Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • ’Cuse Conversations Podcast
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Health & Society
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
Sections
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • ’Cuse Conversations Podcast
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Health & Society

BBI Receives $6.2 Million Award from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services for Southeast ADA Center

Monday, October 17, 2016, By Robert Conrad
Share
College of LawSchool of Education
Participants at the Southeast ADA Center sponsored Moneywise conference focusing on the ADA and financial inclusion of people with disabilities.

Participants at the Southeast ADA Center-sponsored Moneywise conference focusing on the ADA and financial inclusion of people with disabilities.

The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) has been awarded a five year, $6.23 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Administration on Community Living (ACL), National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) for the Southeast Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Center.

Based in Atlanta, the Southeast ADA Center provides information, training and guidance about the ADA throughout the eight-state Southeast region. BBI provides the center with analyses of legal issues affecting the ADA as well as other resources such as “plain language” legal briefs written by Syracuse University College of Law students.

“For the past 10 years, the Southeast ADA Center has provided leading-edge, accessible information on all aspects of the ADA,” says Peter Blanck, University Professor at Syracuse University College of Law and chair of BBI. “This grant, our third five-year commitment, enables BBI and the Southeast ADA Center to continue to make a positive impact on the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families by fostering ADA understanding and compliance.”

Pamela Williamson, project director of the Southeast ADA Center, says, “This grant continues the Southeast ADA Center’s partnership with an extensive network of dedicated partners at the national, state and local levels.” Williamson notes, “Over the past 10 years, the Southeast ADA Center has developed creative, accessible and low-cost ways, including the launch of an accessible online radio program, to disseminate information to a broad audience of partners and stakeholders.”

The BBI Board of Advisors: Standing- left to right: Michael Morris, Ed Blatt, Jonathan Martinis, Cynthia Smith, Diana Foote, Peter Blanck, Jonathan Heintz, Howard Olinsky, Brian Sexton, William Myhill, Michelle Woodhouse, James Nicoll Sitting - Kalpana Srinivas, Barbara Huntress Tresness, Joseph Treglia, Mary Killeen, Angel Baker

The BBI Board of Advisors: Standing, left to right: Michael Morris, Ed Blatt, Jonathan Martinis, Pamela Williamson, Cynthia Smith, Diana Foote, Peter Blanck, Joshua Heintz, Bruce Sexton, Howard Olinsky, William Myhill, Michelle Woodhouse, James Nicoll
Sitting: Kalpana Srinivas, Barbara Huntress Tresness, Joseph Treglia, Mary Killeen, Angel Baker

In addition to funding ongoing operations, the award will enable the Southeast ADA Center to conduct new research examining the accessibility of financial services, at physical and online sites, for people with disabilities. Several studies will examine financial accessibility as an aspect of community inclusion and participation. Michael Morris, BBI executive director, notes “There is a critical need for information on how financial institutions provide accessible services for people with disabilities.” The Southeast ADA Center “will collaborate with individuals with disabilities, banks and credit unions to gain a better understanding of gaps in accessibility. The research will help financial institutions address these issues and educate the public on possible solutions.”

“This program is just one example of the many important initiatives that the Burton Blatt Institute spearheads to advance the full participation of people with disabilities,” says College of Law Dean Craig M. Boise. “In addition to positively affecting numerous individuals and communities, the institute provides many practical learning experiences for College of Law students who are interested in disability rights law.”

About the Southeast ADA Center

The Southeast ADA Center answers questions, and provides training and information about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The center, based in Atlanta, serves an eight-state geographic region (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee) and has a network of partners in each state that includes centers for independent living (CILs), individuals with and without disabilities, small and large employers and businesses, nonprofit organizations and universities, and state and local government agencies. The center is one of 10 regional ADA centers in the ADA National Network. For more information, visit: www.adasoutheast.org.

 

  • Author

Robert Conrad

  • Recent
  • Syracuse University Press Participating in Path to Open Program
    Friday, September 29, 2023, By Cristina Hatem
  • A&S Chemistry Professor Receives Award From the American Chemical Society
    Friday, September 29, 2023, By News Staff
  • ‘Guys and Dolls’ opens Syracuse University Department of Drama 2023/24 Season
    Friday, September 29, 2023, By Joanna Penalva
  • Libraries Add MindSpa Wellness Rooms
    Friday, September 29, 2023, By Cristina Hatem
  • Syracuse University Announces the Opening of the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics
    Friday, September 29, 2023, By Kerrie Marshall

More In Health & Society

School of Education Faculty Publish ‘Lesson Study With Mathematics and Science Preservice Teachers’

“Lesson Study with Mathematics and Science Preservice Teachers: Finding the Form” (Routledge, 2023) is a new overview of the fundamentals of lesson study edited by School of Education Dean Kelly Chandler-Olcott, Professor Sharon Dotger and Jen Heckathorn G’22, director for…

International Drug Policy Academy Offers a Unique Opportunity for Students Interested in Addiction Studies

Needing one more class or an independent study to complete a master’s degree in public health, Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics student Emily Graham turned to Public Health Professor Dessa Bergen-Cico for advice and Bergen-Cico offered the opportunity…

Hendricks Chapel Dean, Chaplains and Students Attend Parliament of the World’s Religions

Representatives from Hendricks Chapel recently attended the Parliament of the World’s Religions, held in August in Chicago. This year’s theme was “A Call to Conscience: Defending Freedom and Human Rights.” More than 7,000 participants from more than 95 countries, representing…

Roundtable: 3 School of Education Alumni Define ‘Human Thriving’ in the Context of Global Diversity

“Human thriving” is among the areas of distinctive excellence enumerated in the University’s 2023 Academic Strategic Plan. This concept is inspired by the words of Chancellor Erastus Haven. In 1871, he charged Syracuse students “to thrive here, to learn here,…

Lerner Center and Maxwell X Lab Join Sheriff’s Office to Reduce Illicit Drugs’ Impact

The Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health and Maxwell X Lab have partnered with the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office on an initiative aimed at reducing the impact of opioids and other illicit drugs. The two centers, both…

Subscribe to SU Today

If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.

Connect With Us

  • X
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
Social Media Directory

For the Media

Find an Expert Follow @SyracuseUNews
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • @SyracuseU
  • @SyracuseUNews
  • @SUCampus
  • Social Media Directory
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Campus Status
  • Syracuse.edu
© 2023 Syracuse University News. All Rights Reserved.