Posted: 02/26/2024
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
The Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) Boston has announced a new international fellowship program in partnership with the International Disability Alliance (IDA) and African Disability Forum (ADF)! Funded via a grant from the US Department of State, the program partners 12 disability rights professionals from Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Tanzania with US host organizations in the disability health and rights space. The program aims to equip these professionals with leadership and policy skills to boost inclusion and inclusive civic engagement in their respective home countries. The program "reflects each partner's shared commitment to building sustainable partnerships that promote fully inclusive civic societies for people with disabilities." (ICI) For more information, contact Dr. Heike Boeltzig-Brown([email protected])
Posted: 11/21/2023
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
As the holiday season approaches, we look forward to gathering with loved ones, family, and friends. Whether for faith services, festivals, lighting, etc., we gather together in community to celebrate our shared humanity, give back, and give thanks. However, a lack of accessibility can limit one's participation in cultural, spiritual, or familial activities. Seeing this problem, the Kennedy Kriger Institute in Baltimore, in conjunction with interfaith leaders and the community, has come together to address the issue of inaccessible faith and community spaces, and their work has been detailed in an article by the Baltimore Sun.
Posted: 09/26/2023
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
Posted: 08/02/2023
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Provide accessible, culturally and linguistically competent services
Isaac Baldry from the Rural Institute For Inclusive Communities at the University of Montana tells us about accessibility needs for ACC (Augmentative and alternative communication) users in Zoom meetings.
Posted: 03/08/2023
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Develop infrastructure that supports diversity, inclusion, and cultural and linguistic competence; and builds capacity to address and reduce inequities and disparities.
This project is designed to research, develop, and disseminate a set of resources for the national network of University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDDs) to embed cultural diversity and cultural and linguistic competence (CLC) in their curricula and training activities. The project builds the capacity of network programs to embed widely accepted CLC policies, structures, and practices across the four UCEDD core functions of pre-service training and continuing education, community services, research, and information dissemination. The project has a special focus on unserved and underserved communities in the United States, its territories, and tribal communities. This project is conducted in collaboration with key stakeholders in the UCEDD network and funded by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Administration for Community Living, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Posted: 12/12/2022
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
Share Data: Strategy B: Share data to help drive research priorities.
Collecting standardized patient demographic and language data
across health care systems is an important first step toward improving
population health. Comprehensive patient data on race, ethnicity, language,
and disability status are key to identifying disparities in quality of care and
targeting quality improvement interventions to achieve equity. Here you will find
an overview of:
• Minimum standards for data collection as outlined by the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services;
• Best practices and guidelines for health care organizations in implementing
standardized data collection, including information to address key challenges in
collecting these data;
• Training tools and webinars to help health care organizations educate their staff
on the importance of standardized data collection and best practices for data
collection; and
• Sentinel articles and books that provide in-depth discussion of issues,
challenges, recommendations, and best practices in standardized
data collection.
Posted: 09/26/2022
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Establish mentorship programs to support professional development of staff, faculty, and trainees.
Empower Young Adults: Strategy A: Identify opportunities to empower young adults.
Posted: 09/26/2022
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Establish mentorship programs to support professional development of staff, faculty, and trainees.
Empower Young Adults: Strategy A: Identify opportunities to empower young adults.
Posted: 09/26/2022
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Hire and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce of staff and faculty.
Posted: 09/26/2022
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Establish mentorship programs to support professional development of staff, faculty, and trainees.
Posted: 09/26/2022
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
Posted: 08/08/2022
Theme: Performance Measurement
Objective: Establish guidance and measure progress toward diversity, inclusion, and cultural and linguistic competence.
Disability Justice: An Audit Tool” is aimed at helping Black, Indigenous and POC-led organizations (that are not primarily focused around disability) examine where they’re at in practicing disability justice, and where they want to learn and grow. It includes questions for self-assessment, links to access tools, organizational stories and more. Fill out the form below to download a PDF of the tool.
Posted: 07/14/2022
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Hire and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce of staff and faculty.
Fostering Innovation through a diverse workforce. A PDF that includes tips on improving the workforce with innovation.
Posted: 07/13/2022
Theme: Performance Measurement
Objective: Establish guidance and measure progress toward diversity, inclusion, and cultural and linguistic competence.
This document includes information on background and process for developing Disparity Measures. The document also includes an infographic on the process for developing revising disparity measures.
Posted: 07/13/2022
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Hire and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce of staff and faculty.
PDF document with practices for innovation through a diverse workforce . The PDF touches on Diversity and inclusion.
Posted: 07/11/2022
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Provide and participate in ongoing staff and faculty training.
Much has been written about the nature of change and the best methods to manage it. Based on the research, we now have a better understanding of the steps that must be taken to ensure that change efforts have a significant and lasting impact. In this article, I discuss some of the most well known and popular models of the change
process.
