A complete list of projects, programs and resources offered through UAA Center for Human Development. Some projects may be listed under more than one name.

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ADRC Provider Survey: Options Counseling Report (2011)

Advocacy-Partners in Policymaking (PIP)

A program that promotes advocacy and leadership skills to individuals, family members and caregivers, through training, resources and networking opportunities.

Advocacy-Youth Advocates Community (YAC)

A program that engages youth with and without disabilities, between the ages 16-24, in monthly social and volunteer opportunities within the Anchorage and Mat-Su communities.

Alaska Autism Summer Institute

Alaska Direct Service Workers Survey Report (2009)

Alaska's Early Intervention / Infant Learning Program (EI/ILP) Reports (2011)

Alaskans Speak Up!

Alaska State-wide Positive Behavior and Interventions Support Pilot & Training Projects

The Center for Human Development's project work increases implementation of PBIS within behavioral health agencies as well as collaboration between schools and agencies using PBIS with children.

B

Benefits Analysis-for Social Security (WIPA)

Program offers recipients of SSA disability (SSI or SSDI) benefits counseling services. Understand how wages might impact benefits. 

Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)

The BCBA program supports Alaska’s Workforce Development Initiative, and is aimed at building Alaska’s capacity to support children, youth and adults who experience Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Building Virtual Bridges

A guide to distance-delivered microenterprise training for individuals with disabilities. 

Business-Microenterprise Grant

C

Capacity Building for Autism Interventions (CBAI)

Children's Behavioral Health OEC

A sixteen (16) credit Undergraduate Occupational Endorsement Certificate (OEC) for people who work with kids with challenging behaviors or mental health diagnoses.

Center for Psychosocial Development (CPD)

A center that provides wrap-around support interventions for adults with disabilities who have a history of victimization and remain at risk.

D

Disability Abuse Response Team Alaska (D.A.R.T. AK)

D.A.R.T. Alaska is a collaborative approach to addressing violence and abuse of people with disabilities.

Disability Justice Initiative (DJI)

The Justice Initiative is a collaboration of many different stakeholders who have the common vision of reducing interpersonal violence against Alaskans with disabilities and/or Alaskan seniors.

E

Early Intervention / Infant Learning Program (EI/ILP) Reports (2011)

F

FASD/RPTC Waiver Project and Annual Training Conference

Alaska's RPTC/FASD Waiver Project goal is to reduce the number of youth, ages 14 to 21, in residential psychiatric treatment centers (RPTC'S) who are dual-diagnosed with FASD and SED. An annual training conference is held for professionals and paraprofessionals working with children and youth enrolled in the RPTC/FASD Waiver.

Friendships & Dating

Friendships & Dating is a preventative program designed to teach adults with intellectual and related developmental disabilities how to develop and maintain healthy relationships and prevent interpersonal violence.

Full Lives Conference for Direct Service Professionals

The Full Lives Conference features national and Alaskan experts on key issues that affect direct service staff and the people they support. Presentations are provided on a wide variety of topics, allowing attendees to choose sessions based on their personal and professional interests

G

Guide to Developmental Disability Services

A Guide to Developmental Disability Services was written to help parents understand what Developmental Disabilities services are out there and how these services can work for you.

I

I Vote, I Count

A program that empowers Alaskans with disabilities to become active voters and part of the political process by eliminating voting barriers, promoting awareness of the voting process and helping people access their right to vote.

Industry-Driven Support Model

A research and demonstration project that supports individuals with disabilities in self-employment through training and network development.

L

LEND - Alaska LEND Without Walls

Alaska LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities) provides graduate-level interdisciplinary leadership training for individuals who have a commitment to providing family-centered coordinated systems of health care and related services.

Learn as You Earn Certification and AAS (LAYE)

Learn As You Earn (LAYE) distance-delivered courses are available for people who provide community, family, workplace, educational, speech-language, or respite support to children or adults with disabilities, and are thinking of a career in disability services. The LAYE courses lead to an Associate Degree in Disability Services.

Long-Term Care Apprenticeship Program (LTCAP)

The purpose of the LTCAP is to implement industry-driven training solutions that address the long-term care sector’s critical workforce challenges by building and maintaining partnerships between the workforce investment system, long-term care employers, education and training providers, and other public and private sector partners.

M

Microenterprise Grant

P

Person-Centered Planning Facilitator Certification

Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (PBIS) in Alaska

The Center for Human Development's project work increases implementation of PBIS within behavioral health agencies as well as collaboration between schools and agencies using PBIS with children.

Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) Pilot & Training Projects

The Center for Human Development's project work increases implementation of PBIS within behavioral health agencies as well as collaboration between schools and agencies using PBIS with children.

Partners in Policymaking (PIP)

A program that promotes advocacy and leadership skills to individuals, family members and caregivers, through training, resources and networking opportunities.

S

Self Determination Toolkit

Self-determination is a combination of skills, knowledge and beliefs that enable a person to engage in goal directed, self-regulated, autonomous behavior. An understanding of one's strengths and limitations together with a belief in oneself as capable and effective are essential to self-determination.

Self-Employment: Building Virtual Bridges

A guide to distance-delivered microenterprise training for individuals with disabilities.

Self-Employment Workshop Series

A program for self-employed individuals with disabilities that focuses on industry specific training and network development.

Serving Offenders Conferences

Social Security Benefits Analysis (WIPA)

Program offers recipients of SSA disability (SSI or SSDI) benefits counseling services. Understand how wages might impact benefits.

Start-up; Microenterprise Grant

T

TAPESTRY

The purpose of the TAPESTRY Post-Secondary Transition Program is to provide students (ages 18 to 21) with intellectual and cognitive disabilities a post-secondary college experience to develop self advocacy skills, engage in career exploration, and develop social skills that lead to employment in a career field or enrollment in a post-secondary educational program.

Transition & Parent Support Report (2010)

Trust Training Cooperative (TTC)

Trust Training Cooperative (TTC) is a statewide cooperative effort to address workforce training needs. TTC promotes career development opportunities for direct service workers and their supervisors engaged with Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority beneficiaries.

V

Video Futures Project

As an intervention strategy, Video Self-Modeling uses carefully planned and edited positive self-images of adaptive-only behavior on video to change the frequency or quality of a person's behavior

Voting-I Vote, I Count

A program that empowers Alaskans with disabilities to become active voters and part of the political process by eliminating voting barriers, promoting awareness of the voting process and helping people access their right to vote.

W

Work Incentive Planning and Assistance for Alaska (WIPA)

Program offers recipients of SSA disability (SSI or SSDI) benefits counseling services. Understand how wages might impact benefits.  

Y

Youth Advocates Community (YAC)