Services Offered by ICI
The following training, consultation, and production services are available to the public on a fee-for-service basis. Please visit their Web pages for further information.
Services Across the Lifespan
The Evaluation Group consists of a cadre of specialists offering evaluation services to programs and organizations that serve people with disabilities and other special needs, including schools, state and local education agencies, human service agencies, and workforce development agencies, on a fee-for-service basis.
RTC Media Productions creates professional film, video, and multimedia projects supporting people with disabilities, their families, and those who provide support services. Our clients have also included health care professionals, university departments, schools, and social service agencies.
School-Age Services
Check & Connect offers training, technical assistance, and consultation for K-12 schools using or considering the research-based Check & Connect student engagement intervention program developed at the Institute on Community Integration. The program is for use with students who are showing warning signs for disengaging from school and learning, and uses a multi-faceted approach to help them stay engaged with and complete school. The Check & Connect staff at the Institute offer multiple in-person and distance training and consultation options for sites considering or already implementing Check & Connect.
Transition Services
Transition Solutions provides contracted technical assistance services to state education agencies and local school districts to bring about systems change and high school reform that achieve and sustain positive outcomes for all youth.
College Prep/ICI helps prepare individual students with disabilities in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area to prepare for and to succeed in college. Students with disabilities often need extra support and advocacy to become college-ready, confident, and organized. College Prep/ICI works collaboratively with families and professionals to ease the transition from high school to postsecondary settings. The service helps students assess and build on academic and vocational aptitudes, evaluate and strengthen independent living and social skills, improve executive functioning skills, navigate the college admissions and financial aid processes, develop effective individualized educational programs (IEPs), understand accommodations and high stakes testing (e.g., AP tests, ACT/SAT), and connect with adult service programs and other resources.
Expanding the Circle offers training for educators, administrators, and others working with American Indian high school youth who are preparing for the transition to postsecondary experiences. It includes training for implementing Expanding the Circle: Respecting the Past, Preparing for the Future, a curriculum offering a structured process and a set of culturally relevant activities to facilitate successful transition from high school to adult life for American Indian high school students.
Adult Services
Direct Support Professionals (DSP) Workforce Development Program provides state-of-the-art resources and consultation services to a variety of clientele who are facing DSP workforce challenges in recruitment, training, and retention.
College of Direct Support offers a nationwide, online, competency-based training curriculum to enhance the skills and knowledge of Direct Support Professionals, frontline supervisors, and managers supporting individuals with disabilities in community settings. It is operated by a partnership of the Institute’s Research and Training Center on Community Living, and Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information. The College of Direct Support is part of a suite of online curricula developed by universities around the country titled DirectCourse, which also includes the College of Employment Services, the College of Personal Assistance and Caregiving (launching in 2012), and a curriculum focusing on services for people with psychiatric disabilities (anticipated launching 2013).
See also
Services offered by the Institute on Community Integration in collaboration with other departments at the University of Minnesota:
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