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March 6, 2024
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Announcements
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Are you interested in learning what supports are available on a college campus for students with intellectual disabilities? Our presenters will explore the comprehensive support available on college campuses. This webinar will highlight a range of resources and strategies available to help students excel in inclusive programs. Key topics covered: Supported Education: Learn how peer mentors and educational coaches provide individualized student support. Campus Resources: Discover disability services accommodations and campus support center offerings. Student Perspectives: Hear current students' stories about their
experience using and accessing campus support services. Presented by Ashley Luce and Maria Paiewonsky from the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston.
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On the first Friday of every month, corresponding with the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, the national Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) team offers a live broadcast via Zoom Webinar to share numbers and the latest news about disability employment.
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Join us for an interactive discussion on recruiting and supporting diverse trainees within your training programs. The panel will highlight three training programs in the AUCD Network with experience recruiting and supporting diverse trainees, including trainees across states, trainees utilizing distance learning, trainees with lived experience and finally, second-year trainees. Come prepared with questions and plan to participate in a facilitated discussion! We encourage you to share your own program's recruitment strategies, successes, and challenges.
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Mental Health, Disability & All of Us
Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 2:00 - 3:00 PM ET
Seeking out mental health support is challenging for many of us. The conversation around mental health often gets more complicated when you’re disabled, LGBTQIA+ or a person of color. Join us on March 27th for the next conversation in our Disability & Health Webinar series with self-advocates and policy experts on mental health and disability. Learn more about the mental health research currently being conducted with the All of Us Research Program, and how you can be part of it. ASL and CART will be provided, and reasonable accommodations are available upon request.
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Call for Comments - Ensuring Safe Accommodations for Air Travelers with Disabilities Using Wheelchairs
Deadline: Friday, April 29,
2024
The U.S. Department of Transportation is proposing to strengthen its rule implementing the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) to ensure passengers who use wheelchairs can travel safely and with dignity. The proposed rule would require that airlines do better in accommodating passengers with disabilities by setting new standards for prompt, safe, and dignified assistance, mandating enhanced training for airline employees and contractors who physically assist passengers with disabilities and handle passengers’ wheelchairs, and outlining actions that airlines must take to protect passengers when a wheelchair is damaged during transport. The proposed rule also clarifies that damaging or delaying the return of a wheelchair is an automatic violation of the
ACAA.
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The AUCD Employment page
focuses on job and fellowship opportunities at AUCD, within our Network, and at organizations affiliated with AUCD. If you think your organization is an affiliated partner, please contact Anna Costalas. Positions will remain on the website for 90 days.
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Funding
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Deadline: April 30, 2024
Award Ceiling: $375,000
The purpose of the Educational Technology, Media, and Materials for Individuals with Disabilities Program (ETechM2 Program) is to improve results for children with disabilities by (1) promoting the development, demonstration, and use of technology; (2) supporting educational activities designed to be of educational value in the classroom for children with disabilities; (3) providing support for captioning and video description that is appropriate for use in the classroom; and (4) providing accessible educational materials to children with disabilities in a timely manner.[1]
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Deadline: May 15, 2024
Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
The MHSP Program provides competitive grants to support and demonstrate innovative partnerships to train school-based mental health services providers (as defined in section 4102 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA)) (services providers) for employment in schools and local educational agencies (LEAs). The goal of this program is to increase the number and diversity of high-quality, trained providers available to address the shortages of mental health services professionals in schools served by high-need LEAs (as defined in this notice).
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Deadline: June 4, 2024, 5:00 PM ET
Award Ceiling: TBD
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) intends to release a Broad Pragmatic Studies (BPS) PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA) on May 7, 2024, which seeks to fund applications for high-quality patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) projects. This preannouncement is provided to allow potential applicants additional time to identify collaborators; obtain patient and stakeholder input on potential studies; and develop responsive, high-quality proposals.
