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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.

Join the Administration for Community Living’s (ACL) Commit to Connect (CTC) initiative and engAGED: The National Resource Center for Engaging Older Adults for an upcoming webinar and Office Hours session focused on promoting social connection among older adults living with HIV/AIDS. This webinar will highlight the latest research on HIV and spotlight a local program providing social connection for older adults living with HIV as a replicable community example.

In observance of Brain Injury Awareness Month, join the Administration for Community Living (ACL) for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Partners Day. Each year, ACL brings partners and interested parties together to discuss important issues around TBI services, supports, and systems and to learn from other partners, brain injury survivors, family members, support networks, and state and federal representatives.

State agencies providing home and community-based services (HCBS) face new requirements and higher expectations to enhance services, including the proposed Access Rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Federal funds can be accessed using Medicaid matching funds to support these enhancements.

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.

The National Information & Referral (I&R) Support Center is hosting an upcoming webinar to educate participants about the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA), the federal legislation that authorizes federal grants to states and tribes to provide outreach and assistance to eligible Medicare beneficiaries for benefit programs that help to lower their Medicare costs.