HealthMatters™ Program meets the Administration for Community Living’s criteria for evidence-based programs under Title III-D Highest Tier Evidence-Based Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Programs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their supports. With over 2 decades of research-to-practice, HealthMatters™ Program engages people with IDD and their supports to have access to research, education and training, service learning, and evaluation tools to improve healthcare and health outcomes where they live, work, learn, and play.
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We offer evidence-based and evidence-informed programs for people with IDD and their supports:
- HealthMatters™ Program
- HealthMessages Peer-to-Peer Program for People with IDD
- National Healthy Brain Initiative for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Partnering to Transform Health Outcomes with Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and Developmental Disabilities (PATH-PWIDD)
- HealthAdvocacy™ Program: It’s Our Health
- HealthAlert: Signs&Symptoms™ Program
- HealthMatters 4Kids – Today Counts Diabetes Prevention
- OptimalRx: When Less is More
We offer the following services:
- Workshop and webinar facilitation
- Health and health promotion curriculum development that incorporates principles of universal design instruction and learning
- Implementation sciences consultation for scaling up health promotion initiatives on a local, state, and national platform
- Grant writing and collaboration
- Project management