Health and Wellness
Promotion
Early Childhood and Youth
Individual Advocacy and Family Supports
Adult Community Living
Aging and Developmental
Disabilities
Interdisciplinary
University Training
Policy, Program Development,
and Quality Assurance
Long Term Care Planning
There is a need to establish statewide coordinated efforts in research, service demonstration, training, and evaluation of health and wellness promotion activities that address the needs of the State. Programs in this priority area relate to enhancing the quality of life in at-risk populations. Further, an integral part of health and wellness is a more general promotion of healthy lifestyles. Examples of issues include prenatal and well baby care and teenage pregnancy prevention.
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Esperanza Para La Familia
Jackson County Mental Health Needs Assessment
Kansas City Healthy Start
Latino Mental Health Needs Assessment
Ryan White Needs Assessment
StartRight
Early Childhood and
Youth
This priority area focuses primarily on issues related
to young children with special needs (ages birth through eight) and their families.
Examples of issues may include community training and technical assistance to promote
family-centered and interagency systems of care and inclusive early intervention and
preschool programs. Secondarily, this area will focus on
issues of school-aged children with and without developmental disabilities.
Cross-Site Evaluation of the
AIA Demonstration Program
Esperanza Para Los Ninos
Evaluation of
Early Learning Outcomes Opportunity Act
Francis Child Development Institute Outcome
Evaluation
KID POWER KC
Local Investment Corporation After
School Program
No Child Left Behind
Personnel Preparation
Quality Teaching for Quality Outcomes
Teams for Infants Endangered by Substance abuse (TIES)
Coaching Activities Report Survey
Individual Advocacy and Family Supports
This priority area
encompasses two interrelated areas: 1)Enhancing the capacity of natural supports
to meet the needs of people with developmental disabilities; and 2) Addressing
whole-family support needs of families. The range of issues includes providing
information, training, and support services to families on a variety of needs,
providing community training and technical assistance to promote consumer and
family-centered planning and service coordination to meet their own needs, and
promoting consumer and family support and advocacy systems at the community,
state, and national level.
Champions of Care
Evaluation of Alternative Dispute Resolution
(ADR) Program
Head Start Innovation & Improvement Project Planning
Strengthening Families and Fatherhood: Children of
Incarcerated Fathers
Mediation Achieving Results for Children (MARCH)
MicroBoards
Missouri Community Advocates Network (MoCAN)
Missouri Developmental Disabilities Resource Center
(MODDRC)
Sharing Our Strengths
Vision con
Esperanza 360 / Visions with Hope 360
Early Childhood Comprehensive System Family Survey
Adult Community Living
Two-thirds of Missouri's citizens with developmental disabilities
who live in supervised settings reside in segregated situations that are separated from
their local communities. Innovative alternatives are clearly needed in the areas of
employment, housing, and community living. The demand for these alternatives require not
only demonstrations but also training, technical assistance, and dissemination of
available information. This priority area focuses on the development of inclusive and
naturally supportive community environments for adults with disabilities. Adult community
issues could encompass such things as employment, adult continuing
education, self-advocacy, and person-centered planning.
Adult Continuing Education
for People with DD
Greater Kansas City Summer Transportation Institute
Missouri Career Networks
People First Statewide Steering Committee
Real Choices
Ticket To Work (Medicaid
Infrastructure Grant)
Aging and Developmental Disabilities
The population of aging individuals is
increasing nationally and requires new types of services as care giving families
become unable to provide informal supports. The range of issues encompasses
addressing living arrangements, person-centered retirement planning,
relationship development, and health care planning and decision making.
Additional local service demonstrations are needed in retirement planning and
supported retirement options.
Interdisciplinary Training
Center on Gerontology and Developmental Disabilities
Young and Old Together
Interdisciplinary University
Training
This priority area
synthesizes the research findings and best practices identified in the other six areas for
development and implementation of interdisciplinary preservice education. Preservice interdisciplinary training includes all levels of post-secondary
education, from undergraduate through post-doctoral training. It also encompasses a range
of training opportunities, from infusion in existing
courses through development of specific courses focusing on disability issues and
interdisciplinary/interagency processes, to development of targeted interdisciplinary
certification or degree programs. Further, it includes development
of interdisciplinary education programs that are both contained within UMKC and
are inter-institutional in nature -- encompassing collaborative training programs with
other colleges and universities across the state.
Academic
Service Learning
Enhancing and Supporting
Positive Outcomes
Leadership Certificate in Disability Studies
Missouri Partnership for Leadership Education (LEND)
Undergraduate Certificate in Disability
Studies (PACE)
Policy, Program Development, and
Quality Assurance
This priority area focuses on developing the capacity of programs
and organizations to better meet the needs of the persons they are serving and to adapt to
changing value and policy environments. It also includes development of the capacity of
communities as a whole. The range of issues includes providing program and strategic
planning assistance; program evaluations, policy analysis, and needs assessments for
local, state, or national organizations and providers; and assisting in implementing new
or more value-based program standards and criteria for state and national policy makers.
Alianzas
Consumer Satisfaction
Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Quality
Improvement Initiative (DMH)
Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas
City
National Addiction Technology Transfer Center: SVVORI
Northwest Community Development Corporation
Pink Slip
Poll Worker Training
Rose Brooks Immigrant Project
Urban Mission
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