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This webinar, held in recognition of National Minority Mental Health Month, will review best practices for serving older adults of color and from different cultural groups. During this event, participants will learn tools such as how to integrate family into decision making and ways to address the challenges of time and transportation in accessing care.

The Adult Protective Services Technical Assistance Resource Center (APS TARC) is an ACL resource center that works to enhance APS programs around the country. APS TARC is hosting an upcoming webinar focused on promising practices from the Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission (DPPC). DPPC used money from an ACL grant awarded in 2015 to expand access to trauma and victim services for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities who are victims of sexual assault.

Consumer Voice is hosting its first-ever summer Hill Day this year on July 18. Participants will meet with members of Congress and advocate for better quality care and quality of life for nursing home residents and other long-term care consumers. Consumer Voice will provide briefs, talking points, and other information to help participants deliver a strong message and share their concerns on topics, such as preserving the revised federal nursing home regulations and increasing funding for the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program.

The National I&R Support Center will host a webinar on Promoting Access to Transportation Options with the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center. Transportation is one of the most frequently requested services in I&R conversations, and is a foundation for community living. At the same time, I&R specialists may be challenged to connect individuals to transportation options.

This webinar focuses on the impacts that isolation and loneliness can have on older adults. Participants will learn the warning sings of isolation and failing health in older adults. This includes physical symptoms, mental or emotional changes, and environmental clues. The webinar will also provide a list resources and supports for older adults and their families to help them feel more connected.

Although guardians are intended to protect adults from abuse, neglect, or exploitation, they may in some rare circumstances become perpetrators of such actions. This webinar from NCLER will highlight cases in which guardians have taken advantage of their positions and discuss what an advocate can do to intervene.