Child Disability Clinic -4

Project Director:	Dr. Marita Hoffart
Phone/Email:	(701) 858-3253 / hoffart@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$16,918
Project Period:	7-1-01 thru 6-30-02
This project supports a team of professionals from private, public, school, community, family support groups, and academic areas that provide screening, diagnostic, and follow-up services for children with disabilities.

CC EPIC (Cross Cultural Education Program in Indian/Deaf Culture)

Project Director:	Dr. Bryce Fifield
Phone/Email:	(701) 858-3494 / fifield@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$148,706
Project Period:	Ongoing 10, 1999 - 9-30-03
This project is replicating NDCPD's EPIC model, an experiential activity for teaching American Sign Language (ASL), Deaf culture and the Northern Plains Indian culture. The project is replicating the EPIC program with four different minority cultures: Native American (South Dakota), Native Hawaian (Hawaii), and African American (Virginia)

Community Staff Training Project (Website)

Project Director:	Ms. Mary Mercer
Phone/Email:	(701) 858-3260 / mercer@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$68,290
Project Period:	Ongoing, July 1 - June 30
Since 1983, MSU, thru a contract agreement with the Dept. of HHS, Division of DD, has been providing training services for staff members employed by agencies/ facilities serving individuals with MR/DD.

Consumer Participation in the 2004 NDACF Conference

Project Director:	Ms. Mary Mercer
Phone/Email:	(701) 858-3260 / mercer@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$7,716
Project Period:	10-1-02 thru 6-30-03
This project encouraged and financially supported consumer involvement and participation at the 13th Annual Conference of the ND Association of Community Facilities.

The Disability Justice Initiative (Website)

Project Director:	Dr. Bryce Fifield
Phone/Email:	(701) 858-3580 / fifield@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$20,001
Project Period:	10-1-02 thru 3-31-03
This project is managing a five year effort to improve the interaction between the state's criminal justice system and North Dakotans who have disabilities. This initiative is a three-way collaborative project involving the NDCPD, the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, and the ND Protection and Advocacy Program.

Experienced Parent

First Sounds Project (Website)

Project Director:	Dr. Bryce Fifield
Phone/Email:	(701) 858-3580 / fifield@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$170,590
Project Period:	4-1-00 thru 3-31-04
This project will provide all birthing hospitals with equipment and training to conduct hearing screenings, make referrals, record and report data for newborns. Project staff will train regional coordinators throughout the state to provide support to the birthing hospitals by overseeing all components of the program. By the end of Year 3 of this project, all birthing hospitals in ND will have the equipment in place, staff trained, and an operational referral network. Those birthing center, choosing ABR for screening, will be given monies equivalent to the value of the Echo-Screen to be used in the purchase of the ABR screening device.

Great Plains Rural Initiative on Transportation (GRIT) (Website)

Project Director:	Ms. Cathy Haarstad
Phone/Email:	(701) 858-3580 / haarstad@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$38,775
Project Period:	9-30-02 thru 9-29-03
This project is implementing a collaborative plan to develop inclusive transportation systems for remote rural communities in ND, SD, WY and MT. NDCPD will serve as GRIT's lead agency.

The Minot Infant Development Program(Website)

Project Director:	Ms. Kathy Lee
Phone/Email:	(701) 858-3054 / leek@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$208,742
Project Period:	Ongoing, July 1 - June 30
This project will assist secondary special education teachers in identifying the work requirements of competitive community employment for their students.

MSU Resident Teacher Program

North Dakota Educational Services Improvement Project (ND ESI) Website

Project Director:	Mr. Robert Rutten, Department of Public Instruction
Phone/Email:	(701) 328-2277 / brutten@state.nd.us
Current Year Funding:	$283,572
Project Period:	9-30-03 thru 9-29-04
North Dakota's Department of Public Instruction (ND-DPI) and the Department of Human Services (DHS) wish to change its role in ND's Part B and Part C monitoring and improvement system. This project will result in a new model of focused interactive activities that continuously improve ND's Part B and Part C services. ND-ESI seeks to develop a model of consolidated/coordinated educational service improvement processes that results in more efficient and effective methods to ensure quality outcomes for infants, toddlers and youth with disabilities.

