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The Arizona Center for
Disability Law, Governor's Council on
Developmental Disabilities, Institute for Human Development, and the Sonoran
UCEDD are partner organizations that form the Arizona Developmental
Disabilities Network. These
organizations are authorized under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance
and Bill of Rights Act (Public Law 106-402) and receive funding from the
United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on
Developmental Disabilities.
State Protection and Advocacy Agency With
offices in Phoenix and Tucson, the Arizona Center for Disability Law serves
as the state’s designated protection and advocacy system for individuals with
disabilities. The Center provides a wide range of services in the areas of
special education, health care, mental health services, access to community services
and employment. In addition to offering individual legal representation, the
Center provides information and referral, brief assistance and educational
workshops on the rights of persons with disabilities in a variety of arenas
such as the educational setting and the workplace. The Center also
investigates allegations of abuse and neglect involving individuals with
disabilities.
The Governor’s
Council on Developmental Disabilities is a 25-member council comprised of
individuals with developmental disabilities, family members of individuals
with disabilities and representatives of state agencies that provide services
to individuals with developmental disabilities. Every five years, the Council
develops and implements a state plan that addresses specific priorities. The
Council’s current plan includes objectives in the areas of education,
employment, formal and informal community supports and quality assurance. The
charge of the Council is to implement the goals and objectives of the
five-year state plan through systemic change, capacity building and advocacy
activities.
Arizona’s University Center for Excellence
in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research and Service. The
Institute for Human Development is located at Northern Arizona University in
Flagstaff. The Institute provides the bridge between the rich resources that
an academic institution has to the developmental disability service delivery
system. The mission of the Institute is to enhance the capacity of a
statewide system of support of persons with disabilities and their families.
The Institute implements its mission through the conduct of interdisciplinary
training, promotion of exemplary community service programs, provision of
technical assistance at all levels of the service delivery system, and the
conduct of research and evaluation that is disseminated to targeted groups in
the field.
The Sonoran
UCEDD is based on the vision of a community benefiting from the full participation
of all members, with recognition of the strengths brought by diversity in
abilities, culture, age, and life-experience. The Sonoran UCEDD will
facilitate a state-wide collaboration in support of full participation by
people with developmental disabilities in all aspects of community life. It
will focus on developing new knowledge, best practices, dissemination and
training, and public policy to support effective transitions through
adulthood for people with developmental disabilities and their families, and
improved services to Hispanic/Latino individuals with developmental
disabilities and their families, and to rural and border populations. The
Sonoran University Center of Excellence for Individuals with Developmental
Disabilities is located with the Department of Family and Community Medicine
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