DIRECTORY:
National Technical Assitance Center for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities (NTAC-AAPI)
1776 University Avenue; UA 4-6
Honolulu, HI 96822
808-956-5712 phone
808-956-7878 fax
ntac@cds.hawaii.edu email
http://www.ntac.hawaii.edu website
Area of Interest:
Organization - Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Assistance, Disabilities
Primary Ethnic Community Served:
Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders
Description:
NTAC-AAPI MISSION STATEMENT
- To develop a National Technical Assistance Center that will increase employment opportunities for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders with disabilities nationwide, in both rural and urban areas.
- To develop and provide technical assistance that will result in increased, culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders with disabilities.
- To respond to the changing needs for technical assistance by the population being served.
OBJECTIVES
- Establish collaborative linkages for strategic planning, technical assistance, training, outreach and service delivery, and dissemination.
- Identify solutions to barriers for AAPI access and participation in VR process
- Provide information to employers and industry organizations
- Provide culturally and linguistically relevant training on legal provisions
- Provide educational and vocational outreach to AAPIs with disabilities
- Assist stakeholders to better understand related issues
- Develop a corps of AAPI leaders with disabilities
Staff:
Bob Stodden, Ph.D. Principal Investigator
Weol Soon Kim-Rupnow, Ph.D. Project Director
Pat Lockwood, Co-Investigator
Jean Johnson, CDS Interim Director
Submitted by:
M.E. Lake Albrecht
New - 9/22/04
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