Strategy I: Encourage and support culturally relevant scholarly activities that acknowledge and respect systems of beliefs and practices in I/DD

Respect Beliefs Objective: Recruit and retain a diverse trainee pool. Theme: Personnel and Trainees

Encourage and support culturally relevant scholarly activities that acknowledge and respect systems of beliefs and practices in I/DD (intellectual and developmental disabilities) decision-making, care, support, healing, education and advocacy that emerge from different cultures and communities where diverse populations live, and are led by people from those cultures and/or scholarly allies who understand those traditions and systems