Founded in 1978, the Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities was originally called the Montana University Affiliated Program Satellite (MUAPS), and was located at the University of Montana in Missoula. MUAPS was one of 43 university-affiliated programs in the United States that focused on improving and developing services for the developmentally disabled. It was funded through the federal Administration on Developmental Disabilities. In 1990 MUAPS became known as the Montana University Affiliated Rural Institute on Disabilities, and it consolidated with the Research and Training Center on Rural Rehabilitation Services. The Research and Training Center (RTC) was established in October 1987 at the University of Montana to pursue research and training for the purpose of assisting persons with disabilities in rural communities. It was one of 35 centers in the United States funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research of the federal Department of Education. The consolidation broadened the program’s scope and combined a variety of services such as a new clinic operation.
By the early 2000s, the Institute’s name had changed to the University of Montana Rural Institute, and by 2017 it had become the University of Montana Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities. The Rural Institute’s main focus is to assist existing programs, professionals and individuals who provide services for persons with disabilities in rural areas.
This is a collection of published materials produced by the Rural Institute. Items include newsletters, reports, pamphlets, and instructional manuals. The reports were often prepared jointly with other entities that offered community services to persons with disabilities. The collection also contains copies of the Rural Institute’s Educational Home Model Project child care booklets.
The materials in this collections are arranged chronologically by publication date and then alphabetically by publication title.
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Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities publications, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.
Materials from this collection were removed from the Archives' University Publications collection (UPUBs) in 2016 and placed in their own collection.
Publications were acquired from a variety of sources, including the Rural Institute.
The majority of the materials in this collection were filed with the Archives' University Publications (UPUBs) collection until 2016. Duplicates were not retained.
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