All Strategies
Strategy U: Infuse principles of family-centered care and shared decision-making within the training program.
Personnel and Trainees > Recruit and retain a diverse trainee pool.
Infuse principles of family-centered care and shared decision-making within the training program.
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Strategy V: Ensure curricula for trainees address resiliencies, disparities, and inequities across communities, populations, and cultures.
Personnel and Trainees > Recruit and retain a diverse trainee pool.
Ensure curricula for trainees address resiliencies, disparities, and inequities across communities, populations, and cultures.
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Strategy J: Learn about the historical trauma suffered by community groups.
Personnel and Trainees > Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
Learn about the historical trauma suffered by community groups. Know about unethical research conducted with state and national and international groups. Build/rebuild trust with communities. Be aware that universities/ hospitals/ governments have been responsible for unethical research and experimentation with underrepresented groups so relationships may need rebuilding. Learning about trauma experiences can be difficult, traumatizing, or re-traumatizing. Build self-care and safe spaces into these learning opportunities.
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Strategy K: Be aware of body language that conveys respect and affirmatively engages in the culture of the person or community you are partnering with. Eye contact, smiling, handshakes, and the like differ across cultures.
Personnel and Trainees > Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
Be aware of body language that conveys respect and affirmatively engages in the culture of the person or community you are partnering with. Eye contact, smiling, handshakes, and the like differ across cultures.
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Strategy L: After relationships are established, create opportunities to educate community organizations on the purpose of UCEDD/LEND programs and available services and supports in a manner that responds to the needs and values of those communities.
Personnel and Trainees > Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
After relationships are established, create opportunities to educate community organizations on the purpose of UCEDD/LEND programs and available services and supports in a manner that responds to the needs and values of those communities. These conversations can arise organically out of an effort to learn and be educated.
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Strategy M: Ensure that community partners are true partners, and not just people to turn to when advice is needed on certain issues, or a letter of support is needed for a grant application.
Personnel and Trainees > Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
Ensure that community partners are true partners, and not just people to turn to when advice is needed on certain issues, or a letter of support is needed for a grant application. Invite partners to give input on all organizational activities via roles on Board of Directors, advisory groups, and other means.
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Strategy N: Remember the importance of celebrations as a tool of partnership and collaboration, so that initiatives and successes are not only publicized but people can also gather to celebrate, preferably with food involved. Breaking bread together enhances cross-cultural dialogue.
Personnel and Trainees > Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
Remember the importance of celebrations as a tool of partnership and collaboration, so that initiatives and successes are not only publicized but people can also gather to celebrate, preferably with food involved. Breaking bread together enhances cross-cultural dialogue. It is another form of gathering around a table.
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Strategy O: Develop partnerships with community-based organizations in ways that enhance the resources and activities of those organizations, and build trust. Broaden and diversify Councils and SIGs.
Personnel and Trainees > Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
Develop partnerships with community-based organizations in ways that enhance the resources and activities of those organizations, and build trust. Broaden and diversify Councils and SIGs. Expand eligibility to individuals outside AUCD network to gain increasingly diverse perspectives and partnerships. Develop collaborative relationships (including grantmaking opportunities) with Office of Minority Health, CDC, HHS and other government agencies and administrations tasked with addressing resiliencies and disparities, diversity, inclusion and cultural and linguistic competence. Identify common goals, and work collaboratively toward them, using findings from network research and demonstration projects.
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Strategy P: Provide resources on translation, interpretation and cultural brokering to the direct support professional community and people with disabilities.
Personnel and Trainees > Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
Provide resources on translation, interpretation and cultural brokering to the direct support professional community and people with disabilities. Develop relationships with diverse organizations serving diverse cultural and faith communities who have State or Territory affiliates to broker relationships with UCEDD/LEND programs at both national and State or Territory levels. Faith communities serve as the key community center in many minority and immigrant communities. Increase partnerships with organizations representing families, as well as disability and/or health professionals from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds to access expertise, leverage resources, and maximize reach.
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Strategy Q: Broaden and diversify Board of Directors. Expand eligibility to individuals outside the AUCD network to gain increasingly diverse perspectives and partnerships.
Personnel and Trainees > Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
Broaden and diversify Board of Directors. Expand eligibility to individuals outside the AUCD network to gain increasingly diverse perspectives and partnerships. Ensure Board hears from diverse members of AUCD who might not already be involved in AUCD’s Councils, SIGs, and other membership groups and activities. Specifically encourage folks from marginalized backgrounds to join the Board of Directors, Councils, and SIGs through in-person outreach. Acknowledge that people are being invited to a table that has already been set, and there is a desire to set a new table. Spend time in communities, listening and building relationships. Identify the trusted leaders within the community (formal and informal leaders by position or influence), and identify future leaders as well. Remain engaged even when funding opportunities are absent or have ended.
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Strategy R: Reduce cost of annual conference so it is affordable to a broader range of interested people who may not have university or grant funding to participate.
Personnel and Trainees > Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
Reduce cost of annual conference so it is affordable to a broader range of interested people who may not have university or grant funding to participate. Consider providing income-based sliding scale or scholarships for individuals, reduced rates for staff from non-profit agencies, separate meal costs in registration and provide meal tickets for those able to purchase hotel meals with registration, support the cost of accessible and general transportation, and create other opportunities for financial assistance. Look carefully at how advocacy and advisory groups are used. Ask whether they are being used to fulfill a federal requirement for input? Truly listen to priorities of advocacy groups and advisory members (including but not limited to self-advocacy groups and the Consumer Advisory Councils (CACs)), and work those priorities into Center/Program projects in a collaborative manner.
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Strategy S: Support bridge-building between advocacy groups where intersectionality exists. For example, self-advocacy groups for people with intellectual disability and LGBT advocacy groups may prove worthy partners in support of people who experience both identities.
Personnel and Trainees > Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
Support bridge-building between advocacy groups where intersectionality exists. For example, self-advocacy groups for people with intellectual disability and LGBT advocacy groups may prove worthy partners in support of people who experience both identities. Work with the State Department and embassies to invite disability leaders from other countries to participate in AUCD annual conference.
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Strategy T: Offer interactive live streaming of major AUCD conference and Disability Policy Seminar events, encouraging participation by others who are unable to attend in person.
Personnel and Trainees > Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
Offer interactive live streaming of major AUCD conference and Disability Policy Seminar events, encouraging participation by others who are unable to attend in person. Create partnerships with other projects, committees, and departments (including cultural studies and language departments) within the University addressing diversity, inclusion, and cultural and linguistic competence
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Strategy U: Reach out to recipients of NIDILRR field-initiated grants addressing diversity and inclusion for information and potential partnership.
Personnel and Trainees > Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
Reach out to recipients of NIDILRR field-initiated grants addressing diversity and inclusion for information and potential partnership. Develop listening sessions within direct support professional (DSP) community, as DSPs are increasingly from many minority and ethnic communities, to identify what they may need, what gifts they bring to their roles, and their advice related to collaborating with the cultural communities they represent. A direct support staff person may be a leader within a particular community or know who the leaders are, as well as have knowledge about how/if disability is discussed and addressed.
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Strategy V: Engage in a community needs assessment process to identify gaps your program could fill and see which groups are not accessing your services.
Personnel and Trainees > Develop and nurture partnerships with organizations representing or affiliated with diverse communities.
Engage in a community needs assessment process to identify gaps your program could fill and see which groups are not accessing your services.
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