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Community Outreach Forums: Project Summary
Florida’s Positive Behavior
Support Project: Multi-Tiered
System of Support Project
Program Wide Early Care &
Inclusion Training
Project Achieve
Universal Design for
Learning through Technology
Collaborative on Discovery
and Innovations in
Employment (CODIE)
Child Development & Education
The mission of this project is to increase the capacity of Florida's
school districts to address problem behaviors using Positive
Behavior Support (PBS). PBS provides a positive and effective
alternative to the traditional methods of discipline. PBS methods
are research-based and proven to significantly reduce the
occurrence of problem behaviors in the school, resulting in a more
positive school climate and increased academic performance. The
project is active in 54 of Florida’s 67 school districts.
The Program-Wide PBS project supports the program-wide
adoption of the teaching pyramid model for supporting the
development of young children's social competence and
addressing challenging behavior. This project provides training
and support to selected early childhood programs in Hillsborough
County and monthly workshops open to the community
Improve the retention and success rate of students with
intellectual and other developmental disabilities in career &
technical education programs; facilitate a coordinated effort to
respond to the specialized needs of these students through a
holistic program delivery model and provide supportive
instructional delivery strategies that assist students with program
completion.
This project will provide funds to purchase technology and
provide staff development to support the creation of a Universal
Design for Learning environment at two schools. The primary
goal is to increase the number of students with severe disabilities
who meaningfully participate in a general education core content
area class.
CODIE helps to build the capacity of school professionals in
collaboration with community action partners to use the
Discovery Process in supporting youth and adults with
developmental disabilities (DD) in achieving customized
employment. CODIE is currently working with 4 counties - Lee,
Pasco, Brevard, and St. Johns
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Child Development & Education
Disability Awareness Guide –
Pre-k-Elementary
This project developed a Disability Awareness Language Arts and
Literacy Guide for Pre-k through 5th grade. It includes 30
recommended books, lesson plans and resources to help teachers
and families teach all children about disability awareness.
Early Steps Evaluator
Credentialing
This project will develop a consistent training process for people
who evaluate young children to determine if they need early
intervention through the Early Steps Program. The first year the
training will take place in regional trainings face-to-face and the
second year those materials will be transferred to on-line modules.
Technical Assistance Center
on Social Emotional
Intervention for Young
Children (TACSEI)
TACSEI provides training and technical assistance to states in the
adoption of effective intervention models for young children at
risk
for and with disabilities
Office of Special Education
Programs-Training and
Technical Assistance
Program for Positive
Behavioral Interventions and
Supports (OSEP-TAC)
OSEP-TAC provides training and technical assistance to state and
district leadership teams to increase their capacity to provide
positive behavior support to students. Training and TA are
provided to implement Positive Behavioral Support at the school,
classroom, targeted group and individual student levels.
Florida’s Positive Behavior
Support Project: Multi-Tiered
System of Support Project
The mission of this project is to increase the capacity of Florida's
school districts to address problem behaviors using Positive
Behavior Support (PBS). PBS provides a positive and effective
alternative to the traditional methods of discipline. PBS methods
are research-based and proven to significantly reduce the
occurrence of problem behaviors in the school, resulting in a more
positive school climate and increased academic performance. The
project is active in 54 of Florida’s 67 school districts.
HIPPY is a home-based, early intervention/school readiness
program for 3-5 year old children. The Florida HIPPY Training and
Technical Assistance Center works in collaboration with the HIPPY
national office to provide training, technical assistance and
guidance to HIPPY programs in Florida, and research and
evaluation support to HIPPY programs at the state and national
levels.
HIPPY Home Instruction for
Parents of Preschool
Youngsters (HIPPY)
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Child Development & Education
Partnership for Effective
Programs for Students with
Autism (PEPSA)
In collaboration with seven Florida universities (including USF)
PEPSA builds professional capacity among educators working with
students with autism and related disabilities statewide. The
project provides training to educators who are concerned about
providing a high quality educational program to students with
ASD.
