Seminars and Courses
JFK Partners trainees and fellows participate in a variety of learning experiences as part of their respective training programs. Among these experiences are graduate level courses accompanied with a practicum. These courses are also open to anyone to take through the Graduate School at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. For registration information, please call 303-315-7676.

• Key Concepts in Pediatric Developmental Disabilities
• Leadership Dialogues
• Cultural Factors in Healthcare
• Practicum

Key Concepts in Pediatric Developmental Disabilities
CLSC 6653/6654
2 credit hours per semester (4 credit hours total)

This course focuses on systems issues affecting children with neurodevelopmental disabilities including their families, providing an advanced knowledge base to implement coordinated, family-centered, community-based, and culturally competent care. The course relies on the use of evidence-based practice, legislative awareness, and understanding of emerging issues as the context for coordinated, interdisciplinary service delivery. By focusing on Health People 2010 objectives and content, students can apply the course concepts within a public health framework. Four organizing concepts presented include; 1) health-related quality of life constructs, 2) theoretical framework for disability (disablement schema), 3) standards of care, 4) community healthcare delivery in the current environment. The theoretical ICF framework provides students with the means to classify the functional consequences of disability.

360 Interdisciplinary Care Conferences (360s), are designed to provide a forum for applying values, core content and practical aspects in an interdisciplinary conversation among faculty and trainees around an integrating concept, clinical problem and/or systems issue. Students will participate in the monthly two-hour interactive discussion. Each month, an interdisciplinary group of students will be assigned two faculty facilitators to conduct a Care Conference. Selection of interdisciplinary teams will be representative of the seven core disciplines and parents. Each team will develop the presentation of a clinical case or issue that is designed to organize, integrate, evaluate and synthesize: 1) clinical information regarding a child or adult with a neurodevelopmental disability, 2) family centered approaches, 3) systems utilization, 4) policy impact, and 5) strategies for clinical intervention, leadership and systems change, and utilization of evidence based approaches.

Leadership Dialogues CLSC 6661/6662
2 credit hours per semester (6 credit hours total)

This course provides the opportunity for participants to reflect on how they can apply their personal leadership to facilitating change, working in teams, and consulting with colleagues and families in the context of early childhood, education, health care, mental health, and other services and systems. The course explores a range of interdisciplinary strategies and techniques that are essential to the provision of high quality, effective services and supports for individuals with special needs and their families.

Cultural Factors in Healthcare CLSC 6657
1 credit hour

This online course will introduce the subject of cultural and social determinants of maternal and child health in the present society, including worldviews on health perspectives (wellness versus illness), and address the impact of emerging demographic changes on systems of care. Participatory exercises will assist in understanding one’s own ethnic identity to better understand others, assessing regional and national demographic changes and their implications for practice, and cultural competence skill building. For more information about this course or to register, please contact Carla Mestas at cmestas@comcast.net.

Practicum CLSC 6830/6831
3 credit hours per semester (6 credit hours total)

Practicum opportunities are offered for the purpose of implementing the course content and skills. JFK Partners is pleased to offer a wide range of practicum opportunities in a variety of settings. Practicum sites are matched with individual participant’s interest and experience and may include your work site, pending approval of program faculty.

Types of practicum options include:

• Interdisciplinary Clinical Practicum – This practicum provides opportunities to apply interdisciplinary team leadership skills and service coordination.
• Community-Based Consultation – The focus of this practicum is to provide opportunities to demonstrate competency in effective procedures to successfully include children with special needs in to the community through the consultation process.
• Research – All core faculty members are involved in a variety of research efforts from which trainees may choose to participate. Activities will permit trainees and fellows to participate in needs assessment, program evaluation, and investigational research.
• Policy Analysis/Systems Development – This practicum offers opportunities for trainees to work on issues of implementation of value based (family-centered, community-based, culturally competent) and coordinated care at the clinic, institution/agency, or state system level. Projects have focused on policy, populations, standards of care, quality assurance, and national or state defined expected outcomes.

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University of Colorado Denver

13121 E. 17^th Ave, C234

Aurora, CO 80045

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