As people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families age, planning for the\u00a0 future, supporting changing family roles, and bridging the aging and disability systems become\u00a0 increasingly important. This session will highlight resources and emerging work from the University of Missouri\u2013Kansas City’s Institute for Human Development (UMKC-IHD), University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UMKC-IHD) focused on aging across the life course.<\/p>\n
Presenters will share three areas of work and resources from UMKC-IHD:<\/p>\n
Throughout the session, presenters will share practical resources, lessons learned, and examples of how UMKC-IHD is working at the intersection of aging, disability, family caregiving, future planning, and systems change.<\/p>\n
Speakers:<\/p>\n
Britney Burkart, MSW, LCSW<\/strong> Stacie Williams <\/strong>
\nBritney Burkart, MSW, LCSW is a Senior Research Assistant on the Health and Aging Team at the University of Missouri-Kansas City\u2019s Institute for Human Development (UMKC-IHD), Missouri\u2019s
\nUniversity Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). Her work focuses on the intersection of aging and disability, with an emphasis on applied research, systems change, and improving access to person-centered supports across the lifespan. She is engaged in several statewide aging and disability initiatives, including Missouri No Wrong Door, Missouri\u2019s Master Plan on Aging, and the Alzheimer\u2019s State Plan Dementia Coalition, and serves on the Association on Aging with Developmental Disabilities (AADD) Conference Planning Committee. Prior to joining UMKC-IHD, Britney worked as a geriatric social worker in memory care, hospice, and palliative care, specializing in dementia care and non-pharmacological approaches to supporting people living with dementia.\u00a0 Her experience included facilitating Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) and support groups for people with dementia and their families. She brings both professional and lived experience to her work, including experience caring for a loved one with dementia and her own lived experience with disability. Britney earned her MSW and Gerontology Certificate from Saint Louis University and her bachelor\u2019s degree in Community Health \u2013 Rehabilitation and Disability Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n
\nStacie works as a Senior Training Coordinator at the LifeCourse Nexus which is housed at the UMKC-Institute for Human Development. Stacie graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and has an undergraduate degree in Human Development and Family Studies and a Master\u2019s degree in Special Education.\u00a0She spent the first 15 years of her career working in community-based nonprofits overseeing community living, day program and early childhood programs for individuals with developmental disabilities. For 9 of those years, she was a Carf surveyor. Stacie worked for the
\nUMKC- Institute for Human Development in the early 2000\u2019s and supported the first Ticket to Work initiative. She later worked for the Family-to-Family Resource Center and helped the peer-to-peer parent network get started in Missouri.\u00a0 In 2009, Stacie left the Institute and went to seminary and earned her Master of Divinity Degree. She then spent 15 years serving churches throughout Missouri, where she worked with many aging adults and family caregivers to navigate changing support needs and end-of-life journeys.\u00a0Last summer, Stacie returned to the Kansas City area and went back home to the Institute for Human Development, where she now works for the LifeCourse Nexus.\u00a0Stacie is a Mom of 7 and Gigi to 4, plus Dog Mom to 3 fur babies. She lives in Grain Valley, Missouri, with her husband and 4 of their sons. Her oldest son is Gabe, he is 22 and is dually diagnosed with Autism and a mental health diagnosis. Stacie tells people that she has been a mom in just about every way you can think of: adoptive, foster, step-mom, and biological. Stacie loves the Kansas City Chiefs, spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren, and likes to travel. This past winter, she entered her sourdough era and has become a little obsessed with her starter, Helma, and baking
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