Interdisciplinary Center for
Evaluation and Intervention
(ICEI)
ICEI’s innovative clinic is one of five in the Florida Diagnostic
Learning and Resource System Network. The ICEI serves children
and young adults age 3-22 with complex learning, behavioral,
medical and socio-emotional problems as well as their families
and teachers. The program provides comprehensive evaluation,
consultation, and intervention services, parent education and
support services. Referrals can be statewide – most often from
Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco
Center for Autism and
Related Disabilities
CARD is a community-based project that provides information
and consultation to individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum
disorders
and related disabilities. CARD-USF is one of seven
CARDs throughout Florida which offers instruction and coaching
to families and professionals through a training and technical
assistance model. All ages are served in the following counties Charlotte, Collier, Desoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands,
Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, and Sarasota.
FCIC Academic Programs
Individualized
Interdisciplinary
Training
that
provide
opportunities for students and professionals to learn more about
how to promote the full inclusion and support of individuals with
developmental disabilities within community.
Community Coalitions
Community Living
To develop sustainable coalitions that can support communities to
increase their access to generic or shared services that can be
utilized by larger target populations.
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Rural Routes to Employment
Benefits Training and Asset
Development
Employee Me 1st Steering
Committee
Progressive Employment
Practices
FYI Transition
Employment
The project is working with four rural communities to identify
barriers to employment for individuals with developmental
disabilities. The project has conducted community forums or
interviews in each community and developed Community Action
Teams (CATs) to conduct resource mapping, identify solutions,
and design & implement a plan for increasing employment for
individuals with developmental within their communities.
This project created The Changing Face of Benefits, offered as a
self-paced online course or workbook. The Changing Face of
Benefits provides information on benefits and work incentives,
opportunities to increase income and assets, and how to make
informed decisions about employment, earnings, and investments.
Both are great resources for individuals with disabilities, family
members, educators, and others with the desire to learn how work
incentives allow individuals with disabilities who receive public
benefits (i.e., SSI or SSDI) to work and retain income. The
workbook and online course can be accessed via the Council’s
website.
This project will bring a demonstrated approach to systems
change and provide technical assistance to increase employment
outcomes for individuals with intellectual and developmental
disabilities and to establish a sustainable Employment First
Initiative in Florida. Employment First means that individuals with
intellectual and developmental disabilities should have access to
competitive and integrated employment with the necessary
supports to succeed as their first option for services and
supports.
This project funds a consultant who is providing technical
assistance and training to staff members at each of the 17 Project
SEARCH sites in Florida in order to build their capacity and
stabilize and sustain the model fidelity. The consultant has also
coordinated and facilitated an Employment Consortium with
representatives from APD, VR, BEESS, FDDC, FARF, ARC and other
stakeholders.
This is a Florida website targeted to youth with disabilities. It
provides information and resources on such topics as transition
planning, self-determination, employment, and post-secondary
education. It also includes information and training modules for
families and educators.
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Employment
This initiative is designed to provide training, technical assistance
and resources to employers and community stakeholders on
employing individuals with developmental disabilities, and offers
three high quality videos.
Let’s Get Everyone to Work
The videos are targeted to self-advocates, families, educators,
community agencies, students in higher education, and employers
and promote the use of best practices in high school transition
programs that culminate in employment for students with
developmental disabilities, and may be downloaded from the
Council’s website.
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Employment Nuts & Bolts
FCIC’s Employment Webinar
Series 2013
Let’s Get Everyone to Work: Resource Toolkit for Students
and Families
Let’s Get Everyone to Work: Marketing Toolkit for
Employers
Let’s Get Everyone to Work: Teaching Toolkit for Pre-Service
Professionals
This project will be initiated in October 2014 to develop training
for employers and individuals with disabilities as well as
stakeholders on the “nuts & bolts” of employment for individuals
with developmental disabilities.
Free webinars are broadcast on the third Wednesday of each
month from5:00 PM EST – 6:00 PM EST on an array of topics,
resources, tools, support strategies, best practices and materials
related to current employment supports and services specific to
persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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Community Health &
Wellness
Health Care and Prevention
This will impact individuals with developmental disabilities by
creating programs tailored for their specific area of the state that will
improve access to inclusive community health and wellness activities
which will lead to the reduction of obesity and other secondary health
conditions (like diabetes and high blood pressure).The Council plans
to use the results of the Community Wellness Needs Assessment
conducted in 2012 to plan health and wellness programs in the
communities where the assessment was targeted for administration:
Jacksonville, Ft. Lauderdale, and Okeechobee and Bradford Counties.
