This week AIDD, a part of ACL, awarded National Training Initiative grants to 14 University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDDs) to support a one-year diversity fellowship at each UCEDD. The fellows will work to:
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Improve the recruitment and employment of under-represented groups, including people with disabilities, within the UCEDD and in the workforce
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Increase the diversity of leadership, staff, and governing bodies across the DD network
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Build cultural competence with the leadership, staff, and governing bodies across the DD network
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Increase the number of people from under-represented groups and disadvantage backgrounds who benefit from AIDD- supported programs.
The grants total over $350,000 and are being awarded to:
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Center for Disabilities, Sanford School of Medicine at The University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, S.D.
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Center for Disabilities Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, Del.
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Center for Excellence in Disabilities, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.
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Center for Leadership in Disability, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga.
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Center for Persons with Disabilities, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
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Center on Disability and Development, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
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Human Development Institute, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.
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Institute for Community Inclusion, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass.
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Institute for Human Development, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo.
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Institute on Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
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JFK Partners, University of Colorado, Denver School of Medicine, Denver, Colo.
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Mailman Center for Child Development, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Fla.
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University of Cincinnati UCEDD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Westchester Institute for Human Development, Valhalla, N.Y.
Read a March blog post by Commissioner Aaron Bishop on diversity and the developmental disabilities community.