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Community Education and Information Dissemination

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The USC UCEDD offers a wide variety of community education opportunities, in partnership with other local, state and national agencies and organizations. We disseminate information on best practices and emerging issues that impact people with disabilities and their families to other UCEDDs nationwide, as well as to local and state agencies, policy-makers, service providers, families, community organizations, researchers, universities and other training programs. 

 

Professional Training 

Instructional program offered by the UCEDD that is designed to advance an individual’s academic or professional credentials and takes place in an academic setting or program.

Professional Training Programs 

Birth to Five Mental Health Training 

 

Continuing Education

Seminar(s) or courses of instruction offered by a UCEDD that:

(1) serve to maintain professional credentials;

(2) encourage professionals to expand their knowledge base and stay up-to-date on new developments; and

(3) offer certificates of completion or CEUs (or their equivalents).

 

 

Technical Assistance

 

USC UCEDD interdisciplinary faculty and staff provide technical assistance at the local, state, regional and national levels to build the capacity of organizations and entities to better serve individuals with or at risk for DD, especially those who are from under-resourced communities. Expected outcomes of our technical assistance efforts include but are not limited to:
 
Strengthening the voices of under-resourced communities in policy and advocacy
 
Assisting community-based organizations that serve the DD community to seek and successfully obtain funding for their work 
 
Developing culturally-responsive systems of service delivery
 
Building the capacity of service systems to meet emerging needs, such as early identification and referral, and addressing service access and equity racial and ethnic disparities in services
 
Agency specific adoption of evidence based practices
 
Increasing  parent-professional partnerships at all levels of service delivery and policy-making and to bring recognition to the value of collaboration with parents and other family members
 
 First Connections: Developmental Screening and Linkage in Underserved Communities, Technical Assistance grant in partnership with First 5 LA
 
Early Head Start/Head Start: Classroom observation, consultation & technical assistance

Contact

Olga Solomon, PhD, Director of Community Education, Information Dissemination and Technical Assistance

Wesley Witherspoon, USC UCEDD Consumer Advocate

uscucedd@usc.edu

Health

Early Intervention

Areas of Emphasis