Event Materials: 2017 UCEDD Directors Retreat and AIDD TA Institute

April 12, 2017

Network Leadership in Policy and Practice

The 2017 UCEDD Director's Retreat and TA Institute provide an opportunity for UCEDD leaders to network, meet with their federal project officers, and learn of new initiatives, national trends, and other information vital to the administration of the UCEDD programs.

Materials from Directors Retreat

• Agenda - April, 19, 2017
• Presentation
• Resources
  • Public Policy Priorities for the First Session of the 115th Congress
  • Op-ed: Hatch has Trump's ear, will continue to champion disabled rights
  • Health Care, a Process That Might Work to Get to a Bi-Partisan Solution

Materials from TA Institute

• Agenda - April 20 - 21, 2017
• Presentation
• Plenary Session Notes
• Small Group Discussion Notes

Plenary Sessions

• Plenary Session: Updates from AIDD
  • Bob Williams, Acting Commissioner, Administration on Disabilities (AoD)
  • Jennifer Johnson, EdD, Acting Deputy Commissioner, AoD, Deputy Director, AIDD
  • Pamela O'Brien, EdD, Program Specialist, AIDD
  • Shawn Callaway, MSW, Program Specialist, AIDD
• Plenary Session: Emerging Employment Agenda for Youth with Disabilities
  • Madeleine Will, MA Co-Founder, Collaboration to Promote Self-Determination
  • Andy Imparato, JD, Executive Director, AUCD
• Plenary Session: HCBS Settings Panel
  • David Machledt, PhD, Senior Policy Analyst, National Health Law Program
  • Mary Lee Fay, Executive Director, National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services
  • Celia Feinstein, MA, Executive Director, Institute on Disabilities, Temple University, President, Board of Directors, AUCD

General Resources

• AIDD Funded  Diversity Initiatives
• Community of Practice on Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Developmental Disabilities (Georgetown UCEDD)
• Embedding Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competence A Guide for UCEDD Curricula and Training Activities (Georgetown UCEDD)
• Leadership Institute for Cultural and Linguistic Competence (Georgetown UCEDD)
  
• UCEDD Grantwriting & Reporting Timeline
• UCEDD Logic Model
• UCEDD Logic Model Definitions
• Lobbying

Topical Strands Notes and Resources

Employment Facilitated by David Mank, Indiana University Session Notes Resources DOL WIOA Advisory Comm Report AIDD/ ACL Employment ODEP/ DOL Employment

HCBS Quality  Facilitated by Joe Caldwell, National Council on Aging Session Notes Resources Medicaid.gov: Statewide Transition Plans HCBS Advocacy Secretary Price & CMS Administrator Seema Verma letter to Governors State Medicaid Financing Fact Sheets Home and Community Based Services Quality Resource Materials

Medicaid  Facilitated by Rachel Patterson, Health Management Associates  Session Notes Resources Fact Sheet Medicaid Pocket Primer Issue Brief: Trend in State Medicaid Programs March 2017 Letter from Secretary Price and Administrator Verma to the Governors Webinar: Medicaid Managed Care Rule: Implications for Managed Long-Term Services and Supports

Pre-K thru 12 Education Facilitated by Laura Winward Kaloi, McKeon Group & Denise Marshal, Council on Parent Attonrneys and Advocates Session Notes Resources Student's Can't Wait Website (a partnership of business, civil rights and disability organizations)  The New ESEA and its Impact on Students with Disabilities Considerations for State Accountability Systems What Organizers Need to Know About ESSA End Use of Restraint, Aversive, Seclusion  NY Times: Special Ed School Vouchers and the Burden of a 'Simple Fix' Education Week: Parents See Benefits in Spec. Ed. Vouchers, But No Silver Bullet COPAA on School Choice COPAA on a School Choice and Children with Disabilities: Voucher, Tax Credit, Education Savings Accounts  COPAA on School Choice and Children with Disabilities: Considerations in Voucher, Tax Credit, Education Savings or Other Choice Programs COPAA on Choice Programs