...[more]
HUD-Assisted Residents with Disabilities NH-Institute on Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Debra Brucker[email protected]
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - assisted adults with disabilities reside within all types of housing assistance yet do not always receive targeted assistance nor supports. By identifying gaps in quality of life, employment patterns and health disparities, this research grant will highlight areas that polic...[more]
ICCSD Work Experience IA-Center for Disabilities and Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Judith Warth[email protected]
Iowa City Community School District Work Experience/Career Connections
Studies show that youth who have work experiences while in high school are more likely to be employed as adults (Carter, et al, Journal of Disability Policy Studies 2012). Students who participate in occupational education and special education in integra...[more]
Inclusive Communities Project NH-INACTIVE-Institute on Disability, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Matt Gianino[email protected]
The Inclusive Communities Project at the Institute on Disability (IOD) leverages the IODs expertise and the power of documentary film to promote greater acceptance and inclusion of people with disabilities in schools and communities. The Inclusive Communities Project is directed by the IODs Filmmaker in Residence, Dan Habib. Hab...[more]
Inclusive Communities Project NH-Institute on Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
The Inclusive Communities Project at the Institute on Disability (IOD) leverages the IODs expertise and the power of documentary film to promote greater acceptance and inclusion of people with disabilities in schools and communities. The Inclusive Communities Project is directed by the IODs Filmmaker in Residence, Dan Habib. Hab...[more]
IOTI - Autism Employment Training UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jefferson Sheen[email protected]
Adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD experience challenges in securing and sustaining competitive employment. Even with graduate level skills, they often fail to get or keep employment, and the result is an 85% unemployment rate. Despite their capacity and willingness to work, adults with ASD face significant disadvantages ...[more]
IOTI - Supported and Customized Employment UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tim Riesen[email protected]
Project Context
Adult service programs are continually looking for training and development for their staff. The objective of the proposed project is to continue the project training efforts and to respond to the unique nature of adult service systems by providing efficient, convenient, and comprehensive employment training to...[more]
IOTI - Supported and Customized Employment UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tim Riesen[email protected]
Project Context
Adult service programs are continually looking for training and development for their staff. The objective of the proposed project is to continue the project training efforts and to respond to the unique nature of adult service systems by providing efficient, convenient, and comprehensive employment training to...[more]
Iowa APSE Training Contract IA-Center for Disabilities and Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Judith Warth[email protected]
Iowa Association for Supported Employment Contract
Iowa APSE is a membership organization committed to expanding community employment for people. Their mission is to change beliefs, practices, systems and funding and so that employment in the general workforce is the first and preferred outcome in the provision of publicly f...[more]
Iowa's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) IA-Center for Disabilities and Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Derrick Willis[email protected]
A UCEDD since 1972, the Center for Disabilities and Development (CDD) is proud to be a member of the national UCEDD network. Consistent with the Developmental Disabilities Act, our mission is to increase the independence, productivity and community inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of their lives through prep...[more]
IPS KY-Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Lori Norton[email protected]
Be responsible for the implementation of evidence-based Supported Employment (SE) services for adults with serious mental illness
IPSEN: Achieving Success by Promoting Readiness for Education and Employment (ASPIRE) MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Catherine Ipsen[email protected]
Promoting the Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (CFDA 84.418P) Achieving Success in Promoting Readiness for Education and Employment (ASPIRE) Six western states have formed a consortium, to conduct the PROMISE experimental design. The ASPIRE project will recruit and enroll 2000 youth with mild to severe disabil...[more]
IRCA State Appropriation IN-Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Cathy Pratt[email protected]
Realizing the increasing incidence of autism spectrum disorders, the Indiana Resource Center for Autism staff are actively engaged in work that leads to improved outcomes for individuals on the spectrum and their families. Specifically, our work is focused on goals around early detection and diagnosis, effective early childhood ...[more]
ISAW Autism Workplace Training KY-Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Christina Espinosa[email protected]
With the implementation of WIOA comes an increased need for training for employers on the recruitment and management of new employees on the autism spectrum. Business Service Teams (BSTs) throughout the state will benefit from technical assistance as well as in person and online training. With a focus on youth transitioning into...[more]
Jerry Vogel Assistive Technology Fund KS-Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sara Sack[email protected]
Jerry Vogel used assistive technology and understood how important access to technology was for learning, living in the community he lovedLawrence, participating in church activities, maintaining his independence at work and at home, and for enjoying nature.
What the Jerry Vogel AT Fund Does
The Jerry Vogel AT Fund help...[more]
Job Coach Training AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Wendy Parent-Johnson[email protected]
The statewide job coach trainings focus on knowledge gains, resource sharing, problem solving, and intensive skill development related to implementation of supported and customized employment services. The training will emphasize application of specific techniques in the areas of job development, employer relationships, job carv...[more]
Just in Time Employment Supports AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Wendy Parent-Johnson[email protected]
Just in Time Employment Supports
This project, funded by the Kessler Foundation, is a partnership of the University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota, who have joined together to develop, implement, and evaluate the impact of virtual training and technical assistance deliver...[more]
Kansas Alternative Finance Program--K-Loan KS-Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sara Sack[email protected]
The Assistive Technology for Kansans project (ATK), coordinated by the University of Kansas at Parsons, and its non-profit partner, Southeast Kansas Center on Independent Living) operate a financial loan program for the purchase of assistive technology devices and services necessary for independence, inclusion, learning, and emp...[more]
Kansas Telework Program KS-Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sara Sack[email protected]
The Assistive Technology for Kansans project (ATK), coordinated by the University of Kansas at Parsons, and its non-profit partner, Southeast Kansas Independent Living (SKIL) operate a Telework financial loan program called K-Loan for the purchase of assistive technology devices and services necessary for self-employment and em...[more]
Kentucky Supported Employment KY-Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Katie Wolf Whaley[email protected]
The Supported Employment Training Project provides six days of required training in supported employment fundamentals quarterly along with optional/advanced events. The primary audience for the workshops is supported employment personnel whose agencies are Supported Employment Vendors through the OVR or OFB. Other participants m...[more]
Kessler Employer Survey NH-INACTIVE-Institute on Disability, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Andrew Houtenville[email protected]
The employment gap between people with and without disabilities is well-documented. Research findings point to two main factors that contribute to the persistence of these employment disparities:
Social Security policy that traps large numbers of people with disabilities into income-support programs that do not foster an...[more]
Kessler Employer Survey NH-Institute on Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Andrew Houtenville[email protected]
The employment gap between people with and without disabilities is well-documented. Research findings point to two main factors that contribute to the persistence of these employment disparities:
