Project Overview
APPLAUD—opening doors for people with developmental disabilities in national service.
In October 2005, the Center on Disability Studies, a University Center for Excellence, at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa was awarded a collaborative grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service. The Center on Disability Studies (CDS) is a sub-grantee of the primary grantee, UCLA’s Tarjan Center. Other collaborators are the University of Miami’s Mailman Center, and the mainland Hands-On Network. The CDS portion of the three year grant is approximately $270,000. CDS, during its first year of funding, has advanced the participation of youth, 14 and older, adults with disabilities, including veterans, in community service.
The overall purpose of the Alliance for Inclusion Advancement-Hawai‘i (AIA-HI) is to increase the capacity of individuals with disabilities to participate in volunteer opportunities and to act as a catalyst in enhancing the ability of service organizations to include volunteers with disabilities in their programs. Increasing these capacities will enable those with disabilities to be more actively engaged in their communities and enable community organizations to avail themselves of the talents and resources those with disabilities provide. Learn more about AIA-HI | AIA-HI Newsletter
