Amy Hewitt, Ph.D., gave the keynote address at the UMKC Institute for Human Development’s CORE 2024 All-Staff Conference in December and recorded this episode of ACCESSIBLE live before a studio audience – a first for UMKC-IHD!

Dr. Hewitt has worked for more than 40 years to improve community inclusion and quality of life for children, youth and adults with disabilities and their families. She is the current director of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration. There she conducts research, evaluation, and demonstration projects on community living and belonging for children, youth and adults with disabilities and the direct support workforce.
Her perspective on living with a disability and integrating with the community is particularly relevant to the people served by UMKC-IHD.

• LISTEN TO THE PODCAST WITH DR. AMY HEWITT
• READ THE TRANSCRIPT WITH DR. AMY HEWITT

RESOURCES
• University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration
• SupportWise Project, ICI
• Reinventing Quality Conference
• Impact Magazine
• ADDM Network

Accessible is a podcast that opens the door to disability leaders and their ideas and is hosted by George Gotto, director at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Institute for Human Development and Amelia Reighard, director of Program Development.

The University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Institute for Human Development (UMKC-IHD) is the federally designated University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) for the state of Missouri. It is a member of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) and one of 67 UCEDDs located in every state and United States territory. As an applied research and training center for human services at UMKC, the IHD reports to the Office of the Provost and serves as a bridge between the university and community.