Social Security policy that traps large numbers of people with disabilities into income-support programs that do not foster an...[more]
Kessler Survey: Recent College Graduates NH-INACTIVE-Institute on Disability, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kimberly Phillips[email protected]
Nearly 30 years ago, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed to prevent discrimination against people with disabilities in education and employment. Individuals with disabilities now comprise about 12% of college students, which matters because educational attainment is associated with gainful employment. To date, r...[more]
Kessler Survey: Recent College Graduates NH-Institute on Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Nearly 30 years ago, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed to prevent discrimination against people with disabilities in education and employment. Individuals with disabilities now comprise about 12% of college students, which matters because educational attainment is associated with gainful employment. To date, r...[more]
KIMMEL: MonTECH: Montana Assistive Technology (Loan) Program MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Molly Kimmel[email protected]
The Montana Assistive Technology Program (MATP) is the Statewide AT Program funded under the Assistive Technology Act of 1998, as amended. MATPs lead agency is Montana DPHHS: Disability Services Division, Vocational Rehabilitation Services. MATP is located within the University of Montana Rural Institute on Disabilities, Missoul...[more]
KU LEAP: Preparing Leaders to Create Ambitious Educational Programs for Students with Severe Disabilities: Beyond De Minimis KS-Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Karrie Shogren[email protected]
KU LEAP program will focus on promoting competencies in three areas of critical need in research and teacher education in the field of special education and severe disabilities:
(a) promoting appropriately ambitious goals and curriculum,
(b) enabling college and career readiness in students with severe disabilities across K-12...[more]
KY Employment Partnership for Youth with Significant Disabilities KY-Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kathy Sheppard-Jones[email protected]
he Human Development Institute University of KY (KY UCEDD), with the KY Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR), KY Department of Education, KY Division of Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities, KY Protection & Advocacy, KY Office for the Blind, Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities, KY Office of Autism, an...[more]
Lane Court Monitor (ODDS) OR-Oregon Institute on Development & Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Rhonda Eppelsheimer[email protected]
The UCEDD is monitoring the implementation of the Lane v. Brown lawsuit for the court monitor. The UCEDD is conducting 340 in-person interviews with ages 14+ people with IDD, and their family and caregivers to better understand implementation of the settlement agreement.
Leadership and Career Studies (formery known as Academy for Adult Learning) PA-Institute on Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kathryn Burke[email protected]
Each L&CS student will audit or take for credit undergraduate courses as well as Continuing Education courses through Pan African Studies Community Education (PASCEP). In addition to their coursework, students are expected to engage in main campus student activities and a variety of competitive integrated employment experiences....[more]
LENFEST - Employment Here and Now! PA-Institute on Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Mary Kay Cunningham[email protected]
Through the Institute on Disabilities (IOD), the Employment Here and Now! Program is to provide meaningful work opportunities for youth with disabilities with a focus on youth who are living and attending school in the North Philadelphia area. We want youth with disabilities to be engaged in work and careers that lead to a produ...[more]
Maine Transition Work Based Learning Model Demonstration MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Susan Foley[email protected]
Maine Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) was awarded the Transition Work-Based Learning model demonstration grant, with Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI), American Institutes on Research, Jobs for Maine's Graduates, and the Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation as key partners. The grant fro...[more]
MARF Economic Impact Study MO-University of Missouri, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kelli Barton[email protected]
1. Evaluate the economic contribution and impact of direct service expenditures (over past 3-5 year period) using IMPLAN software and data.
a. Outcomes: IMPLAN data and software provide the opportunity to model the way an injection of dollars into an industry or sector is spent and re-spent in other industries or sectors of a s...[more]
Maryland employment outcome data and provider transformation MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
John Butterworth[email protected]
The Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) will provide technical and implementation support to the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA) to support collection and reporting of individual level employment outcome data from DDA day and employment service providers.
The Institute for Community Inclusion at UMa...[more]
Meaningful Community Services at Kennedy Krieger Institute MD-Kennedy Krieger Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Megan Meck[email protected]
Programs Serving Transitioning Youth and Adults with Disabilities at Kennedy Krieger Institute create an inclusive community that respects ones differences and values ones abilities while at the same time developing meaningful lives through community engagement, competitive employment, social experiences, and wellness.
Progra...[more]
MHDS Technical Assistance Contract IA-Center for Disabilities and Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Derrick Willis[email protected]
The Iowa Department of Human Services contracts with CDD to provide technical assistance and staff support to the Iowa Mental Health and Disability Services (MHDS) Commission, the Mental Health Planning Council, and the Children's Mental Health Systems Board. Staff support to the includes policy analysis, research, meeting coord...[more]
MHTAAR Provider Training Infrastructure and Capacity Development AK-Center for Human Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Karen Ward[email protected]
Provide training in employment services, including National Employment Services, Financial and Work Incentives Navigator, and others related to the needs assessment.
Michigan employment outcome data reporting website MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
John Butterworth[email protected]
Design and development, quality assurance and updates/maintenance for a web-based employment data reporting site that uses data from the Michigan BHTEDs data warehouse
Microenterprise AK-Center for Human Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Larrisa Cummings[email protected]
The purpose of these funds is to provide support and funds for AMHTA beneficiaries to apply for grant funding to start, expand, or purchase a self- employment business through the Micro-enterpise Grant program. The Center for Human Development will coordinate the application preparation process, application submittable, coordin...[more]
Midwest Disability Employment Consortium (Kessler) IA-Center for Disabilities and Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tamara Amsbaugh[email protected]
The Midwest Disability Employment Consortium, a partnership of the University Centers for Excellence on Developmental Disabilities (UCEDDs) in Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota, aims to improve employment outcomes for people with disabilities. The consortium serves as the backbone for program implementation, evaluation, ...[more]
Midwest Disability Employment Consortium: Just in Time Employment Supports MO-University of Missouri, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
George Gotto[email protected]
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Minnesota Technical Assistance Project MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Cindy Thomas[email protected]
The Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston (ICI-Boston), in partnership with the Institute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota (ICI-Minnesota), and Strengths at Work LLC, are proposing an innovative technical assistance project to expand and build robust capacity of servic...[more]
Missouri Developmental Disabilities Council Data Collection Project MO-University of Missouri, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kelli Barton[email protected]
MODDC is in the beginning phases of developing the next five-year state plan (FY 2022 2027) as required by the DD Act. The state plan is the strategic plan that will guide the work of MODDC through goals and objectives that are the steps MODDC plans to take to create change.
