{"id":86191,"date":"2018-10-17T13:06:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T23:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=86191"},"modified":"2019-04-12T09:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T19:26:18","slug":"cds-grant-supports-diverse-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/17\/cds-grant-supports-diverse-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"Center on Disability Studies receives $6.9 million to support diverse populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_86194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86194\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-cds-staff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"256\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-cds-staff.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/manoa-cds-staff-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Center on Disability Studies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cds.hawaii.edu\/\">The Center on Disability Studies<\/a> (<abbr>CDS<\/abbr>) in the <a href=\"http:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\">College of Education<\/a> at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa has been awarded nearly $7 million by the <abbr title=\"United States\">U.S.<\/abbr> Department of Education. The funding will go toward serving diverse populations, including Native Hawaiian, deaf-blind, at-risk, English language learners and economically disadvantaged, in five <abbr>CDS<\/abbr> programs over the next three to five years.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These grants make us very proud. They will help us serve the underserved, build capacity and partnerships across the state and support young people with disabilities to realize their quests for bright futures,&rdquo; <abbr>CDS<\/abbr> Director <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/directory\/index.php?person=pmorriss\">Patricia Morrissey<\/a><\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funding breakdown:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Project <span aria-label=\"Hookui\">Ho&#699;oku&#699;i<\/span> <abbr title=\"three\">III<\/abbr>: Na Kumu <span aria-label=\"Alakai\u20142.1\">Alaka&#699;i&#8212;$2.1<\/span> million<\/li>\n<li>Postsecondary Support Project Increasing the Success of Native Hawaiian Youth with Culturally Responsive Coaching&#8212;$2.1 million<\/li>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Neepapa\">Ne&#699;epapa<\/span> Ka Hana 2.0&#8212;$950,000<\/li>\n<li>The <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Family Engagement Center&#8212;$990,000<\/li>\n<li>The <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and Pacific Deaf Blind Consortium&#8212;$785,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Project <span aria-label=\"Hookui\">Ho&#699;oku&#699;i<\/span> <abbr title=\"three\">III<\/abbr>: Na Kumu <span aria-label=\"Alakai\">Alaka&#699;i<\/span><\/strong> addresses the needs of at-risk children and youth and the underemployment of Native Hawaiians. The goal is to increase enrollment of Native Hawaiian students in postsecondary education or certification programs, which leads to employment. This is done through implementation of a professional development program designed for <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Department of Education (<abbr>HIDOE<\/abbr>) faculty based on the previous Project <span aria-label=\"Hookui\">Ho&#699;oku&#699;i<\/span> model.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Postsecondary Support Project Increasing the Success of Native Hawaiian Youth with Culturally Responsive Coaching<\/strong> will work with the <a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Community Colleges<\/a> to enhance and expand a successful support model that addresses the needs of Native Hawaiian youth who are at risk of failure in postsecondary education and to realize improved employment outcomes. The program is anticipated to impact nearly 2,000 Native Hawaiians by facilitating access and reducing the probability of failure and dropout of postsecondary education. <\/p>\n<p><strong><span aria-label=\"Neepapa\">Ne&#699;epapa<\/span> Ka Hana 2.0: Expanding Native Hawaiian Student Access and Teacher Training from Middle School Mathematics<\/strong> to the <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr> Workforce will develop socio-culturally responsive project-based learning curricula for sixth and seventh grade; field-test and refine the curricula; train 40 teachers on <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span>, Maui and <span aria-label=\"Molokai\">Moloka&#699;i<\/span>; and disseminate materials statewide. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Family Engagement Center<\/strong> is working to build the capacity of every community in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> to develop and sustain strong, productive relationships among schools, parents and community organizations so children thrive developmentally and academically statewide by partnering with community groups and <abbr>HIDOE<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and Pacific Deaf Blind Consortium<\/strong> will address the diverse needs of individuals with deaf-blindness in the state and Pacific through technical assistance and dissemination by increasing knowledge, skills and support for families and service providers related to deaf-blindness.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/about\/news\/2018\/10\/center-disability-studies-receives-69-million-grant-funding\">College of Education website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five programs in the Center of Disability Studies in <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa&#8217;s College of Education receive nearly $7 million to serve diverse groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[269,95,33,313,9],"class_list":["post-86191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-center-on-disability-studies","tag-college-of-education","tag-hawaiian","tag-stem","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86191"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94526,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86191\/revisions\/94526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}