CAC Meeting

Update on Projects and Initiatives

November 4, 2011

The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion & Disability Studies

New Projects and Initiatives• Ensuring Higher Education Opportunity for All –

Replication Grant. Sub-contract with Temple University. The Center’s replication efforts will include curriculum transformation in the humanities or social sciences; faculty capacity-building in principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL); and instruction or co-instruction by instructors with a disability using the transformed curriculum in at least three humanities or social science classes.

The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion & Disability Studies

New Projects and Initiatives (2)• Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental

and Related Disabilities (LEND). Partnership with UNH/Dartmouth Medical School to expand trainee opportunities in NH and Maine. Five-year grant funded by U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, HRSA, Maternal Child Health Bureau (MCH).

The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion & Disability Studies

New Projects and Initiatives (3)• Sustainable Implementation of Family-

Centered Transition Planning for Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Collaboration with UNH-Institute on Disability. Three-year project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).

The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion & Disability Studies

Continuing Projects & Initiatives

• ADD Core Grant (Year 4 of 5)

• Child Care Plus ME/RELATE

• Early Childhood Opportunities Scholars (EChOS) (Year 2 of 4)

• Equity & Excellence in Higher Education

The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion & Disability Studies

Continuing Projects & Initiatives (2)• Maine’s Expanding Inclusive Opportunities

for Children, Families and Communities

• Maine’s Inclusion Project: A Collaboration of the Maine Commission for Community Service and CCIDS

• Training Opportunities for Personnel: B-5 (one-year extension through August 2012)

The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion & Disability Studies

Projects: Not Continuing/Ending

• CC+ME/RELATE Project Addendum (ended September 30, 2011)

• Early Reading First (ended June 30, 2011)

• Family-Centered Transition Planning for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ended August 31, 2011)

• MRTQ Curriculum Revision (ended September 30, 2011)

The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion & Disability Studies

Projects: Not Continuing/Ending (2)

• Maine State Personnel Development Grant/CCIDS (ended August 31, 2011)

• National Autism Resource and Information Center (ended September 30, 2011)

• Servicebot. Funding from Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (ended June 30, 2011)