Physician Training
Program
This project will develop a training program for physicians about how
to provide effective care to adults with DD. The FL Physician
Education in DD (FL PEDD) consortium will be established.
My Health Care
This project is to support, through skill building and use of adaptive
tools, persons with dd as primary participants in all matters related
to their health care and healthy living. Utilizing the Route to Success
System Change Model, this project will improve the knowledge base
and create stakeholder involvement.
Child Development
Screening
This project will continue the work of the Child Development
Screening Initiative Task Force by continuing to develop
recommendations and policy changes needed to implement a
comprehensive statewide system for the developmental screening of
children aged zero to five.
Self-Advocacy
Self-Advocacy Grassroots
Groups
To establish a sustainable grassroots, geographically-dispersed self
advocacy movement in Florida by continued support and
strengthening for the twelve local self advocacy groups and FL SAND
while providing technical support to the groups through a planned
transition process to a new provider.
Youth Leadership Forum
The purpose of the YLF is to attract young people with disabilities
who possess leadership potential, in hopes of honing that potential in
preparation for the future.
Route to SelfDetermination
The project will provide essential research needed to evaluate,
develop and present The Route to Self-Determination training module
for unserved and underserved Floridians with a developmental
disability and their allies to promote and increase knowledge in selfdetermination. The training will be presented in 3 areas of the state
as videos, face-to-face trainings and webcasts. The Provider will
recruit and work with partners throughout the state to reach
unserved and underserved individuals with developmental disabilities
and their allies in the three areas chosen. A needs assessment will be
conducted to determine the training curriculum.
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Self-Advocacy
Florida Self-Advocacy
Alliance
An organization organized by self-advocates for self-advocates to
establish a statewide developmental disability communications
network. The purpose of the network is to build self-advocates’
capacity for advocacy and systems change by sharing information
and opportunities through a website (in development), Facebook
page, emails and hardcopy instruments for those without computer
access. The FSAA may choose to have the Council support its efforts
to print brochures and member applications, support means for
groups and individuals with DD to quickly communicate by electronic
and hard copy means, mailings and, in the future, to hold an annual
conference regarding self-advocacy.
Project SALT
This project will address the lack of knowledge and skills for too
many self-advocates who have not been given opportunities to learn
and practice leadership, the Provider will achieve a two-pronged goal
for this project. Overall, the intent will be to produce an ever-growing
cadre of individuals with the capacity for self-determination,
independence and the ability to participate as leaders in their
communities in meaningful ways. The first prong of the project will
provide a curriculum with the necessary training information for selfadvocates developing and practicing their leadership abilities. The
second prong will provide a curriculum for identified self-advocate
leaders to learn the skills needed to become role models, mentors and
peer trainers.
Partners in Policymaking
Partners in Policymaking is a leadership and advocacy training
program that teaches self-advocates and parents to be community
leaders and how to obtain best available services for themselves and
others. Based on a national model, the overall goal of Partners is to
develop productive partnerships between people who need and use
services and those in a position to make policy and law.
Partners participants are able to accomplish this by having
opportunities to meet and talk to national leaders in the field of
developmental disabilities. Partners will hear presentations about
current issues and state-of-the art practices, as well as policymaking
and legislative processes at local, state, and national levels.
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Contact Information
2728 Centerview Drive, Suite 102
Tallahassee, Florida 32301
Telephone: 800.342.0823 • TDD 800.346.4127
www.DisabilityRightsFlorida.org
Department of Child and Family Studies
College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
University of South Florida
13301 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. MHC 2113A
Tampa, FL 33612
Telephone: (813) 974-4612 Toll Free (866) 818-4794
www.flcic.org Email: [email protected]
124 Marriot Drive, Suite 203
Tallahassee, Florida 32301
Telephone (850) 488-4180 Toll Free (800) 580-7201
www.fddc.org Email: [email protected]
Mailman Center
1601 N.W. 12th Ave.
Miami, FL 33136
Telephone: 305-243-6631 Appointments: 305-243-6631
www. pediatrics.med.miami.edu/mailman-center
Email: [email protected]