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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that nominations for the 2024 CMS Health Equity Award are now open to organizations working to advance health equity, showing others how to reduce disparities in health care access, quality, and outcomes. This award will go to an organization that can demonstrate that they have reduced disparities in health care quality, access, or outcomes between two or more groups.

Inform USA is set to conduct an upcoming webinar focusing on Excel's application in Information & Referral (I&R) reporting. Participants will gain insights into fundamental Excel skills from three experienced Inform USA members, covering essential aspects such as pivot tables and advanced features like the Power Query. The session will also provide guidance on customizing reports for specific audiences, enhancing the reporting power of I&R programs.

This webinar will take place on Tuesday, February 27 at 1:00 p.m. ET. 

The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is hosting an upcoming webinar exploring complex accommodation scenarios in the workplace. Accommodating employees with cognitive and neurological disabilities, such as mental health conditions, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, brain injury, and seizure disorders, in the workplace may pose unique considerations that do not exist with other disabilities, as the need for accommodations may not always be apparent.

In the fall of 2023, the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL) released the Collaborating for Justice for Older African Americans Guide (Collaborating for Justice), which aimed to equip professionals working with older adults to build stronger and more equitable collaborations with African American community-based and culturally-specific programs.

Join the Partnership to Align Social Care for an upcoming discussion with officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as well as key community and health care leaders, on opportunities to address health-related social needs (HRSNs) through community partnerships.

Join the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for an upcoming webinar exploring how Northern Valley Indian Health (NVIH) leverages the role of community health representatives (CHRs) in Indigenous communities to raise awareness of dementia and conduct cognitive assessments. CMS will provide insight into current program activities and future initiatives aimed at education, outreach, and empowerment in the ongoing fight against dementia.

Registration is now open for USAging’s 30th Annual Aging Policy Briefing & Capitol Hill Day in Washington, D.C., from March 12-13, 2024. This event will be an opportunity for aging advocates and stakeholders across the country to get the latest breaking news in policy developments and to meet with Representatives and Senators in Washington.

Join the E4 Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Disparities in Aging (E4 Center) for a training series titled “Support Aging in Place: Older Adult Peer Support Training.”  This training is designed to promote rapid uptake of digital peer support and is designed specifically to address the needs of older adults, including evidence-based principles associated with normal aging and technology, accessing and engaging older adults in technology-based recovery services, resources to age in place, aging successfully, education on whole health, sharing your lived experience o

Each year, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) conducts a Symposia Series to provide high-quality, timely, and evidence-based strategies focused on improving performance in a specific topic. The 2023-2024 OSERS Symposia Series provides an opportunity for the field to join OSERS in the challenge to raise expectations, engage families earlier, and fully empower all individuals who support transition services to improve post-school outcomes for children and youth with disabilities and their families.

Last month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register to update regulations for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Indian Community Development Block Grant Programs (ICDBG). The proposed rule would streamline program requirements, promote economic development and investments in underserved communities, and enable larger, transformative construction projects such as housing rehabilitation, mixed-use development, and infrastructure improvements.