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Promising Practices Spotlight: Focused Care Coordination and Elder Advocates

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This webinar will feature speakers from Idaho and Maine as they share successes, lessons learned, and outcomes from their 2018 ACL state APS enhancement grant projects which focused on person-centered, collaborative, focused interventions, as well as enhanced data collection. Join this webinar to learn how goal attainment scaling, supported decision making, motivational interviewing, and other interventions may be utilized in APS practice.
 
This webinar will be held on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET.

2022 Spring Meeting

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The 2022 ADvancing States Spring Meeting will take place in New Orleans on May 2-4th, for state directors of aging, disabilities, and Medicaid LTSS. This annual roundtable-style discussion symposium will feature sessions that are live webcasted and feature active participation from attendees and panelists.

Needs Assessment Toolkit for Dementia, Cognitivie Health, and Caregiving

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This new assessment toolkit can help state, local, and territorial public health and aging officials conduct comprehensive needs assessments to identify unmet needs of older adults, scale up existing community strengths, and promote healthy aging. Join the Alzheimer’s Association and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) on for a brief overview of the toolkit. Speakers will talk about how health equity can be prioritized to better meet the needs of older adults. 
 

Understanding and Addressing Unmet Needs in HCBS Through the Lens of Person-Centered Practices

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Researchers at the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy conducted a study to learn how many people who use Home and Community-Based Services need more services than they receive and understand the connection between unmet HCBS needs and health and community living outcomes. During this webinar, panelists will discuss how the study can influence person-centered planning in HCBS, opportunities for improvement, and how to overcome challenges to advancing person-centered practices.

Innovation and Sustainability in Emergencies

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This webinar will feature a panel of representatives from state developmental disability (DD) councils who have engaged in innovative partnerships with FEMA, ACL, and CDC during COVID-19. Join this event to learn about new emergency management tools, including “pop-up” vaccination clinic and the Disability Information and Access Line (DIAL), and how federal agencies are working with DD councils to increase access to services for people with developmental disabilities.

How Blended, Braided or Sequenced Funding Can Help Drive Employment, Equity and Inclusion

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The LEAD Center is hosting a federal interagency webinar with ACL, the Department of Labor, the Department of Education, and the Social Security Administration about equity in employment. State practitioners across the workforce system will discuss how they successfully applied innovative, collaborative resource sharing to benefit businesses and job seekers with disabilities. 
 
This webinar will be held on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET.
 

The Many Facets of Advance Care Planning

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This webinar will cover advance care planning at Southcentral Foundation (SCF), where providers support patients in coming up with advance directives and taking steps to ensure they are carried out. The webinar will discuss the creation of advance directives, durable power of attorney for health care, living wills, DNR/DNI orders, patient rights, and more.
 

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