Current NDCPD Projects
The North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities at Minot State University conducts a wide range of projects serving the disability community. Many of these projects are funded through grants and contracts with outside agencies. NDCPD's active projects are listed below by emphasis area. Past NDCPD projects.
Adult Student Transition Education Program (ASTEP)
APPLE Project Subcontract from Dakota College of Bottineau
This project will restructure the current Associate of Applied Science (AAS) Paraeducator Program at Dakota College and focus its attention toward working with children and youth with disabilities in K through 12.
Autism Spectrum Disorders Evaluation & Diagnostic Team (ASD)
The ND Autism Waiver Evaluation/Diagnostic Team is responsible for evaluating children ages birth to five to confirm a previous autism diagnosis or to provide an initial autism diagnosis of autism for children referred through ND’s Autism Waiver Program. The team is comprised of highly qualified professionals in the following disciplines: Pediatricians, psychologists, occupational therapists, physicals therapists, speech language pathologists, early childhood educators, special educators/autism specialists, and behavior analysts.
Books for Kids
This project will provide area children enrolled in NDCPD's Minot Infant Development Program with durable, educational books to help increase literacy and develop good reading habits.
Community Staff Training Program (CSTP)
Community Staff Training Program Accreditation
This project is designed to implement a key intervention strategy to address staff recruitment and retention challenges of direct support and other professionals needed to support people with developmental disabilities.
Connections
The Connections activities include several services provided using distance technology. They have evolved from previously successful grant-funded programs, and are now self sustaining. “Connections” provides our clients the tools and technical assistance to offer Remote Realtime Online Captioning, Speech-Language Tele-therapy, Psychiatric counseling, and other Telehealth and consulting services. In 2009, NDCPD’s “Connections” clients will provide over 5000 hours of service to students with disabilities.
Great Plains Autism Spectrum Disorders Treatment Program (GPAST)
Great Plains Interdisciplinary Autism Diagnostic Clinic (GPIC)
This project provides diagnostic services to North Dakota children and youth. The clinic houses an interdisciplinary team who conducts arena-style assessments in collaboration with the child's local team and family.
Minot Infant Development Program (MIDP)
ID Staff Development
This project financially supports the infant development staff for Part C trainings.
Money Follows the Person Housing Program
This project seeks 1) to develop and maintain an effective, consumer-directed, accessible and comprehensive housing resource system for persons wishing to transition to the community from an institutional level of care and for persons at risk of institutionalization; 2) to effectively reduce the stigma of persons with disabilities or the aging population statewide, while working to change community attitudes and misconceptions regarding community housing for persons with disabilities or aging persons; and 3) to assist in the statewide effort to develop and expand the number of safe, affordable, accessible, quality and permanent housing options.
National Center on Physical Activity & Disability (NCPAD) Subcontract FY12
In this project, staff coordinate the local implementation of focus groups with people with disabilities in ND and serves on two expert panels.
NDCPD Core Grant
ND Medicaid Infrastructure Grant
ND Data Linkage
As a follow up project to NDCPD's past funded ND EHDI Hear Now project,
ND Data Linkage continues to build the infrastructure to track babies that did not pass their initial hearing test and have left the hospital. Staff members will work with hospitals, special software (OZ eSP) and other organizations to track these babies and locate the parents to assure continued follow-up. In addition the project will link early hearing detection data with other data sets such as immunizations, metabolic screening and Vital Records.
ND Disability Health Project
ND EHDI
EHDI Service Agreement
This project is an expansion of NDCPD's existing ND EHDI project which will 1) continue enhancing the OZeSP software protocol, 2) continue providing training and technical assistance to medical providers and their staff in ND birthing hospitals and 3) conduct an awareness campaign on the importance of testing the hearing of newborns.
ND EHDI-IS
ND has a fully developed EHDI (Early Hearing Detection Intervention) program which collects unduplicated individual identifiable data on every occurring birth thru the EHDI process. Despite this system, barriers of redundancy continue to exist. This EHDI-IS project will focus on reducing the duplicate data entry burden and reduce rates of loss to recommended follow-up services.
ND Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP)
SMP Supplement
NDCPD's existing ND SMP project will expand their capacity to recruit, screen, train, manage and support an increased number of volunteers to effectively expand outreach to beneficiaries in local communities in a more comprehensive manner throughout the state.
Perceptions Project
Prairie Mental Health Project
Minot's Dakota Boys & Girls Ranch received funding to contract with NDCPD, Peace Garden Consortium and Stein's Specialized Counseling Center to conduct a strategic planning process. This plain will guide the implementation of future Outreach and Rural Health Network Development grants.
Region II ICC
This project coordinates 4 RICC Meetings, schedules and conducts focus groups, tracks implementation of the regional Quality Improvement Plan, prepares notices regarding meetings, takes minutes, and arranges for accommodations.
Right Track
This project identifies infant and toddlers that may be at risk for DD, provides developmental screenings, refers to other services as appropriate and provides developmental information to families.
Self Advocacy Through Technology
Support Autism in North Dakota (SAND)
The SAND project will implement the strategies outlined in the ND ASD Task Force Strategic Plan by collaborating with relevant stakeholders.
SPDG Evaluator Project
This project is an independent program evaluation of ND DPI State Education Personnel Development Grant.
Technical Assistance to Childcare Providers
In this project, staff work collaborate with other agencies to provide training and technical assistance to child care providers receiving inclusion grants from the ND Dept of Human Services. This training will support the child care givers in the development of care of plans for children with disabilities in their home/center.
Training Contracts
This project manages various face-to-face and online workshops. Evidence-based practices and value-based services and supports for individuals with developmental disabilities are emphasized.
EDUCATION AND EARLY INTERVENTION PROJECTS