The Biden-Harris Administration is hosting the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. For the first time in over 50 years, the White House will convene public and private sectors to accelerate progress and drive change to end hunger, improve nutrition and physical activity, and reduce disparities.
CHCS has developed the Patient-Centered Complex Care Research Agenda through support from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The agenda provides a guide for collaboratively improving complex care with a priority on the experiences of people with complex needs. It was co-created by more than 100 stakeholders, including a Patient and Family Advisory Board. This webinar will highlight the Research Agenda’s recommendations and opportunities for adopting a person-centered approach to complex care research.
ACL is hosting this webinar to provide participants with an opportunity to learn when and how to invite and/or provide feedback on state efforts to comply with the HCBS Settings rule. Presenters will share key dates, strategies, and examples of how powerful the voices of people with lived experience can be in creating more opportunities for choice and control in service delivery, and advancing the quality of services.
This webinar will be held on Friday, September 23, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. ET.
CMS is looking to gather information from health care providers and suppliers on their experiences providing support during public health emergencies (PHE) outside of the COVID-19 PHE. The input and lessons-learned from this session will be used to evaluate CMS regulations regarding emergency preparedness for certain health care providers. CMS is especially interested in hearing input on the following questions:
The Jewish Federations of North America Center on Holocaust Survivor Care and Institute on Aging and Trauma is hosting a webinar, Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed Program Evaluation: Principles, Practices, and Strategies. The webinar will discuss the principles of PCTI program evaluation and examine a PCTI evaluation planning tool. Speakers will share examples of how two local agencies, Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst and Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Philadelphia, have implemented PCTI evaluation in their work.
On September 8, 2022 CFPB Director Rohit Chopra will host a virtual discussion with advocates, service providers, community leaders, and members of the public on nursing home debt collection. This hearing is a chance for the CFPB to hear from consumers, their advocates and others as they explore challenges around nursing home debt collection practices and the impact they can have on the financial wellbeing of caregivers, their families, and friends. It is also an opportunity for consumers to learn more about their rights.
In 2021, ACL awarded seven grants to support the Community Collaborations for Employment (CCE) Program to help enhance collaborations across systems to maximize experiences for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities as they transition between school and work in the community. Join the DETAC as three CCE Grantees (Arizona, Kansas, and Massachusetts) share insights about the strategic framework they established to help optimize opportunities for youth with I/DD to achieve competitive integrated employment within tribal reservations, rural, urban, and suburban communities
The Nebraska Council on Developmental Disabilities (NCDD) is funding national subject matter expert Dave Whalen from Niagara University (NU) to bring the Emergency Management Disability Awareness Training (EM DAT) program to Nebraska. The program brings together the disability community and those with a role in disaster emergency response to educate on matters related to proper response for those with disabilities and access and functional needs.
In this webinar, experts from the field will share their experiences in creating opportunities for people with disabilities to work as DSPs using customized employment and accommodations. Attendees will learn about an innovative DSP Academy that trains people with disabilities to work as DSPs. RCM of Washington Chief Executive Officer Amy Brooks and Chief Innovation Officer Susan Brooks will describe RCM’s approach to training and employment placement.
