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The National Rural Health Association (NRHA), in partnership with the John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF), is calling for submissions for their compendium of rural-healthy-aging initiatives and best practices in rural communities. The best practices compendium is being compiled as a component of the National Rural Age-Friendly Initiative. Organizations with relevant programs, models, or policies aimed at enhancing the quality of aging in rural communities are encouraged to submit their contributions for inclusion in the compendium.

Join the American Society on Aging (ASA) for an upcoming webinar presenting participants with new research describing the societal, personal, and contextual risk factors that increase susceptibility to financial exploitation and fraud. ASA will provide information on how artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency present novel threats to older adults, and discuss signs indicating an older adult is being financially exploited by friends, relatives, or international scammers.

Participants in this webinar will learn to:

The Better Care Playbook is hosting an upcoming webinar titled "Adopting Trauma-Informed Care in Rural Areas: Lessons from a Community Behavioral Health Partnership in Pennsylvania." This webinar will offer insights into both the challenges faced and successful strategies employed when implementing trauma-informed care in rural communities, focusing on a decade-long collaboration between Behavioral Health Alliance of Rural Pennsylvania (BHARP), a group of county-based behavioral health and human service administrators, and UPMC’s Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, a n

Mathematica, in collaboration with the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management, will host a hybrid event at the end of January to discuss insights from The Oxford Handbook on Program Design and Implementation Evaluation.

Justice in Aging is hosting an upcoming webinar titled “Advocacy Strategies When Nursing Facilities Won’t Allow Residents to Return After Hospitalizations.”This webinar will explain the relevant federal law and walk through various advocacy strategies to return the resident to their nursing facility home. It will also provide insights into survey agency complaints, administrative hearings, state-court petitions for injunctive relief, and address the common problem of a state agency claiming it cannot force a facility to take back a resident.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host upcoming “Office Hours” on the new funding opportunity titled “States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model.” CMS is currently soliciting applications through a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), with applications for the first two of three Cohorts due Monday,

The Medicare General Enrollment Period and the Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period will end on March 31. 

In partnership with the Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), the Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) invites individuals to participate in an ePolicyWorks national online dialogue titled “Exploring the Future of Public Transportation Research.” This virtual conversation aims to enhance policies and practices that will make public transit safer, cleaner and greener, as well as more resilient, inclusive and equitable.

On Thursday, March 28, the Center for Research on Disability will host the 2024 Annual Disability Statistics Conference. This one-day event will be available for both in-person attendees in Washington, DC, and remote participants joining via Zoom.

The Disability Employment Technical Assistance Center (DETAC) and the National Center on Advancing Person-Centered Practices and Systems (NCAPPS) are kicking off 2024 with an upcoming webinar focused on strengthening the connection between person-centered planning and advancing competitive, integrated employment. NCAPPS will highlight five competency domains, also known as skill areas, as a guide for human service agency staff tasked with facilitating person-centered planning.