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Welcome to the NCLD-Youth website!
The National Consortium on Leadership and Disability for Youth (NCLD-Youth) is a youth-led resource, information, and training center for youth and emerging leaders with developmental disabilities, housed at the Institute for Educational Leadership and funded by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities. We are a project led by the next generation of young leaders with disabilities for the next generation of young leaders with disabilities-- taking a positive development approach to working with the next generation of disability community leaders, and developing materials to better prepare them for the transition to adulthood, and leadership.
By utilizing the five areas of youth development/leadership—learning, connecting, thriving, working, and leading—NCLD/Youth strives to support and promote youth and emerging leaders in the disability community through the following three objectives.
- Identify and develop high quality, disability specific curricula around the give areas of youth development and leadership;
- Test, refine, and disseminate instructional materials throughout Florida, New Hampshire, and Washington DC to build networks of national, state, and local level partnerships of peer mentors, adult advisors and Councils of youth and emerging leaders;
- Develop, train, and mentor youth and emerging young leaders with developmental disabilities in each of the three partner states to influence state and local-level youth development and leadership public policy.
We envision our website to be a tool, to be a go-to place for information on working with youth with disabilities, for not only organizations that already work with youth with developmental disabilities, but also organizations with little to no experience in this arena.
The Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) serves as a national youth-led information, training, and resource center. IEL has a four-pronged focus on working on developing leaders, developing the capacity of centers for independent living to serve those leaders, the capacity of the staff working directly with the leaders, and supporting the cadre of youth with disabilities-related organizations. The specific goals of the NCLD/Y are to:
- Develop training modules to inform, educate, and train youth and emerging leaders with developmental disabilities in disability policy
- Work with a network of Youth Service Professionals to improve their capacity to serve youth and emerging leaders with developmental disabilities
- Work with the network of Centers of Independent Living on increasing their capacity to serve youth and emerging leaders with developmental disabilities
- Help grow and sustain emerging leader led coalitions in developing various efforts around the country.
Organization/Contact
NCLD-Youth, Institute for Educational Leadership
4455 Connecticut Ave, Ste 310
Washington, DC 20008
Contact: Curtis Richards, Project Director
E-mail: richardsc@iel.org
Voice Telephone: 202 822-8405 Ext 163
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Contact: Rebecca Hare
E-mail: harer@iel.org
Voice Telephone: 202 822-8405 Ext 127
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