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JFK Partners: Disability, Training, Assistive Technology, School-based
inclusion, Developmental disabilities, Developmental delays, Mental retardation,
Cognitive disabilities, Early Childhood, Child welfare, Neurodevelopmental
disabilities, Neurodevelopmental disorder
The Health Promotion Project
This training project seeks to improve the health and quality
of life for individuals with developmental disabilities in the community. The
project provides instruction to future primary care providers about health care
topics for individuals with disabilities and their families, such as health
promotion, disease prevention, and dual diagnosis. The project also teaches
consumers, their families, and support providers skills to integrate healthy
choices into daily life and to incorporate health promotion into the
individualized person-centered planning process. Beginning in 2002, the Health Promotion
Project will concentrate upon health and behavioral care for individuals with
dual diagnosis – developmental disability and mental illness.
Major Goals:
- Integrate
strategies promoting health, wellness and prevention of secondary conditions
into person-centered planning for
agencies in Colorado serving individuals with developmental disabilities/dual
diagnosis.
- Improve
the inclusion and treatment of individuals with developmental disabilities in
the primary health care system through preservice training of primary health
providers.
- Develop
training modules and identify existing resources on health care (including
mental health care) for people with developmental disabilities and their
families, case managers and direct support providers and primary care
providers.
- Provide
a team of families, individuals with disabilities, experienced primary care
providers and mental health staff
to offer training to health care students, service coordinators, direct
support providers and other agency staff in the health care of individuals
with developmental disability/dual diagnosis.
Funding Source:
This project is supported by the Administration for
Developmental Disabilities as a National Training Initiative in Critical and
Emerging Needs.
Contact Person:
Dalice Hertzberg, FNP, MSN, CRRN
UCHSC at Fitzsimmons
PO Box 6508, F541
Aurora, CO
80045-0508
Telephone: 303-724-0652
Fax: 303-724-0960
dalice.hertzberg@uchsc.edu
Staff:
Cordelia Robinson Ph.D., RN, Project Director
Dalice
Hertzberg FNP, MSN, Project
Coordinator
Tracy Price Johnson B.A., Community Liaison
Dave Thomas M.A.,
Disability Consultant
JFK
Partners
University of Colorado Denver
13121 E. 17th Ave, C234
Aurora, CO 80045
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