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Text Box: resource families and agencies alike will find responsive to the changing resources and needs of Idaho families. For more information on the Family Resource Center, contact Tina at tinaa@uidaho.edu or call 888 746-2655.  For information regarding this newsletter or our website, contact Jill at jills@uidaho.edu or call 208 659-1643.

Text Box: The Idaho Family Support 360 Project launched their pilot program with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare in February and it is already actively building community resources for families in the Region II  area.  Program Director, Julie Magelky tells us that this pilot program is a key component of the 5-year, 1.25 million dollar grant the Center on Disabilities and Human Development received. The Lewiston pilot program is one of three ways the team will deliver information and referral resources to families, not only in Lewiston but statewide as well. Tina Alexanderson, Project Coordinator, heads up the community development project in Lewiston. On the job only a

Text Box: few weeks and she already has assisted families access specialized text books and a lift for a vehicle. Julie Magelky reports that the other two prongs of the federal grant involve the creation of a comprehensive web-based resource database as well as this quarterly newsletter. The web resource would include National, State and Regional organizations specialized with family services.  Developing, managing and continually updating such a database requires that the Family Support Project partner with key organizations throughout Idaho. Jill Smith, Family Resource Specialist , and Merri Platt, Administrative Assistant, are teaming up to provide a

Text Box: The Council on Developmental Disabilities will be launching their bus tour in June, bringing the vision of self-determination to cities and towns around the state.  Teaming up with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Council members, Idaho Task Force on Self Determination members, and CDHD’s Idaho Partners in

Text Box: Policymaking Program graduates will emphasize self-determination awareness information.                                                     Two buses will be used for this event.  The first will start in Bonners Ferry and head south with stops planned in Sandpoint, CdA, St. Maries/Kellogg, Moscow, Lewiston, Weiser, Nampa and Boise.  The southern contingent will begin in Preston and circle around through

Text Box: Pocatello, Idaho Falls, Salmon, Twin Falls, Mt. Home and converging with the northern team at Boise for a rally at the State Capitol to raise awareness about self-determination. Regional teams will be planning events at each stop.  More information can be found at the DD Council website: www.state.id.us.icdd or call Ron at 800 544-2433.  

Text Box: “It is our hope that the Lewiston pilot model can be implemented statewide.” - Tina Alexanderson

Tina Alexanderson

 

Text Box: Center on Disabilities and Human Development—EDK 293

Text Box: Spring, 2005

Text Box: Volume 4, Issue 2

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