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Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" June 2025(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2025-06-16) Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter highlights news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. The first story is about Boldly Challenging Ableism, a new AM950 radio show and podcast series produced by ICI. The second story covers the MNLEND graduation in May—a program now threatened by federal funding cuts. The final story concerns the trove of recruiting and marketing tools that ICI's Direct Support Workforce Solutions designed for a New York association of disability service provider organizations. This month's Update is about Patti Menzel, whose Impact article on loneliness led her to a seat on the board of the non-profit organization that owns and manages the 55-plus property where she lives.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" May 2025(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2025-05-15) Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter highlights news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's feature stories concern research, disability voices, and advocacy. The first story is about the new issue of Impact magazine, which explores the global loneliness epidemic through a disability lens. The second story covers a recent rally sponsored by The Arc Minnesota to support ICI and other organizations now threatened by federal funding cuts. The final story concerns a recent event where MNLEND fellows displayed their research posters. This month's Update is about Ellie Wilson (MNLEND 2010-11), who pushed back against comments from federal officials about the causes of autism.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" April 2025(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2025-04-16) Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter highlights news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's feature stories are about research and advocacy. The first story covers new autism prevalence findings in Minnesota, and the last story covers ICI posters at this year's CEHD Research & Innovation Day. The other two stories are about two Minnesota organizations—the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities and Advocating Change Together—that advocate for people with disabilities. This month's Update features Bryan Boyce (MNLEND 2020-21), the executive director of Cow Tipping Press and L’Arche Twin Cities.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" March 2025(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2025-03-17) Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's feature stories are about expanding professionalism in direct support. The first story covers discussion on the subject during DirectCourse's recent National Advisory Board meeting. The second story is about a service provider that excels in the practice, winning the 2025 Moving Mountains Award, which ICI co-sponsors. This month's Update is about Anna Bolgrien (MNLEND 2020–21), a senior research scientist and project manager for the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Social Research and Data Innovation.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" February 2025(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2025-02-19) Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter features news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about the new issue of Impact, which explores the growing use of self-direction in service provision, particularly among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The second feature story encourages people who want to advance interdisciplinary leadership in neurodevelopmental disabilities to apply for an MNLEND fellowship soon. The third story is about an international forum on the dignity of work that ICI hosts on March 19. This month's Update is about Liz Weintraub, a self-advocate and national podcaster who has collaborated with ICI for years.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" January 2025(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2025-01-16) Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter features news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about a new data portal developed at ICI that addresses the dire shortage of direct care workers who support people with disabilities in their daily lives. The second feature story is about the University of Minnesota President, ICI researchers, and others calling on statewide health and education leaders to address critical service gaps in the mental and behavioral health of children and youth. The third story is about ICI urging the U.S. Department of Labor to phase out certificates that allow workers with disabilities to be paid less than the federal minimum wage. This month's Update is about occupational therapist Alyssa Mason (MNLEND 2020-21), who explains that infant trauma victims may need help with sensory processing strategies in addition to mental health support.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" December 2024(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2024-12-16) Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter features news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about ICI's collaboration with Gillette Children’s to bridge medical, diagnostic, and social aspects of care for children, youth, and young adults living in Minnesota with complex health conditions. The second feature story is about the 2020 technical report from ICI's Residential Information Systems Project, which provides residential data on Americans with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities who receive services. This month's Update is about Jeanne Calvit, the founder of Interact Center for the Performing and Visual Arts, who retired in February 2024 after a long career that included many partnerships with ICI.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" November 2024(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2024-11-18) Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter features news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first two feature stories are about new publications highlighting how people with disabilities use technology to improve their lives. Another story covers a U.S. delegation to Cuba, led by an ICI staff member, who went to learn more about the country’s special education system. Another story is a remembrance of David R. Johnson, ICI's former director. The last story covers the retirement of Sheryl Lazarus, director of ICI's National Center on Educational Outcomes. This month's Update is about a MNLEND fellow who recently opened an Applied Behavior Analysis services practice to serve children with autism and their families.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" October 2024(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2024-10-15) Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter features news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about the new issue of Impact (ICI's flagship publication) on employment and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The second story concerns reimagining disability services. The final story is about a recent site visit by ICI staff members who were selected to join the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Delegation in the Czech Republic. This month's Update is about a former ICI researcher who now works in disability services in Africa.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" September 2024(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2024-09-18) Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter features news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. The first feature story describes the University of Minnesota’s TeleOutreach Hub, which creates a provider ecosystem to help military families and those living in geographically dispersed areas with developmental, emotional, or behavioral health concerns. The second feature story is about the ICI Policy Forum in September, which discussed the continued use of physical restraints on students, disproportionately affecting students with disabilities and those from marginalized racial and ethnic communities. This month's update profiles Norena Hale, Minnesota's former director of special education, who recently wrote and published an ICI-sponsored book about the history of the state's special education teachers.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" August 2024(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2024-08-15) Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter features news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. The first feature story concerns ICI and others urging federal officials to create a Standard Occupational Classification code for direct support professionals. The second feature is about the new issue of Impact, which deals with addiction among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The third feature is about the upcoming Check & Connect conference in September. The final feature story is about last month's Disability Pride Festival. This month's Update concerns MNLEND fellow Sophie Iverson, who explains disability policy and procedures to people with disabilities and their families. She speaks from firsthand experience: Iverson herself has disabilities.