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AAIDD & AUCD Webinar for Students & Early Career Professionals: Grant Writing

Monday, March 23, 2009
3:30pm Eastern
Location: Online

The Committee on Student and Junior Member Recruitment and Retention of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) and the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) invite you to participate in an upcoming early career development webinar. AAIDD and AUCD are collaborating on a series of webinars aimed at meeting needs of students, trainees, and early professionals in the field of disabilities. The upcoming webinar will feature Carol Curtin, MSW, Director of the Healthy People, Healthy Communities Division of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) and Erik Carter, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Special Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The speakers will provide an overview of successful grant writing. Mrs. Curtin will begin by broadly outlining and describing critical elements of grant applications. Dr. Carter will then reflect on lessons learned in his own early professional career submitting for Institute of Education Science (IES) competitions. Following their remarks there will be an opportunity for participant Q&A.

Speakers

Carol Curtin
Carol Curtin, MSW
Carol Curtin, MSW is the Director of the Healthy People, Healthy Communities Division of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD), Associate Director for the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Ms. Curtin has over 25 years experience working with individuals and families of children and adults with developmental disabilities and special health care needs. Ms. Curtin has worked as a clinician, program administrator, teacher, and researcher in this area and is also the sibling of an adult man with developmental disabilities. Her clinical and professional interests include interdisciplinary training of professionals, the delivery of family-centered care, coping with chronic illness, and nonprofit organizational management and leadership. Her current research is in health promotion and obesity prevention & intervention in children and adults with developmental disabilities. And what she does the most is write grants!

 

Photo of Erik Carter
Erik Carter, PhD
Erik Carter, PhD is an assistant professor of special education in the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research addresses secondary transition services, peer relationships, and access to the general curriculum. He is an investigator on grants from the Institute of Education Sciences and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

 

 

 

Webinar Materials

To listen to the recorded phone conference, please follow these steps:

  • Dial 1.866.803.1430 to access the playback center
  • Press "1" to indicate you would like to listen to your recording
  • Enter 106978# for your Conference ID,
  • Enter 5580663# for your Playback ID.

For International locations, please dial 303.928.3279 to listen to the recorded phone conference.

For more information

  • Karla Kmetz, Project Specialist, Association of University Centers on Disabilities
  • Shea Obremski, Doctoral Research Assistant, Beach Center on Disability

 

This webinar is provided in partial fulfillment of contract tasks under the UCEDD Resource Center: A project of AUCD, in partnership with ADD, to strengthen and support the network of UCEDDs.