Projects for Adults

Postsecondary Inclusion Partnership
The Postsecondary Inclusion Partnership (PIP) is a model demonstration project aimed at including students with intellectual and other developmental disabilities in postsecondary education.In our first year, the Project will center on ten students attending or seeking to attend Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC). 

Belonging in the Community
Belonging collaborates with the Kentucky Division of Mental Retardation on activities that promote success for Kentuckians with disabilities. The Core Indicators Project seeks to develop and improve upon performance indicators of services for individuals with developmental disabilities. In addition, Belonging provides administrative oversight for the Statewide Supported Living Coordinator.

Hope for Tomorrow
In collaboration with UK's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, HDI has received a grant from the Retirement Research Foundation to assist older families of adults with developmental disabilities to assist them in actively planning for their adult child's future. With the assistance of parent mentors who themselves have successfully initiated plans for their son or daughter, Hope for Tomorrow will provide information to families on accessing services, estate planning issues, and planning for the future.

Kentucky Business Leadership Network
The purpose of the Kentucky Business Leadership Network, which is affiliated with the U. S. Business Leadership Network, is to promote enduring partnerships between business and industry and agencies that provide vocational support services for Kentuckians with disabilities. This initiative is sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, the Division of Mental Retardation, and IHDI. .

Kentucky Migrant Farmworkers with Disabilities Employment Partnership
Kentucky citizens with disabilities benefit from supported employment services. This program promotes the implementation and expansion of supported employment services through statewide training, technical assistance and collaborative efforts.

Kentucky Supported Employment Training Project
Kentucky citizens with disabilities benefit from supported employment services. This program promotes the implementation and expansion of supported employment services through statewide training, technical assistance and collaborative efforts.

Kentucky Transition Signal
The Kentucky Transition Signal is an interagency collaborative effort between 21 different state agencies. Fiscal support for the Collaborative comes from the Kentucky Department of Education, Division of Exceptional Children. The mission of the Kentucky Transition Signal is to assist students with disabilities and their families in making a successful transition from school to adult life.

Aging and Disability Resource Center - Evaluation Unit
The Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) is an information and referral service. The Cabinet of Health and Family Services of the State of Kentucky was awarded this project and contracted with the Evaluation Unit at HDI to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the ADRC pilot site in Northern Kentucky. Evaluators from HDI conduct regular interviews with staff from the pilot site, survey members of the Advisory coalition, and gather feedback from clients who have called or visited the ADRC in search of services.

Kentucky Resident Training Program in Rehabilitation Technology
The Kentucky Resident Training Program in Rehabilitation Technology is a collaborative five-year training project between HDI, the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and the Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine. As a part of the training, residents in physical medicine/ rehabilitation at both UK and U of L will not only learn rehabilitation technology (RT), but will have a month long rotation in which they will have a variety of opportunities for application of RT, primarily in vocational and rural/agricultural rehabilitation throughout the Commonwealth. This will provide cutting-edge training to resident physicians, and direct, tangible benefits to citizens in the state.