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Arizona Developmental Disabilities
Network The Arizona Center for
Disability Law, Development
Disabilities Planning Council,
Institute for Human Development, and the Sonoran UCEDD are partner
organizations that form the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Network. We are authorized under the Developmental
Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (Public Law 106-402) and
receive funding from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services,
Administration on Developmental Disabilities.
We are One Community Working Together. The Arizona Developmental Disabilities Network has created a
newsletter for Summer 2010. You can
view the newsletter as a PDF file by clicking here. You can also view the newsletter as an
eNewsletter by going to the following website: http://sonoranucedd.fcm.arizona.edu/DDNN
With
offices in Phoenix and Tucson, the Arizona Center for Disability Law serves
as the states designated protection and advocacy system for individuals with
disabilities. The Center provides a wide range of services in the areas of
special education, health care, mental health services, access to community
services and employment. In addition to offering individual legal
representation, the Center provides information and referral, brief
assistance and educational workshops on the rights of persons with
disabilities in a variety of arenas such as the educational setting and the
workplace. The Center also investigates allegations of abuse and neglect
involving individuals with disabilities.
The Developmental
Disabilities Planning Council is a 23-member council comprised of
individuals with developmental disabilities, family members of individuals
with disabilities and representatives of state agencies that provide services
to individuals with developmental disabilities. Every five years, the Council develops and
implements a state plan that addresses specific priorities. The Council's current plan includes
objectives in the areas of education, employment, formal and informal
community supports and quality assurance.
The charge of the Council is to implement the goals and objectives of
the five-year state plan through systemic change, capacity building and
advocacy activities. Northern Arizona
University The
Institute provides the bridge between the rich resources that an academic
institution has to the developmental disability service delivery system. The
mission of the Institute is to enhance the capacity of a statewide system of
support of persons with disabilities and their families. The Institute
implements its mission through the conduct of interdisciplinary training,
promotion of exemplary community service programs, provision of technical
assistance at all levels of the service delivery system, and the conduct of
research and evaluation that is disseminated to targeted groups in the field.
The Sonoran
UCEDD is based on the vision of a community benefiting from the full
participation of all members, with recognition of the strengths brought by
diversity in abilities, culture, age, and life-experience. The Sonoran UCEDD
will facilitate a statewide collaboration in support of full participation by
people with developmental disabilities in all aspects of community life. It
will focus on developing best practices, dissemination and training, and
public policy to support effective transitions through adulthood for people
with developmental disabilities and their families, and improved services to
Hispanic/Latino individuals with developmental disabilities and their
families, and to rural and border populations. The Center is located within
the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona.
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