GIBPP - Growing in Beauty Partnership Program

The Institute for Human Development’s Growing in Beauty Partnership Program (GIBPP) is funded by the Navajo Nation’s Education Department to assist the Navajo Tribe in addressing their intergovernmental agreement (IGA) with Arizona’s Part C Program for infants and toddlers. The IGA requires the tribal program to identify and serve children birth to three with disabilities and their families as regulated by Part C of the Individuals Disabilities Education Improvement Act. The Growing in Beauty Partnership Program provides staff such as speech language pathologists, physical therapists and occupational therapists to fill the personnel gaps in the tribal program’s interdisciplinary teams. In addition, the Institute’s GIBPP staff provide onsite technical assistance and training to support the tribal staff in the areas of service coordination, child find, child screening, eligibility determination, report writing, direct services, documentation, and program development to help build the tribal program’s capacity to meet the state and federal regulations of Part C.

For more information about the project contact:

• Email: Courtney.Burch@nau.edu 
  Phone: (928) 523-8026
  TTY: (928) 523-1695
  Fax: (928) 523-4909