ACL recently awarded 28 five-year cooperative agreements under the new funding opportunity for ACL’s Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) State Partnership Program.

Next month, ACL is moving to a new email subscription service. The new ACL Updates will offer more options for customizing your subscriptions, making it easier for you to subscribe and share the updates you are most interested in. There’s just one catch. In order to keep receiving ACL Updates, you need to re-subscribe. Subscribing is easy – just enter your email address and check the boxes to tell us which subscriptions you want to receive. (Options are limited for now, but will be expanding soon.)

Veterans who served in Afghanistan may be experiencing a range of challenging emotions related to the U.S withdrawal from the country and the events unfolding now. Veterans who served during other conflicts also may be feeling strong emotions, as they may be reminded of their own deployment experiences. This blog post from the Department of Veterans Affairs talks about some of the common reactions and strategies for managing ongoing stress.

This webinar is intended to raise awareness about suicide and highlight strategies to help professionals, consumers, families, and communities understand the role they can play in promoting emotional well-being and preventing suicide.

A number of federal policy updates have been put in place for borrowers facing COVID-19 hardships. Older adults, and particularly older workers, have been hit hard by the pandemic and will need access to relief options to help them avoid foreclosure. A significant number of reverse mortgage borrowers also need assistance to keep their homes.

In the fall of 2020 the ACL launched a competition to strengthen the direct support professional (DSP) workforce to increase the overall stability of home- and community-based services (HCBS) for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD). The 

The Aging and Disability Business Institute (Business Institute) at the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) wants to hear about health care contracting experiences!

DOL announced an alliance with AAAED to promote people with disabilities in the national organization's workplace equity efforts.

The United States has been experiencing intense wildfires and is expecting an increase in hurricane activity during the coming months.