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Research Activities
1. A participatory process for building agency capacity for conducting program evaluation and improve consumer services. Agencies will receive technical assistance and support services from Center staff to conduct participatory evaluations of their programs. Contact Person: Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar
2. Racial identity and cultural mistrust as psycho-cultural correlates of
rehabilitation success for minorities with disabilities. Center staff will
work with VR counselors and African American consumers to identify positive
rehabilitation outcomes for minorities with disabilities. Contact Person:
Reginald Alston.
3. Investigating the Intersection of Disability and Race in Self Views of
Latinos and African Americans with Disabilities. Center staff will work with
minority individuals with disabilities to understand the intersection of disability
and race in their self views. Contact Person: Carol Gill.
4. Disability determination and provision of vocational rehabilitation services:
How good are the tools that are used? Center staff will review assessment
instruments commonly utilized in VR to determine eligibility of services.
Contact Person: Brigida Hernandez
5. Developing standards for culturally competent and linguistically appropriate
research. Center staff will review the literature in order to develop a comprehensive
synthesis and analysis of the current status and gaps in the methodologies
used in research on minorities and disability. Contact Person: Glenn Fujiura
Dissemination Activities
1. Standards for culturally competent and linguistically appropriate research with minorities with disabilities. Topics include getting entry into community settings, sampling, research designs, and data collection methodologies
2. Researchers’ and practitioners´ guides for effective outreach
to minority with disabilities
3. Researchers’ guide for dissemination of relevant information to minority
consumers with disabilities
4. Practitioners’ guides for providing culturally competent services
to minorities with disabilities
CENTER COLLABORATORS
Director
Fabricio E. Balcazar, Ph.D.
Department of Disability and Human Development,
University of Illinois at Chicago
e-mail: fabricio@uic.edu
Associate Director
Yolanda Suárez-Balcazar, Ph.D.
Department of Occupational Therapy,
University of Illinois at Chicago
e-mail: ysuarez@uic.edu
Coordinator
Tina Ritzler, M.A.
Department of Disability and Human Development,
University of Illinois at Chicago
e-mail: tritzler@uic.edu
Research Collaborators:
Reginald Alston, Ph.D.
Department of Rehabilitation,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
e-mail: alston@uiuc.edu
Glenn Fujiura, Ph.D.
Department of Disability and Human Development,
University of Illinois at Chicago
e-mail: gfujiura@uic.edu
Carol Gill, Ph.D.
Department of Disability and Human Development,
University of Illinois at Chicago
e-mail: cg16@uic.edu
Kimberly Hall, M.A. (Coordinator West)
Department of Psychology,
University of Illinois at Chicago
e-mail: khall@uic.edu
Brígida Hernández, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology,
DePaul University
e-mail: bhernan4@depaul.edu
Christopher B. Keys, Ph.D. (Coordinator Midwest)
Department of Psychology,
DePaul University
e-mail: ckeys@depaul.edu
Paul Leung, Ph.D. (Coordinator South)
Department of Rehabilitation, Social Work & Addictions,
University of North Texas
e-mail: pleung@unt.edu
Maria Restrepo-Toro, Ph.D. (Coordinator East)
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation,
Boston University
e-mail: mertoro@bu.edu
Henry Scalpcane, B.A. (Coordinator North)
American Indian Disability Technical Assistance Center,
University of Montana
e-mail: ableson@ruralinstitute.umt.edu
Celestine Willis, Training Coordinator
Department of Disability and Human Development,
University of Illinois at Chicago
e-mail: willisc@uic.edu
Center
for Capacity Building on Minorities with Disabilities Research
Institute on Disability and Human
Development
Department of Disability
and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
1640 W. Roosevelt Road, MC 626
Chicago IL 60608