4Results Together
Association of
University Centers
on Disabilities
FORGING NEW
PARTNERSHIPS:
Making Them Work
LAYING THE GROUNDWORK
IRISH FABLE
A traveler stopped a
farmer to ask directions
to a town. The farmer
replied: “It’s only twenty
miles, but I wouldn’t start
from here.”
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NATIONAL
NETWORKS
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AUCD (Association of University
Centers on Disabilities)
64 UCEDDs (University Centers for
Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
Education, Research & Service)
35 LENDs (Leadership Education in
Neurodevelopmental and Related
Disabilities)
19 DDRCs Developmental Disabilities
Research Centers
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AUCD
Examples:
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Provides networking and information
sharing venues for the Centers
Manages, awards and monitors
multiyear grants on RTOIs (with CDC)
Develop and test prototype Pediatric
Medical Units and expedited selection
process (with SSA)
Operates a National Service Inclusion
Project (with Boston UCEDD and
Corporation for National Community
Service) to perform community service
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64 UCEDDs
Examples:
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Provide pre-service preparation
Perform services: TA, community
education, direct services
Engage in research and information
dissemination
Increase the independence, productivity
and community integration of
individuals with developmental
disabilities
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35 LENDs
Examples:
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Improve healthcare delivery system for
children with developmental disabilities
Provide interdisciplinary education to
health professionals which emphasizes
service integration
Provide health professionals with skills
to foster community partnerships
Promote innovative practice models that
enhance cultural competency and
family-centered approaches to care
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19 DDRCs
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Prevent and treat disabilities through
biomedical and behavioral research
Conduct multidisciplinary and
innovative research on developmental
disabilities
Train scientific investigators and
clinicians
Seek solutions to practical issues and
problems
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ISSUES FACING THE
CENTERS
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Years of outstanding experience in doing
outstanding work
Need to nourish present partnerships while
addressing changing needs
Must stay relevant
Contraction in traditional funding streams
Devolution of responsibility from Feds to
States
Changing demographics anad cultural
relevance
Technological changes
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CURRENT AND
NEEDED PARTNERS
#1
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1. Federal funders
2. State funders
3. State and local government
agencies
4. Universities and colleges
5. Departments of education
6. State and local health and social
service agencies
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CURRENT AND
NEEDED PARTNERS
#2
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7. Advisory groups
8. Consumers
9. State Medicare and Medicaid
offices
10. Housing and transportation
services
11. Ethnic and minority advocacy
organizations
12. Business and philanthropy
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“
Yogi Berra
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The future ain’t
what it used to be.
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RESOURCES
From REVENUE
To RISK MANAGEMENT
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LEADERSHIP
IMPLICATION
Promoting risk
promotes the greatest
number of
opportunities.
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SIX STRATEGIES
“
Len Hirsch
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Pay attention to the
questions you need to
ask, not the answers
you want to hear.
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One:
TAP PERSONAL
ASSETS
SIX STRATEGIES
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Agatha Christy
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Curious things, habits.
People themselves
never knew they had
them.
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PASSION SOURCES
• CUSTOMS
• LANGUAGES
• PREFERENCES
Begetting Becoming Being Bequeathing
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PASSION SOURCES
• CUSTOMS
• LANGUAGES
• PREFERENCES
Begetting Becoming Being Bequeathing
• CAPABILITIES
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ASSETS
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Authority
Connections
Expertise
Facilitation
Personality
• Reputation
• Resources
• Rewards
• Confrontation
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CELEBRATE
Each person!
All steps!
Every success!
All the time!!
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LEADERSHIP
IMPLICATION
Talk up
the people involved
before talking about the
results to be achieved.
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Two:
INVOLVE ALL
PEOPLE
SIX STRATEGIES
“
Barbara
Crosby
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Leadership springs up
at the intersection of
personal passions
and public problems.
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“
Patricia
RussellMcCloud
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Being a man or a woman
is a matter of birth.
Making a difference
is a matter of choice.
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INTENSITY OF
RELATIONSHIPS
Cooperation
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Coordination
Collaboration
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SELECTED
INVOLVEMENT
RIGHT LEVEL, RIGHT PLACE,
RIGHT TIME, RIGHT WORK
= PARTNERSHIP
Core Initiation
Collaboration
Coordination
Cooperation
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LEADERSHIP
IMPLICATION
Involve people in
different ways:
the right people in
the right place at
the right time doing the
right work.
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Three:
MAP RESULTS
STRATEGIES
SIX STRATEGIES
EVALUATION
E = In
VALUE = Valor/Strength
EVALUATION
Finding strength
in what we do
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STRATEGIC MAP
Desired
End-Point
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ROI: RETURN ON
INVESTMENT
Obtain a
return
on our
investment
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LEADERSHIP
IMPLICATION
Keep the strategic map
in front of everyone
at all times in all places.
It’s the glue that holds
the collaboration
together.
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Four:
INCORPORATE
SELF-INTERESTS
SIX STRATEGIES
INCORPORATING
SELF-INTERESTS
SelfInterests
RESULTS
Self-Interests
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“
Mark Twain
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God protect me from
self-interest
masquerading
as moral principle.
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“
Saul Alinsky
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Self-interest is
the prime mover
of people.
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SELF-INTEREST
Self-interest is not
good or bad.
It has to be
acknowledged,
not denied.
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LEADERSHIP
IMPLICATION
Acknowledge and
incorporate
self-interests.
They are
powerful tools.
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Five:
IMPLEMENT
STRATEGIC
ACTIONS
SIX STRATEGIES
EFFECTIVE
MEETINGS
1. Know the
purpose
2. Choose the
facilitator
3. Set the stage
4. Create the
context
5. Manage the
information
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6. Set ground rules
7. Focus the
discussion
8. Keep action
minutes
9. Evaluate and
celebrate
10. End on time
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KEEP ACTION
MINUTES
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Attendance
Decisions Made
Responsibilities Taken
Progress Made
Purpose of Next Meeting
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LEADERSHIP
IMPLICATION
Take action more
quickly by planning
meetings and making
decisions more
carefully.
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Six:
ALIGN INDIVIDUAL
RESPONSIBILITIES
SIX STRATEGIES
TRUST/CONFLICT
Trust
Conflict
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TRUST IS NOT
≠
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Liking
Being Liked
Getting My Own Way
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TRUST IS
=
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RELIANCE: We’ll do what
we say we’ll do,
competently
SUCCESS: We’ll achieve
what we say we’ll
achieve, knowledgably
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“
Kikuyu People
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When the
elephants fight,
the grass suffers.
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CONFLICT
The feet
are in
agreement
African saying
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“
Len Hirsch
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Conflict is working
through a difference of
opinion. Fighting is the
avoidance of conflict.
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PERFORMANCE
CHECKLIST
1. Personal assets tapped
2. All people involved
3. Results strategies mapped
4. Self-interests incorporated
5. Strategic actions implemented
6. Individual responsibilities
aligned
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LEADERSHIP
IMPLICATION
Build trust, encourage
conflict and align roles.
We are most effective in
our differences,
not in our similarities.
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In the End is
Our Beginning
PERSEVERANCE
AND AUDACITY
GENERALLY WIN