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Join Applied Self Direction for the next webinar in their “Self Direction From Your Desk” series. Frequently those with dual diagnoses, complex behavioral challenges, or significant intellectual disability are told that their cases are too complex to self direct. In this webinar participants will hear from the parents of three clients about the immense benefits and flexibilities that self-direction has in the lives of those choosing to self direct. 

Join Applied Self Direction for the next webinar in their “Self Direction From Your Desk” series. In the session Beyond the Basics: Advancing High Quality Self-Direction in a Managed Care Context attendees will hear from leaders in the managed care world to discuss best practices and new methods of improving self direction in a managed care context. The webinar will dive deep into, financial management systems, enrollment patterns, and effective approaches for partnerships between states, MCOs, and self directing clients. 

Join Sellers Dorsey for a webinar on their recently published report 2022 State of Medicaid Managed Care. The webinar will spotlight the six states and six managed care organizations sharing their unique perspectives on implementing managed care throughout the United States.

The first webinar will take place on Thursday, March 16, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET 

The National Center to Reframe Aging (National Center) will be hosting a Changing the Conversation webinar series. This four-part webinar series will provide audiences with a “quick start” to framing, hot topics related to implicit bias towards aging, and tools from the National Center. 

LTQA and ATI Advisory will host a webinar titled “A Deep Dive on In-Home Support Services, Caregiver Supports, and Social Needs Benefits: How Medicare Advantage Plans are Using These Benefits to Meaningfully Meet Members’ Needs”. To advance understanding of these benefits, LTQA and ATI Advisory, with support from The SCAN Foundation, have analyzed Medicare Advantage plans’ benefits designed to resemble Medicaid benefits to support Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) needs – in-home support services (IHSS), caregiver supports, and social needs benefits.

Justice in Aging will host a webinar on protecting consumers from evictions as states continue to implement the HCBS settings rule. The webinar will provide a high-level overview of the HCBS settings rule, define the eviction protections outlined in the Rule, and offer a baseline of the level of legal knowledge around eviction protections for older adults.

Speakers:

• Eric Carlson: Long-Term Services and Supports Advocacy
• Hannah Diamond; Policy Advocate
• Jennifer Kye; Senior Attorney

Justice in Aging will host a webinar on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and ABLE accounts, including information and training on SSI and ABLE account basics, how ABLE accounts can increase financial independence for those receiving SSI payments, how ABLE accounts interact with SSI and Medicaid, and resources and tools.  The webinar is directed towards advocates working with older adults and people with disabilities, including SSI beneficiaries.

The webinar will take place on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. ET. 

Throughout the month Health Affairs has issued a series of articles on the broader implications of COVID-19, join Health Affairs for a briefing exploring all of those papers and exploring the broader implications and common themes across all papers. The webinar will discuss, trends in the workforce, mitigating community spread of COVID-19 in congregate settings, and modernization recommendations. 

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Join Disability Employment Technical Assistance Center (DETAC) for a webinar in celebration of Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. The webinar will provide an overview of DD councils, their role in systems changes across the country, and give viewers a chance to learn more about the innovative initiatives that DD Councils are taking to advance employment opportunities and outcomes for people with DD. 

Speakers

Join the ADA National Network in Collaboration with the National Institute on Disability Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research for a  webinar on the role of adaptive sports technologies. The webinar will explore the role adaptive sports play in the lives of youths with disabilities, a conversation with former paralympian, Dr. Anjali Forber-Pitt, and how to address the remaining barriers to adaptive sports. 

The webinar will take place on Monday, March 27, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET.