About Us

The SELN is a membership-based network of state intellectual and developmental disability agencies committed to making changes in their service systems. Launched in July 2006 as a partnership between of the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services and the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the SELN supports states to improve integrated employment outcomes.

Read the SELN Vision for Employment
Read the Higher Performing Framework

Accomplishments

SELN accomplishments reports are a collection of diverse examples illustrating how states achieve both the small steps and large leaps of systems improvements. Our Network activities and individual state work complement each other, providing a rich community of shared learning to members and systems partners.

SELN Project Team Contacts

NASDDDS
Wesley Anderson: wanderson@nasddds.org (project manager)
Regina Rodriguez Sisneros: rsisneros@nasddds.org
Mary Sowers: msowers@nasddds.org
Teja Stokes: tstokes@nasddds.org
Jeanine Zlockie: jzlockie@nasddds.org

ICI/UMass/Boston
Suzzanne Freeze: suzzanne.freeze@umb.edu (project manager)
David Hoff: david.hoff@umb.edu
Amy Huppi: amy.huppi@umb.edu
Staci Jones: staci.jones@umb.edu
Kara Sexton: kara.sexton@umb.edu
Cindy Thomas: cindy.thomas@umb.edu
Jean E. Winsor: jean.winsor@umb.edu