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Offices that Comprise Disability Policy & Studies
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February 10, 2010
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Disability Policy & Studies
Disability Policy and Studies is home to a number of projects related to issues of employment, independent living, community integration, and access for persons with disabilities. In general these projects do not provide direct services to persons with disabilities, but instead provide advice, training, and support to agencies and groups that provide those services.
Dr. C. David Roberts is the Director of Disability Policy and Studies.
Address: The offices for Disability Policy and Studies are off campus, south of Rock Bridge High School, at 98 Corporate Lake Drive.
Region 7 Technical Assistance and Continuing Education (TACE) Center
The Region 7 TACE Center provides advice and continuing education support to the state vocational rehabilitation agencies in a four-state region (Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas). Vocational rehabilitation (VR) is a system of agencies that help people with disabilities find and keep jobs, and live independently in their local communities.
The TACE Center provides State VR agencies advice and in-person training on the latest techniques in VR and on federal VR policy. The Center also provides support to community partners of the state agencies (community-based businesses providing a variety of support services to help people with disabilities achieve employment and live independently) as requested by the agencies. State VR Agencies typically work directly with persons with disabilities to determine needed services, and then subcontract with local community partners to provide those services.
Disability Policy & Studies at the University of Missouri has been providing these services to the public VR system since 1975 and is largely funded by grants from the Rehabilitation Services Administration, which is part of the US Department of Education.
Address: The Region 7 TACE office is housed at 98 Corporate Lake Drive
Phone: (573) 882-3807
Web: http://tace.missouri.edu
Great Plains ADA Center
The DBTAC-Great Plains ADA Center provides technical assistance, training, information and materials on the Americans with Disabilities Act and related disability laws. The Great Plains ADA Center was established in 1991 to serve Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska as part of a network of ten Disability and Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs) funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). It has provided direct services on the ADA to numerous state and local governments, businesses, agencies, individuals with disabilities and their families throughout the Great Plains Region. The Great Plains ADA Center also collaborates with Washington University and Paraquad Center for Independent Living to conduct disability related research activities.
Jim de Jong serves as the Director.
Address: The Great Plains ADA Center is housed at 100 Corporate Lake Drive, Columbia, MO 65201.
Phone: 1-800-573-4925 or 573-882-3600
Web: www.adaproject.org
Page last updated on: February 10, 2010
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