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Tip Sheets are intended to provide guidance and share peer practices of specific aspects of UCEDD operations, grant management, and core grant application development. Tip sheets clarify requirements outlined in the DD Act, related federal regulations, and/or ACL's Quality Review System processes as appropriate; and also share experiences and recommendations from network peers.

Administrative Essentials

• Changing Administrative Homes
  Ways in which Centers have switched administrative homes and lessons learned in the process.
  
  
• Fostering Organizational Culture in a Remote Environment
  Approaches to remote work environments across the UCEDD network. 
  
  
• How and When to Create a Business Manager Role
  Tasks and roles of the business manager and how and when to fund the position.
  
  
• Managing Staff and Volunteers with Guardians
  Strategies for managing and supporting employees, volunteers, and consumer advisory committee members who are under guardianship.
  
  
• Matching Funds or Cost Sharing
  Logistics of matching funds, cost-sharing, and non-federal projects funds.
  
  
• Meaningfully Engaging Your Consumer Advisory Committee (CAC)
  Creative strategies and promising practices for meaningfully engaging a CAC.
  
  
• Professional Development
  Approaches to professional development and succession planning.
  
  
• Setting Targets and Evaluating Performance of Grant Professionals
  Roles and responsibilities of grant professionals, along with strategies to set targets and evaluate their performance.
  
  
• University UCEDD Relationships
  Relationships between UCEDDs and their universities and administrative homes.
  
  
• UCEDD (Re)Organization 
  UCEDD organizational planning and restructuring to  effectively fulfill the core functions specified in the DD Act.  

Core Functions

• Developing UCEDD Core Functions Plans
  Addresses creating plans to carry out the UCEDD Core Functions. Each of the core functions are outlined by the DD act, defined by the UCEDD logic model, and reported through NIRS. 
  
  
• Demonstration Services
  Services that field test promising or exemplary practices and may be integrated with training, research and/or dissemination functions.
  
  
• Product Development
  Information dissemination is the distribution of knowledge-based information through UCEDD developed products and activities.
  
  
• Research
  Implementation of basic and applied research, program evaluation, and analysis of public policy on issues impacting individuals with developmental disabilities.
  
  
• Community Service Training
  Provided by UCEDD faculty/staff to enhance knowledge of a variety of community members (individuals with developmental and other disabilities, their families, professionals, paraprofessionals, policymakers, students or others in the community).
  
  
• Model Services 
  Specialized services delivered with the intention to enhance the well-being and status of the recipient and not testing new practices and may be integrated with training, research, and/or dissemination functions." Prior to logic model revisions in 2011 and 2012, model services were known as "direct services".
  
  
• Technical Assistance
  Direct problem-solving services provided UCEDD faculty/staff to assist individuals with developmental and other disabilities, families, programs, agencies, or other entities in improving their outcomes, services, management, and/or policies.
  
  

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