The development of a Comprehensive Review and Anal...[more]
Missouri Employment First MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
David Hoff[email protected]
Service provider capacity building project funded via a contract from the Missouri Division of Developmental Disabilities, to build the capacity of service providers to support individuals in competitive employment. Two Missouri-based ICI staff support the project.
Money Follows the Person IA-Center for Disabilities and Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Derrick Willis[email protected]
Iowa's Partnership for Community Integration (Iowa's Money Follows the Person demonstration project) significantly improves the opportunities for individuals with intellectual disabilities or related conditions to receive the supports and services needed to sustain them in community settings. In applying for this grant, the Stat...[more]
Moving Transition Forward MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Meg Grigal[email protected]
The goal of this project is to explore and compare critical aspects of two transition approaches, a college-based transition experience and a conventional high-school or community-based transition experience, and examine the associations between involvement in those programs and student employment outcomes for students with inte...[more]
MPTE - Massachusetts Partnership for Transition Employment MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
David Hoff[email protected]
The Massachusetts Partnership for Transition to Employment (MPTE) is a systems change project of the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services (DDS), designed to improve employment outcomes for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities transitioning from school to adult life. MPTE is funded by a 5-yea...[more]
National Core Indicators Project VA-Partnership for People with Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Parthenia Dinora[email protected]
Conduct survey interviews (random sample) throughout the State with adults with disabilities who use waiver and other supports. The survey asks questions related to their services and supports, employment, safety, community inclusion, friends and family and home life.
National Council on Disability Report on AbilityOne Program and Section 14(c) MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
John Butterworth[email protected]
Data analysis and report development that addresses:
A. Provide an estimate on the annual cost of services to people with disabilities working in Section 14(c) sheltered workshops through use of National Core Indicators (NCI) data;
B. Provide an estimate of the type of individuals participating in sheltered workshop by the lev...[more]
NCEO Exploring Predictors of Transition Planning Participation and Future Goal Aspirations of Secondary Students with Disabilities. MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Martha Thurlow[email protected]
Explores the relationship between IEP transition planning meeting factors (e.g., a secondary students invitation, participation, and contribution) and the students aspirations for postsecondary education, employment, economic independence, and independent living. The researchers review data from the National Longitudinal Transit...[more]
New Orleans Early Education Network (NOEEN) City Seats Program Evaluation LA-Louisiana State University Human Development Center - New Orleans, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Maria Blanco[email protected]
Access to quality early childhood education (ECE) has lasting effects on the lives of children and families. Children who receive quality ECE have improved outcomes for behavioral and emotional development, cognitive achievement, and health, as well as reduced risk of developmental delay. For economically disadvantaged families...[more]
NH Core Contract NH-INACTIVE-Institute on Disability, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Andrew Houtenville[email protected]
The Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire works with the State of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Developmental Services, and the New Hampshire Department of Education on several activities, including:
1. Support the development of a statewide approach to START services in ...[more]
NH Core Contract NH-Institute on Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Andrew Houtenville[email protected]
The Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire works with the State of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Developmental Services, and the New Hampshire Department of Education on several activities, including:
1. Support the development of a statewide approach to START services in ...[more]
NHEP Postsecondary Support Project HI-Hawaii Center on Disability Studies UCEDD/JABSOM LEND Program
Fiscal Year: 2020
Eric Folk[email protected]
Applying the principles of inclusion and cultural self-determination, the University of Hawaii at Mānoa (UHM), in collaboration with the University of Hawaii Community College System (UHCC), proposes to enhance and expand a highly successful support model addressing the needs of Native Hawaiian youth at risk of failure to s...[more]
NIDILRR Effects of Embedded Employment Resources on the Employment Outcomes of Transition Age Youth through a School-to-Work Collaborati IN-Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Teresa Grossi[email protected]
In Collaboration with state and local partners, Dr. Grossi is proposing a research proposal to evaluate the effects of a school-to-work collaborative on the employment outcomes of transition-age youth. The goal of the Collaborative to provide employment opportunities for transition-age youth by embedding employment resources in...[more]
Nowhere Else to Turn: Home Safety and Comfort for People with Disabilities and Their Caregivers DE-Center for Disabilities Studies, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Beth Mineo[email protected]
Without the supports afforded by assistive technologies, many individuals are precluded from leaving their homes, navigating the community, interacting effectively with others, learning to their fullest potential, gaining and maintaining employment, managing their finances, caring for their personal needs, and pursuing recreatio...[more]
ODEP Workforce Recruitment Pilot AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Wendy Parent-Johnson[email protected]
Purpose: to acquaint one UCEDD with ODEPs WRP database of talented post-secondary students with disabilities seeking employment. Many UCEDDs have universities that participate in the WRP program by having their campus students with disabilities interview and enter their resumes into the database however most UCEDDs do not use t...[more]
Oregon Research Schools Network OR-Center on Human Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Nancy Golden[email protected]
The Oregon Career Information System supports the career development needs of Oregonians. Our mission is to:
− Develop quality career information resources to support career self-management, career counseling, and
career education;
− Deliver comprehensive, integrated systems of career information for career awaren...[more]
P2FA: Paths 2 the Future for All OR-Center on Human Development, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
John Lind[email protected]
The purpose of this Goal Two study is to develop, revise and pilot test the Paths 2 the Future for All curriculum intervention focused on college and career readiness for adolescents who are at-risk for academic failure or dropout. We hypothesize that when implemented in authentic education settings, Paths to the Future for All...[more]
Path to Independence NV-Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Mary Bryant[email protected]
Nevada Path to Independence Project is an inclusive, two-year non-degree certificate program for students with intellectual/developmental disabilities at UNR. It is a collaboration of the Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities and Extended Studies at UNR, with support from Vocational Rehabilitation and Sierra Regional Cen...[more]
