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To subscribe to the print version of Possibilities, mail Office of Community Education, Center for Disabilities and Development, 100 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City IA 52242-1011, fax 319-356-8284 or phone 319-353-6448.
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Community Living Transition Grants Awarded for 2002The Iowa Training Consortium has awarded two Community Living Transition grants for the coming year.
Last year the Training Consortium, funded by the Iowa Department of Human Services, awarded a total of $24,000 to support specific individuals to live in their communities, rather than in institutional settings. Buena Vista County Community Services Department in Storm Lake, Friendship Ark in Ames, and Martin Luther Homes in Clive were the 2001 awardees.
This year two proposals will be funded:
Both of the winning proposals were designed to assist an adult living at Glenwood Resource Center to return to their home communities. Both proposals emphasized community collaboration, staff training, and the right of the individual to make informed choices. All of the proposals were judged on the following criteria:
Funding for Community Living Transition grants is a result of the 1994 Conner Decree that settled a lawsuit challenging the state of Iowa to develop more services and supports that would allow people with disabilities to live in their own communities. Two years after the decree, the Iowa Training Consortium was formed to promote training to build supportive communities for Iowans who have disabilities. The Community Education Department at the Center for Disabilities and Development manages the Community Living Transition grants and other training projects of the Consortium.
For more information, call 319-353-6448.
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Codi Wilcher and Rachel Heinold of Cerro Gordo County appear in The
Outside to the Inside: Including Students with Brain Injury, a new video from the
Center for Disabilities and Development. The 25-minute video outlines a process for how
schools can plan for the return of a student following brain injury. It will be available
through the DRL in early 2002. Call Barb Smith at 319-356-1336 or e-mail barbara-smith@uiowa.edu for more information.
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The Disability Resource Library is a regional lending library focused on disability health and social issues. Founded as a training clearinghouse two decades ago, we retooled five years ago to become a full service library. The DRL now offers materials and reference information to Iowans and to residents of surrounding states, and serves as a learning center for staff at the Center for Disabilities and Development. Our diverse clientele include consumers, families, educators, clinicians, health care providers, workforce trainers, community advocates, and students.
Last year the Disability Resource Library served a total of 3,841 people from 71 Iowa counties, and 8 states. This number includes people who visited the library in person (2,835), and those who contacted us by phone (1,006). The total visitors and callers represent a 60% increase over the 1999/2000 figure.
Iowa Counties Served by the DRL: Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cedar, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Clay, Clayton, Clinton, Crawford, Dallas, Davis, Delaware, Des Moines, Dickinson, Dubuque, Floyd, Greene, Grundy Guthrie, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Harrison, Henry, Howard, Humboldt, Iowa, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Lee, Linn Louisa, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall, Mitchell, Monona, Muscatine, O’Brien, Osceola, Palo Alto, Plymouth, Polk, Pottawattamie, Poweshiek, Sac, Scott, Shelby, Sioux, Story, Tama, Wapello, Washington, Wayne, Webster, Winneshiek, Woodbury, Wright
The library has a collection of just over 2,000 items. A generous influx of MAC (Medicaid claiming) funds accounted in large part for the acquisition of 425 new items during the fiscal year, including 26 new reference books. A total of 1,731 items were borrowed, with the circulation breakdown as follows: 45% service providers, 25% families, 24% staff, and 6% consumers.
Fifty service agencies were member clients over the year -- the largest number that the DRL has ever enrolled. Service provider revenues totaled $4,650.00.
Reference requests held steady at 690 inquiries. Center for Disabilities and Development staff led the way with research questions (35%), followed by parents (30%), consumers (17%), service providers (13%) and students (5%). Inquiries from consumers are up 10% from our last formal tally 2 years ago.
Our Software/Hardware Lending Library consists of 76 items. Twelve new items for the collection were procured from MAC funds. Among the 106 items borrowed from this collection is the DRL’s top circulated item (39 separate requests) – the BIGmack Communication Aid.
Mary Hubbard, Librarian
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Rehab Administration Degree Offered
Drake University is offering a two-year Master of Science program in Rehabilitation Administration designed to prepare individuals to work in positions of leadership within rehabilitation agencies. Specific emphasis is placed on supported employment, job placement, employer development, and client evaluation. The program will start with the Winter Semester of 2002 in Kansas City, MO. Classes will meet one weekend a month, all day Saturday and half a day on Sunday morning. Grants from the Rehabilitation Services Administration are available that will pay for all or most of the tuition (depending on the number of students), and an additional stipend to defray the cost of books. For more details, or to request a packet with application materials, call 402-614-8773, or email nancy.kaywood@drake.edu.Parent-Educator Connection Conference
February 10-12, 2002, Scheman Center, Ames, Iowa
The XIX annual conference is scheduled for the same time of year as in the past, but will be held in a new location -- the Iowa State Scheman Center in Ames. There are two keynote addresses and 90 concurrent sessions, covering a comprehensive array of topics from an early childhood through transition from school to adulthood perspectives. The conference is for family members, young adults, educators, administrators and others who serve children with disabilities and their families. For additional info, contact the Parent-Educator Connection staff at your local Area Education Agency, call 515-271-3936 or email deb.samson@drake.edu.Brain Injury Association of Iowa Providers Alliance Tenth Annual Providers Conference
March 14-15, 2002, Hotel Fort Des Moines, Des Moines, Iowa
Topics from all disciplines will be presented by professionals, people who have sustained a brain injury, their relatives, and others. For more info, call Dann Larmore at (319) 234-4495 or fax (319) 236-1831.TAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities International Conference on Developmental and Learning Disabilities
April 29-May 3, 2002, Crowne Plaza Hotel, New York City
The five-day conference, "Making a Difference in Developmental Disabilities," will feature more than 300 prominent speakers from throughout the United States and abroad. For more information or to request a brochure, call 212-273-6193, fax 212-629-4113, or email awittenberg@yai.org. Look for the conference web site at www.yai.org in early 2002.
For more conference and training opportunities, see the Disability Training calendar.
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Winter’s Best from the DRLAll Disability Resource Library services are free to people with disabilities and to members of their families. Other individuals and community service providers are asked to pay a per item fee to borrow materials, or they may purchase an annual subscription. There is no charge to anyone for assistance with finding information. To contact the Disability Resource Library at the Center for Disabilities and Development, phone 800-272-7713, e-mail disability-library@uiowa.edu, or visit on the web at http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/uhs/DRL/index.cfm
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The end of all education should surely be service to others. We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sake and for our own.
---Cesar Chavez
To subscribe to the print version of Possibilities, mail Office of Community Education, Center for Disabilities and Development, 100 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City IA 52242-1011, fax 319-356-8284 or phone 319-353-6448.
POSSIBILITIES is funded in part through a grant from the Iowa Department of Human Services to support the activities of the Iowa Training Consortium. Possibilities is designed by Loretta Popp.
