Young adults present at training for doctors.

Becoming Leaders for Tomorrow (BLT)

Welcome

The BLT Project provides resources and supports that promote independent living, transition skills, and healthy lifestyles and relationships of youth and young adults with developmental disabilities (or as one mom calls it, "differabilities"). We work with and provide technical assistance to local and statewide agencies to coordinate training and information, provide information and referrals, disseminate materials, and support training led by youth experts. Additionally, we utilize the expertise of young adult consultants who help identify information and referral needs and link individuals/families with helpful training.

The BLT Project utilizes an advisory committee consisting of youth and emerging leaders, project staff, and project partners in multiple roles including providing guidance, directions, and feedback to all components of the project. Youth friendly materials are being identified and/or developed in accessible formats and the primary languages of the target community for dissemination through traditional methods and through established websites. A further feature is the collaborative partnership with the Disability Support Center for Families, a 360 One-Stop Support Center. The Support Center will provide individual and family-centered planning and assessment for individuals and families who have more extensive needs and would benefit from an increased level of planning and support.

Links to Training Materials

The BLT Project's pages contain links to training materials from many organizations and web sites. The staff and advisory committee picked the topics that they thought were the most important for Utahns. We encourage youth, young adults, families, and providers to browse through the links.

Some of the links on the pages are to PDF files. Free software can be downloaded from Adobe. If you are unable to read the PDF files with a screenreader, please contact the BLT Project Coordinator.

The BLT Project does not recommend or endorse the web sites or organizations listed and the content on those web sites is the sole responsibility of the host organizations.

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Last updated: May 18, 2009.

"This web page was made with government support by a Youth Information, Training, and Resource Center (YITRC) grant, #90DN0232, awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD). The goal of the YITRC grants is to support an increasing ability of individuals with developmental disabilities to exercise greater choice, self-determination and to engage in leadership activities in their communities."

Becoming Leaders for Tomorrow is a project of the Center for Persons with Disabilities, a unit within the College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University. The CPD is a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service within the national network of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities.