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LTQA and ATI Advisory will host a webinar titled “A Deep Dive on In-Home Support Services, Caregiver Supports, and Social Needs Benefits: How Medicare Advantage Plans are Using These Benefits to Meaningfully Meet Members’ Needs”. To advance understanding of these benefits, LTQA and ATI Advisory, with support from The SCAN Foundation, have analyzed Medicare Advantage plans’ benefits designed to resemble Medicaid benefits to support Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) needs – in-home support services (IHSS), caregiver supports, and social needs benefits.

Justice in Aging will host a webinar on protecting consumers from evictions as states continue to implement the HCBS settings rule. The webinar will provide a high-level overview of the HCBS settings rule, define the eviction protections outlined in the Rule, and offer a baseline of the level of legal knowledge around eviction protections for older adults.

Speakers:

• Eric Carlson: Long-Term Services and Supports Advocacy
• Hannah Diamond; Policy Advocate
• Jennifer Kye; Senior Attorney

Justice in Aging will host a webinar on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and ABLE accounts, including information and training on SSI and ABLE account basics, how ABLE accounts can increase financial independence for those receiving SSI payments, how ABLE accounts interact with SSI and Medicaid, and resources and tools.  The webinar is directed towards advocates working with older adults and people with disabilities, including SSI beneficiaries.

The webinar will take place on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. ET. 

Throughout the month Health Affairs has issued a series of articles on the broader implications of COVID-19, join Health Affairs for a briefing exploring all of those papers and exploring the broader implications and common themes across all papers. The webinar will discuss, trends in the workforce, mitigating community spread of COVID-19 in congregate settings, and modernization recommendations. 

Confirmed speakers include:

Join Disability Employment Technical Assistance Center (DETAC) for a webinar in celebration of Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. The webinar will provide an overview of DD councils, their role in systems changes across the country, and give viewers a chance to learn more about the innovative initiatives that DD Councils are taking to advance employment opportunities and outcomes for people with DD. 

Speakers

Join the ADA National Network in Collaboration with the National Institute on Disability Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research for a  webinar on the role of adaptive sports technologies. The webinar will explore the role adaptive sports play in the lives of youths with disabilities, a conversation with former paralympian, Dr. Anjali Forber-Pitt, and how to address the remaining barriers to adaptive sports. 

The webinar will take place on Monday, March 27, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET. 

Join CMS for an upcoming webinar "From Data to Action: How CMS and it's Stakeholders Are Addressing Inequities in Healthcare". The discussion will include a deep dive into the new Health Equity Framework and how stakeholders are leveraging it for more equitable care.

The webinar will take place Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET.

Join Applied Self Direction for the next webinar in their “from your desk” series. This session will discuss Medicare Advantage and new ways to take advantage of what the program has to offer to expand access to self direction. The session will also examine ways that Medicare dollars can be used to expand self directed services for older adults. 

The webinar will take place on Thursday, March 16, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET.

Join Applied Self Direction for the next webinar in their “from your desk” series. The next webinar in the series is on veteran directed care, its expansion, and updates to the program at the federal level. Speakers will hear about important partnerships between ACL and the Veteran’s Health Association. 

Speakers 

• Daniel Schoeps Office of Geriatrics and Extended Care; US Department of Veterans Affairs 
• Pat Brady The Lewin Group 

Disaster readiness begins with planning, but for professionals and consumers alike, taking steps to be prepared for an emergency or disaster isn’t always easy. The COVID-19 pandemic, recent natural disasters, and other emergency situations have offered many lessons for disaster preparedness and response. In 2022, ADvancing States’ National I&R Support Center held a contest to identify promising practices in the field, recognizing how vital I&R/A services are to communities experiencing disasters.