Affiliations:
The RFK LEND has been successful in attracting top-notch trainees from the New York Metropolitan Area and beyond, with 82 training affiliation agreements. Many of the LEND trainees from these sites participate in the LEND training along with clinical training rotations at the RFK CERC program.
Affiliations with schools and hospitals include those with:
- Columbia University
- Fordham University
- Yeshiva University
- Manhattan College
- Hunter College
- New York University
- Pace University
- Sarah Lawrence College
- Mount Sinai
The RFK LEND is also very involved with family and state agency partners, including Title V programs across New York City, New York State and the country. These include the Act Early Ambassadors Program, the WIHD and Rochester LEND programs through the Statewide Systems Improvement Program, DB PedNet and Parent to Parent (the NYS Family Voices).
Trainees:
The RFK LEND program is one of the largest programs of this kind in the nation, training more than 1,000 long-term, intermediate-term or short-term trainees each year. Trainees include advanced graduate students, postgraduate professionals, clinicians practicing in the field, self-advocates and family members.
The LEND program provides interprofessional leadership training for advanced graduate students and postgraduate professionals representing the fields of: 
- Audiology 
- Dentistry 
- Education
- Family members
- Genetic Counseling 
- Medicine (Developmental Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Neurology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Family Medicine)
- Mental Health Counseling
- Nursing 
- Nutrition
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Public Health
- Psychology 
- Self-Advocacy 
- Social Work 
- Speech-Language Pathology