North Dakota Family Support Project Website

Project Director:	Ms. Cathy Haarstad
Phone/Email:	(701) 858-3230 / haarstad@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$268,405
Project Period:	9-1-01 thru 1-31-03
This project will a) Develop a single statewide plan to enhance family support; b) Improve the capacity of families to access/self manage support; c) Involve families as active partners in shaping policies for family support; and d)  Access  information about family support available in ND.

North Dakota Infant Toddler Enrichment Program (ND ITEP)

North Dakota Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (ND MIG) (Website)

Project Director:	Tom Alexander
Phone/Email:	(701) 858-3436 / talexand@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$500,000
Project Period:	1-1-02 thru 12-31-06
NDCPD has established a collaborative agreement with the Medical Services Division of the ND Dept of Human Services to conduct the ND Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (ND-MIG) to support competitive employment of people with disabilities. ND is approved for $500,000 from the Health Care Financing Administration over a period of one year with the potential of funding for three additional years.

North Dakota Protection and Advocacy Program Consumer Satisfaction Survey

Project Director:	Dr. Bryce Fifield
Phone/Email:	(701) 858-3580 / fifield@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$5,000
Project Period:	Ongoing July 1, 01 - June 30, 2002
NDCPD is conducting an ongoing consumer satisfaction survey for the ND Protection and Advocacy Program. NDCPD also provides technical assistance to P& A in the development of the consumer satisfaction and data management tools as well as technical assistance in using the resulting data.

Regional ICC

Project Director:	Ms. Kathy Lee
Phone/Email:	(701) 858-3054 / leek@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$5,000
Project Period:	10-1-01 thru 6-30-02
This project will set up four RICC Meetings, schedule and conduct focus groups, track implementation of the regional Quality Improvement Plan, prepare notices regarding meetings, take minutes at meetings, arrange for accommodations if necessary, etc.

Remote Realtime Online Captioning Project Phase 2(Website)

Project Director:	Dr. Bryce Fifield
Phone/Email:	(701) 858-3580 / fifield@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$200,000
Project Period:	9-1-00 thru 8-31-02
NDCPD has developed a system for providing realtime captioning via the Internet to rural and isolated schools. This system makes it possible to deliver a realtime accommodation for students with disabilities so they can access and participate in regular education curriculum. The project is conducting a series of case studies to establish the effectiveness of the remote realtime online captioning system (RROCS). The study uses multiple-baseline single subject methods, participant observations, and case studies to investigate how well RROCS works for students with a variety of learning challenges in a range of instructional settings.

Rural Disabilities Wellness Project (Website)

Fitness Coordinator:	Billy Seright
Phone/Email:	(701) 858-3264 / serightb@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$144,000
Project Period:	9-1-03 thru 8-31-04
The Rural Disability Wellness Project seeks to increase the level of physical activity in adults who have developmental disabilities. This project will develop and implement a telehealth model for improving physical fitness and wellness among adults with developmental disabilities living in rurual community facilities.

Rural Disability Services (RDS) II

RDS - Speech Language Project (Website)

Project Director:	Dr. Stephanie Martin
Phone/Email:	701-858-3058 / martins@minotstateu.edu
Current Year Funding:	$?
Project Period:	?
The Rural Disabilities Services Project (RDSP) offers children in these rural schools individualized services from qualified speech/language pathologists at the North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities (NDCPD) at Minot State University. Using interactive voice and video technologies, ASHA certified speech/language pathologists (SLP) will provide individualized speech/language services at the child's school, during the school day. This special video equipment, paired with Internet technology, will enable the child and SLP to see and hear each other during live interactive speech/language sessions.