2022-2023 Grants and Collaborative Projects

Exploitation prevention training highlighting how people are targeted and groomed for exploitation, as well as provide tangible ways to infuse prevention tactics throughout their work with vulnerable populations that will lower their risk of exploitation. The training is intended to help build capacity to provide prevention to those working with people with dd. By infusing prevention education in their work with people with developmental disabilities, professionals can help provide necessary tools and critical thinking skills that will allow them to promote self-determination, independence, productivity, integration, and inclusion in all facets of life and the global community, free of higher risk of exploitation. In particular, focus on online safety, healthy boundaries, societal norms, and healthy relationships. Council funding for this project was used for instruction time for two facilitators for seven two hour training sessions, venue and fees for seven locations, material development, meeting and coordination of training events, travel costs for two facilitators, materials and resource printing. 

LEARNING SERVICES PROJECT

Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND)

This project supported Wyoming children and adults with developmental disabilities in developing daily living skills, communication skills, and decreasing challenging behaviors through the implementation of positive behavioral supports. The project supported participants to complete a Service-Learning Project in their communities. The project assisted in establishing ways to develop a community of service providers and educators who are skilled in implementing best practices for building daily living skills, adaptive behaviors and decreasing challenging behaviors in children and adults with developmental disabilities across Wyoming; and, Work in local state communities to identify current issues related to meeting the service delivery needs of individuals with developmental disabilities and develop a plan to address this problem.