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PURPOSE OF THE KUCDD
University Centers on Developmental Disabilities (UCDDs)
are funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services to provide
training, technical assistance, exemplary client services, and to
develop and disseminate information to local, state, regional, and
national agencies that provide services to persons with developmental
disabilities. |
| The UCDD acts as a resource and catalyst for the improvement
of services provided by government and private agencies. The Kansas
University Center on Developmental Disabilities (KUCDD), established
in 1969, is a componentof the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies
at the University of Kansas. The KUCDD maintains facilities on the
University's main campus in Lawrence, at the KU Medical Center in
Kansas City, and in Parsons, a rural community in southeastern Kansas.
In addition to these primary sites, the KUCDD supports affiliated
projects in many Kansas communities and provides training and other
types of support to all regions of the state. |
VALUES OF THE KUCDD
The primary consumers of UCDD services and products
are persons with developmental disabilities and their families.
Secondary consumers include service providers, agency administrators,
policy makers and others in an important role in the life of the
consumer. The provision of exemplary services to persons with developmental
disabilities and their families should |
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| facilitate the achievement of their own personal goals
and enhance the quality of their lives as defined by them. Primary
consumers, regardless of the extent and degree of severity of their
disabilities, should be served in accordance with policies and options
that provide accessible and fully inclusive, community-based services
that facilitate their increasing independence and capability of exercising
choices and options. Because society is significantly enhanced by diversity in the populace, the full participation
and contributions of people with disabilities, people of color, and
members of other traditionally under-represented populations should
be acknowledged, supported, and valued. Family members of people
with developmental disabilities play major support roles as caregivers,
teachers, consumers, and advocates, and their direct participation
in the determination of research, training, technical assistance,
and service priorities should be solicited and facilitated. Research
and development, as well as training, should be focused on the identification
of new ways to solve problems facing consumers in the attainment
of full inclusion in all aspects of society and should ensure the
effectiveness and quality of new innovations. |
MISSION OF THE KUCDD
The mission of the UCDD at the University of Kansas is to optimize
the quality of life and extend the concept of independence, productivity,
integration and inclusion of individuals with disabilities in all
aspects of life over the life span. This is to be accomplished
by providing new options, meaningful choices, independence, self-reliance,
dignity of risk, and the means to achieve enhanced personal productivity. |
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