To learn more about any of the projects and initiatives listed below, click on
the name.
Child Care Plus ME is a state–university
partnership initiative
with the Maine Department of Human Services designed to improve access to and quality of child care for all children in Maine through the development of a comprehensive system to support the provision of and access to high–quality child care for all children,
particularly those with challenging medical and behavioral health care needs, and to
prevent children from being excluded from mainstream child care programs.
EI offers graduate study in early
intervention/early childhood special education for practicing professionals in early
intervention, early care and education, and related fields. Supported by a U.S. Department
of Education Office of Special Education Programs grant, participants in the TOP project can pursue programs leading to an
endorsement as a Maine Teacher of Young Children with Disabilities–Birth to School–Age
Five or to a master’s degree. Both options emphasize an interdisciplinary,
family-centered, developmentally, and individually appropriate and inclusive perspective.
The Healthy and Ready to Work (HRTW) National Resource
Center provides leadership, resources, and knowledge to improve health,
community participation, productivity and life for youth in transition.
Consistent with the President’s New Freedom Initiative,
families of children with special health care needs and youth with
special health care needs will partner in decision making at all levels
and be satisfied with the services they receive. Activities for
achieving this goal include completion of the Road Map to Success
document, creation of model transition information packets for youth and
families and revisions to the searchable database, the Service Tapestry.
LEARNS is a professional development
and technical assistance initiative supporting Maine schools and
educators, and early care programs and providers, as they build their
capacity to assure that all Maine students–including those with
significant disabilities–have access to participate and progress in the
general curriculum, extracurricular activities, and their home
communities.
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This
project is a
collaborative project of CCIDS and Maine Behavioral and Developmental
Services designed to make high– quality training in employment supports
available to job coaches and employment specialists in Maine.
Project Ready to ServeMaine, funded through a 2009
National Service Inclusion Project grant, will result in an increase
in the application, enrollment and retention of national service
members and volunteers with disabilities in Maine. The project will
improve outcomes for people with disabilities by forging strong
partnerships among Alpha One, Maine's Center for Independent Living;
Speaking Up for Us, Maine's Self-Advocacy Network; the Maine
Commission for Community Service; and the AmeriCorps/AmeriCorps
VISTA programs in the state.
In collaboration with Trefoil Corporation of Orono,
Maine, and the Bangor Literacy Center, this project involves the
development, evaluation, and dissemination of a web portal that will
translate existing tobacco prevention, cessation and control websites
into low literacy and accessible formats.
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Below is
an alphabetical listing of projects that have ended within the past year.
A collaboration with faculty from
the University of Maine’s New Media Program to create Project Life as part of
the University of Maine's Community Outreach Partnership Center grant
through the University of Maine's Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center.
The Equity and Excellence project
will
advance universal access to higher education through developing and
educating faculty in concepts and techniques of universal design and
access. Over five semesters, a leadership team will work with
faculty in a model, universally–accessible learning environment to
promote universally accessible teaching and learning in higher
education.
This project promotes the inclusion of individuals with disabilities
in national and community service.
The Center’s primary role in the project is to provide
technical assistance and curriculum development expertise focusing on
the employment support needs of individuals with autism.
The Portland Early
Literacy Collaborative project works with four existing southern
Maine early childhood programs to implement best practices based on
the early literacy research. The goal is to improve reading skills
for pre-school children, including children with special needs and
those who are English language learners.
The Prevention Center of
Excellence will
identify communities in Maine that are underserved by existing substance
abuse prevention programs and will provide the information necessary to
craft prevention strategies relevant to these communities.
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For a listing of
projects from prior years please view our
Project Archives.
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