The goal of Community Life Engagement in Action is to transform and improve services in order to increase community life engagement (CLE) for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). This work will be accomplished by a partnership between the Institute on Disability at UNH (IOD), the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston (ICI), and the American Network of Community Options and Resources (ANCOR), and guided by an advisory group that includes service providers, people with IDD, and other CLE experts.

Major activities include:

1. Establishing a National Community of Practice on Community Life Engagement.

2. Conducting a “lunch and learn” webinar series for service providers to learn from each other’s successes through storytelling.

3. Fielding an e-newsletter using micro-learning strategies.

Funded by a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (#90DPKT0011).