What's Happening at the Lurie Institute
Strategies for Supporting Parents with Disabilities: when there is Child Protection Involvement
This webinar provides an overview of ableism and discrimination within child protection and provide parents with strategies for addressing these injustices. Presented by Dr. Elizabeth Lightfoot, Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Arizona State University School of Social Work, and Dr. Kara Ayers, Associate Professor at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
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Introducing an interactive dashboard to learn more about people with disabilities
The Community Living Equity Center (CLEC) is thrilled to launch our new data dashboard that examines who needs and receives Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) across the United States. While research has been conducted on how disabled people of color access, use, experience, and are affected by education, healthcare, employment, and criminal legal systems, little has been done to understand racial and ethnic disparities in community living. This new dashboard presents data on the percentage and demographic characteristics of racial and ethnic minorities with LTSS needs and their utilization of Medicaid HCBS and institutional LTSS by racial and ethnic categories, as well as other indicators of disparities in community living equity. The disability community has historically faced barriers to accessing information and timely, credible data vital for local communities and individuals to advocate for data-driven responses for equity in policymaking. The dissemination of data through the Community Living Equity Data Dashboard will enable disability advocates from the local levels to advocate for shifts in policies and services to advance community living equity. Jen and Laurin will demonstrate how to use this data dashboard and will discuss the data. This webinar emphasizes how the data dashboard can be used by advocates in the disability community and other stakeholders.
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Introducing an interactive dashboard to learn more about people with disabilities
Historically, data about people with disabilities and their experiences has been difficult to access, navigate, and understand. Our interactive data dashboards offer a solution for advocates, policymakers, and researchers, portraying information about parents with disabilities and community living services in visually engaging and easy-to-use ways. We hope these dashboards can serve as an effective tool for disability advocates to further the rights, access, and inclusion of the disability community.
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Webinar: Unlocking Potential: Social Housing as a Catalyst for Accessible, Affordable Living
This exciting and timely webinar explores the burgeoning movement for social housing in the United States and the untapped opportunities it presents to increase permanent, affordable, accessible housing for disabled renters. Social housing embodies the growing view that private, for-profit housing development has failed to meet the nation’s growing affordable housing crisis. Shielded from the market, rent-stabilized, and sustainable, social housing holds the potential to help solve the housing shortage for renters with diverse incomes, including very low-income disabled people.
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Cultivating Disabled Leadership for an Inclusive & Sustainable Future
This webinar is in honor of International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD). Panelists Yuijao Peng, Sushil Adhikari, Alan Herbert, and Jennifer Lee-Rambharose discuss their work and vision as it relates to this year’s IDPD theme ‘amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future.’ Dr. LuanJiao Aggie Hu facilitates the discussion, asking questions about their approaches to disability-related work in their country and the role of international perspectives in their work.
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Addressing Dental-Care Underutilization Among Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
A Policy Framework for Enhancing Access and Provider Engagement
How might policymakers improve dental care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, affecting overall health in the process?
A new research brief by Isabella Doulas—alum of the Lurie Institute's student research fellowship program—discusses the results of her intensive study of the issue.
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#TeachDisabilityHistory Campaign Event
Easterseals Massachusetts is a nonprofit that works with people with disabilities to provide equal opportunities to live, learn, work, and play. Within the youth department, they are currently working on a campaign to #TeachDisabilityHistory. During this recording, you will hear from the young adults working on this campaign. They will share some of the work they have done to promote teaching disability history in schools, and everyone will play a game to test their knowledge of disability history. Committee members will also share insights from an earlier facilitated conversation on community building and Massachusetts disability history.
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Disability Research for a New Generation
The Lurie Undergraduate Fellowship offers opportunity to learn policy and create community.
For more than half a century, the Brandeis University community has championed the rights of people with disabilities, part of the school’s commitment to social justice.
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