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Connected to Something Bigger
Published: April 2024
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Sinking Sub-Minimum Wages
Published: April 2024
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Doctor’s Orders
Published: April 2024
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New Frontline Initiative: DSPs Speak Up!
Published: April 2024
RISP Data Bytes: Caseloads versus People Receiving Services
The number of people known to state IDD agencies and the number receiving services increased 21% from 2013 to 2020. In 2020, 85% of the people known to state IDD agencies got one or more services …
Published: 2024
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Autism: Recognizing Signs, Connecting Resources
Published: April 2024
A Closer Look: Episode 6: Guest Amy Hewitt: "No One is Better at Telling Your Story Than You Are"
Our guest is Amy Hewitt, Ph.D., director of the Institute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota. Amy explains that as direct support professionals, you have to fight for what you …
Published: 3/28/2024
A Closer Look: Episode 5: Advocating for Yourself with Megan Russell
Megan Russell has supported Jay as a direct support professional (DSP) for the past 10 years. In this episode, Megan talks about her experience at the NADSP Advocacy Symposium where she learned …
Published: 2/22/2024
MIDAS Project Reports
A report series for The MIDAS Project
MIDAS Project Reports: Using Multiple Measures of Academic Achievement to Inform Instruction for Students with Disabilities Who Moved from the Alternate Assessment to the General State Assessment (#101)
This report presents an overview of two types of assessments that can inform instructional decision making for students with disabilities who moved from the alternate assessment based on alternate …
Published: April 2024
Frontline Initiative: Advocacy and Voting
Direct support professionals (DSPs) advocate regularly with the people they support. This issue of Frontline Initiative argues that DSPs now need to speak up for themselves and their profession— …
Published: Spring 2024
Policy Forum: The Employment Impacts of Being a Family Caregiver
This Policy Forum, held on March 22, 2024, discusses the recent Policy Research Brief titled, The Employment Impacts of Being a Family Caregiver . Discussants include ICI's Lynda Lahti Anderson; …
Published: 3/22/2024
Impact, The Conversation
A podcast series from the Institute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota that takes a deep dive into the latest research, practices, and insights moving the inclusion of people …
Impact, The Conversation: Sexuality and IDD: Recognizing Rights
Lindsey Mullis speaks with Impact managing editor Janet Stewart about the lack of training for caregivers to provide social-sexual supports for people with intellectual and developmental disabiliti…
Published: 3/15/2024
Impact, The Conversation: Sexuality: Pauline and Oscar
Pauline Bosma, founder of the Rainbow Support Groups of Massachusetts, and Oscar Hughes, then a Boston University doctoral candidate, share how they worked with others to create a resource guide …
Published: 3/15/2024
Impact, The Conversation: The Arc of Justice
Leigh Anne McKingsley, senior director at The Arc's National Center on Criminal Justice and Disability, talks with Janet Stewart, Impact' s managing editor, about intersectional issues involving …
Published: 3/15/2024
Impact, The Conversation: TJ Gordon and Jaime Cornejo
Impact goes on the road to Chicago to talk with self-advocate, activist, and writer T.J. Gordon, who created a story map to highlight people with disabilities living in different neighborhoods of …
Published: 3/15/2024
Impact, The Conversation: Disability Justice: Centering the Most Marginalized Among Us
Nikki Villavicencio of Advocating Change Together in Minnesota, joins Impact managing editor Janet Stewart in the ICI studio for a discussion about disability justice and solidarity in advocating …
Published: 3/15/2024
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: March 2024
The Institute's monthly staff newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about ICI's longstanding collaborations with …
Published: March 2024
Impact: Disability Rights, Disability Justice
This issue explores what disability justice means for people with intellectual, developmental, or other disabilities and puts that in the context of the broader Disability Rights Movement. Authors …
Published: Winter 2023-24

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