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" May 2024(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2024-05-15) University of Minnesota, Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter features news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about testing an artificial intelligence robot to address the shortage of support workers and fight loneliness among older people and those with disabilities. The second story is about the upcoming Reinventing Quality conference that ICI co-presents. The third story argues that Minnesota should end the longstanding practice of paying less than the minimum wage to workers with disabilities. This month's alumni update is about Bruktawit Zewdie (MNLEND 2022-23), who is helping the TeleOutreach Center learn more about the experiences of families of children on the autism spectrum who have been waitlisted for evaluation or intervention.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" April 2024(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2024-04-15) Institute on Community Integration; University of Minnesota, Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about training early childhood and other professionals to identify autism and other developmental delays. The second story is about the new Frontline Initiative issue encouraging direct support professionals to vote and advocate for their profession. The third story tells how the College of Direct Support helps train the direct support workforce. The fourth story is about ICI's efforts in Minnesota to end sub-minimum wages for people with disabilities. This month's alumni update is about Mollika Sajady (MNLEND 2018-19), a developmental pediatrician and parent who believes in the healing power of nature.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" March 2024(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2024-03-19) University of Minnesota, Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about ICI's longstanding collaborations with community organizations that support children with autism and their families. The second story is about the importance of testing all students, including students with disabilities. The third story is about the latest issue of Impact on disability rights and disability justice—and the new Impact podcast series. This month's alumni update is about Casey Burrows (MNLEND 2018–19), an assistant professor in pediatrics and a clinical psychologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School who is studying autism prevalence in girls.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" February 2024(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2024-02-15) Institute on Community Integration; University of Minnesota, Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about ICI's collaboration with the Minnesota Office of Higher Education, which is offering competitive grants to eligible Minnesota higher education institutions that provide meaningful credentials upon graduation to students with intellectual disability. The second story is about ICI's Direct Support Workforce Solutions group, which is working with stakeholders in several states to recruit and retain direct support professionals. The third story is about a new project that will use teleoutreach to improve outcomes for children and adolescents with developmental, emotional, or behavioral health needs; the project will pay particular attention to military families, geographically-dispersed families, and families who are highly mobile or lack providers near their homes. This month's alumni update is about Sergiy Sydoriv, an education professor in Ukraine and former Americans with Disabilities Act fellow who still teaches inclusive education, even though his country has become a war zone.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" January 2022(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2022-01-18) Institute on Community Integration; University of Minnesota, Institute on Community IntegrationFYI is a monthly e-communication from the Institute on Community Integration. The January 2022 issue includes four feature stories, an ICI Facebook post, new publications, staff updates, and an alumni update. The first story features the new issue of Frontline Initiative, which shares stories by and for direct support professionals (DSPs) as they navigate longer hours, inadequate pay, grief stemming from the death of colleagues, and other fallout from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The second story features the role that past and present MNLEND fellows have played in bringing sensory-friendly vaccine clinics to children and families in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. The next story features the scholars from Europe, Australia, and central Asia who are visiting ICI to further the inclusion of people with disabilities around the globe. The fourth story is about an ICI national report on the living arrangements of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This month's alumni update is about a former MNLEND fellow who recently opened her second clinic to serve children with autism or related conditions from underprivileged communities.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" January 2024(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2024-01-16) University of Minnesota, Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about ICI's work with University of Minnesota Extension to accommodate 4-H youth. The second story is about researchers from ICI and the UMN Department of Educational Psychology receiving awards from the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. This month's alumni update is about Christen Opsal, a former ICI employee who is now a research development coordinator for the social sciences in the UMN's College of Liberal Arts.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" November 2023(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2023-11-15) Institute on Community Integration; University of Minnesota, Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is on the new issue of Impact, which is about sexuality and gender identity. The second story is about ICI director Amy Hewitt's recent trip to Taiwan to help lead a conference there on inclusive community living for people with disabilities. The third story is about the new Frontline Initiative on direct support professionals using the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals' Code of Ethics in their work. The fourth story is about a recent ICI report on COVID-19's heavy toll on the direct support workforce. The final story announces the update of the website of ICI’s longest-running research study— the Residential Information Systems Project. This month's alumni update is about MNLEND fellow Archita Jain, who is training to be a dentist so she can provide better oral health care to people with disabilities.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" December 2023(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2023-12-18) Institute on Community Integration; University of Minnesota, Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about how ICI's TIES Center researchers are working with several large U.S. school districts to boost the quality and quantity of learning time spent in inclusive classrooms among students with extensive support needs. The other feature story is about the current winter show of ICI's Art for All program. This month's alumni update is about Adam Langenfeld (MNLEND 2019–20), a developmental pediatrician and father of a baby born prematurely.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" October 2023(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2023-10-16) Institute on Community Integration; University of Minnesota, Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is about a new survey from ICI and The Arc of the United States which shows that most family caregivers are very stressed. The second story is about an ICI series of new public service announcements encouraging caregivers to get vaccinated. The third story is about a new collaboration between ICI and a technology university in India. The fourth story is a brief announcement about a new ICI technical assistance center that will create self-sustaining education options across Minnesota for students with intellectual disability who want to earn postsecondary credentials. This month's alumni update is about Brynn Sexton, who uses American Sign Language and celebrated the new technical assistance center mentioned in the fourth story.