Tom Seekins
Tom Seekins is professor of psychology and has been Director of the Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities at the University of Montana since 1993. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1983. His research emphasizes issues of rural health and disability, rural community and economic development, rural policy, and disability among American Indian tribes and reservations. He has served as President of the American Association on Health and Disability and as President of the National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers. He has been the recipient of the Earl Walden Award for outstanding achievement in rural advocacy, awarded by the Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living 2001; the Allan Myers award from the Disability Forum of the American Public Health Association in 2006 and the Americans with Disability Act Award from the University of Montana in 2014.
Projects
- Assess and Monitor the Distribution and Use of 5310 Funds between Rural and Urban Areas
- Assess the Potential Involvement of Rural Faith-Based Organizations in Providing Community Transportation for People with Disabilities
- Community and Economic Development
- Develop and Evaluate a Voucher System for Increasing Access to Transportation for People with Disabilities Living in Rural Areas
- Ecology of Rural Disability
- Geography and Rural Disability
- Independent Living
- Leadership by People with Disabilities
- Living Well with a Disability
- Monitoring and Managing Community Accessibility
- Nutrition
- Participation in Events: Measuring Opportunity in Rural Environments
- Secondary Conditions
- Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Self-Employment: Rural/Urban Use
- Working Well with a Disability
- Worker Cooperatives
Products
- A Guide for Personal Testimony: The Art of Using Your Personal Experiences to Influence Policy Decisions
- A Guide to Writing Letters to Public Officials: Contributing to Important Decisions Affecting You and Others
- A Guide to Writing Letters to the Editor: Expressing Your Opinion to the Public Effectively
- Living Well with a Disability
- Making Transportation Work for People with Disabilities in Rural America: The Supported Volunteer Rural Transportation Voucher Program
- Prevalence and Disability Outcome of Secondary Conditions Experienced by Adults with Disabilities Living in a Rural State: Validation of a Surveillance Instrument
- State of the Science
- Working Well with a Disability
Publications
- Search for Tom Seekins’ publications on UMScholarWorks.
- Search for Tom Seekins’ publications on Google Scholar.