Administration for Community Living

The Administration for Community Living’s (ACL) Office of Nutritional and Health Promotion Programs (ONHPP) will host a business acumen webinar entitled “A Chronic Care Management Business Model: Moving from Planning to Implementation” as part of their TIM Talks series hosted by Tim McNeill, an independent health care consultant. The webinar will teach participants how run, bill, and market a care management program. The webinar will be held June 22, 2017, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET.

The second event in the ACL’s HCBS quality webinar series, which provides a forum for external and internal stakeholders to share developments and collaborate on HCBS quality, will be on June 28, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. ET.

Join ACL for a webinar to learn how organizations within a state’s No Wrong Door (NWD) System have used person-and-family-centered practices to transform access to LTSS.

In recognition of National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Community Living (ACL), are co-hosting a webinar for domestic and sexual violence service providers and community-based programs serving persons with disabilities. National conversations often fail to include survivors with disabilities, even though people with disabilities experience sexual violence at rates more than three times higher than people without disabilities.

ACL’s National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center has partnered with the American Society on Aging for a webinar on May 16, 2017 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET.

This presentation will identify the unique concerns and needs of people with dementia, and provide tips on how to assist in addressing these needs. It will also describe challenges of using Meals on Wheels for people with dementia.

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is an opportunity to draw attention to the issue of elder abuse and to encourage action in communities. Measuring the impact of WEAAD efforts can help show funders, policy makers, researchers, and others how and why these events are important. 

Join ACL on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET for a webinar on how to measure the impact of your WEAAD events using a logic model.

ACL is launching an informational webinar series about the agency's commitment to and development of measures for HCBS quality. This will also provide a platform among internal and external stakeholders to share developments and collaborate on efforts concerning HCBS quality. The series will host a variety of presenters from ACL, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Quality Forum, SCAN Foundation, ADvancing States, and others.

The Administration for Community Living’s National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center, in collaboration with the American Society on Aging, is hosting a webinar aout Lewy Body dementia and the importance of comprehensive care and support. This webinar provides an overview of Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) and how it differs from Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s. Attendees will learn the symptoms of and treatments for LBD and how the disease affects caregivers. A person living with LBD will share first-hand experiences and compensatory strategies.