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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.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" September 2023(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2023-09-18) 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 the October 3 ICI Policy Forum on institutional bias in long-term services and supports for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The second feature story is about ICI training community health workers in rural Rwanda on identifying signs of autism in children. The third story is about extending ICI's research on prevalence into spina bifida and muscular dystrophy. This month's alumni update is about Professor Teri Wallace of Minnesota State University, Mankato.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" August 2023(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2023-08-16) Institute on Community Integration; University of Minnesota, Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. In this month's first feature story, ICI Director Amy Hewitt urges disparate segments of the disability community to work urgently, and holistically, for the inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in communities. The second story is about ICI collaborating with other organizations to end stigma in Ghana against people with disabilities. The third story is about an academic review that ICI researchers wrote on social inclusion. The final story links to the obituary of a civil rights attorney who spent his career advocating for the rights, community inclusion, and informed choice of people with disabilities. This month's update is about self-advocate Heidi Myhre hosting an ICI celebration.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" July 2023(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2023-07-17) 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 feature stories are about a new video series and an upcoming Art for All exhibition. The video series features frank advice for healthcare professionals, directly from adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The art show, which has a research twist, presents a window into the daily lives and future dreams of youth with disabilities who are transitioning to adulthood. This month's update is about Agnes Cole, a recent MNLEND graduate who works at a service provider, runs her own non-profit organization, and who spent much of her fellowship working on the Residential Information System Project, a longitudinal study that tracks the living arrangements of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who receive services.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" June 2023(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2023-06-15) 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 feature stories are about two new publications and disability activism. Impact is ICI's flagship publication and the current issue is about the publication's 35-year history, its impact, and future. The Summer 2023 issue of Frontline Initiative has just been released; the theme of this issue is direct support professionals supporting people's health and wellness. The third story is about a recent ICI event that recalled disability activists who successfully campaigned for civil rights. This month's update is about Jean Hauff, an ICI communications intern who is returning to college this fall.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" May 2023(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2023-05-15) 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 feature stories are about ICI’s director supporting President Biden’s executive order to improve America’s care system, Minnesota Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities graduating its 15th cohort, and MNLEND fellows visiting Capitol Hill. This month's alumni update is Emma Baldwin, a recent graduate who is a training coordinator at Proof Alliance and serves on ICI’s Community Advisory Council.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" April 2023(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2023-04-17) Institute on Community IntegrationThe Institute's monthly staff newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's feature stories are about new autism prevalence rates, young adults with disabilities envisioning active futures, brain-behavior links, and a call to end subminimum wages. This month's alumni update is Hillary (Ross) Tabor, a 2008 graduate of the Institute’s Disability Policy and Services certificate who now works with Congressional leaders and staff members on regulatory and policy issues as a management and program analyst for the U.S. Department of Education.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" April 2023(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2023-03-17) 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 feature stories are about new autism prevalence rates, young adults with disabilities envisioning active futures, brain-behavior links, and a call to end subminimum wages. This month's alumni update is Hillary (Ross) Tabor, a 2008 graduate of the Institute’s Disability Policy and Services certificate who now works with Congressional leaders and staff members on regulatory and policy issues as a management and program analyst for the U.S. Department of Education.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" March 2023(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2023-03-15) 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 feature stories are about the new issue of Impact on engaging diverse communities, an autism researcher who sees her own autism as a research strength, ICI's seven research posters at this year's CEHD Research and Innovation Day, and the service provider who won the 2023 Moving Mountains Award, which ICI co-sponsors. This month's partner update is Sandra Christenson, a University of Minnesota professor emeritus who helped develop and lead ICI’s Check & Connect student engagement program.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" February 2023(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2023-02-15) 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 feature stories are about ICI training Olmsted County sheriff's deputies to use person-centered approaches with detainees with disabilities, ICI's new Art for All exhibition, how ICI training helped improve public perceptions of disability in Congo, and an ICI project that supports Minnesota families affected by the opioid epidemic. This month's alumni update is about Wendy Looman, a faculty member for ICI’s Minnesota Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (MNLEND) program.Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" January 2023(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2023-01-17) 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 feature stories are about an ICI brief and forum that contribute to the conversation about disrupting the IDD prison pipeline, the reflections of a recently-retired leader in special education, and free online modules that schools can use to determine if ICI's Check & Connect student engagement program is a good fit for them. This month's alumni update is about Caroline Roberts, a doctoral fellow in educational psychology who is studying the treatment of self-injury among adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).Item ICI Staff Newsletter "FYI" December 2022(University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, 2022-12-15) 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 feature stories are about the new issue of Frontline Initiative, a review of the TennCare project, and a new web application that ICI is developing with Elevance Health. Grounded at the organizational level, the new app will enable organizations to access their data, connecting them to data-informed interventions that address workforce challenges so people with disabilities can live their best lives. This month's alumni update is about Kim Baker, a special education supervisor, parent of three students with disabilities, and newly-elected school board member.