Oh, The Places You

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Oh, The Places Youll Go

• Examining the Leadership Trajectories of Former
  AUCD Trainees

AUCD Annual Meeting Conference October 31, 2006
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Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to
Great Places! You're off and away!
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AUCD Network

• George Jesien, PhD
• Executive Director, AUCD
• 1010 Wayne Avenue
• Suite 920
• Silver Spring, MD 20910
• www.aucd.org

You have brains in your head. You have feet in
your shoes.
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http//www.aucd.org
Mission To advance policy and practice for and
with people living with developmental and other
disabilities, their families and communities by
supporting our members as they engage in
research, education, and service that further
independence, productivity and a satisfying
quality of life.
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AUCD Represents and Supports Three National
Networks

• Technical Assistance
• Data Collection Dissemination
• Liaison Representation to Federal Agencies,
  National Disability Organizations
• Subcontract Administration
• Policy Development Legislative Advocacy

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UCEDDs

• University Centers for Excellence in
  Developmental Disabilities
• Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of
  Rights Act
• At least one in every state territory
• Work with persons with disabilities, families,
  government and advocacy agencies and community
  providers to conduct research and achieve
  positive changes

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LEND

• Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental
  Disabilities
• Funded by MCHB
• Leadership skills
• Interdisciplinary clinical services
• Unique needs of children with special health care
  needs their families
• Cultural competency
• Family-based care

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DDRCs

• Developmental Disabilities Research Centers
• Funded by NICHD to serve as a national resource
  centers of research excellence
• Mission scientific discovery
• Work to discover causes, prevention strategies,
  treatments and interventions for birth defects
  and developmental disabilities
• Represent our nations biomedical and behavioral
  research effort for developmental disabilities

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Research Kim Powell, PhD RD

• AUCD Post-doctoral Fellow
• Developmental Disability Team
• National Center on Birth Defects and
  Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD)
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Emailkkx2_at_cdc.gov
• Website http//www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/

You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
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Research Kim Powell, PhD RD
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
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Clinical Services Education

• Beth Bryant, Ph.D.
• NYS Licensed Psychologist Supervisor
• Family Program Educational and Health Care
  Coordination Programs Coordinator
• Early Childhood Services
• Assistant Professor, Disability and Human
  Development New York Medical College, School of
  Public Health
• Westchester Institute for Human Development
• Cedarwood Hall, Room C131
• 20 Hospital Plaza
• Valhalla, NY 10595
• [phone]

You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over
with care.
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Clinical Services EducationBeth Bryant, PhD
It's opener there in the wide open air. Out
there things can happen and frequently do.
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Administration

• Marty Blair, PhD
• Assistant Director for Policy and Development
• Center for Persons with Disabilities Utah State
  University 6800 Old Main Hill Logan, UT
  84322-6800 Tel [phone]
• Email martin.blair_at_cc.usu.edu

And when things start to happen, don't worry.
Don't stew.
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AdministrationMarty Blair, PhD

Just go right along. You'll start happening too.
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Policy

• Aaron Bishop, MSSW
• Professional Staff, Disability Policy - Majority
  
• U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education,
  Labor, Pensions
• Senator Mike Enzi Chairman
• aaron_bishop_at_help.senate.gov
• http//help.senate.gov/

You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great
sights!
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PolicyAaron Bishop, MSSW
UW School of Social Work Waisman Center Mentors
ARC, DD Council, AUCD
ADD/NSIP Coordinator at AUCD
Senate HELP Committee
Kennedy Fellowship
You'll join the high fliers who soar to high
heights.
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AUCD Network
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KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!

• So... be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or
  Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, you're off to
  Great Places!
• Today is your day!
• Your mountain is waiting.
• So...get on your way!
• ---Dr. Seuss