Tarjan Center Brochure

Tarjan Center Continuation Plan 2009-2010
The Tarjan Center 5- Year Plan (2007 -2012) was created by Tarjan Center staff and faculty along with participation and input from the Tarjan Advisory Committee and the community. It was approved by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities. Each year the Tarjan Center reviews its 5-year plan and makes any needed changes based on discussion with the Tarjan Center Advisory Committee, information from our Federal Partners and needs of the state.

The Tarjan Center accomplishes its mission across the lifespan through four overarching and interconnected core areas: Arts, Education, Health, and Social and Civic Engagement.

National Arts and Disability Center (NADC)
The National Arts and Disability Center (NADC) is the only resource and technical assistance center dedicated to the full inclusion of artists and audiences with disabilities in all facets of the arts. Through our web site and Facebook, we publish resource directories, calendar of events and showcase the talents of artists with disabilities.

Statewide Forum on Careers in the Arts for People with Disabilities Initiative
This national initiative aims to increase opportunities for arts sector employment by people with disabilities. In association with the National Endowment for the Arts, the NADC has overseen 26 state arts agencies establish statewide partnerships to conduct a forum and develop a strategic plan to advance careers in the arts.

The California Arts Council Arts and Technical Assistance Accessibility Program
For California artists, we provide professional development grants through support from the California Arts Council. To date we have funded 143 awards to nonprofit arts organizations to increase their audience access and 40 awards to artists with disabilities.

Rising Artists with Disabilities (RAD)
RAD is a network of young artists with disabilities. This social networking group encourages youth to network with other artists with disabilities, informs young artists about news, updates, events, and activities, and most importantly to increase communication within the community.

Open the Doors to College
Through initial support from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities (SCDD) Open the Doors to College was established to provide information, training, and technical assistance to families, students, and professionals focused on postsecondary education and youth with intellectual disabilities. Currently, under contract with the California Community College Chancellor’s Office, we provide technical assistance to the 110 community colleges regarding programs and services for students with intellectual disabilities and autism.  

UCLA Undergraduate Disability Studies Minor
This emerging interdisciplinary field uses “disability” as a lens for thinking about the body, society and culture. Faculty affiliated with the program come from 20 departments or interdepartmental programs across the College of Letters and Science and the professional schools, and they will be joined by others. The Tarjan Center faculty serve on the Faculty Advisory Committee and teach the community internship course Psychology 195A and B. Three types of internship experiences are offered – in policy, direct service and research.

California Consortium on Postsecondary Options for Students with Developmental Disabilities
The California Consortium is a unique collaboration between representatives from higher education, the developmental disabilities service system, K-12 education, rehabilitation, parents and students to address and advocate for postsecondary education options for students with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. The vision of the Consortium is that by 2012, students with intellectual/developmental disabilities will have the opportunity and support to pursue postsecondary learning opportunities that bring personal, social, vocational and economic fulfillment.

Fostering Self Regulation in Infants and Toddlers with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorders
The goal of this study is to implement and evaluate a multi-component intervention to promote self regulation in infants and toddlers in foster or adoptive care with a history of prenatal alcohol exposure or a diagnosis of FASD.

Interventions for Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Transitioning Science to Community Projects
The goal of this project is to implement research based parent assisted social skills training for children with prenatal alcohol exposure into a community treatment setting.

Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Youth Exposed to Alcohol Prenatally
This study proposes to adapt a highly successful evidenced-based alcohol reduction intervention program. To reduce alcohol consumption and alcohol related negative outcomes in adolescents with FASDs.

Mapping the Brain, the Face and Neurocognitive Function in FASD
This project is part of the "Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD)," and its main focus is to use quantitative brain mapping techniques with high-resolution structural and functional MRI from FASD children evaluated across 3 multi-cultural data collection sites (San Diego, Los Angeles, and Capetown, South Africa).

Neighborhood Alcohol and HIV Prevention in South African Townships
This project aims to evaluate a South African neighborhood model of brief alcohol intervention, education, training, and support to pregnant mothers at risk in order to improve their health, parenting, and child outcomes.

Project Step Up: Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Youth Exposed to Alcohol Prenatally
This research seeks to examine an intervention to reduce alcohol consumption in youth exposed to alcohol prenatally in order to prevent secondary disabilities and negative behavioral outcomes associated with alcohol use and abuse.

Reducing Health Disparities Among Children with FASDs
The overarching goal of this project is to increase access to services and early intervention for young children with FASDs/PAE and their families, in order to reduce the health disparities experienced by this high risk population.

The Relationship Between Selective Voluntary Motor Control and Changes in Gait Kinematics Followed by Hamstring Lengthening Surgery in Children with Cerebral Palsy
This research study will examine selective voluntary motor control in children as a prognostic factor for gait improvements following orthopedic surgery.

PEDALS Community Outreach Center
PEDALS Community Outreach Center will provide community adapted cycling for children with disabilities at UCLA.

Lanterman Psychology Training Program
Funded by the Dept. of Developmental Service, this training grant provides clinical psychology interns and post doctoral fellows with training in developmental disabilities.

Tarjan Center Service Inclusion Project
The Tarjan Center Service Inclusion Project (TCSIP) - in partnership with the California Volunteers and the Corporation for National and Community Service- facilitates regional and state partnerships that encourage the inclusion of people with disabilities in national service. TCSIP also provides technical assistance and training to service organizations. Through this work we have established over 20 regional service inclusion networks in CA, Florida and Hawaii resulting in 5,000 individuals with disabilities giving 65,000 hours of volunteer services to their communities.

California Training and Technical Assistance Center for Emergency Preparedness and Developmental Disability – An ADD Project of National Significance
The purposes of this planning grant are to create a coordinated response and interagency effort to prepare individuals with developmental disabilities and their families for emergency situations.