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6/14/2020
AUCD Professional Fellows Alum in Kenya Pinpoints 33,000 Individuals with Disabilities for COVID Cash Relief
AUCD Professional Fellows alumni in Africa are leading the push for disability inclusion in their countries' fight against COVID-19. These alumni, who trained at UCEDD and LEND via AUCD's State Department-sponsored exchange programs, are driving inclusive response in new directions. In Kenya, one alumnus is spearheading the country's new initiative to provide emergency cash for food to more than 30,000 people with disabilities.
4/28/2020
School for Global Inclusion and Social Development / Asian American Studies
Recent School for Global Inclusion and Social Development graduate Theresa Tran was profiled in the Vietnamese American Initiative for Development's (VietAID) latest newsletter. The bilingual profile highlighted her various roles in the community and how those responsibilities impacted her life.
2/28/2020
From Village to Village
When Archy Gomba returned home to Tanzania after completing the International Professional Fellows Program for Inclusive Disability Employment (PFP-IDE) at the Center for Disabilities and Development (Iowa's UCEDD) last fall, his head was full of ideas and information to help him develop his small nonprofit organization in the village of Shirati. And his suitcase was full of school supplies.
2/26/2020
Institute for Disability Studies Leaders to Promote Self-Advocacy in Kenya
The University of Southern Mississippi's Institute for Disability Studies (IDS) has been awarded a mini-grant to increase self-advocacy awareness among youth and young adults with disabilities in Kenya.
2/20/2020
International Service Learning and its Implications for Healthcare Practice
The following AUCD 360 submission discusses a current LEND trainee's personal reflections when participating in an international service learning trip. The purpose of this AUCD 360 article is to create a larger conversation about one of MCH competencies and ways we can be global partners.
2/19/2020
Spanish Language Additions to MI-DDI Possibilities Video Series
In 2017, the Michigan Developmental Disabilities Institute (MI-DDI) participated in an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) International Inclusion Fellowship offered by the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD). The fellowship featured both "inbound" and "outbound" visits, where professionals from the United States and Peru traveled to their colleague's respective countries. During her inbound visit, Fiorella Guerrero who works with WarmaKuna Hope in Lima spent five weeks collaborating with MI-DDI staff and other disability professionals from across Michigan.
1/31/2020
AUCD Invites Host Applications for the Spring 2020 Professional Fellows Program on Inclusive Disability Employment (PFP-IDE)
AUCD is excited to invite host applications for the Spring 2020 Professional Fellows Program on Inclusive Disability Employment (PFP-IDE). PFP-IDE is a U.S. Department of State professional exchange program that enables emerging disability rights leaders from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to participate in a five-week Fellowship in the U.S. where they will learn about disability advocacy and inclusive employment. Hosts will provide mentorship to the Professional Fellows and will collaborate to develop an inclusive employment project for their home countries.
1/12/2020
The U.S. "Japan Business Leadership Institute on Youth Disability Employment" Webinar Series
This year, the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston (ICI) and the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) will present a 5-part webinar series featuring U.S. Japan panels with business leaders, educators, and young professionals with disabilities. This effort extends the work ICI's Heike Boeltzig-Brown and Miwa Tanabe have done over the past 8 years in Japan around building capacity in disability, higher education, and employment. Specifically, the webinar series continues and deepens the dialogue with key stakeholders that was launched at the October 2019 "Inclusion Matters" symposium organized by ICI and held at the Nippon Foundation Headquarter Office in Tokyo.
12/10/2019
ICI Implements U.S.-Japan Symposium "Inclusion Matters" in Tokyo (MA UCEDD/LEND)
In October, Tokyo-based staffer, Dr. Heike Boeltzig-Brown, and Miwa Tanabe, both of the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) based at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston), organized "Inclusion Matters," a U.S.-Japan Symposium that attracted more than 100 attendees.
10/21/2019
Welcome Fall 2019 ProFellows!
The Fall 2019 Professional Fellows were at the AUCD office on Friday, October 18 for their orientation. For the next five weeks, they will participate in an intensive learning exchange at a UCEDD or a LEND.
9/30/2019
MNLEND Fellow Becomes a Special Education Director at Minneapolis Public Schools Organization: Institute on Community Integration (MN UCEDD/LEND)
The Minneapolis Public Schools have chosen Deeqaifrah ("Deeqa") Hussein (MNLEND Fellow, 2017-18) as a Special Education Director. She credits many people and organizations for helping her get the position, including her husband Abdi Hussein (MNLEND Fellow, 2016-17) and family (she has two children with autism); the University of St. Thomas where she is earning her doctorate in Educational Leadership and Learning; her internship at the Minneapolis Public Schools with Rochelle Cox, Executive Director of Special Education and Health (and Hussein's new supervisor); and the student/family advocacy skills she learned as a MNLEND Fellow. Hussein spent the past two years as an Autism Itinerant Teacher, and for two years before that she was a High School Special Education Resource Teacher
9/23/2019
Local Partnership Leads to International Connections (MT UCEDD)
In the fall of 2018, the Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities at the University of Montana (UM) and Summit Independent Living Center hosted Ms. Nguyen Thi Van, from Hanoi, Vietnam, who was visiting Missoula, MT as a Mansfield Center Professional Fellow. Van represents two organizations that provide vocational training and independent living skills for people with disabilities in Vietnam.
9/23/2019
Vermont LEND Alumni and Staff's Refugee Stories Featured in New Book "Suddenly You Are Nobody"
This book features 30 former refugee individuals from 17 different countries of the world who made State of Vermont as their second home after being evicted from their original homelands.
6/18/2019
Alliston Provides Training, Promotes Employment for People with Disabilities through Fellowship Work in Kenya (MS UCEDD)
Dr. Alliston recently had the opportunity to share his expertise and enthusiasm for transition to adulthood in Nairobi, Africa, through the Professional Fellows Program on Inclusive Disability Employment (PRP-IDE). PFP-IDE is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is implemented by the Association of University Centers on Disabilities, the Institute for Community Inclusion, and Humanity and Inclusion.
6/17/2019
Ohio UCEDD Program Director Supports Employment Transition Project in Africa
AUCD network members and international alumni of the Professional Fellows Program on Inclusive Disability Employment (PFP-IDE) are creating lasting progress for inclusive employment in Africa! Dr. Margo Izzo, Program Director at The Ohio State University Nisonger Center, visited Tanzania to promote transition models with PFP-IDE alum Gwaliwa Mashaka, a deaf social entrepreneur who champions education and employment of women and girls with disabilities in science.
6/16/2019
Call for Proposals - PacRim2020
The University of Hawaii at Manoa, Center on Disability Studies, in the College of Education, is accepting presentation proposals to be featured at the 35th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability & Diversity at the Hawaii Convention Center, March 2-3, 2020. Submissions are being accepted from June 1, 2019-December 1, 2019 at www.pacrim.hawaii.edu.
