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  • Responding to increasingly diverse communities across the country
    DIVERSITY & INCLUSION TOOLKIT:

    This collaborative toolkit provides concrete objectives, strategies, and resources that help enhance diversity, inclusion, and cultural and linguistic competence; cultivate partnerships; respond to increasingly diverse communities across the country, and develop strategies for continuing efforts to better serve diverse populations.

    We welcome you to incorporate the resources and strategies outlined in this toolkit within the context of your organization!

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DIVERSITY & INCLUSION TOOLKIT:

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RECENTLY ADDED RESOURCES

Strategy J: Ensure all websites are accessible.

06/25/2019

Core Functions > Address language, culture, literacy, and access barriers in all published materials and activities

Ensure all websites are accessible.

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Strategy B: Partner with other federal agencies/administrations to collaborate on their minority pipeline initiatives, leaning on common goals to reduce disparities and increase resiliencies. Create an undergraduate Disability Studies minor to help build minority student interest in pursuing graduate studies in UCEDD/LEND. Consider creating this minor in partnership with Minority Serving Institutions, and encourage fellow professors to promote it. Develop clearinghouse of relevant pipeline programs UCEDDs and LENDs may partner with and promote.

06/25/2019

Core Functions > Engage in educational and career pipeline activities for staff, faculty and trainees

Partner with other federal agencies/administrations to collaborate on their minority pipeline initiatives, leaning on common goals to reduce disparities and increase resiliencies.

Create an undergraduate Disability Studies minor to help build minority student interest in pursuing graduate studies in UCEDD/LEND. Consider creating this minor in partnership with Minority Serving Institutions, and encourage fellow professors to promote it.

Develop clearinghouse of relevant pipeline programs UCEDDs and LENDs may partner with and promote.

Learn more about Strategy

STORY FROM THE NETWORK

OHSU Institute on Development and Disability UCEDD elevates University Job Carving Program

The OHSU Job Carving Program now has a public face on the UCEDD's website. This university-wide effort has created opportunities for over 30 people with disabilities and is starting to shift institutional culture. The program recently received national recognition from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) 2019 Inclusion Cultivates Excellence Award.

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LEND Fellows Past and Present Lead Multicultural Autism Action Network

Maren Christenson Hofer joined the MNLEND Fellowship cohort this 2018-2019 year. As the parent of an autistic child, she is keenly aware of challenges faced by families trying to navigate educational, medical, therapeutic, and other support and service systems to ensure that their autistic children's needs are met. Maren currently serves as a leader in the Multicultural Autism Action Network (MAAN), a non-profit organization built on the idea that navigating autism support and service systems can be incredibly complex for families, and even more overwhelming when differences in culture, language, and power dynamics are at play.

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