05/21/2026
We’re excited to share the first episode of the 35 Years of Community Living podcast.
Through data and storytelling, this series explores how community inclusion has shaped the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities across the country. It’s the story of how policy, data, and real lives intersect — and why community matters for all of us.
Episode 1 focuses on the History of Projects of National Significance, looking at how these national efforts helped shape research, policy, and practice around community living from the three directors' perspectives.
The 35 Years project is a collaboration between the National Residential Information Systems Project at the University of Minnesota, ThinkWork Access to Integrated Employment at UMass Boston, and the State of the States in I/DD at the University of Kansas.
Listen and subscribe here: https://stateofthestates.ku.edu/35years
Learn more from our project partners:
National RTC on Community Living: https://www.facebook.com/RTCCL
Institute for Community Inclusion: https://www.facebook.com/communityinclusion/
X: https://twitter.com/rtccl and https://x.com/ICInclusion
