In This Issue

Fall/Winter 2005
Volume 1 • Issue 2

Professors Receive
Allan Meyers Award

Director’s Corner

UM Students Receive
National Award

Center Updates Acronym

Prevention Center
of Excellence

$2.9M Reading Program Grant

Director Named
AUCD President

New Leadership for CAC

Search Tool Facilitates
Access to MEC Training

Grant to Increase Access
to Volunteer Opportunities

Intervention Methods
Subject of Conference

Screening Instrument
Under Development

Co-Instructional Model
Developed by CCIDS

Center Staff Star in
New Video

Guest Column:
CAC Member Tours
South Africa

Brain Research Informs
Best Practice

Partnership for EC
Health Formed

Presentations & Publications

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Grant to Increase Access to Volunteer Opportunities

The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies (CCIDS) has received a $15,000 National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP) grant to create the Access Community Volunteers (ACV) project; a program designed to increase participation in community service projects by individuals with developmental disabilities.

In partnership with the Maine Commission for Community Service (MCCS) and Maine’s AmeriCorps programs, the ACV will create mechanisms to increase the involvement of people with developmental disabilities in all aspects of national service and will specifically support the technical assistance necessary to identify, match, and coordinate supports for individuals with developmental disabilities becoming National Service Corps volunteers or members.

“The ACV project will bridge the gap between the potential volunteers and the programs that wish to engage them,” according to the grant application, and will make use of the Volunteer Maine Partnership, a free, statewide database linking local agencies seeking volunteers with people interested in volunteering.
The 12-month grant began November 1 and will conclude October 31, 2006.

— Kimberly Sawtelle