The RRTC offers training activities in the following areas:
Agency Support for Persons with I/DD and Families

Aging with I/DD

Health Care training for Health Professionals

Health Promotion

Pre-Service Professionals

Training Activities
The RRTCADD training activities focus on the following:

• Translate RRTC research findings into applications that increase stakeholders’ knowledge and skills.
• Establish dissemination channels to reach key stakeholders.
• Provide training and technical assistance to bolster best practice applications.
• Evaluate process and outcomes and adjust dissemination as needed.

Innovative training approaches include a) dissemination through national providers, professional, and consumer collaborations; b) development of user friendly products in various formats; c) use of train-the-trainer models to promote local ownership of effective practices; d) targeted promotion of systemic changes that maintain programmatic and policy changes; and e) use of web-based technologies to provide global access to knowledge and training products.