{"id":39185,"date":"2015-10-02T13:07:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T20:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=39185"},"modified":"2015-10-05T09:20:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T16:20:59","slug":"nau-receives-3-5-million-to-assist-native-americans-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-receives-3-5-million-to-assist-native-americans-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU receives $3.5 million to assist Native Americans with disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAU\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/sbs\/ihd\/\">Institute for Human Development,<\/a> part of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, has been awarded a five-year $3.5 million grant to establish a National American Indian Rehabilitation Training and Technical Assistance Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outcome of the project is to provide training and technical assistance to staff who work with Native Americans with disabilities, helping them to achieve gainful employment,\u201d said <strong>Thomas Uno<\/strong>, associate director of the Institute for Human Development.<\/p>\n<p>NAU will offer in-person and web-based training and technical assistance to 83 tribal programs funded through the American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Services.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Department of Education&#8217;s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services\u00a0selected\u00a0NAU\u2019s proposal for\u00a0its innovative training and technical assistance delivery methods. \u201cWe will take our content, and with help from the e-Learning Center, we can create webinars and self-paced training modules,\u201d Uno said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to 10 in-person regional trainings during the five-year grant period, NAU plans to create 70 webinars and 20 evidence-based practice guides.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lee Gaseoma<\/strong>, the NAU project director, said it also is important to offer culturally appropriate training. \u201cWe have to look at the cultural aspects in terms of how vocational rehabilitation services are planned and delivered for Native American Indians with disabilities.\u201d Many of the people needing services are geographically isolated, adding another challenge, Gaseoma said.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1967,\u00a0NAU\u2019s Institute for Human Development has served Native Americans, including those with disabilities, and this new rehabilitation and assistance center will expand the institute\u2019s resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-receives-3-5-million-to-assist-native-americans-with-disabilities\/\">NAU\u2019s Institute for Human Development, part of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, has been awarded a five-year $3.5 million grant to establish a National American Indian Rehabilitation Training and Technical Assistance Center. \u201cThe outcome of the project is to provide training and technical assistance to staff who work with Native Americans with disabilities,&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":39188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}