LEND Program

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Our Leadership in Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program is the primary training component of the Mailman Center, providing graduate students and post-doctoral interns, residents, and fellows from more than 15 disciplines with training in both specialized leadership skills and the experiences needed to meet discipline-specific skills criteria. With more than 90 trainees each year, our graduates of LEND are now professionals in more than 2⁄3 of Florida’s counties, as well as other states and even international programs.

Leadership Pipeline Programs

The Mailman Center offers innovative leadership experiences for high school students, self-advocates with disabilities, and community professionals as part of a leadership pipeline.

SELP

Student Emerging Leaders Program (SELP) is a 3-month leadership training program for high school students who have potential to learn to create system-level changes for people with disabilities.
SALT

Self-Advocate Emerging Leaders Program (SALT) Project’s mission is to implement a leadership skills curriculum for adults with disabilities so that they can learn strategies to advocate for themselves and others and affect larger systems change. This program was initially funded by the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council and continues it’s work through the Leadership in Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program.
ETLP

Emerging Transformational Leadership Program (ETLP) is a 9-month advanced intensive leadership training program for early to mid-level community career professionals who have the passion to create system level changes for people with disabilities. To date, we have had 7 cohorts and 42 graduates. The project culminates with a group project.
NEXT-GEN

In collaboration with other Developmental Disabilities Act sister agencies, Next-Gen implements high-level policy leadership at the state level.

For more information, contact our team.

LEND contact for applicants

Cristina Pujol
Email: cxl885@med.miami.edu
Phone: 305-243-6204

ETLP, SALT, SELP, NEXT-GEN contact for applicants

Shelly Baer
Email: rbaer@med.miami.edu
Phone: 305-689-7058