Our Projects

 Select the project name to view individual project pages.

Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) Core Grant

This serves as the administrative grant that establishes Partners for Inclusive Communities as the University Center for Excellence on Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) for Arkansas.


Arkansas Autism Partnership (AAP)

The AAP is the Medicaid waiver program for young children with autism between the ages of 18 months and 8 years (must be accepted and begin the program before the fifth birthday to be eligible).


Arkansas Autism Resource and Outreach Center (AAROC)

The primary purpose of the Arkansas Autism Resource and Outreach Center is to provide training, technical assistance and support for parents who have children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.


Arkansas Bilingual Interpreter Credential in Education (ABICE)

The Arkansas Bilingual Interpreter Credential in Education (ABICE) is a 40-hour professional credential training program for bilingual adults who provide oral language interpretation educational settings that serve children from birth through 12th grade. Funding is supported by the Welcome the Children project and the credential is recognized by the AR Department of Human Services Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education (DCCECE) and by the AR Department of Education Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).


Arkansas Disability and Health Program

The Arkansas Disability and Health Program is one of 19 state projects funded by the National Center on Birth Defects and Disabilities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA.


Arkansas Victim Assistance Academy 

The mission of the Arkansas Victim Assistance Academy is to provide comprehensive, foundational and advanced level training to professionals throughout Arkansas who routinely deal with victims of crime.


COVID-19 Projects

These projects are focused on providing information, support and services to individuals with disabilities and those who are elderly related to the COVID-19 pandemic.


Crime Victims with Disabilities Project

Partners, in conjunction with collaborators from numerous state agencies, nonprofit organizations, victim services organizations, and local multidisciplinary teams, has worked to establish a network of education and technical assistance to improve services for people with disabilities who experience violence.


Cultivating Community Capacity (C3)

C3 is a project focused on cultivating community capacity in the Arkansas Deaf community to understand trauma and its impact, create more trauma-aware spaces, and heal from trauma.


Increasing Digital Access in Arkansas

The overall goal of this project is to increase the capacity of stakeholders in Arkansas to design more accessible digital environments. Training, technical assistance and resource development is provided in collaboration with iCAN Arkansas. This should provide increased access to technology for people with disabilities, especially individuals who use assistive technology.


Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND)

This project provides pre-service interdisciplinary training for students from disciplines serving children with developmental disabilities and in-service training for professionals in the field.


Marshallese Interpreting for Community Inclusion (MICI)

The goal of MICI is to reduce communication barriers to accessing disability supports and services in the Arkansas Marshallese community, by training interpreters and providing information in culturally and linguistically appropriate methods.  Partners collaborates with the Marshallese Educational Initiative (MEI) and SeSo, Inc. on project activities.


Roadmap Initiative: Enhancing Supports for Older Arkansans who are Victims of Abuse and Financial Exploitation Project

The Roadmap Initiative is designed to improve our states’ knowledge and ability to work together to respond to and serve older victims of abuse and financial exploitation. An infrastructure is developing to support collaboration among victim service providers, programs that serve older Arkansans, and other allied professionals to better meet victims’ needs.


Safety and Sexual Violence Prevention Project

The overall goal of this project is to promote efforts that help prevent the critical problem of rape and sexual assault among people with disabilities.


Southwest ADA Center Regional Affiliate – Arkansas

The overall goal of this project is to increase the capacity of Arkansas to provide access to people with disabilities through increasing knowledge of the ADA and understanding of accessible design.


Teaming for Early Childhood Inclusion (TECI)

The TECI project is designed to build capacity within the early childhood education network for successful inclusion of children with disabilities.


Welcome the Children

The goal of Welcome the Children is to provide early childhood professionals with quality training, coaching and resources for supportive approaches to cultural diversity, inclusion, and communication. This training also includes the Arkansas Bilingual Interpreter Credential in Education (ABICE), a 40-hour training course for adults who are fluent in English and another oral language and who provide interpretation for meetings between educators and families of children birth through 12th grade. This state credential is recognized by both early childhood and K-12 education.