Archived conference materials / Presentations

The Essentials of Housing February 2005 Teleconference was a forum for participants to discuss the five percent rule as it relates to accessible housing, as well as the new HUD Guidelines and the proposed 2006 national budget.

The Essentials of Housing January 2005 Teleconference focused on affordable housing. Carla Pope from the Iowa Finance Authority gave a presentation on the difference funding sources mixed to make affordable housing work in Iowa. Participants were able to engage in lively discussion after the presentation.

The Essentials of Housing Teleconference in November 2004 was a discussion forum for participants during which they discussed how their grant projects were related to housing issues. The Guest Resource Person on this call was Lynn Lippitt from the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority.

The October 2004 Essentials of Housing Teleconference focused on housing vouchers with Guest Resource Persons, Karen Avery and Brian Peters of Independence First in Wisconsin, available on the call to answer participant questions.

This was the first Essentials of Housing Teleconference in a continuing series. Meeting summary includes participant introductions and suggestions for future call topics.

The Alliance for Health Reform offered a briefing on Medicaid fundamentals, for those wanting to brush up on their knowledge as well as those new to the subject. Speakers included Senator Jay Rockefeller, Alliance for Health Reform, Ed Howard, Alliance for Health Reform, Diane Rowland, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured Rodney Whitlock, Senate Finance Committee Republican Staff, Alan Weil, NASHP The transcript, materials, webcast and evaluation are all available.

The CMS Systems Change conference was February 28-March 2, 2005. Presentations from the 2005 sessions are available in both PDF and text formats. Topics range from ideas on sustaining systems change, employment services, Medicaid, integrating quality, policy implications and barriers to providing services. Full titles are listed in the keywords section.

Discusses options for combining Medicaid long-term care funding and expanding the scope of long-term care services. The call was organized in response to a need identified by a grantee and included states that were available and had relevant experience with the questions being raised.

Handouts, attendee lists, reports presentations and speaker bios from a national symposium on the direct-care workforce are now available through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy website. Hosted last May by the HHS and the U.S. Department of Labor, convened policymakers, workers, and practitioners from the fields of long-term care and workforce development to meet and learn from each other.

This presentation gives a summary of the ADRC grants, common elements of early successes, key considerations for a multi-agency approach, and materials to share. Lisa Alecxih and Sharon Zeruld of The Lewin Group gave this presentation to North Carolina's ADRC Advisory Board in February 2005.