Posted: 07/05/2022
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Address language, culture, literacy, and access barriers in all published materials and activities
The Guide will help you and your organization provide effective communication and language assistance services to culturally and linguistically diverse individuals receiving care and services from your organization.
It covers strategies for communicating in a way that considers the cultural, health literacy, and language needs of your patients and their families.
Posted: 06/29/2022
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Develop infrastructure that supports diversity, inclusion, and cultural and linguistic competence; and builds capacity to address and reduce inequities and disparities.
The National CLAS Standards are a set of 15 action steps intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities by providing a blueprint for individuals and health and health care organizations to implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
Posted: 06/22/2022
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
This toolkit is designed for:
The toolkit includes information about:
Posted: 03/31/2022
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
This website shares what was learned during a project to begin to reconcile past harms and change the way research is conducted with persons with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and mental health service experiences (IDD-MH) and their families.
Posted: 03/15/2022
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Address language, culture, literacy, and access barriers in all published materials and activities
CDC’s Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication emphasize the importance of addressing all people inclusively and respectfully. These principles are intended to help public health professionals, particularly health communicators, within and outside of CDC ensure their communication products and strategies adapt to the specific cultural, linguistic, environmental, and historical situation of each population or audience of focus.
Posted: 03/01/2022
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Develop infrastructure that supports diversity, inclusion, and cultural and linguistic competence; and builds capacity to address and reduce inequities and disparities.
This Primer is focused on helping grantees identify how to infuse diversity, equity, and inclusion in policy and programming to increase competitive, integrated employment for people with disabilities from marginalized and underserved populations.
Posted: 02/24/2022
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
Posted: 02/24/2022
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
In this webinar, which will take place February 23, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Mirian E. Ofonedu, Ph.D., LCSW-C, will discuss the role that faith-based communities play in addressing the challenges experienced by Black people of African descent with autism, mental illness, and other disabilities. She will discuss strategies for addressing barriers to diagnosis and treatment services access and the distrust of medical research created by the historical events.
To address the personal experiences of exclusion and shame that Black people of African descent with autism, mental illness, and other disabilities experience, it is important that professionals utilize culturally appropriate community networks, such as faith-based communities, to increase disability awareness, reduce stigma, and improve Black people’s engagement in research and mental health services. View the webinar recording here.
Posted: 02/07/2022
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
This website shares what was learned during a project to begin to reconcile past harms and change the way research is conducted with persons with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and mental health service experiences (IDD-MH) and their families.
Posted: 02/01/2022
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
This toolkit:
Posted: 01/21/2022
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Provide accessible, culturally and linguistically competent services
Posted: 01/21/2022
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Provide accessible, culturally and linguistically competent services
Posted: 01/21/2022
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Provide accessible, culturally and linguistically competent services
Posted: 01/21/2022
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Provide accessible, culturally and linguistically competent services
Posted: 01/21/2022
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
Posted: 01/20/2022
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
Posted: 01/20/2022
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Hire and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce of staff and faculty.
Posted: 01/20/2022
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
Posted: 01/20/2022
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Hire and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce of staff and faculty.
Posted: 01/20/2022
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Establish mentorship programs to support professional development of staff, faculty, and trainees.
Posted: 01/20/2022
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Hire and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce of staff and faculty.
Posted: 01/12/2022
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
Posted: 01/12/2022
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Hire and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce of staff and faculty.
Posted: 01/12/2022
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Hire and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce of staff and faculty.
Representative Hiring: Strategy F: Engage underrepresented staff/faculty to fill position vacancies.
Posted: 01/07/2022
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
Posted: 01/07/2022
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
Posted: 12/06/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Provide accessible, culturally and linguistically competent services
Fact sheet by the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (MHDD) National Training Center based on a study identifying four important factors on how disabilities are viewed by NA/AI people. This study was done by hearing directly from NA/AI people on this topic.
Posted: 11/29/2021
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
This toolkit provides easy-to-understand explanations of societal discrimination and definitions of some words used to talk about different forms of oppression.
This toolkit will explain:
Posted: 11/10/2021
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Establish mentorship programs to support professional development of staff, faculty, and trainees.
S. Brooke Vick from Muhlenberg College shares three ways mentoring efforts can support students of color.
Posted: 11/01/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
Share Data: Strategy B: Share data to help drive research priorities.
A brief reporting findings from a recent study exploring direct support professionals (DSPs) providing support during the COVID-19 pandemic confirmed the critical shortage of DSPs supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, reflected in high turnover and vacancy rates, and low wages they earn. Fear of becoming infected or spreading the virus to others and added responsibilities for childcare are among factors that have amplified staffing challenges and added stress to DSPs and the people they support.