PAY Check LA-Louisiana State University Human Development Center - New Orleans, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Susan Killam[email protected]
PAY Check prepares students with disabilities who are eligible for VR services in an Order of Selection category currently served by LRS, age 18-22 years to support their acquisition and use of Pre-Employment Transition skills (PETS), Job Readiness and Job Placement. PAY Check will provide participants training and opportunities...[more]
PCAST - Person Centered Approaches in Schools and Transition NJ-The Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Margaret Gilbride[email protected]
The New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE), Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), in partnership with The Boggs Center, conducts training and technical assistance to promote the implementation of person centered approaches in schools and transition. Project staff work in partnership with districts to plan more collabo...[more]
Peer Mentoring Program MS-Institute for Disability Studies, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jerry R. Alliston[email protected]
Create a peer mentoring transition program to provide self-advocacy training as part of pre-employment transition services for post-secondary students with disabilities, and to assist with the transition of these students into post-secondary education in order to achieve degrees in higher education that allow for successful care...[more]
PIE Utah School to Work Interagency Transition Initiative UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tricia Jones-Parkin[email protected]
Abstract
The Utah School to Work Interagency Transition Initiative (USWITI) includes a base consortium of representatives from the Utah Developmental Disabilities Council (UDDC) Utah State Board of Education-Special Education Services (USBE-SES), the Division of Services for People with Disabilities (DSPD), Utah State Office ...[more]
PRIDE- Partners of Refugees in Illinois Disability Employment IL-Institute on Disability & Human Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sarah Parker[email protected]
Transnational refugees with disabilities are left out of many social service provisions typically provided to refugees. The Institute on Disability and Human Development (IDHD) at the University of Illinois at Chicago has received a three year grant funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabili...[more]
Professional Fellows Programs on Inclusive Disability Employment in Kenya MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Heike Boeltzig[email protected]
Professional Fellows Programs on Inclusive Disability Employment in Kenya
Progressive Employment for Individuals with the Most Significant Disabiltiies MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Susan Foley[email protected]
This field-initiated project is researching the progressive employment (PE) model for individuals with the most significant disabilities and significant disabilities served by state vocational rehabilitation agencies and community rehabilitation providers. The PE model is a dual-customer strategy that uses work-based learning st...[more]
Project E3 Targeted Communities technical assistance center KY-Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Christina Espinosa[email protected]
Project E3, the Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center for Targeted Communities: Empower, Educate, Employ will work with state vocational rehabilitation agencies and their partners across the United States. The goal is to help people with disabilities from underserved communities achieve their independent living ...[more]
Project Search @ CHLA CA-USC, Childrens Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Larry Yin[email protected]
Although the The estimated number of individuals in integrated employment services increased from 108,680 in FY1999 to 111,670 in FY2012, state investment continues to emphasize facility-based and non-work services, rather than integrated employment services. In California, over 75,000 individuals received some type of employmen...[more]
Project SEARCH Arizona AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Heather Wolff--Holstein[email protected]
Project SEARCH is a nationally recognized one-year education and training program for students/adults with disabilities. This program began at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and has been replicated in more than forty eight states across the country as well as internationally. Project SEARCH targets students and y...[more]
Project STIR MD-Kennedy Krieger Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tamara Goldsmith[email protected]
People On the Go, Marylands self-advocacy network, proposes three comprehensive initiatives for the continuing partnership with Marylands Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA) to support its goals around broadening self-advocacy in the state of Maryland.
First, POG will focus on Project STIR (Steps Towards Independ...[more]
Project Turn The Tables HI-Hawaii Center on Disability Studies UCEDD/JABSOM LEND Program
Fiscal Year: 2020
Chin Lee[email protected]
The project will organize a reverse job fair at Honolulu and expand the concept to Hawaii County, Maui County, and Kauai County in year 2020 and annually thereafter. In additional, annually the project will sponsor 10 HR managers & 10 young adults to attend the Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability & Diversity (Pac ...[more]
Promise Family Advocacy Network WI-Waisman Center, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Leann Smith DaWalt[email protected]
Scope of Work/Rationale: The Promoting the Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE) grant put out by the US Department of Education is a model demonstration project that will improve the provision and coordination of services and supports for child SSI recipients and their families to enable them to achieve...[more]
Promoting Entrepreneurship Among Low-Income Youth with Disabilities IL-Institute on Disability & Human Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Fabricio Balcazar[email protected]
DHD professor Fabricio Balcazar and DHD associate professor Sarah Parker Harris were awarded a $2.3 million research grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research. The project, Promoting Entrepreneurship Among Low-Income Youth with Disabilities, aims to develop and conduct format...[more]
Promoting Supported Decision Making Planning for Self-Advocates and Families KS-Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Evan Dean[email protected]
Years of research on self-determination has demonstrated that when people have increased opportunities to make decisions in their life, they experience better quality of life, employment, independent living outcomes. Adults with I/DD historically have had less opportunity for controlling their life and making decisions for them...[more]
PROPEL: UMKC Pathways Inclusion, Self-Determination and Employment for People with Intellectual Disabilities MO-University of Missouri, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Julie Warm[email protected]
TIPSID Higher Education Opportunities for Students is a partnership between the UMKC Institute for Human Development, College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Psychology. It is made up of two separate programs available to high school students and young adults with intellectual developmental disabilities that allow studen...[more]
PSP TPSID HI-Hawaii Center on Disability Studies UCEDD/JABSOM LEND Program
Fiscal Year: 2020
Eric Folk[email protected]
Need: In the U.S., few students with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) receive high school diplomas and despite the delivery of mandated transition services over the past two decades, there has been little improvement in post high school outcomes for these students. Today, less than 1% of persons with ID benefit from postsecondary ...[more]
Rehab Technology Project KY-Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Katie Wolf Whaley[email protected]
