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Mission Statement
The mission of the ACE Program is the empowering of people with
disabilities in partnership with universities and service learning
programs.
ACE also has a secondary mission, which is the education and
introduction of new professionals into the worlds of integrated
employment and disability civil rights.
Grant Funding
The ACE Program is funded by the Wisconsin 2010 Medicaid
Infrastructure Grant 3-4h University Human Services Employment
Development Workplan.
Contributors
ACE is a one-of-a-kind program involving partnership between
Pathways to Independence, North Country Independent Living, the
University of Wisconsin, Superior, and the University of Minnesota,
Duluth. This partnership spans two states and a great lake. More
specifically, ACE involves the individual efforts of the following
people in these capacities:
Linda Burhans, BSW: ACE Project Coordinator
Monica Roth-Day, Eddy., MSW: UW Superior Social Work Faculty
Project Consultant
Kathy Heltzer, MSSW: UM Duluth Social Work Faculty Project
Consultant
Don Anderson: Project Consultant
New Horizons North, Ashland, Best Practice consulting agency
Mavis Vermaak, Employment Coordinator
Jenny Felty, Executive Director
Graduate Assistants:
Glenn Maloney, UMD MSW Program
Lindsey Guthrie, UMD MSW Program
Bryana Cook , UMD MSW Program
Current Interns:
Josie LaPorte, UWS BSW Program
Lori Closson, UMD MSW Program
Past
Interns:
Dana Stein, UWS BSW Program
Emily Orum, UMD MSW Program
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