Posted: 11/01/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Provide accessible, culturally and linguistically competent services
From 2019-2021, the UCEDD Resource Center (URC) supported a pilot implementing the plan, with the creation of the Plain Language Advisory Group and Spanish Language Caucus. Join us to learn about the work of both groups, what the URC has learned in its efforts to improve the language and communications accessibility of its technical assistance, and how this might apply to the work at your center or program. We will also share out some resources for creating Spanish translations or plain language adaptations of existing materials.
Posted: 08/30/2021
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Provide and participate in ongoing staff and faculty training.
This free, 2-hour e-learning program is designed for providers and students seeking knowledge and skills related to cultural competency, cultural humility, person-centered care, and combating implicit bias across the continuum of maternal health care.
Posted: 08/27/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
Racial and ethnic disparities in maternal mortality — deaths related to pregnancy or childbirth — in the United States may be larger than previously reported, suggests a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. By re-examining information on death certificates from 2016 and 2017, researchers found that the maternal mortality rate among non-Hispanic Black women was 3.5 times higher than among non-Hispanic white women. Previously, standard analyses had indicated a 2.5-times-higher death rate for Black women.
Posted: 08/23/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
Share Data: Strategy B: Share data to help drive research priorities.
Posted: 08/20/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Address language, culture, literacy, and access barriers in all published materials and activities
Michigan Developmental Disabilities Institute is excited to share six Spanish plain language infographics on the COVID-19 vaccine. MI-DDI's mission is to contribute to the development of inclusive communities and quality of life for people with disabilities and their families through a culturally sensitive, statewide program of training and education, community support and services, research, and sharing of information.
Posted: 08/13/2021
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Develop infrastructure that supports diversity, inclusion, and cultural and linguistic competence; and builds capacity to address and reduce inequities and disparities.
Welcome to Race on Campus. When colleges set out to tackle their lack of faculty diversity or problems with their campus climate, they often take the same steps they’ve always tried, seemingly in search of a quick fix. The American Association for the Advancement of Science seeks to help colleges take a slower, more systemic approach, our Sarah Brown reports.
Posted: 07/30/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Provide accessible, culturally and linguistically competent services
Posted: 07/23/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Provide accessible, culturally and linguistically competent services
This toolkit is designed to help parents advocate at their child’s school, school district, or school board for whole child education that is inclusive of students with disabilities. The toolkit is grounded using the 7 Principles for Serving Students With Disabilities & Intersectional Identities Through Social-Emotional Learning Approaches
Posted: 07/09/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
Posted: 06/18/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
Share Data: Strategy B: Share data to help drive research priorities.
This brief will highlight research about digital access in higher education and summarize research on barriers to digital access, potential benefits of online learning for students with disabilities, accommodations in digital environments, and practical research about how to improve digital access.
Posted: 06/04/2021
Theme: Performance Measurement
Objective: Establish guidance and measure progress toward diversity, inclusion, and cultural and linguistic competence.
When you’re moving from equity-neutral goals to goals with equity and inclusion considerations baked in, practice these tips to stay on track.
Posted: 05/28/2021
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Provide and participate in ongoing staff and faculty training.
In partnership with the ADvancing IQ Learning Center, NAPCA developed a cultural competency course: Strengthening Cultural Competence in Information and Referral/Assistance Work with AAPI Older Adults. During this course, the National Resource Center on AAPI Aging provides a general overview of AAPI older adult populations throughout America, including demographic trends, cultural diversity and barriers to accessing services.
The course offers strategies for staff and providers to integrate cultural and linguistic competence into their work with AAPI older adults, strengthening access to the Aging Network’s long-term services and supports system for this diverse group. This hour-long course is free and provides a certificate of completion for those who successfully pass the course quiz.
Posted: 05/24/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Provide accessible, culturally and linguistically competent services
A trauma-informed legal practice aims to reduce re-traumatization and recognize the role trauma plays in
the lawyer-client relationship. Integrating trauma-informed practices provides lawyers with the opportunity to
increase connections to their clients and improve advocacy.
Posted: 05/20/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
Access to healthcare is an important factor for individuals to have positive health outcomes and to maintain a positive health status. It is, therefore, important to minimize barriers to healthcare access, real or perceived. Prior research has also suggested that there are persistent health disparities between individuals from racial and ethnic minority groups and white Americans. The research suggests the disparities may be related to mistrust of healthcare providers and the healthcare system among Black and Latinx individuals, due in part to prior history of discrimination, medical injustices (e.g. Tuskegee Experiment), and negative perception of the medical industry. Among the Latinx community, barriers and sources of mistrust include lack of language translation services and concerns about immigration status.
Posted: 05/20/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Address language, culture, literacy, and access barriers in all published materials and activities
This Practice Tip offers advice to advocates and counselors working with Limited English Proficient (LEP) older adults to better assert their language access rights.