Provide rehabilitation engineering services for OVR customers; provide support of assistive technology training conference; provide CARAT evaluation
REKNEW:Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication OR-Oregon Institute on Development & Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Melanie Fried-Oken[email protected]
It is our intent to address the communication needs of those with the most severe disabilities who are unserved or poorly served. Our goal is to enhance their communication since communication is a fundamental prerequisite to successful education, employment, health,participation, and community living. Our vision is to ensure th...[more]
Research Rehabilitation and Training Center on Individual-level Characteristics Related to Employment Among Individuals with Disabilities NH-INACTIVE-Institute on Disability, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Andrew Houtenville[email protected]
Importance of the Problem. Despite the ADA and advances in medicine and technology, as a group, people with disabilities have become economically less self-sufficient over the last few decades. Their employment rates have declined, their reliance on public benefits has increased, and their household incomes have fallen further b...[more]
Research Rehabilitation and Training Center on Individual-level Characteristics Related to Employment Among Individuals with Disabilities NH-Institute on Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Andrew Houtenville[email protected]
Importance of the Problem. Despite the ADA and advances in medicine and technology, as a group, people with disabilities have become economically less self-sufficient over the last few decades. Their employment rates have declined, their reliance on public benefits has increased, and their household incomes have fallen further b...[more]
RRTC on Advancing Employment for Individuals with IDD MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
John Butterworth[email protected]
The goal of this RRTC is to address the elements needed to bring integrated employment to scale for all adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Research suggests that bringing individual and local successes in employment to scale requires an integrated approach that engages all stakeholders in addressing: ...[more]
RRTC on employment for people with physical disabilities IL-Institute on Disability & Human Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Robin Jones[email protected]
Need to update
RRTC on Employment Policy & Measurement NH-INACTIVE-Institute on Disability, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Debra Brucker[email protected]
The mission of EPM-RRTC is to support the disability and policy communities as they take on important policy issues by generating and translating new knowledge about disability employment policy and ways to measure the labor market experiences of people with disabilities. In doing so, the Center will improve the quality of infor...[more]
RRTC on Employment Policy & Measurement NH-Institute on Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Debra Brucker[email protected]
The mission of EPM-RRTC is to support the disability and policy communities as they take on important policy issues by generating and translating new knowledge about disability employment policy and ways to measure the labor market experiences of people with disabilities. In doing so, the Center will improve the quality of infor...[more]
RRTC on Vocational Rehabilitation Practices for Youth and Young Adults MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Meg Grigal[email protected]
This study is one of five studies that are a part of the NIDDLR funded RRTC on VR and Youth. This project will use mixed methods to look at the role and impact of vocational rehabilitation in inclusive higher education for youth with intellectual disability and autism including(1) an analysis of secondary data on inclusive highe...[more]
RTC6: R6: IPSEN: Rural Contracted Services MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Catherine Ipsen[email protected]
The Rural Contracted Services project explores state Vocational Rehabilitation agency access to job development services provided by vendors in rural communities. The project includes three studies. Using qualitative interviews with VR informants, Study 1 examines current VR agency purchasing practices for job placement and dev...[more]
RTC6: R7: IPSEN: The Use of Social Media for Employment MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Catherine Ipsen[email protected]
The Use of Social Media for Employment project is designed to improve VR counselors social media and online job search competencies. To achieve this, we propose two studies. Study 1 consists of a VR social policy analysis to explore barriers to and facilitators of effective social media use in counseling practice. We will use...[more]
RTC6: R8: IPSEN: Rural Self Employment Opportunities MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Catherine Ipsen[email protected]
The Rural Self-Employment Opportunities project will work with a state Vocational Rehabilitation agency to modify, evaluate, and refine a self-employment toolkit, materials, and training materials for VR counselors. During Phase 1 researchers will document self-employment procedures and develop counselor materials and training i...[more]
RTC6: RAVESLOOT: RTC on Disability in Rural Communities MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Craig Ravesloot[email protected]
Over 56 million Americans live in rural areas; some because they have always lived there; others because they moved there for opportunity, for beauty, or to escape urban stress. Nearly 20% of them live with a disability. While rural America is their home, living there can place them at a disadvantage. Compared to their urban cou...[more]
RTC7: IPSEN: Place-based Solutions for Rural Community Participation MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Catherine Ipsen[email protected]
The overarching goal of our center is to conduct research and knowledge translation (KT) activities across health, community living, and employment domains to explore, develop, and test strategies that improve the quality of life of rural people with disabilities. To achieve this goal, we will (a) fully engage people with disabi...[more]
RTC7: R4: GREIMAN: Rural Resource Analysis MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Lillie Greiman[email protected]
The availability of community resources, as well as access to those resources, has a large impact on the experience of disability (Greiman & Ravesloot 2016; Myers & Ravesloot 2016). The Rural Resource Analysis project aims to understand how rural people with disabilities access needed resources, such as Centers for Independent L...[more]
RTC7: R7: MYERS: Rural Transportation Options MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Andrew Myers[email protected]
Nearly 30 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the lack of accessible public transportation is still a major barrier to employment, healthcare access, and other aspects of community participation for people with disabilities. Transportation is critical to maintaining employment and social connections i...[more]
RTC7: R8: IPSEN: Rural Self-Employment MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Catherine Ipsen[email protected]
Self-employment is an important alternative to traditional paid employment for people with disabilities, especially in rural areas where job opportunities are limited. Data from the 2016 American Community Survey showed that there are higher rates of self-employment among people with disabilities than without, and higher rates o...[more]
SAGE & GREIMAN: CORE & HRSA: Understanding personal assistance services experiences in rural states MT-University of Montana Rural Institute, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Rayna Sage[email protected]
Research Questions
How are PAS workers and PAS needs distributed across geography and how does this correlate with other social and economic factors?
What barriers do PAS workers experience in delivering rural PAS services?
What strategies do PAS workers use to overcome barriers to delivering rural PAS services?
