Our Story. Leadership Alliance for Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LAND) grew out of discussions with family members and allies about the unmet needs of people with disabilities and their families. In 2021, LAND received a 4-year collective impact grant from the NC Council on Developmental Disabilities (NCCDD), which became Meet The Need NC. The aim was to build awareness (educate & inform) for the Innovations Waiver waitlist and Direct Support Professional workforce shortage among multiple stakeholder groups toward I/DD policy change.

Who is the LAND Policy Education Center?

Based on the current challenges of our I/DD Community nationally, statewide, and locally, LAND will use its LAND Policy Education Center to expand the work of Meet The Need NC to include a grassroots movement called Disability Action Network NC. It will focus its efforts on informing, educating and mobilizing broad numbers of community-based voices of lived experience around urgent policy issues, beyond the Innovations Waiver waitlist and direct care workforce shortage. LAND will continue to build alliances with state-based I/DD nonprofits and other organizations to bring together bottom up (grassroots) and top down (state-based) advocacy.