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5th Annual Older Adult Mental Health Awareness Day Symposium

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Registration is now open for NCOA's Mental Health Awareness Symposium! This year's virtual symposium is designed to host public discussion on the topics related to mental health and aging, specifically tackling issues of prevention, treatment, and recovery support options and solutions for older adults with mental health or substance use disorders.

Positioning Community Health and Social Workers to Address Older Adults' Social Needs: Lessons from SCAN Health Plan

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This webinar will share pratical implementation considerations of the CP2H program that could support other health plans and provider groups in developing community-based care models that use the strengths of social workers and CHWs. The webinar is part of a new Playbook series, Inside Complex Care, that is showcasing models and tools that take a practical look at implementation logistics to help spread promising and evidence-based strategies. 
 

COVID & Beyond: Aging and Disability Services for Diverse Communities

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The OAEC invites older adults, people with disabilities, their families, and caregivers to join this webinar to discuss challenges that minority communities have experienced during COVID-19. The webinar will cover topics including physical and mental health, economic and food security, and social supports. Panelists will discuss national programs and services that support diverse aging and disability communities during the pandemic and through recovery.
 

Promising Practices Spotlight: Focused Care Coordination and Elder Advocates

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This webinar will feature speakers from Idaho and Maine as they share successes, lessons learned, and outcomes from their 2018 ACL state APS enhancement grant projects which focused on person-centered, collaborative, focused interventions, as well as enhanced data collection. Join this webinar to learn how goal attainment scaling, supported decision making, motivational interviewing, and other interventions may be utilized in APS practice.
 
This webinar will be held on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET.

Needs Assessment Toolkit for Dementia, Cognitivie Health, and Caregiving

Event Description: 
This new assessment toolkit can help state, local, and territorial public health and aging officials conduct comprehensive needs assessments to identify unmet needs of older adults, scale up existing community strengths, and promote healthy aging. Join the Alzheimer’s Association and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) on for a brief overview of the toolkit. Speakers will talk about how health equity can be prioritized to better meet the needs of older adults. 
 

Understanding and Addressing Unmet Needs in HCBS Through the Lens of Person-Centered Practices

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Researchers at the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy conducted a study to learn how many people who use Home and Community-Based Services need more services than they receive and understand the connection between unmet HCBS needs and health and community living outcomes. During this webinar, panelists will discuss how the study can influence person-centered planning in HCBS, opportunities for improvement, and how to overcome challenges to advancing person-centered practices.

Innovation and Sustainability in Emergencies

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This webinar will feature a panel of representatives from state developmental disability (DD) councils who have engaged in innovative partnerships with FEMA, ACL, and CDC during COVID-19. Join this event to learn about new emergency management tools, including “pop-up” vaccination clinic and the Disability Information and Access Line (DIAL), and how federal agencies are working with DD councils to increase access to services for people with developmental disabilities.

How Blended, Braided or Sequenced Funding Can Help Drive Employment, Equity and Inclusion

Event Description: 
The LEAD Center is hosting a federal interagency webinar with ACL, the Department of Labor, the Department of Education, and the Social Security Administration about equity in employment. State practitioners across the workforce system will discuss how they successfully applied innovative, collaborative resource sharing to benefit businesses and job seekers with disabilities. 
 
This webinar will be held on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET.
 

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