Stage 1...[more]
SE Training and TA / Transition to Adult Life NJ-The Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Margaret Gilbride[email protected]
Through the support of the Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD) The Boggs Center provides Supported Employment Training and Technical Assistance activities to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities by developing competence among service providers to assist people with disabilities to choose, obtai...[more]
Self Employment IN-Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Judith Gross[email protected]
The purpose of this project is to provide short self-employment informational trainings across the state of Indiana with the goal of providing families with an overview of various examples of successful self-employment as well as discussion of potential barriers to determine if it is an employment option that they want to pursue...[more]
Socio-Ecological Framework Supporting Individuals with Disabilities' Community Living and Participation UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jefferson Sheen[email protected]
Goal The purpose of this research project will be to develop a socio-ecologic framework describing the physical environmental factors associated with individuals with disabilities community participation (intervention development research). This socio-ecologic framework will be used to examine the effect of mainstream communit...[more]
Solutions-Focused Translational Research to Improve Employment Outcomes and Experiences Among Individuals with Disabilities from Traditionally Underse MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Ngai Kwan[email protected]
Solutions-Focused Translational Research to Improve Employment Outcomes and Experiences Among Individuals with Disabilities from Traditionally Underserved Racial and Ethnic Populations
Southeast ADA - Kentucky KY-Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kathy Sheppard-Jones[email protected]
This project, in collaboration with the Southeast ADA Center and the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University provides consultation on Americans with Disabilities Act compliance issues to businesses, federal contractors, service providers, and families in the southeastern United States. Consultation include issues with job...[more]
Spectrum Scholars DE-Center for Disabilities Studies, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Brian Freedman[email protected]
UDs Spectrum Scholars program promotes a welcoming environment for undergraduate students with autism at UD that enhances their ability to thrive in academic environments and campus life. In collaboration with JPMorgan Chase & Co. and administered by the Universitys Center for Disabilities Studies, undergraduate students with au...[more]
State - Discovery Employment Transition Project - The Arc of Pennsylvania PA-Institute on Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sally Gould-Taylor[email protected]
Utilize Marc Gold and Associates curriculum to provide training and certification in Discovery, Customized Employment Job Development and Systematic Instruction to Pennsylvania providers interested in offering these supported employment services to ODP eligible service recipients across Pennsylvania. The project will mentor in...[more]
State Employment Leadership Network MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
John Butterworth[email protected]
The State Employment Leadership Network (SELN) brings state developmental disability agencies together to improve employment outcomes for individuals and families receiving services through that system. The slow rate of change within state systems has illustrated the need for new and different strategies and interventions.
Ann...[more]
State Grant for Assistaive Technology (ASSIST Part 2) UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sachin Pavithran[email protected]
The Utah Assistive Technology Program is an initiative of the Center for Persons with Disabilities (CPD) at Utah State University. The UATP puts assistive technology (AT) into the hands of people in Utah who need it.
AT is any item, piece of equipment or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified or...[more]
State Grant for Assistaive Technology (Uintah Basin) UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sachin Pavithran[email protected]
The Utah Assistive Technology Program is an initiative of the Center for Persons with Disabilities (CPD) at Utah State University. The UATP puts assistive technology (AT) into the hands of people in Utah who need it.
AT is any item, piece of equipment or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified or...[more]
Step Up Program ME-The University of Maine, Center for Community Inclusion, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Janet May[email protected]
Background
The Step-Up Program was developed to provide a multi-week residential living and learning experience for DVR clients, who are high school juniors or seniors with an autism spectrum diagnosis, and who may have an interest in attending a postsecondary education program.
Purpose
The Summer 2019 Step Up Program is a...[more]
Strengthening Economic Supports for Women and Families (SESWF) MO-University of Missouri, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Melissa Patterson Hazley[email protected]
Background
UMKC Institute for Human Development (UMKC-IHD) was awarded an 18 month contract from the MO Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), Section on Womens Health with a goal to identify the main barriers to work and educational attainment for women through a statewide needs assessment and develop strategies and...[more]
Supported Employment SC-Center for Disability Resources, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Susan Davis[email protected]
The Supported Employment Program; A Customer Driven Approach, was developed to be implemented as a universal system of service delivery throughout the state of South Carolina for the Department of Disabilities and Special Needs. The primary mission of the program is to work toward the understanding, respect and support in secur...[more]
Supported Employment VT-Center on Disability & Community Inclusion, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Bryan Dague[email protected]
The Center on Disability and Community Inclusion (CDCI) has been providing training and technical assistance through the Supported Employment Project for over 25 years. CDCI coordinated several grants/projects designed to increase the inclusion of adults with disabilities into the workplace.
Employment Services training s...[more]
Supported Employment Tech Services MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Joseph Marrone[email protected]
Supported Employment Tech Services
Supported Employment Training and Technical Assistance GA-Institute on Human Development and Disability, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Doug Crandell[email protected]
The Institute on Human Development and Disability will perform services for the State Services Unit of the Governmental Services and Research Division. IHDD will provide training and technical assistance to the Supported Employment program contractors of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities...[more]
Supported Parenting RI-The Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Mitzie A. Johnson[email protected]
There are approximately 600 families in Rhode Island in which the parents have an intellectual or developmental disability. The Supported Parenting initiative provides support to these families as they develop and implement a self help plan. Areas targeted in the plan include access to supports and services, education, employm...[more]
TAPESTRY AK-Center for Human Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kenneth Hamrick[email protected]
TAPESTRY is a 5-year model demonstration project at the University of Alaska Anchorage aimed at strengthening its capacity to serve 18-21 year old young adults with Intellectual Disabilities. The university, using the resources of the Center for Human Development together with content & enrollment management personnel from the U...[more]
Tapesty of Voices: Seeking definitions of access MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Maria Paiewonsky[email protected]
Title: Defining Accessibility in the Lives of People with Intellectual Disability: A Tapestry of Voices.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) (UN 2006) sets out the rights of people with disabilities to live the life of their choosing. Many people choose to live their lives in integr...[more]
Tarjan Center CA-Tarjan Center UCLA, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Olivia Raynor[email protected]
The mission of the Tarjan Center is to provide leadership in education, research and innovative practices that supports the quality of life and community inclusion of all people with disabilities. The Tarjan Center serves as a bridge between the university and persons with disabilities from state, regional and local communities,...[more]
Tennessee Vanderbilt Kennedy Center UCEDD TN-Vanderbilt University, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Elise McMillan[email protected]
As a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center provides the expertise and leadership to help make individuals with disabilities in Tennessee and across the country a part of their communities. The Center works with and for people with developmental disabilities and family membe...[more]
TennesseeWorks TN-Vanderbilt University, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Elise McMillan[email protected]
We formed TennesseeWorks with one goal: to increase the number of young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who are employed in the state. In other words, we are working to ensure every young person with a disability can find a good job, with good pay, that brings real satisfaction, and makes a real dif...[more]
The TAFT Foundation - CARD Miramar Branch/Employment Services Expansion FL-Mailman Center for Child Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Michael Alessandri[email protected]
The TAFT Foundation - CARD Miramar Branch/Employment Services Expansion
TPSID National Coordinating Center 2015-2020 MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Meg Grigal[email protected]
Think College at the Institute for Community Inclusion, UMass Boston, has received a five-year, 10 million dollar cooperative agreement from by the Office of Postsecondary Education to serve as the National Coordinating Center for colleges and universities implementing inclusive higher education programs for students with intell...[more]
Transition Exploration Study AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Wendy Parent-Johnson[email protected]
This project is focused on completing a statewide assessment of the current state of transition services in Arizona to identify current exemplary practices, areas of need, and recommendations for improving post-school employment rates for youth with disabilities. This comprehensive qualitative and quantitative approach is design...[more]
Transition Pathway Services Model Demonstration MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Susan Foley[email protected]
The Transition Pathway Services (TPS) Model Demonstration is 5-year federal grant that the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC) received from the Rehabilitation Services Administration, in the U.S. Department of Education. The TPS aims to improve career and academic planning skills so that high school students with disa...[more]
Transition, Employment, and Careers Capacity Building (TEC) LA-Louisiana State University Human Development Center - New Orleans, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Susan Killam[email protected]
NEED: Supported Employment providers in the state need access to quality, comprehensive training that responds to the needs of job seekers as well as the requirements of state agencies.
