Current Projects
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Did you know? Families and Support Coordinators Project
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Project Goal(s):
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To educate and inform families and support coordinators about DCH policies, initiatives, promising practices and strategies for achieving desired services, supports, and outcomes
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Developmental Disabilities Council
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Detroit Family Support 360○ Project
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Project Goal(s):
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A one-stop center to assist underserved families with children who have developmental disabilities, to preserve, strengthen and maintain the family unit. Family Support Navigators aid families in obtaining the supports and services they desire in order to enhance the health and well-being of their family
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Administration on Developmental Disabilities
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Independent Facilitation Training Project
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Project Goal(s):
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To train people with disabilities and their family members to become independent facilitators for person-centered planning meetings
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Oakland County Community Mental Health Authority
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Strengthening Relationships for Diversity: Include All of Us
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Project Goal(s):
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1. Two year project to strengthen relationships between the Developmental Disabilities Council (DDC) and culturally distinct communities
2. Cultivate relationships with community cultural leaders and organizations of Hispanic Americans, Arab Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans
3. Identify and overcome the barriers that prevent the involvement of culturally distinct communities in disability policy making and project design of the DDC
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Developmental Disabilities Council
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End the Violence 2004: Healthy Relationships
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Project Goal(s):
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1. To train women with sensory or physical disabilities on healthyrelationships to prevent the experience of violence
2. Evaluate the training itself to measure effectiveness
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation
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People First of Oakland County
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Project Goal(s):
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To empower individuals with disabilities to advocate for self-determined and person-centered supports
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Oakland Regional Interagency Consumer Committee
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F.A.S.T. C.A.T.S. - Families Advocating for Self-determination Through Communication and Technology Supports
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Project Goal(s):
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To inform and support families to enhance their child's self-determination,
using multi-media channels |
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Michigan Developmental Disabilities Council
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Empowerment Education: Consumer-driven Training for Michigan's Direct Support Professionals Initiative
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Project Goal(s):
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To train direct support professionals in best practice strategies across the life span
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Administration on Developmental Disabilities
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Michigan Alliance of Direct Support Professionals (MADSP)
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Project Goal(s):
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To facilitate a statewide coalition of direct support workers to advance the field professionally by sponsoring an annual statewide forum, supporting training scholarships, and offering technical assistance to groups that want to develop their own chapters of the MADSP
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Funders:
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Administration on Developmental Disabilities
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