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The President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID) will host a virtual meeting for its members to identify emerging topics to examine in the Committee's Report to the President. All the PCPID meetings are open to the public. Comments and suggestions from people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are strongly encouraged.

 

This meeting with be held on Thursday, July 28, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET.

 

Join the DETAC to celebrate the impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and learn how the ADA has supported competitive, integrated employment (CIE) for persons with disabilities. This webinar will feature pre-recorded remarks from Acting ACL Administrator Alison Barkoff that describing how ACL has made strategic investments to advance CIE in communities. The webinar will also include a panel of five self-advocates from across the country to discuss how the ADA has impacted and empowered them to achieve employment. 

 

This webinar will host conversation about healthy aging for people with long-term physical disabilities. There will be an interdisciplinary panel of experts that will discuss the importance of environmental factors, such as the built, attitudinal, and policy environments. They will cover topics including housing, social disconnectedness and isolation, and home and community-based supports, and focus on how individuals and communities can take steps to improve outcomes.

 

Financial exploitation is one of the most prevalent forms of elder abuse. Financial exploitation cases involve undue influence, which occurs when a third party uses their role and power to exploit someone and gain control over the decision-making of that person and often impacts people with cognitive impairments or those who are isolated.

The Reeve Foundation's National Paralysis Resource Center is hosting a panel discussion with four men living with paralysis to share their experiences and perspectives on dating. Speakers will discuss their thoughts on the topics of insecurities, confidence, intimacy, and social engagement.

 

This webinar will be held on Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. ET.

 

NADTC will be hosting a Virtual Transportation Equity Stakeholder Meeting on June 23, 2022 with a focus on rural, tribal, and frontier areas. The meeting will be conducted as an open forum with opportunities for transportation stakeholders who support community transportation for older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers to share their perspectives and experiences. Public transit and human services transportation providers and other stakeholders, including aging, disability and diversity professionals and advocates, are invited.

 

NADTC will convene Virtual Transportation Equity Stakeholder Meetings on June 21 and June 23, 2022. The meeting on June 21st will focus on urban and suburban areas and the meeting on June 23rd will focus on rural, tribal, and frontier areas. These meetings will be conducted as open forums with opportunities for transportation stakeholders who support community transportation for older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers to share their perspectives and experiences.