IDEAL is focused on the development of media literacy, storytelling, and media production skills, to develop each participating student’s communication skills and media maker “voice” — an empowering identity for anyone in our media-saturated culture, especially for individuals with Intellectual Disabilities whose stories are often overlooked or conveyed by others.

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The Georgia Inclusive Postsecondary Education Consortium (GaIPSEC) seeks to create opportunities for students who have historically not had access to postsecondary educational opportunities. Members of the Consortium are committed to providing information and training resources for individuals, families, colleges & universities, and agencies to achieve the goal of inclusive postsecondary education (PSE) opportunities for all.

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CLD works on the team to revise the latest Georgia Transition Manual For Students with Disabilities. We train parents, students, administrators, counselors and educators on inclusive post-secondary education options throughout Georgia and the nation, as well as how to prepare students for transitioning into these programs.

Transition support is also available for changes in K-12 education, healthcare, and housing.

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The Georgia Inclusive Postsecondary Education Consortium (GaIPSEC) seeks to create opportunities for students who have historically not had access to post-secondary educational opportunities. Members of the Consortium are committed to providing information and training resources for individuals, families, colleges & universities, and agencies to achieve the goal of inclusive postsecondary education (PSE) opportunities for all.

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The AUCD Leadership Academy is a week-long program designed to enhance the skills of current and emerging leaders from the disability network to build coalitions to improve systems of supports and services. The Leadership Academy seeks participants from UCEDDs, LENDs, and their disability partners to come together to immerse themselves for a week of study, shared experiences, self-evaluation, and skill development.

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The Georgia Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (GaLEND) is a one-year interdisciplinary experience for future professionals, disability advocates, and family members to be able to provide coordinated, culturally competent, and family-centered care to children and their families..

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We wish to establish a cohort of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities with the skills and perspectives to actively contribute to the work of governance boards and advisory councils for state agencies and not-for-profit organizations in Georgia.

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ADMH provides comprehensive, coordinated, person-centered healthcare for teens and adults with developmental disabilities. We strive to empower individuals and their families to become advocates for their own health and wellness needs.

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Making health care better for people with disabilities is an important public health goal. The purpose of this 5-year program is to improve the health of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and mobility limitations (ML) in Georgia.

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CLD, in collaboration with the Human Development Institute in KY, leads the Southeastern Regional SuperHub. This SuperHub aims to support rapid identification, dissemination, and implementation of innovative strategies to reach the disability community in eight Southeastern U.S states.

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The BBQuIP allows parents, teachers, and birth-to-five educators to identify the child’s behavior of concerns, the behavior triggers, and the ways in which the adults responses to the child may be contributing to the behavior.

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The Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support (GAPBS) is a network of the national Association for Positive Behavior Support (APBS; apbs.org). The purpose of the GAPBS network is to increase the visibility of positive behavior support in our state. The network aims to provide a collaborative statewide effort to disseminate positive behavior support practices.

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The GSU-CLD Positive Behavior Support Team develops and delivers the Positive Behavior Visual Support training series, which offers web-based and live training modules – such as Family Coaching-Pyramid Model, Parents Interacting with Infants (PIWI), and Tier III: Understanding and Addressing Challenging Behaviors Training (Tier III Training)] – and provides ongoing training and technical assistance for the Master Cadres in the five Statewide Systemic Improvement Plan (SIPP) districts as well as for three newly targeted SIPP health districts.

The five SIPP Districts include: Columbus, Coastal, Gwinnett, Dalton, and Dublin.
The three newly targeted SIPP Districts include: Cobb-Douglas, Fulton, and Dekalb.

AREAS OF FOCUS

• Parent Support
• Babies Can’t Wait
• Employment Settings

* This project is currently pending. Please check back later. *

Faculty and staff at the CLD provide two models of training on positive behavior support in schools. One model includes one-time training providing an overview of the positive behavior support framework. The second model involves more intensive, onsite support that spans across several months to the entire academic year. CLD has several contracts with school systems across the state using the more intensive model of training.

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