UCEDD Administrative Essentials Webinar: Organizational/Structural Models for UCEDDs

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

The Winter 2024 installment of the Administrative Essentials Series will be an engaging Director-hosted roundtable with a focus on organizational and structural models for UCEDDs. Fellow UCEDD Directors will share insights into their organizational/structural models, staffing patterns, interaction and dynamics between their UCEDD and the LEND/IDDRC, and blending or braiding of funding. Together, we will explore creative strategies and promising practices across the UCEDD Network in this area. 

Presenters

The goal of Dr. Julie Lounds-Taylor's research program is to understand how to promote positive outcomes in adulthood for individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities and their families. Much of her current work focuses on the transition to adulthood for youth on the autism spectrum. Current projects include: (a) developing and testing a parent advocacy training to improve service access and post-school outcomes as youth on the autism spectrum transition from school-based to adult services: (b) understanding the implications of employment and other day-to-day experiences for mental health and quality of life; (c) examining unique vulnerabilities of women on the autism spectrum, as well as vulnerabilities common across sex/gender; and (d) investigating the role of language development during the transition to adulthood for youth with fragile X syndrome.

 

Dr. Maureen Van Stone is the director of the Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities (MCDD) at Kennedy Krieger Institute and the founding director of Project HEAL (Health, Education, Advocacy, and Law), a MCDD community-based program. Project HEAL is Maryland’s only comprehensive medical-legal partnership, which provides advocacy and legal services to children with disabilities who receive services at Kennedy Krieger Institute. Maureen is faculty for Kennedy Krieger Institute's Center for Innovation and Leadership in Special Education, adjunct faculty at Towson University and the University of Baltimore School of Law, and a faculty affiliate with the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Maureen is a member of Kennedy Krieger Institute’s ethics program.

 

Where is the session taking place? 

This call will take place over Zoom-- around our virtual roundtable on Wednesday March 20, 2024, from 3-4pm ET.  Please register for this event by Friday March 15, 2024.

 

Who should participate?

The meeting is open to all UCEDD Directors, faculty and staff.

 

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