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Wendy Jones Whitty, MEd, MSW

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Center:
DC-Georgetown University Center for Child & Human Development, UCEDD/LEND
Contact Information:
202-687-5531
Leadership:
Primary Activity Coordinators:
Cultural and Linguistic Responsiveness
Discipline Coordinators:
Project/Program/Clinic Contacts:
Parenting Support Program
Discipline(s):
Education/Special Education
Social Work
AUCD Council Membership:
Multicultural Council
Vita/Bio:

Wendy Jones, M.Ed., MSW is a bilingual early childhood special educator and social worker, passionate about the development, health, wellness and safety of families, and communities. She focuses her energies in the areas of advocacy, support and training for those with limited English proficiency, developmental, intellectual and emotional disabilities. She is an author, researcher, trainer, early childhood mental health consultant and coach, specializing in issues affecting marginalized groups.

Ms. Jones has served as faculty at the Georgetown University Center for Child & Human Development (GUCCHD) for more than two decades. She teaches first year medical students in community-based settings, provides clinical services and supports, and facilitates professional development & training on a range of topics. She has expertise in home visiting with populations including teen parents, parents with limited English proficiency and parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD).

Ms. Jones has been with the Georgetown University National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) since its inception, and is past Director of the Center's Children and Youth the Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Project. In that role she provided training, TA and consultation to state MCH funded programs to advance & sustain cultural and linguistic competence in services and supports to children and their families.

For the last five years, Ms. Jones has served, as a Senior Policy Associate on the NCCC's various programs funded by AIDD.

 

Service:
Linked Projects
Parenting Support Program
Parenting Support Program
Transition Supports for Parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Partnership
Parenting Support Program
Transition Supports for Parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Partnership
Linked Products
Demographic Profile Alaska
Demographic Profile Louisiana
Demographic Profile of Maryland
Demographic Profile New Mexico
Cultural and Linguistic Competence Journey Road Signs
Enhanced National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Standards in Health and Healthcare
Questions to Consider in Policy Analysis
Introduction to Embedding Tools
Cultural & Linguistic Competence: Definitions, Conceptual Frameworks, and What it Means for Alaska's UCEDD
Cultural & Linguistic Competence: Definitions & Conceptual Frameworks, and What it Means for Louisiana UCEDD
Cultural & Linguistic Competence: Definitions & Conceptual Frameworks, and What it Means for Maryland UCEDD
Cultural & Linguistic Competence: Defintions, Conceptual Frameworks, and What it Means for New Mexico UCEDD
Advancing and Sustaining Cultural and Linguistic Competence: Moving from Planning to Implementation
Leadership for Cultural Competence and Linguistic Competence: A Dialogue to Facilitate Change
Aligning Values and Policies
Parenting Support Program website development
Defining & Understanding Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Across the Life Course
Defining Transition From a Life Course Perspective
Getting to Change: Frameworks for Organizational & Individual Change
Getting to Change: Frameworks for Organizational & Individual Change
Preparing Trainees to Engage with and in Culturally Diverse Communities: Addressing the Social-Political Context.
Co-Parenting Module Series- Module 1: Co-parenting the Basics
Co-parenting Series -Module 2: The Importance of Relationship Building and Communication Styles
Co-parenting Module Series- Module 3: Commitments and Keys to Successful Co-parenting
Co-parenting Module Series- Module 4: Co-parenting Relationships and Developing a Co-parenting Plan
Co-parenting Module Series - Module 5: Summary of Everything About Co-parenting
Personal Finances Module Series- Module 1: The Basics
Personal Finances Module Series- Module 2: What is a Budget and Why is it important?
Advancing Racial Equity in the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Space: An Annotated Resource
Disability Justice as Defined by Persons with Lived Experience of Disability: Perspectives from Andy Arias
Disability Justice as Defined by Persons with Lived Experience of Disability: Perspectives from Lydia X.Z. Brown
Disability Justice as Defined by Persons with Lived Experience of Disability: Perspectives from Luticha Andre Doucette
Disability Justice as Defined by Persons with Lived Experience of Disability: Perspectives from Leroy Moore
Intersectionality as Defined by Persons with Lived Experience of Disability: Perspectives from Leroy Moore
Intersectionality as Defined by Persons with Lived Experience of Disability: Perspectives from Luticha Andre Doucette
Intersectionality as Defined by Persons with Lived Experience of Disability: Perspectives from Lydia X. Z. Brown
Intersectionality as Defined by Persons with Lived Experience of Disability: Perspectives from Andy Arias
Words of Wisdom: Reflections on Racial Equity from Chioma Oruh
Words of Wisdom: Reflections on Racial Equity from Emmanuelle M.D. Jenkins
Words of Wisdom: Reflections on Racial Equity from Jeiri Flores
Community Transition Implementation Partnership-Defining Transition from a Life Course Perspective
Community Transition Implementation Partnership -Defining & Understanding Intellectual Disabilities & Developmental Disabilities Across the Life Course
Supporting Parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Disclosure of Disability Status Policy and Practices Guide
Supporting Parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Reasonable Accommodations Policy and Practices Guide
Supporting Parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Self-Determination Policy and Practices Guide
Supporting Parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Supported Decision-Making Policy and Practices Guide
Supporting Parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Augmentative and Alternative Communication Policy and Practices Guide
Supporting Parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Literacy Policy and Practices Guide
Supporting Parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Literacy Policy and Practices Guide
Supporting Parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Health Literacy Policy and Practices Guide
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