Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies

Join U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy Taryn Williams for a virtual celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) and the 20th Anniversary of the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT There is no cost to […]

Source: COVID-19 Materials for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Care Providers COVID-19 is challenging to explain, live through, and talk about. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has created COVID-19 materials for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and care providers. The materials (videos, posters, social stories and interactive activities) were created […]

The New Hampshire-Maine Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NH-ME LEND) Program at the University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability is currently recruiting early childhood professionals in New Hampshire and Maine for a unique training opportunity – NH-ME ECHO SCOPE: Supporting Children of the Opioid Epidemic. This free series of ten sessions aims […]

Source: 30 Years of Community Living, Administration for Community Living The Administration for Community Living has funded three longitudinal data projects of national significance for nearly 30 years. Those projects study where people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (ID/DD) live, if and where they work, and how public money is spent on supports. The grantees […]

The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies (CCIDS), Maine’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD), has been awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help increase COVID-19 vaccinations among people with disabilities and the people who support them. Funding for the 18-month project, Expanding […]

Source: The following blog was written by Katie Hamm, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood Development, Office of Early Childhood Development. It originally appeared on the Administration for Children & Families’ Family Room Blog on July 13, 2021. July is Disability Pride Month. As we celebrate the 31st anniversary of the signing of the American Disabilities Act (ADA), we […]

Source: Administration for Community Living Newsroom, HHS Launches Hotline to Improve Access to COVID-19 Vaccines for People with Disabilities (June 8, 2021). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind national hotline to connect people with disabilities to information and services to improve access to COVID-19 vaccines. The Disability Information and Access Line (DIAL) is now available […]

Source: The Maine Monitor. ‘Incremental’ progress: Maine’s effort to address lead poisoning was gaining momentum before COVID-19 (June 6, 2021). Lewiston-Auburn (ME) has struggled with high rates of lead poisoning for years, recording the state’s highest case count in 2019. The issue is personal for Hibo Omer, program director for the New Mainers Public Health Initiative and a […]

The University of Minnesota Institute on Community Integration has just published the latest edition of their newsletter, Impact, which is a Feature Issue on Crisis Management for People with Intellectual, Developmental, and Other Disabilities. “Like the rest of the world,” note Impact’s Editors, “we are still reeling from disaster upon disaster, from global pandemic to a reckoning on […]

Source: Maine DOE Newsroom, Leading Early Learning—A Professional Learning Series for Elementary School Administrators As Maine elementary schools have added preschool programming and continue to support the development of children in the Pre-K to Grade 3 span, many elementary principals have requested additional professional learning to support their work as educational leaders. The Maine Department of Education (DOE) and four […]