OVERALL GOALS/OBJECTIVES. This Project (more properly thought of as an intitiative of the UCEDD spanning several small projects through a var...[more]
TRANSITION- Pre-Vocational Integrated Education and Campus Experience (PIECE) for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities OH-The Nisonger Center, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Margaretha Izzo[email protected]
We propose a 6-week program that will begin June 27 and end August 5.
Over the course of this FCBDD discovery program, we will serve 14job-seekers and 8-10 FCBDD staff in two groups. One group of 7 job seekers and 4-5 staff would come on Monday and Tuesday, and the second group would come on Wednesday and Thursday. All job-see...[more]
TRANSITION-Transition Options in Postsecondary Settings for Students with Intellectual Disabilities 2.0 OH-The Nisonger Center, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Margaretha Izzo[email protected]
Ohios Statewide Consortia: Enhancing Employment Outcomes
for Postsecondary Students with Intellectual Disabilities
Abstract
Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education (CFDA # 84.407A)
The goal of Ohios Statewide Consortia (OSC) is to build, extend, enhance, and sustain existing programs that deliver incl...[more]
TransitionInAction Clinic AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Wendy Parent-Johnson[email protected]
The TransitionInAction Clinic is a comprehensive, day long, multi-disciplinary team experience designed to assess a young adults current status and future goals in the major life areas of health, education, employment, and independent living as they plan their transition to adulthood. The Clinic includes interviews, assessments,...[more]
UATP Dept. of Workforce Services UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sachin Pavithran[email protected]
The Utah Assistive Technology Program is an initiative of the Center for Persons with Disabilities (CPD) at Utah State University. The UATP puts assistive technology (AT) into the hands of people in Utah who need it.
AT is any item, piece of equipment or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified or...[more]
UCEDD - ADD AL-Civitan International Research Center, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Fred Biasini[email protected]
The Alabama UCDD presents a broad based program to address the needs of and expand resources and services available to individuals and families with developmental disabilities. Guided by our Mission Statement and our philosophy, we are committed to advancing our program in a responsible, responsive, and culturally competent man...[more]
UCEDD Core Grant NY-Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Suzannah Iadarola[email protected]
NEED:
There are millions of Americans living with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). People with IDD experience significant disparities in terms of health, educational outcomes, employment status, and income. In Rochester, NY we have especially high disparities documented, including some of the highest poverty ...[more]
University Center for Excellence KY-Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kathy Sheppard-Jones[email protected]
The Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute (IHDI), University of Kentucky, operates as the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The five overarching goals of our UCEDD cut across each of the eight U.S. Administration on Developme...[more]
University Center for Excellence on Developmental Disabilities RI-The Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
A. Anthony Antosh[email protected]
The core UCEDD grant provides the core foundation for the Sherlock Center and supports several initiatives in the areas of:
Individual and Family Support; Transition from Early Intervention to Preschool; Inclusive Education, Transition from School to Adult Life; Meaningful Employment; Assistive Technology; Positive Behavioral I...[more]
University Center for Excellence on Disability NH-INACTIVE-Institute on Disability, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Andrew Houtenville[email protected]
Established in 1987, the UNH Institute on Disability, together with the Center for Genetics and Child Development at Dartmouth Medical School and the Institute for Health, Law, and Ethics at Pierce Law comprise New Hampshire's University Center of Excellence on Disability (NHUCED). Full UCED status was granted in 1990. The NHUCE...[more]
University Center for Excellence on Disability NH-Institute on Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Andrew Houtenville[email protected]
Established in 1987, the UNH Institute on Disability, together with the Center for Genetics and Child Development at Dartmouth Medical School and the Institute for Health, Law, and Ethics at Pierce Law comprise New Hampshire's University Center of Excellence on Disability (NHUCED). Full UCED status was granted in 1990. The NHUCE...[more]
University of Maine CCIDS UCEDD Core Grant ME-The University of Maine, Center for Community Inclusion, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Alan Cobo-Lewis[email protected]
The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, Maine's UCEDD, was established in 1992 to increase Maine's capacity to address the needs of people with developmental disabilities and their families. CCI's mission, created in partnership with its Community Advisory Committee, guides its work. CCID...[more]
University of Washington Employment Program WA-Center on Human Development & Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Alan Knue[email protected]
The UW Employment Program works to create and support mutually beneficial relationships between people with disabilities and the businesses that hire them. In order to accomplish this mission, UWEP staff address three major goals:
To develop and implement new or expanded programs relating to employment of persons with ...[more]
USU Community Integration and Employment Training and Technical Assistance Center UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tim Riesen[email protected]
providers and consumers of HCBS services to ensure compliance with the final rule during the transition process. Utah State University will use a combination of core university faculty and staff, and national and state level consultants to provide training and technical assistance to people with disabilities, families, and provi...[more]
UW ECHO in Secondary Transition, Education WY-Wyoming Institute for Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Canyon Hardesty[email protected]
UW ECHO Network for Secondary Transition will develop and provide ongoing support for educators and other professionals working with students transitioning from the K-12 education systems into postsecondary, employment and community living settings. The UW ECHO in Transition network will provide opportunities for family engagem...[more]
Vocational Rehabilitation Benefits Planning (Pre-ETS) HI-Hawaii Center on Disability Studies UCEDD/JABSOM LEND Program
Fiscal Year: 2020
Chin Lee[email protected]
Research from several states has shown that clients who receive benefits planning are more likely to gain employment and have successful Vocational Rehabilitation closures. Studies in Wisconsin, Vermont, Utah and Connecticut and many more show that benefits planning leads to better employment outcomes for VR clients.
