Public Health is for Everyone An inclusive planning toolkit for public health professionals

Presentation on interviews with Territories (Themes, Recommendations) on Inclusive Emergency Management Preparedness, Response, and Recovery.

Let's Go! has developed this toolkit for professionals who work with children with I/DD. Inside you'll find strategies, tools, and resources that address the healthy eating and physical activity needs of children with I/DD. These materials complement their core 5-2-1-0 message and evidence-based strategies for success, and are designed to ensure that the Let's Go! program can work for each and every child. 

Maine Health, Let's Go!

This resource provides a checklist for people with disability in the event of a major diaster.

University of Guam - Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research & Servic

The University of Guam, Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service (Guam CEDDERS) offers a guidebook with recommendations and tips for individuals with disabilities to establish their personal preparedness plans, thus enabling individuals to minimize the effect of emergency situations and allow for fast recovery to normal routine.

University of Guam - Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research & Service

APA's Healthy Communities Policy Guide identifies policy ideas for local, state, and federally elected officials aimed at improving community health and quality of living through planning. APA believes "healthy communities" are places where all individuals have access to healthy built, social, economic, and natural environments that give them the opportunity to live their fullest potential regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, income, age, abilities, or other socially defined circumstance.

The National Curriculum Initiative in Developmental Medicine (NCIDM)uses its platform to improve curricula for medical schools and residency programs. People with ID/DD experience significant disparities in the quality of healthcare that they receive. As a result, they are kept in poorer health and can be expected to die at a younger age than their non-disabled cohort. This resource provides background on the mission of NCIDM and projects that are created to achieve their goal of improving curricula to be inclusive of treating people with ID/DD.

XCEL - Excellent (X) care to patients with DD through improved Communication (C), Environment (E), and Logistics (L).

XCEL was developed by the Florida Center for Inclusive Communities (FCIC) and is designed to give quick tips in an entertaining way to reception/support staff who interact with people with developmental disabilities in healthcare settings.

Florida Center for Inclusive Communities

American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry created a webseires that aims to provide information about patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Topics include healthcare financing, health transtition, medication management, and more!

Developmental disabilities curriculum outline from UCSF medical school.

Systematically plan and institutionalize a curriculum in developmental disabilities (DD), including children, adolescents, and adults and integrate it into the undergraduate medical school curriculum to ensure that every medical student graduating from the UCSF School of Medicine will have basic skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to care for patients with developmental disabilities.

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Office of Developmental Primary Care: Improving Outcomes for People With Developmental Disabilities

The Core Competency Training series provides a comprehensive training curriculum to front line staff providing care coordination (including case managers, care coordinators, etc.) from a wide range of medical, social, and community service organizations in communities state-wide. Core curriculum will cover competencies related to care coordination and disability awareness. Additional training opportunities include advanced care coordination training, care coordination training for managers and supervisors, and "train the trainer" training. In total, 34 separate training opportunities are available to up to 240 participants state-wide.