A Webinar from AUCD’s Special Interest Group on Family Support The Roles of UCEDDs/LENDs in Advancing Thinking, Practice and Policies that Support Families A Webinar from AUCD’s Special Interest Group on Family Support The Roles of UCEDDs/LENDs in Advancing Thinking, Practice and Policies that Support Families September 10, 2014, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM ET
Webinar Overview • Introductions • Presentation • Q & A You can ask a question by pressing the then # key to • request the floor. Questions will be answered in the order they are received. • You can also submit any questions throughout the webinar via the ‘Chat’ box below the slides. • The moderator will read the questions after the presentations. • Survey • Please complete our short survey to give us feedback for the next webinar!
UCEDDs Represented Today • Institute on Disability and Human Development , University of Illinois at Chicago (UCEDD/LEND) • Developmental Disabilities Institute , Wayne State University (UCEDD) • Center for Interdisciplinary Learning and Leadership , University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (UCEDD/LEND) • Waisman Center , University of Wisconsin - Madison (UCEDD/LEND)
Speakers Katie Arnold (kkeiling@uic.edu) is Director of Community Education at the Institute on Disability and Human Development (IDHD) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Wanda Felty (wanda-felty@ouhsc.edu) is the Leadership and Advocacy Coordinator for the Center for Learning and Leadership (Oklahoma's UCEDD) at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, College of Medicine and Family Faculty for the Oklahoma LEND Program. Elizabeth Hecht (hecht@waisman.wisc.edu) is the UCEDD Specialist for Public Policy and Systems Change at the University of Wisconsin, Waisman Center. Angela Martin (angela.martin@wayne.edu) is a Community Support Specialist with the Developmental Disabilities Institute (DDI) at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Vyonda Martin (vyonda-martin@ouhsc.edu) is Associate Director and Community Services Director for the Center for Learning and Leadership, Oklahoma's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Purpose of webinar • Understand the role of UCEDD's and LEND's in the self-advocacy, family and sibling movements. • Share examples of specific UCEDD and LEND infrastructure and activities that address support to families. • Think about what UCEDD’s and LENDs can do to advance thinking, practice and policy to support families.
Background DD Act: Title II-Family Support added to DD Act 1999 although with no funding appropriation 1. promote and strengthen the implementation of comprehensive State systems of family support services 2. promote leadership by families in planning, policy development, implementation, and evaluation of family support services….; 3. promote and develop interagency coordination and collaboration between agencies; and 4. increase the availability of, funding for, access to, and provision of family support.
Background With Project of National Significance funding ADD launched family support initiatives with many UCEDDs participating: – Demonstration grants to states (2000-2005) – Family Support 360 Programs (2003-2009) – National Clearinghouse and Technical Assistance Center on Family Support (2009) – A 60% cut to PNS has significantly impacted state systems change activities 2012 – Special projects (2012- present) – FISP – COP – NIDDRR-RRTC on Family Support
AUCD Family Support SIG 2008 • Learn and network • Advance thinking, practice and policies that support families • Elevate attention to supporting families within our UCEDDs • Meet in person annually at AUCD with periodic conference calls • Convene a national meeting-Wingspread 2011
AUCD Family Support-SIG • AUCD website http://www.aucd.org/template/page.cfm?id=864 • List serv http://www.aucd.org/template/page.cfm?id=766 • Webinar Update on Federal Family Support Policy • Join us at the AUCD Annual meeting Monday November 10, 2014, 12:45-2:00 !ALL WELCOME!
http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/cedd/pdfs/products/family/Wingspread.pdf • Waisman Center 2014
National Agenda on Supporting Families– Family Support Defined “Family Support is a set of strategies targeting the family unit but that ultimately benefit the individual with I/DD. Strategies must be designed, implemented and funded in a manner directed by the family unit. They should be flexible, comprehensive, and coordinated.”
Strategies for Supporting Families Information and Navigation Networking and Community Services and Goods Directed Connections to Family Unit Best practices and values Family-to-Family Support Planning for current and • • • within and outside of • Self-advocacy future needs disability services organizations • Respite/Childcare • Accessing and • Sib-shops • Adaptive equipment coordinating community • Support Groups • Crisis prevention and supports • Professional Counseling intervention Advocacy and Non-disability Systems navigation • • • Leadership skills community support • Home modifications • Useful information • Health and wellness management
It is Time to Reframe Our Thinking from Building Systems That Deliver Services to Systems That Support Families and Individuals
• http://supportstofamilies.org/cop/ • The Community of Practice for Supporting Families of Individuals with I/DD involves working with six states to develop systems of support for families throughout the lifespan of their family member with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).
What brings us here today? The UCEDDs and LENDs continue to play an essential role in advancing thinking, practice and policy to support families • Explore NIRS and develop a template to describe work we do that supports families – Key words • We want to represent and share our work
Supporting Families -Template
The Quest for Data Who does this work reach in Michigan?
Institute on Disability and Human Development – Illinois’ UCEDD IDHD is dedicated to promoting the independence, • productivity and inclusion of people with disabilities into all aspects of society. • Through research, dissemination, clinical services and pre-service training , we emphasize the values of cultural diversity, consumer choice and self-determination are emphasized across the life span in all training, public service, and research activities of the IDHD.
Highlights of IL UCEDD Financial and Infrastructure Commitments • Host the Sibling Leadership Network national office and the Executive Director position • Staff salaried positions for Self-Advocacy Specialist as well as bilingual family support for Latino families • Support for Grupo Salto, a support group for Latino families of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) • Serve primarily underserved minority families through the Developmental Disabilities Family Clinics
Who does this work reach in IL? Est. total of 189,367 a Individuals with IDD in IL Who received Who may With an Who family need unmet received support residential services need for 4,945 c services and services (2.6%) supports 29,809 c 22,598 b 132,015 a U.S. Census (2013). IL census data by the 1.47% prevalence rate of DD b Illinois PUNS data retrieved on Sept. 8, 2014: http://www.dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?item=56036. c Braddock et al., The State of the States in DD 2014 (preliminary edition). Boulder: Department of Psychiatry and Coleman Institute, University of Colorado and Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Policy, Systems and Societal Change • Latino Family Support Research Projects • Sibling Leadership Network • Sibling Policy Forums • The State of the States in Developmental Disabilities • Special Education Advocacy training for families • Evaluations of institutional closures • Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on DD and Health
Strategies for Supporting Families DISCOVERY & CONNECTIONS & DAY-TO-DAY NEEDS NAVIGATION NETWORKS • Services and goods that Information, Connecting and are specific to the daily • • education, and networking family support and/or training on best members with other caregiving role the practices within and family members, person with I/DD outside of disability including parents services with disabilities, self- Such as, respite, crisis • advocates, siblings, prevention, systems • Planning, accessing grandparents, and navigation, home and coordinating others. modifications and community supports health/wellness Formal and informal management of • • Advocacy and structures for peer caregiver leadership skills support
Illinois UCEDD Activities Discovery and Navigation • LEND • The Future is Now • Research Brief on Family Support in Managed Care • The National Gateway to Self- Determination • Pre-service training for students on family support
Illinois UCEDD Activities Connections and Networks • Support group for Latino families • ASPiE • Sibling Leadership Network • Dating Skills Groups and Parent Education About Sexuality • Taking Charge: Directing Your Supports • Self-Advocacy Specialist • Peer to Peer HealthMessages™ Program
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