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Laredo Health quartet selected for upcoming Texas cohort on developmental disabilities
Four individuals from Laredo Health Department have been selected as distinguished members of the upcoming National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities Texas 2023 Leadership Institute Class, marking a significant milestone in their commitment to personal and professional growth.
Texas Tech prepares next generation of leaders serving individuals with disabilities
Employment can provide life-changing independence for Cecilia Gutierrez's clients. It can be life changing for their parents too.
As executive director of Let's Go Texas, Gutierrez helps people with disabilities in Laredo and other south Texas communities find jobs. The agency offers a range of services, including job matching, social skills training and ongoing job support. Many of her clients have autism and live with parents or family, depending on them for basic needs and decisions.
Project Leadership Challenge welcomes 5-agency cohort
A new cohort of five Texas service provider organizations were selected to participate in Project Leadership Challenge, a statewide leadership development program designed to prepare the next generation of leaders working with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
College of Education receives $1.5M grant to train 400 Texas special educators
Texas Tech University's Virginia Murray Sowell Center for Research and Education in Sensory Disabilities is launching Project TEDD: Training Educators in Dual Diagnosis, an initiative to address a state need for K-12 educators who specialize in teaching students who have a dual diagnosis of an intellectual and developmental disability (I/DD) and a mental health condition.
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Dr. Banda and Dr. Carter visit TCDD
Today, TCDD hosted a kick-off meeting for @TTUEducation's Advanced Leadership Training for Professionals project. The project will train the next generation of Texas leaders who work with people with IDD.
— TCDD (@TxCDD) September 9, 2019
Pictured (L-R): Beth Stalvey, Devender Banda, and Stacy L. Carter. pic.twitter.com/FXC9MoILpe
$750K grant funds advanced training in intellectual, developmental disabilities
A team of researchers in the College of Education was awarded a $750,000 grant from the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities to train leaders in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).
The grant is over five years and will fund advanced training sessions for future leaders from developmental centers and agencies across Texas. The sessions will be held in Lubbock in collaboration with the National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities at the University of Delaware.
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