Posted: 05/14/2021
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Establish mentorship programs to support professional development of staff, faculty, and trainees.
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis says it's putting its policies where its mouth is, approving new promotion and tenure options based on diversity, equity and inclusion work.
Posted: 04/26/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Address language, culture, literacy, and access barriers in all published materials and activities
Posted: 04/23/2021
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Hire and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce of staff and faculty.
Representative Hiring: Strategy F: Engage underrepresented staff/faculty to fill position vacancies.
Posted: 04/21/2021
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Recruit and retain a diverse trainee pool.
Posted: 04/12/2021
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
Posted: 04/09/2021
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
Posted: 03/26/2021
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
Facilitation: Strategy O: Obtain training in facilitation and/or group conversation.
Posted: 03/26/2021
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
Welcome to Race on Campus. This week, we'll share how Albion College responded when it found that being on campus is not the same as belonging. Then we'll talk with one diversity officer about why colleges need to educate students and faculty members on anti-Asian racism. And we'll share the details on an upcoming virtual event featuring student-body presidents of color.
Posted: 03/26/2021
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
Author Valerie Novack (she/her) is a Black and Latina disability policy researcher focusing on inclusive infrastructure and emergency management practices. She focuses on integrating the expertise of lived experience and grassroots efforts of marginalized peoples into policymaking at the local, state, and federal levels.
Posted: 03/01/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
Share Data: Strategy B: Share data to help drive research priorities.
Each year in the United States, an estimated 1.4 million people stay in a homeless shelter at least once, and many others who are homeless do not use shelters (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD], 2018). Homelessness is associated with lower income and is more common among racial and ethnic minority populations (HUD, 2018).
Homelessness is associated with multiple health problems, increased mortality, and increased use of health care and other services (Caton et al., 2007). Approximately half (49.2%) of the people experiencing homelessness have a disabling condition, which the Department of Housing and Urban Development defines as having limitations in conducting daily life activities, or in working or living independently, or having a diagnosis of HIV infection (including AIDS; Henry et al., 2018).
Posted: 03/01/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
Race as a variable in medical research has long been a contentious issue.1 It is widely accepted that race is an indistinct construct that is not always measured accurately and standardized. In 1999, the Human Genome Project emphasized race as nonbiological with no basis in the genetic code. What, then, does race define
Posted: 02/26/2021
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Hire and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce of staff and faculty.
Five things that search committees can do to move more women and people of color forward in the executive-hiring process.
Posted: 02/19/2021
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others).
New analysis seeks to make sense of what's really going on with respect to gender and other kinds of bias and teaching evaluations. It offers suggestions for meaningful evaluations during COVID-19 and beyond.
Posted: 02/08/2021
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Develop infrastructure that supports diversity, inclusion, and cultural and linguistic competence; and builds capacity to address and reduce inequities and disparities.
Given the complexity of social change efforts in an increasingly urgent social justice and geopolitical moment, the question is no longer whether funders and community partners should invest and engage in systems change work, but how. These efforts require more equitable approaches to address disparities in communities, including raising community voice, changing policies, and rethinking practices. And as many foundations and community leaders develop, co-design, or refine programs in education, employment, and public health, among other areas, there are opportunities for them to more deeply root investments and engage with communities to sustain their impact.
Posted: 01/29/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Conduct research that is responsive to needs of and engages with underserved communities.
Posted: 01/04/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Provide accessible, culturally and linguistically competent services
Posted: 01/04/2021
Theme: Core Functions
Objective: Provide accessible, culturally and linguistically competent services
Posted: 12/03/2020
Theme: Performance Measurement
Objective: Establish guidance and measure progress toward diversity, inclusion, and cultural and linguistic competence.
Posted: 11/10/2020
Theme: Infrastructure
Objective: Develop infrastructure that supports diversity, inclusion, and cultural and linguistic competence; and builds capacity to address and reduce inequities and disparities.
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Posted: 11/06/2020
Theme: Personnel and Trainees
Objective: Establish mentorship programs to support professional development of staff, faculty, and trainees.
Empower Young Adults: Strategy A: Identify opportunities to empower young adults.
Yetta Myrick is a mother of a teenage son on the autism spectrum. She
is the founder and president of DC Autism Parents -a non-profit
organization. In this episode, Jeiri is joined by Yetta to
discuss her role as a mother and advocate, and how she promotes
developmental monitoring to get her community the help, they need to
access services for their children.
Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice (IDRPP) is home to one of six equity, diversity and inclusion coaches who advise the nation’s university-based centers on disability. Dr. Eduardo Ortiz’s role with AUCD lasts through September 29. But he said work on understanding diversity and its intersection with disability should—and will—continue much farther into the future at IDRPP.