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| August 27, 2009 |
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Would You Like Your Agency To Have Its Own Discovering Inclusion Trainer?
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On November 17, 2009, CCDH offers Discovering Inclusion: Guiding Others. Upon successfully completing this Trainer of Trainers, the individual is certified to deliver this curriculum to staff at their own organization.
Participation is by invitation only, after completing the following prerequisites:
1. Discovering Inclusion – the next one is scheduled for Monday, September 28th from 2-3:30 PM at Divine Sports – 3250 NW 207 Street, Miami Gardens; and
2. A minimum of 2 sessions of the KIT (Kids Included Together) training series, next scheduled at downtown Miami’s Arsht Center on October 14th and 15th. Please visit the CCDH website at http://www.ccdh.org/act/training_calendar/ for more detailed information.
If you would like to schedule a Discovering Inclusion or other training, for your staff, please contact Phillip Collazo, CCDH Training Coordinator at 305-596-1160 ext. 259, or at pcollazo@ccdh.org
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Children's Trust Providers: Become an ACT Individual Program Inclusion Plan Partner
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CCDH’S All Children Together (ACT) Project is funded by The Children's Trust and serves as its Resource Network for the special needs of children with disabilities and their families. The Project’s goal is to build the capacity of Miami-Dade's children's service providers to include children with disabilities. For those already serving children with disabilities, the goal is to make it possible to provide services to children with more intense support needs.
Each partner agency works closely with an ACT Inclusion Specialist to develop an Individual Program Inclusion Plan (IPIP). Together, they develop an IPIP that sets forth goals towards increasing capacity and the action steps necessary to achieve these goals. The IPIP also identifies the resources necessary to implement the plan. These resources may come from within the ACT project (staff, consultants, capacity building funds) and/or from other available resources.
If you are a Children’s Trust funded program (including programs participating in Quality Counts and Miami Nice), and are interested in participating, please click here to complete a short online survey. A member of the ACT team will contact you to set up a meeting.
If you have any questions, please contact ACT Lead Inclusion Specialist Lee Morgenstern at 305-596-1160, ext. 262, or e-mail him at lmorgenstern@ccdh.org
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Access to Recreation: Webinar Series on Exemplar Universal Design Projects
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The W.K. Kellogg Foundation Access to Recreation grant program has provided $15 million in funding to 36 recreation projects based on concepts for embracing universal design, opportunity to facilitate inclusion of people of all abilities and opportunity to serve as an exemplar of universal design to community planners, recreation practitioners and advocates.
The National Center on Accessibility has made these innovative projects available on their site. The free 90-minute sessions will present an overview of the project concepts, the planning process, design decisions, construction issues, and fundraising. This is an excellent opportunity for professionals seeking the latest information on universal design trends specific to parks and recreation.
Please visit http://www.ncaonline.org/index.php?q=node/768
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American Sign Language Program awarded $4.5 Million in grants from the US. Department of Education
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Northeastern University’s American Sign Language (ASL) program recently received awards totaling $4.5M over five years from the US Department of Education.
The first award, for $1.5M, is for the Northeastern Regional Interpreter Education Center. The Regional Center will work to define national needs, set national goals, and develop strategies for coordinating projects and activities and leveraging resources across regions. In addition, it will also establish partnerships and linkages with other regions and well as with programs, agencies, practitioners and consumers within the region, to develop projects and initiate activities that best meet the needs of that region. Within the larger framework, each regional center will have access to information, practices and projects that will allow them to maximize available national resources and minimize duplication of effort.
The second grant, for $3M, establishes the National Interpreter Education Center at Northeastern (NIEC). The NIEC will serve as the primary point of coordination and collaboration for the five Regional Centers. The goal is to significantly increase the number of qualified and credentialed interpreters in the field, by establishing collaborative links and partnerships among the five regions, and facilitating practice and product sharing among interpreter education service providers, practitioners, educators, and consumers nationwide.
For more information, please visit http://www.research.neu.edu/research_news/arts_humanities/news/?id=22
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