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#RuralDisability eNews
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Five More Years! New RTC8 Projects!
RTC:Rural 2023-2028 is funded! We could not have achieved this without our fabulous partners across the CIL network. We have an excellent slate of new projects and opportunities for you to help ensure our efforts represent disability voices and experiences. These timely new projects include accessing and utilizing data, examining Personal Assistance Services workforce capacity, rural health promotion, rural transportation vouchers, and capacity building in home usability.
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2023 APRIL Conference
Thank you, APRIL! RTC:Rural staff had a blast at the 2023 APRIL Conference in Orange County, CA. Our researchers contributed five presentations and two busy vendor booths to this magical event. We are busy following up on all the great conversations we had with the wonderful group of attendees.
If we didn’t get to connect with you at the conference, be sure to reach out!
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RDRL Deactivation
The Rural Disability Resource Library is retiring on October 31, 2023. In 2017, we created this valuable resource as a one-stop shop for rural disability information. Unfortunately, we can no longer effectively maintain current information on the platform. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to find an alternative model.
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RIIC Executive Director Position
The Rural Institute is seeking a Director! This is an amazing opportunity for the right individual to: - Lead a dynamic team of researchers, educators, and service providers,
- Promote equal opportunity for people with disabilities,
- Build lasting partnerships,
- Pursue their own research, and
- Live and work in beautiful Missoula, MT.
Does this sound like you, or someone you know? Please share widely with your networks.
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National Survey on Health and Disability
The National Survey on Health and Disability (NSHD) is live and needs your help! The NSHD gives voice to the concerns of people with disabilities and documents their experiences with a variety of issues. Those include access to health care, insurance coverage, housing, transportation, Long COVID, employment and more. It also explores aspects of people's sense of belonging and how they matter. Want to know more?
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Recent Publications
What environmental factors impacted people with disabilities in the COVID-19 pandemic? Hana Meshesha, Meg Traci, and colleagues from Montana DPHHS, University of Michigan and Drexel University, along with UM doctoral student Kanbi Knippling and WHO ICF experts, co-authored “COVID-19, Disability, and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: A Scoping Review of Early-Stage Pandemic Response.”
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Or, if you are interested in disability, rurality, and rural health, you are in luck! Rayna Sage just had an article posted in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Global Public Health. This article, “Disability and Rural Health,” explores the challenges rural disabled people face in maintaining their health and wellbeing and some promising approaches to rural health care and health promotion.
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The Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities (RTC:Rural) conducts research on disability as part of the Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities at the University of Montana.
RTC:Rural is funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) grant number 90RTCP0002 to improve the ability of people with disabilities to engage in rural community living.
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