This series features policy briefs prepared by faculty and staff from the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies; and/or trainees and family members from the New Hampshire-Maine Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NH-ME LEND) Program.

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Submissions from 2023

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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Workforce Shortage, 2022-2023 Cohort of New Hampshire-Maine Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NH-ME LEND) Program Trainees

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Advancing Data Equity to Improve Health Equity for People With Disabilities (PWD), Michelle Fong

Submissions from 2022

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The Role of Medicaid for Children with Special Health Care Needs and Disabilities, 2021-2022 Cohort of New Hampshire-Maine Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NH-ME LEND) Program Trainees.

Submissions from 2021

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The Role of Medicaid for Children with Special Health Care Needs and Disabilities, 2020-2021 Cohort of New Hampshire-Maine Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities Program Trainees

Submissions from 2020

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Protect Medicaid Coverage for Children with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs, 2019-2020 Cohort of New Hampshire-Maine Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NH-ME LEND) Program Trainees

Submissions from 2019

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Restraint and Seclusion in Schools: Understanding the Keeping All Students Safe Act (KASSA), 2018-2019 Cohort of New Hampshire-Maine Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NH-ME LEND) Program Trainees

Submissions from 2018

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The Importance of Medicaid for Children with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs, 2017-2018 Cohort of New Hampshire-Maine Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NH-ME LEND) Program Trainees.

Submissions from 2017

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Medicaid and Children with Special Health Care Needs, 2016-2017 Cohort of New Hampshire-Maine Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NH-ME LEND) Program Trainees

Submissions from 2016

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Policy Brief: Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act, The 2015-2016 Cohort of New Hampshire Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NH LEND) Program Trainees.

Submissions from 2015

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Policy Brief: Elementary and Secondary Education (ESEA) Act Reauthorization, The 2014-2015 Corhort of New Hampshire Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities Program Trainees and Community Fellows.

Submissions from 2014

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Policy Brief: Keeping All Students Safe Act of 2014, Nancy Bergerson

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Workforce Investment Act of 2013, Kimberly Davis and Laura Valencia

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Combating Autism Reauthorization Act of 2014, Kassandra Mores

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Growing Ideas - Laws that Support Early Childhood Education for All, University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies

Submissions from 2011

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An Analysis of Disability-Related Provisions in the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA): What Universities and Policy Makers Should Know, Alan Kurtz