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- EIN 23-7189098
- (301) 588-8252
- 1100 Wayne Ave Ste 1000 Silver Spring MD 20910-5621 USA
- www.aucd.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Developmentally Disabled Centers, Disabilities, Human Services
Mission: Aucd's mission is to advance policies and practices that improve the health, education, social, and economic well-being of all people with developmental and other disabilities, their families, and their communities by supporting our members in research, education, health, and service activities that achieve our vision.
Programs: Cdc: a project of aucd, in partnership with cdc, to increase the public health capacity of aucd network centers across the country. Efforts include providing technical assistance to the act early network; facilitating the friends of the national center on birth defects and developmental disabilities; informing national, state, and local partners through regular communication and training; and facilitating multi-site projects that aim to improve the health and wellness of individuals with disabilities.
itac: the purpose of the interdisciplinary technical assistance center (itac) on autism and developmental disabilities at aucd is to improve the health of infants, children, and adolescents who have, or are at risk for developing, asds and other developmental disabilities. The center accomplishes this by providing technical assistance to interdisciplinary training programs (i. E. , the lends and developmental -behavioral pediatrics (dbp) programs) to better train professionals to utilize valid and reliable screening tools to diagnose or rule out and provide evidence-based interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder (asd) and other developmental disabilities.
hhs-aidd: a project of aucd, in partnership with aidd, to strengthen and support the network of university centers of excellence in developmental disabilities (ucedds) through training and technical assistance. The purpose of this project is for the administration of community living, administration on disabilities, administration on intellectual and developmental disabilities (aidd) to contract for a performance-based arrangement for providing coordinated, comprehensive, and specialized training and technical assistance (t/ta) to ucedds.