Thursday, April 22, 2021 1:30-3:00 PM ET

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD), June 15th, serves as a call-to-action for individuals, organizations, and communities to bring attention to the issue of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation. ACL and the National Center on Elder Abuse are excited to share new & updated tools designed to help you generate awareness about elder abuse, at any distance.

ACL's National Paralysis Resource Center (managed by the

ACL has opened two new funding opportunities under the Lifespan Respite Care Program. Lifespan Respite Care Programs are coordinated systems of accessible, community-based respite care services that reduce duplication of effort and help to develop respite care infrastructures at the state and local levels.

ACL is seeking stakeholder input on potential changes to the National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System (NAMRS). The purpose of NAMRS is to increase understanding of adult maltreatment as investigated by adult protective service (APS) programs. NAMRS has collected administrative and program data from APS programs across the country since 2016. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has authorized NAMRS through early 2023. It has been reauthorized once previously, with no changes, in 2020. To prepare for the 2023 OMB reauthorization,

ACL has released two Innovations in Nutrition (INNU) Funding Opportunities Announcements (FOAs) to establish cooperative agreements to conduct research projects that enhance the quality, effectiveness, and outcomes of nutrition programs and services within the aging services network. 

ACL has released a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to establish a cooperative agreement to operate a National Resource Center on Nutrition and Aging (NRCNA). The NRCNA will provide training, technical assistance, and support to ACL discretionary grantee recipients and Senior Nutrition Program Title III-C network organizations in every state, territory, and the District of Columbia.

Through this funding opportunity, the Administration for Community Living plans to award approximately 10 cooperative agreements to domestic public or private non-profit entities.

CDC and ACL will provide nearly $100 million in grants to help older adults and people with disabilities get vaccines  

The new acl.gov/COVID-19: You may have noticed that our COVID-19 page has a new look. On the relaunched site we've reorganized our resources to create a few new pages: