Gunderson, director of development and evaluation at the Center for Disabilities, and Stephanie Havelaar, Speech Language Pathology leadership trainee, from South Sioux City, Neb., and Paige Fossum, Social Work trainee, from Lennox, S.D., will have the opportunity to hear from leading public policy experts, disability advocates and Congressional staff members as they discuss current key policies important to the disability community. The seminar will culminate on Wednesday, April 25 with in-person visits to Congressional delegates on Capitol Hill.

A one-year program, South Dakota LEND offers specialized graduate-level training that focuses on the interdisciplinary training of professionals for leadership roles in the provision of health and related services to infants, children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental and related disabilities and their families. A part of the leadership training is building the capacity of its pre-service trainees to guide public policy and health care practice at the state and federal level in areas that affect people with disabilities and their families. The South Dakota LEND Program is supported by a grant from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

For more information about the Center for Disabilities, please visit www.usd.edu/cd or find them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pages/The-Center-for-Disabilities-of-SD/177270828956458.

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