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With great sorrow, we share with you the news that Psychiatrist Emeritus Dr. Ludwik Stefan Szymanski passed away peacefully in his home at the age of 92 on November 22, 2024. Dr. Szymanski was a cofounder of the Developmental Evaluation Clinic (DEC…

Learn New Skills and Earn CRC Credits with this Free, 10-Week IT'S EMPLOYMENT Intensive Course ExploreVR’s IT’S EMPLOYMENT supports employment services and outcomes for people with intellectual disabilities across the US. Each year, we offer one free…

The Institute for Community Inclusion has received a $100,000 gift from Dr. Stelios Gragoudas, a youth leadership advocate and former staffer who said he hopes the funds can support transition specialist training and student self-determination…

Researchers from Think College and the University of South Carolina recently published an article in the academic journal Disability & Society that used a participatory research method called photovoice to analyze how U.S. college students with…

Dr. John Butterworth, Institute for Community Inclusion’s (ICI) recently retired Senior Research Fellow and Director of Employment Systems Change and Evaluation, has received the prestigious George S. Jesien Distinguished Achievement Award from the…

While conversations, initiatives, and programming aimed at enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) of marginalized groups in higher education have come to the fore in the past decade, disability as a form of human diversity has been…

Five Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) staff have published articles in the latest Impact, Feature Issue on Employment and IDD by the Institute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota. The Institute on Community Integration…

This year’s Knowledge Translation Canada Conference selected DeBrittany (Mitchell) Humphrey, a Knowledge Translation Manager from the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI), to present on using a learning collaborative model as an integrated…

Over the past several months, ICI’s Jean Winsor and other ThinkWork! staff contributed to a series of Washington Post articles about the impact of subminimum wage (Section 14c of the Fair Labor Standards Act) on people with intellectual and…

Several Think College team members travelled to Baltimore, MD for three events in mid-July. First, they hosted the annual TPSID Project Director Meeting, which kicked off with a beautiful tribute video to Debra Hart compiled by Chelsea Stinnett. The…

Community life engagement (CLE) refers to people accessing and participating in their communities outside of employment as part of a meaningful life. Explore CLE is the ICI’s new hub for activities that enhance systems and services that support…

This spring, the Institute for Community Inclusion’s (ICI) Leslie Quarles from the Missouri Employment First team was featured on an episode of the Mentor Moments podcast, Take a Deeper Dive into Employment First and Initiatives Supporting its…

Earlier this summer, the Progressive Employment Learning Collaborative met at the ICI to discuss lessons learned about Progressive Employment’s impact on job seekers with disabilities and businesses in their communities. The Progressive Employment…

July is Disability Pride Month. Sheila Johnson is a knowledge translation specialist at the ICI. The following blog post was written by Sheila. I’m an Epilepsy Warrior. It’s an exclusive club. I’m proud of my club, but I hope you never join. We…

July is Disability Pride Month. Rachel Adams-Duffy is a Disability Advocacy Advisor at the ICI. The following blog post was written by Rachel. In my experience, disability pride means accepting and honoring that I have differences. It means…

UMass Boston Transition Leadership Program Alumna How have the lessons you learned in the UMass Boston Transition Leadership program impacted your work as a professional? For me, it was important to learn and understand how much of the transition…

UMass Boston Transition Leadership Program Alumna What first attracted you to the Transition Leadership Program and to UMass Boston? The courses are thorough and directly applicable to my job as a for my job as a school adjustment counselor and…

2021 UMass Boston Transition Leadership Program Alumna Why did you want to get a Transition Leadership certificate initially? The goal of my studies was to enhance post-school transition services in Australia through the promotion of self…

New research from the Institute for Community Inclusion analyzed how data-enabled feedback and micro-lessons embedded in the workflow can be an important part of organizational management and quality improvement for employment consultants. In an…

March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. This month, guest blogger Emma Barker reflects on her experiences in the following blog post. The following blog post was written by guest author Emma Barker. Emma is a queer jeweler from the…