Completed Projects Archive
Below is an
alphabetical listing of
projects that were completed more than one year ago.
A community education initiative designed
to develop a model for statewide CDA leadership training to improve the quality of child
care in Maine funded through a subcontract from Kennebec Valley Community Action Program's
DHS/DMHMRSAS Statewide Child Care Quality Improvement Project.
A 4-year model demonstration project funded
by the US Department of Education designed to develop, implement, evaluate and disseminate
a model of whole school reform consistent with Promising Futures.
Maine's Healthy & Ready to Work
initiative,
designed to collaboratively implement a statewide structure to ensure that adolescents
with special health care needs, including disabilities, will transition smoothly to post
secondary educational programs, employment, and adult living with the services and
supports they require to lead successful, meaningful and inclusive lives in the
communities of their choice.
A technical assistance and capacity
building effort designed to enhance and support quality developmental therapy for young
children with disabilities conducted in collaboration with the Maine Department of
Education and Child Development Services with funding from the Maine Developmental
Disabilities Council.
Maine's
new Health & Ready to Work initiative,
the Maine Works for Youth! project is working to
achieve the six core outcome indicators of Achieving
and Measuring Success for Children with Special
Health Care Needs by 2010.
A collaboration with
rural schools of allied health and Maine middle and high schools to
provide preservice education, continuing education and interactive
virtual modules in rural Long Term Care. This project includes Kids
into Health Careers, which seeks to inform students, parents and
teachers about health careers.
A US Department of Labor funded technical
assistance project designed to increase the number of youth and adults with severe
disabilities who are employed.
A project to identify, enhance, and
disseminate effective strategies for ensuring that students with disabilities are
integrally included as part of building-wide school improvement and reform initiatives and
are accommodated accordingly.
A personnel preparation program designed to
provide graduate education in early intervention.
A community education initiative designed
to enhance and support direct support professionals as they assume new roles as community
connectors and facilitators of relationships and valued roles for individuals with
developmental disabilities in inclusive communities.
