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Stay updated on the latest tasks completed by the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) over the past year, including information gathering, structured TA activities, expert convening, and NIRS maintenance for annual reporting. Discover how UCEDDs benefit from regular email blasts, AUCDigest, promising practices publication, and more. Explore the various activities undertaken to support UCEDDs and ADD. Get insights into planned collaborations and future development opportunities for the network.
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AUCD Contract Updates Maggie Nygren, EdD Association of University Centers on Disabilities
Major Tasks this Past Year • Gather/disseminate information to UCEDDs • Implement structured TA activities • Respond to requests for information from UCEDDs and ADD • Convene experts • Maintain NIRS for UCEDD annual reporting • Facilitate collaboration
Gather/Disseminate Information to UCEDDs • 3 regular email blasts (funding, announcements, resources) • AUCDigest • AUCD Directory & AUCD Web portal • Publish UCEDD “promising practices” identified by ADD through MTARS • Maintain URC website
Implement Structured TA Activities • Individual onsite visits • Targeted TA • 2 sessions at the 2009 TA Institute • 1 event on intrastate collaboration • 1 event on modifying/using the CAC orientation materials • ADD TA Institute • New UCEDD Directors orientation • Data Coordinators orientation
Respond to Requests for Information from UCEDDs and ADD • Requests for • Data from NIRS • Content experts in the network • Publications and projects from the network • Information about the network
Convene Experts • Annual Report Workgroup • NECTAC travel support • Brainstorming meeting on policy
Annual Report Workgroup • Purpose: Assist in the review the ADD UCEDD Program logic model for revision, review and possibly modify the indicators of progress, and address the mechanics of the annual report function in NIRS • Members: Robert Bacon, Daniel Bier, Elizabeth Bishop, Robyn Carroll, Jean Johnson, Barbara Le Roy, Olivia Raynor, Penny Seay, Barbara Wheeler, Valerie Williams, Bryce Fifield
Maintain NIRS for UCEDD Annual Reporting • Maintain NIRS • Maintain annual report function • Provide TA to NIRS users
Develop Opportunities for the Network • Joint Meeting on Collaboration within DD Network
Looking Ahead • Brainstorming meeting on research with NASDDDS and CDC State Disability and Health Grantees