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Deadline: September 6, 2024
Award Ceiling: TBD
This FOA solicits applications for new Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (BSSR) predoctoral training programs that focus on innovative computational and/or data science analytic approaches and their incorporation into training for the future BSSR health research workforce. The vision of the Advanced Data Analytics for BSSR training program is to support the development of a cohort of specialized predoctoral candidates who will possess advanced competencies in data science analytics to apply to an increasingly complex landscape of behavioral and social health-related big data. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) does not allow appointed Trainees to lead an independent clinical trial but does allow them to obtain research experience in a clinical
trial led by a mentor or co-mentor.
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Deadline: March 5, 2025 Rolling
Award Ceiling: $100,000
The FRAXA Research Foundation aims to find effective treatments and ultimately a cure for Fragile X syndrome. The foundation invites applications for its Clinical Trial Grants program, which will award grants for clinical research with human subjects who have Fragile X. Grants are flexible in amount, structure, and duration but may be subject to negotiation. Emphasis will be placed on clinical trials of potentially disease-modifying agents previously validated in Fragile X animal models, especially in previous FRAXA-funded research. Other types of clinical research will also be considered, such as biomarker studies in Fragile X patients or trials of symptomatic therapies; however, this type of research is a lower priority.
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Resources
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Past research has shown that many medical and dental students do not learn about IDD in school. The WITH Foundation, AUCD, and UC-LEND, led by Dr. Kashia Rosenau, collaborated to learn more about how medical and dental schools are teaching students about intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The study found that most of the schools had self-advocates to help them teach their medical and dental students about caring for patients with IDD. The study also found that medical and dental students want to learn more about caring for their patients with disabilities. Overall, the study highlights the importance of teaching medical and dental students about caring for patients with IDD and including more self-advocates in this training.
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Culture to Improve Equitable Maternal Healthcare Delivery and Outcomes
Severe maternal morbidity and mortality is a significant public health issue in the United States, disproportionately affecting Black women. A new review from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), titled “Respectful Maternity Care: Dissemination and Implementation of Perinatal Safety Culture to Improve Equitable Maternal Healthcare Delivery and Outcomes,” aims to synthesize research on defining and measuring respectful maternity care (RMC). It describes RMC’s impact on health outcomes and strategies for implementation, particularly for populations at risk for health disparities.
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Each March,
the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities (NACDD), and our partners work together to create a social media campaign that highlights the many ways in which people with and without disabilities come together to form strong, diverse communities. The campaign seeks to raise awareness about the inclusion of people with developmental disabilities in all facets of community life, as well as awareness of the barriers that people with disabilities still sometimes face in connecting to the communities in which they live.
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To promote the health and well-being of people with autism, the National Institutes of Health helps coordinate the activities of 18 federal agencies—including research on contributing factors and training on how to screen patients for autism. NIH has followed several key practices to coordinate agency programs and activities but could do more. For example, NIH could track its progress toward goals to help agencies better allocate resources where they are most needed. And NIH could document how its Office of National Autism Coordination checks for unnecessary duplication of federal efforts across agencies.
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There are eight “Good Jobs” principles—ranging from fair pay and benefits to organizational culture and job security—that create a universal framework for job quality. These principles fit neatly with two important pillars of disability employment that benefit everyone: competitive integrated employment, or CIE, and universal design. When employees with disabilities and other barriers to employment receive the right supports, they, along with their employers, thrive. Read real-life success stories from the ODEP-funded National Center on Leadership for the Employment and Economic Advancement of People with Disabilities (LEAD Center) that show the Good Jobs principles in action.
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Weekly news items may be submitted for consideration via the AUCD Promotion Request Form.
Submissions are due on Monday each week.
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This weekly newsletter is in part supported by the Administration for Community Living (ACL) through a technical assistance contract for the URC, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) through a technical assistance contract for the ITAC, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for a National Professional Organization for Persons with Developmental Disabilities. The content of this material does not necessarily reflect the views and policies of any federal agency. No official support or endorsement by federal agencies is intended nor should be inferred.
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