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Indian Children’s Program
services are provided by a consortium of three University Centers
of Excellence
in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). These centers are part of
a national network of university-based centers supported by both
federal and state funding focusing on the research, training, and
innovative service needs of people with disabilities. Each center
is organized as a part of their home university with a mission
which addresses the objectives of ICP. The three centers are located
in state universities which encompass the catchment area of ICP
services: The Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State
University, Logan, Utah [www.cpd.usu.edu];
the Institute for Human Development at Northern Arizona University
in Flagstaff, Arizona; and the Center for Development and Disability
at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Each
center in the consortium is a multi-faceted research, training,
and service center which focuses on the needs of families that
have children with special needs. Core support for these centers
is supplied by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities
and through state resources, and each center seeks external funding
through grants and contracts to provide funds for training, research,
technical assistance, and exemplary services consistent with their
mission and purpose. Each center in the consortium is an academic
unit within a comprehensive state university system in which personnel,
accounting, and internal program reviews provide fiscal and programmatic
accountability. The home university provides access to a wide variety
of expert resources, student training opportunities, technical
resources, as well as a variety of other university programmatic
and logistic
resources.
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