Iowa's Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities Project
A Distinctive Graduate Level Training Opportunity
ILEND is an interdisciplinary leadership training program for graduate students with a committment to providing family-centered, coordinated systems of health care and related services for children with special health care needs and their families. Training opportunitites are provided in an interdisciplinary clinical environment, the classroom, the community, and in the homes of families who have children with disabilities. The ILEND program is funded through a grant from the Maternal Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration. For more information about the national LEND network, go to www.aucd.org.
Interdisciplinary leadership education builds awareness, knowledge, and skills in family-centered care, cultural competence, administration, community services and supports, policy, systems improvement, and advocacy.
Trainees receive discipline specific training from their LEND training director, with additional mentoring and feedback from the other ILEND faculty and staff.
- Audiology
- Clinical psychology
- Health care administration
- Administration
- Medicine
- Nursing
- Nutrition
- Occupational therapy
- Physical therapy
- Public health
- Social Work
- Special education
- Speech language pathology
The ILEND experience offers:
Advanced clinical preparation to improve the health of individuals with developmental disabilities, chronic health conditions, and other special needs.
Leadership development to improve the health of children with special health care needs and their families through improvements in public policy and systems.
Participants learn and practice skills that focus on family-centered, culturally appropriate, coordinated care. Clinical and administrative training is provided in many ways, and through many venues:
- The ILEND seminar series, "Interdisciplinary Issues in Disabilities"
- The Alfred Healy Clinic at the Center for Disabilities and Development
- Iowa Regional and Mobile
Child
Health Specialty Clinics, Iowa's Title V program for children with
special health care needs - Community programs serving children with, or at risk for, developmental disabilities
- The ILEND Parents as Mentors program
For more information, contact:
Sue Pearson
ILEND Training Coordinator
s-pearson@uiowa.edu
319-356-1172
This website was partially supported
by the Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child
Health Bureau through grant number T73MC00016-11-01.