CDS pro...[more]
Volunteer Advocacy Project TN-Vanderbilt University, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Robert Hodapp[email protected]
Realizing the challenges parents face in advocating for their children with disabilities, The Volunteer Advocacy Project (VAP) trains interested individuals to become special education advocates so they can provide instrumental and affective support to families of children with disabilities. Since its inception in fall of 2008, ...[more]
VRTA, Exp 6/30/20 IN-Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Judith Gross[email protected]
The Center on Community Living and Careers VRS Technical Assistance and Training team has had a busy few years working closely with the Bureau of Rehabilitation Services (BRS) staff to implement the new Employment Services model. From developing Check and Connect Webinars by ensuring clarification of topics (e.g., billing, suppo...[more]
VRTA, Exp 8/31/19 IN-Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Judith Gross[email protected]
The Center on Community Living and Careers VRS Technical Assistance and Training team has had a busy few years working closely with the Bureau of Rehabilitation Services (BRS) staff to implement the new Employment Services model. From developing Check and Connect Webinars by ensuring clarification of topics (e.g., billing, suppo...[more]
Waiver Transition Project NH-INACTIVE-Institute on Disability, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Matt Gianino[email protected]
In March 2014, CMS finalized its HCBS Community Settings Rule that defines and sets criterial for what constitutes a community setting for services delivered under the Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Waiver Program. The intent of the rule is to assure that individuals receiving services and supports through HCBS funded ...[more]
Waiver Transition Project NH-Institute on Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
In March 2014, CMS finalized its HCBS Community Settings Rule that defines and sets criterial for what constitutes a community setting for services delivered under the Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Waiver Program. The intent of the rule is to assure that individuals receiving services and supports through HCBS funded ...[more]
Washington Assistive Technology Act Program WA-Center on Human Development & Disability, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Alan Knue[email protected]
The mission of Washington Assistive Technology Act Program (WATAP) is to provide a comprehensive continuum of services and resources to help Washingtonians with disabilities of all ages to make informed decisions about assistive technology (AT), and to provide alternative means of acquiring the AT they need. WATAP serves not ...[more]
West Virginia Assistive Technology System WV-Center for Excellence in Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Jessi Wright[email protected]
The purpose of West Virginia Assistive Technology System (WVATS) is to provide services and resources to help West Virginia residents of all ages and abilities make informed decisions about assistive technology. WVATS serves not only individuals with disabilities, but also their circle of support. This includes family members, e...[more]
West Virginia Traumatic Brain Injury Mentor WV-Center for Excellence in Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Amanda Acord-Vira[email protected]
West Virginia (WV) will build upon a strong foundation of traumatic brain injury (TBI) services and networks to connect the medical home with community resources and train a new generation of providers. The primary goal of the project is to increase WVs capacity to provide services to people with TBI with regard to their long-te...[more]
WIOWA Supported Employment Project VI-Virgin Islands UCE, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Kimberly Mills[email protected]
A best practice pilot program to train and monitor job coaches to support people with disabilities in employment activities.
Wireless RERC GA-Center for Leadership in Disability at Georgia State University, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Eliseo Jimenez[email protected]
CLD has collaborated with the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Wireless Technologies at Georgia Tech in order to understand uses for wireless technology to increase community accessibility for individuals with disabilities. CLD personnel have conducted multiple focus groups with individuals with disabilities, ...[more]
Work Incentive Planning and Assistance (WIPA) Project AK-Center for Human Development, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Larrisa Cummings[email protected]
Provide Work Incentive Planning and Assistance services for Alaskan SSI/SSDI beneficiaries.
Provide single point of entry for all inquiries, screening, and information and referral.
Provide initial benefit analyses and assistance to develop a benefit management plan using available work incentives
Provide follow-up and suppor...[more]
Work Incentives Planning and Assistance, Hawaii WIPA HI-Hawaii Center on Disability Studies UCEDD/JABSOM LEND Program
Fiscal Year: 2020
Chin Lee[email protected]
The goal of the Hawaiʻi WIPA program is to enable beneficiaries with disabilities to make informed choices about work, and to support working beneficiaries to make a successful transition to self-sufficiency. Our project is staffed with Community Work Incentives Coordinator (CWIC) who will:
provide in-depth counseling ab...[more]
Work Works GA-Institute on Human Development and Disability, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Philip E. Chase[email protected]
Work Works - The National Web Based Training Project is a certification program designed for Job Coaches and Employment Specialists who assist persons with significant disabilities to direct their own support systems and to become successfully employed in careers they choose and with which they are satisfied for an extended peri...[more]
Workforce Innovation Technical Assistance Center MA-Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Julisa Cully[email protected]
The WINTAC will provide training and technical assistance (TA) to State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies (SVRAs) and related agencies and rehabilitation professionals and service providers to help them develop the skills and processes needed to meet the requirements of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).
Workplace Supports Training UT-Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Tim Riesen[email protected]
The proposed project will directly address the training requirements established by Utah State Office of Rehabilitation by expanding the employment specialist training offered by Utah State University. Specially, Utah State University will develop a Workplace Supports training to facilitate ongoing training. The training will be...[more]
Wyoming Accessibility Center (WAC) WY-Wyoming Institute for Disabilities, UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Sandra Root-Elledge[email protected]
The Wyoming Accessibility Center (WAC) provides fee-for-services training, technical assistance and assessments to improve the access of individuals with disabilities to education, training and employment. Services include assistive technology assessments, conversion of conference materials to Braille formats, conversions of boo...[more]
Youth Healthcare Transition NV-Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities, UCEDD/LEND
Fiscal Year: 2020
Diana Rovetti[email protected]
The Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities (NCED) will provide trainings on transition topics, with an emphasis on healthcare transition to professionals serving Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) and their families.
Need: Schools and transition programs for youth focus on employment and indepen...[more]
Youth to Adult Transition Initiative AZ-Sonoran UCEDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Susan Voirol[email protected]
Increasing transition planning, employment skills training, and independent living skills are crucial for young PWDD in Arizona to achieve a successful transition to adulthood. Arizona Department of Education (ADE), in its post-school outcomes survey (IDEA Part B Indicator 14), found that of 2013-2014 exited respondents who were...[more]
