December Edition (2014), Volume 1

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FEATURED ARTICLE

How to Build Trust Between Minorities and Researchers?

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This project is a web-based interactive educational program funded by NIH as part of the federal recognition of the importance of fostering greater participation rates of racial and ethnic minority populations in research. Continue reading...

   
 
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Supporting Individuals with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities and their Families

This report describes the status of, and trends in, long-term supports and services for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities in the U.S. This report presents data on individualized and congregate settings, utilization and expenditures for Medicaid's Home and Community-Based Wavier (HCBS) and Medicaid's Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities program. Continue reading...

   

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Annual Progress Report on National Disability Policy

The National Council on Disability (NCD). has released the 2014 edition of National Disability Policy: A Progress report. The 2014 Progress Report focuses on seven key areas: the convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD), employment access and inclusion. subminimum wage, education outcomes, Medicaid managed care, mental health care, and data trends in disability policy. Continue reading...

   

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In-Home and Residential Long-Term Supports and Services for Persons with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities

This is a technical report describing results from a survey of state intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) agencies FY 2012 on the status and trends of long-term supports and services for people with IDD that focuses on supports provided in individualized settings (the home of a family member, a person's own home, a host name or foster family setting or group homes shared by three or fewer people with IDD. Continue reading...

   
  

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Webinar

February 26, 2015

1:00 - 2:30PM, EST

 

Virtual Project Director's Conference

April 27-28, 2015

 

Annual PROMISE Meeting

November 18-19, 2015 (with the option of attending the AUCD conference -- November 16-18, 2015)

  
  


The AUCD (Association of University Centers on Disabilities) PROMISE TA Center produced this newsletter under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs associated with PR Award #H418P14. The contents of this newsletter do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

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