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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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