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The Alliance (ADHCE) is a national leader in advancing the availability of effective, appropriate and high quality health care for persons with disabilities by promoting the inclusion of disability-related theory, research, and clinical learning experiences in health care training.

Student Scholarships In Disability Research:

For many years, The Alliance for Disability in Healthcare Education (ADHCE) has offered scholarships to an individual or group of healthcare professional students (any discipline) with a program/project that enhances healthcare education in disabilities. The scholarship for projects is meant to promote the ADHCE Core Competencies on Disability for Health Care Education 

Our most recent ADHCE SCHOLARSHIPS 2024-2025 

Student Project Scholarship Winners - Each student was awarded $1,000 for their winning scholarships!

     Lydia Smeltz from Penn State University was awarded the 2024/2025 Alliance for Disability in  Health Care Education scholarship to expand her ADEPT-CARE program that includes medical and physician assistant student that included a standardized patient scenario. Students participated with this team that included standardized patients included a pediatric or young adult patient with an intellectual or developmental disability (self-advocate) and their caregiver. This inclusive team was further developed in collaboration with self-advocates from the community.  The goal was that students who participated in these experiences will, going forward have opportunities to apply these ADEPT-CARE programs.  

    Anna Quon from RUSH University was also awarded the 2024/2025 Alliance for Disability in Health Care Education scholarship to evaluate the impact of disability-informed staff training initiatives in acute care hospitals on meaningful health-related outcomes for people with autism. The central hypothesis was that inclusive, interprofessional disability education interventions that integrate ADHCE Core Competencies and principles result in favorable and meaningful healthcare outcomes for people with autism. 

To read more about our past awarded student scholarships  go to the "Students" tab, then click on "Student Scholarships".

Website Development

For resources and publication dissemination about best practices in disability healthcare

We are currently developing and upgrading an interactive website with paid staff to increase accessibility and better represent our mission, vision, values and principles. This is the only staff member paid; all other non-website work is completed by volunteers who struggle to balance their professional and family obligations with volunteering their time to ADHCE. This will require ongoing website work efforts. We hope to at least double our membership. To do this, we are setting a fundraising goal of $5,000 for this current year.

Social Media Communicator

We currently welcome volunteers to communicate and disseminate relevant resources  about disabilities and healthcare education via social media. If our future budget allows, a stipend payment may be available for this role; but, at this time we cannot afford this to be a paid role.

The Alliance continues to receive endorsements for The Core Competencies on Disability in Health Care Education, developed in collaboration with the Ohio Disability and Health Program, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded program. Check out the website.