ICI in the News
- ICI in the News Media
- ICI in Staff Newsletter (fyi)
The following are lead articles that have appeared in the Institute's monthly staff newsletter, fyi, during the past six months, profiling Institute projects and activities. Older stories may be found in the fyi Archive of Past Issues.
ICI Part of National Effort to Support Inclusive Faith Communities
(May 2012)
Participation in the faith community of one’s choosing is an essential part of life for many people. However, for people with disabilities there can often be barriers to such participation and inclusion. To help raise awareness about the barriers, and equip faith communities to grow in their ability to include people with disabilities, a group of University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDDs) came together in 2011 to found the National Collaborative on Disability, Religion, and Inclusive Spiritual Supports. The collaborative is led by Rev. Dr. Bill Gaventa from the Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities (NJ UCEDD) and Dr. Erik Carter from Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (TN UCEDD), and among the founding partners is the Institute on Community Integration (ICI). …
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ICI Launches New College Prep Service for Students with Disabilities
(April 2012)
Students with disabilities often need extra support and advocacy to become college-ready. A new service has been launched at the Institute on Community Integration (ICI) to provide that support and advocacy for high school and college-age students with disabilities and their families in the Twin Cities area. It is called CollegePrep/ICI. …
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Connecting Students to Learning: ICI’s Check & Connect Expanding Its Reach
(March 2012)
To prevent school dropout among K-12 students, in 1995 the Institute on Community Integration (ICI) launched Check & Connect, a research-based intervention to increase student engagement at school and with learning. Now, Check & Connect has launched an expanded suite of training and consultation options, its staff are conducting new large-scale research studies on its efficacy, and its new Web site has been unveiled (http://checkandconnect.umn.edu). …
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ICI’s E-Mentoring Program Helps Prepare Youth with Disabilities for Life After High School
(February 2012)
Among young adults in general, young people with disabilities have the highest unemployment rates, lowest participation in postsecondary training and education, and highest likelihood of remaining dependent on public assistance programs after high school. Participation in mentoring programs can help change these outcomes. …
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RTC Receives $1 Million Grant to Study Publicly-Funded Supports for People with Disabilities
(January 2012)
More than a million Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) receive publically-funded support services. The majority (58%) live in the home of a family member, while 31% live in residential facilities or with host/foster families and 9% live in homes of their own. With the continuing shift toward community living, there’s a need for federal and state agencies to better understand the current status and emerging trends in supporting individuals with IDD who are living in their own home or with family members, as well as supports targeting the family members rather than the individual. These are the areas that will be explored in a new collaborative project housed at the Institute’s Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC) titled the Supporting Individuals and Families Information Systems Project. …
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RTC’s College of Direct Support Anchors New Nationwide Online Curriculum Series
(December 2011)
After more than a decade of success with its College of Direct Support, an innovative online curriculum for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs), the Institute’s Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC) is partnering with Elsevier/MC Strategies to further expand online training for professionals who support people who have intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities; those with psychiatric disabilities; as well as those who are aging. In November, they launched DirectCourse, an expanded suite of online curricula that will not only include the College of Direct Support, but also three additional curriculum series developed by new partners from other universities. …
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