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Understanding Community Engagement Webinar Series Part Two: Work Learning Activities as a Pathway to Competitive Integrated Employment

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The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and members of the Federal Community Engagement Cross-Agency Workgroup are hosting part two of a webinar series focused on understanding community engagement and its role in expanding competitive integrated employment. 

Call With Surgeon General: Increasing Bivalent Vaccination of Older Adults and People With Disabilities

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The HHS Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs (IEA) and the Administration for Community Living (ACL) are hosting a webinar with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and other subject matter experts on how to accelerate vaccination of people with disabilities, older adults, and others who are at greatest risk of serious illness from COVID-19. This webinar will address questions and common misunderstandings that prevent many people from getting their updated shots.

This webinar will be held on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET.

End-of-Life Care for Older Adults with a History of Trauma and Their Family Caregivers

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The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) Center on Holocaust Survivor Care and Institute on Aging and Trauma is hosting a webinar on end-of-life care for older adults with a history of trauma and their family caregivers. This webinar will focus on how to incorporate person-centered, trauma-informed (PCTI) principles into end-of-life care. Developed by the Center, PCTI care is a holistic approach that infuses knowledge about trauma into agency programs and procedures to promote the well-being and empowerment of trauma survivors.

During this webinar, participants will:

Educating America Tour: Washington, D.C. Alzheimer's & Caregiver Virtual Conference

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AFA’s Educating America Tour connects communities across the country with information about Alzheimer’s disease, brain health, caregiving and more. Each tour stop provides a free educational conference to the community where participants can learn from local and national experts about the following topics:

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The Paramedic Will See You Now: Expanding Access to Community-Based Care for People with Complex Needs

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This Better Care Playbook webinar will highlight two community paramedicine programs that serve people with complex needs, instED at Commonwealth Care Alliance in New England and Community CaraMedic at Mission Health Partners in North Carolina. Program leaders and paramedics from these programs will share insights on program design, implementation, funding, and outcomes to inform other organizations interested in community paramedicine. Health care providers, payers, policymakers, and other interested stakeholders are invited to join. 

Cultivating Community Care Hubs: An Evolving Model to Improve Alignment between Health and Social Care Services

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Among health systems, healthcare providers, and health insurers, the importance of addressing SDOH — particularly for those with complex care needs — has come into sharp focus. The Partnership to Align Social Care is a cross-sector effort to co-design a multi-faceted strategy to enable successful partnerships between healthcare organizations and networks of CBOs, or Community Care Hubs. Join the Partnership and health and social care sector leaders for a deep dive into the important role of Community Care Hubs in promoting an equitable health and social care ecosystem. Attendees will gain:

Promising Practices in California’s Medicaid Transformation Initiative: Spotlight on Community Partnerships

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CalAIM is California’s new care delivery and payment reform initiative that seeks to expand access to coordinated, whole-person care specifically for people with complex health and social needs. Key components of CalAIM include new community-based services that address social needs, like food and housing insecurity, as well as enhanced care management for people with complex needs. This webinar will explore innovative approaches to build the community partnerships necessary to achieve CalAIM goals, featuring the activities of two health plans and one community-based organization.

Southcentral Foundation’s Family Wellness Warriors Soldier’s Heart Program

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Family Wellness Warriors Soldier’s Heart is a peer-led program that addresses service-related post-traumatic stress in combat Veterans and first responders. The program uses storytelling and teaching to deliver tools for resiliency. This webinar will discuss how Soldier’s Heart serves a uniquely difficult-to-serve population.

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Culturally Responsive APS Practice with Indigenous Populations

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During this webinar Dr. Jacque Gray will present cultural information about working with Indigenous People and communities. There will also be a panel discussion with Marcia Hall from the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes APS program and Sonja Begay with the Office of American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Programs at ACL, where they will address important issues for culturally sensitive interviews and services with Indigenous populations and share experiences working with Indigenous APS cases.

Information Session: Integrated Dataset on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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Join the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and RTI International to learn about the Integrated Dataset on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. This data project aims to learn about the supports and services people with ID/DD use and their outcomes.  People with ID/DD, caregivers, ID/DD service providers, those working at a state Medicaid or developmental disability agency, and ID/DD researchers and advocates are encouraged to attend.

There will be three question and answer sessions following the webinar:

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