Technical Assistance
Technical assistance is a core component of many grants and contract projects at the Center for Development and Disabilities. Each year, CDD faculty and staff provide ongoing technical assistance consultations to thousands of representatives of state agencies, policy makers, providers, and stakeholders throughout the state to enhance community capacity to support the health of people with disabilities, and assure full community participation for them and their families. Grants and contract projects include:
- Community Access Project
- Conner Training Connection
- Family to Family Iowa
- Living Well Iowa - Improving the Health of Iowans with Disabilities
- Iowa Community Transformation Grant
- Iowa Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) Agreement
- Iowa Prevention of Disabilities Policy Council
- Iowa Program for Assistive Technology
- Medicaid Infrastructure Grant
- Money Follows the Person
- Olmstead Consumer Taskforce
- Peer Action Disability Support (PADS)
- Systems Transformation in Iowa’s Mental Health and Disability Service System