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ICI Awarded Innovative Rehabilitation Training Grant on Employer Engagement
May 20th, 2020
The Institute for Community Inclusion was recently awarded the Program on Innovative Rehabilitation Training on Employer Engagement Innovative Rehabilitation Training Program (PIRTEE), a Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) grant. The…
ICI Researcher Co-Authors Journal Article
May 20th, 2020
Ngai Kwan has recently co-authored a journal article with Glacia Ethridge, Angel Dowden and Michael Brooks from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (a HBCU), and Debra Harley from University of Kentucky. The article is…
New Website Highlights COVID-19 Resources
May 20th, 2020
The ICI has released a series of publications on providing day and employment services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics include offering services remotely, effective use of technology, dealing with the economic impact of COVID-19, and much more…
Supports Planning Bringing Employment First to Scale Brief
May 20th, 2020
Check out this ThinkWork brief to learn about addressing a job seeker’s support needs to increase job retention and career advancement.
New College of Employment Services Course Focuses on Path from School to Adulthood
May 20th, 2020
The ICI partners with the University of Minnesota and Elsevier Publishing to produce the DirectCourse College of Employment Services, or CES. This suite of online courses allows disability support professionals to build their skills in supporting…
Three New Think College Publications
May 14th, 2020
Think College has released three new publications. Their new Fast Fact, Peer Supports: Focusing on the Experiences of College Students with Intellectual Disability, summarizes findings from a qualitative study that interviewed college students with…
Down Syndrome Program Coordinator Receives Impact Award
March 12th, 2020
Boston Children’s Hospital Foundation held its first annual Special Events Award Reception, “A Night of the Stars.” At the ceremony ICI’s Angela Lombardo, Down Syndrome Program coordinator and LEND Boston family faculty, received the Impact Award…
New Article about Students with Intellectual Disability
February 19th, 2020
Debra Hart, principal investigator for the Institute for Community Inclusion’s Think College project, co-wrote an article for Diverse Issues in Higher Education titled “Left Out? Can the Completion Movement Reach Students with Intellectual…