LEND Training Program

NDCPD participates in the Utah Regional Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND or URLEND) training program. The Utah Regional LEND is an interdisciplinary program that trains professionals to move beyond narrow disciplinary boundaries to provide optimal services to child and adolescents with special health care needs. Because families are essential to well-being, this program emphasizes the role of family-centered care. In the fall of each year, LEND Trainees are brought together with faculty and families of children with special health care needs, to form an interdisciplinary learning cohort. Each long-term trainee participates in three forms of learning: didactic (classroom), leadership, and clinical. URLEND

NDCPD supports professionals in the following fields to participate as long-term
LEND trainees:
Audiology, Dentistry/Pediatric Dentistry, Education, General Medicine, Genetics, Health Administration, Nursing, Nutrition, Occupational Therapy, Pediatrics, Physical Therapy, Psychology, Social Work, and Speech-Language Pathology.

NDCPD also supports people with disabilities and their family members to participate in the LEND training program.

LEND Syllabus
http://www.urlend.org/Documents/Final_Syllabus_08-09.pdf

LEND Training Seminars:
As part of the LEND program, NDCPD invites members of the public to participate in the LEND Training Seminars. These interactive seminars are held on Fridays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (CST) in the NDCPD Teleconference Studio (room 207, Memorial Hall, Minot State University Campus). The seminars are free and participants can attend all or part of each seminar. The following are the 2009-2010 LEND Training Seminars: