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:
• Healthcare
Registration is still open for the virtual component of the 2023 NCOA Age + Action Conference. This conference will be held in-person on June 12-13, 2023 in Arlington, VA, and virtually on June 20-21, 2023. Aging services professionals may register for virtual, in-person, or both. Professionals and advocates at the local, state, and national levels may submit presentations.
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.
Join ACL’s Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs (ONHPP) and the National Council on Aging (NCOA) for a webinar on how to retain congregate meal program participants. In the last webinar on this topic speakers addressed attracting new participants to congregate meal sites. In this upcoming session the speakers will help attendees to:
The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and members of Federal Community Engagement Cross-Agency Workgroup are collectively hosting a two-part webinar series on Understanding Community Engagement and its role in expanding Competitive Integrated Employment.
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.
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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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.
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:
