Event Materials Now Available: 2014 AUCD UCEDD Directors Retreat and AIDD TA Institute

April 4, 2014

UCEDD LEADERSHIP: PAY IT FORWARD

The 2014 UCEDD Directors Retreat and AIDD TA Institute were held March 19-21 in Crystal City, VA. Materials from the meeting are available on this page. 

This meeting provided 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 - March 19, 2014
  
• Combined Presentations
• Handouts
  • 1915 (c) Waivers List
  • Disability Policy Seminar Flyer
  • LEND Issue Brief FY 2015
  • UCEDD Issue Brief FY 2015
    

Materials from TA Institute

• Agenda - March 20-21, 2014
  
• Combined Panel Presentations
  • Welcome and Opening Remarks
  • AIDD Program Office Updates
  • Balancing Funding Portfolios
  • UCEDD Promotional Efforts
  • UCEDD Updates 
    

Facilitated Sessions - Balancing Funding Portfolios March 20, 2014, 9:45 - 11:00 am
Center Administration and Business Operations                                                          Michela Spitz, Associate Director of Finance & Administration, Center for Human Development, Alask Bryce Fifield, UCEDD Director, Center for Persons with Disabilities, Utah Session Notes | Handout Developing Corporate and Foundation Partnerships Andy Imparato, Executive Director, AUCD  Session Notes Writing Research Grants (like the big dogs)                                                   David Johnson, UCEDD Director, Institute on Community Integration, Minnesota Robert Stodden, UCEDD Director, Center on Disability Studies, Hawaii  Session Notes Landing and Managing State Contracts                                                     Harold Kleinert, UCEDD Director, Human Development Institute, Kentucky Sue Fox, Associate UCEDD Director, Institute on Disability, New Hampshire ;   Session Notes
Facilitated Sessions - UCEDD Promotional Efforts March 20, 2014, 3:15 - 4:30 pm
High Impact Dissemination Strategies                                                                            Matthew Gianino, Director of Communications, Institute on Disability, New Hampshire  Session Notes | Handout available upon request Creating Quality, Culturally and Linguistically Competent Materials                    Leslie Cohen, UCEDD Director, Sonoran UCEDD, Arizona Tawara Goode, Associate UCEDD Director, Center for Child and Human Development, District of Columbia  Session Notes | Additional Resources Marketing & Branding your UCEDD                                                                            Sandy Root-Elledge, Associate UCEDD Director, Wyoming Institute for Disabilities, Wyoming Elise McMillan, UCEDD Co-Director, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, Tennessee  Session Notes | Handout Sustaining Projects: Life After the Grant                                                                     David Mank, UCEDD Director, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana  Session Notes
	Facilitated Sessions - Taking it Big and Sustaining it! March 21, 2014, 9:45 - 11:00 am
Building Network Capacity to Impact Policy                                                                   Elizabeth Hecht, Outreach Specialist for Public Policy, Waisman Center, Wisconsin  Dawn Rudolph, TA Director, AUCD Session Notes Scaling Up Evidence-Based Models: Systems Change                                                  W. Oscar Fleming, Investigator, National Implementation Research Network (NIRN), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  Session Notes | Handout | Additional Resources Packaging Research Findings to Inform Policy Makers                                              Andy Imparato, Executive Director, AUCD Sharon Lewis, Principal Deputy Administrator at the Administration for Community Living (ACL), and Secretary Sebelius' Senior Advisor on Disability Policy  Session Notes