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 PUBLIC LAW 106-402—OCT. 30, 2000 114 STAT. 1705 3012), and entities carrying out other similar councils, entities, or committees); (ii) parent trsiining and information centers under part D of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.) and other entities carrying out federally funded projects that assist parents of children with disabilities; and (iii) other groups interested in advocacy, capacity building, and systemic change activities to benefit individuals with disabilities. (H) BAKRIER ELIMINATION, SYSTEMS DESIGN AND REDESIGN.— The Council may support and conduct activities to eliminate barriers to access and use of community services by individuals with developmental disabilities, enhance systems design and redesign, and enhance citizen participation to address issues identified in the State plan. (I) COALITION DEVELOPMENT AND CITIZEN PARTICIPA- TION. —The Council may support and conduct activities to educate the public about the capabilities, preferences, and needs of incfeviduals with developmental disabilities and their families and to develop and support cosQitions that support the policy agenda of the Council, including training in self-advocacy, education of polic3anakers, and citizen leadership skills. (J) INFORMING POLICYMAKERS. —The Council may support and conduct activities to provide information to policy- makers by supporting and conducting studies and analyses, gathering information, and developing and disseminating model poUcies and procedures, information, approaches, strategies, findings, conclusions, and recommendations. The Council may provide the information directly to Federal, State, and local policjnnakers, including Congress, the Federal executive branch, the Governors, State legislatures, and State agencies, in order to increase the ability of such polic3rmakers to offer opportunities and to enhance or adapt generic services to meet the needs of, or provide specialized services to, individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. (K) DEMONSTRATION OF NEW APPROACHES TO SERVICES AND SUPPORTS.— (i) IN GENERAL.— The Council may support and conduct, on a time-limited basis, activities to demonstrate new approaches to serving individuals with developmental disabilities that are a part of an overall strategy for systemic change. The strategy may involve the education of policymakers and the public about how to deliver effectively, to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families, services, supports, and assistance that contribute to the achievement of the purpose of this subtitle. (ii) SOURCES OF FUNDING. — The Council may carry out this subparagraph by supporting and conducting demonstration activities through sources of funding other than funding provided under this subtitle, and by assisting entities conducting demonstration activities to develop strategies for securing funding from other sources.

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