Registration is now open for the 3rd annual Walk for WEAAD (World Elder Abuse Awareness Day). Join us and help build a national elder justice movement, through movement!

FEMA is spearheading an effort to create guidance and resources to promote a common understanding of resilience; incorporate the relationship between stressors and shocks; address the critical roles of all stakeholders; and inspire fresh, forward-looking, and people-centered planning approaches to increase community and national resilience. FEMA is also accepting applications for their National Advisory Council.

Earlier this month, the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) within the Department of Education announced a new funding opportunity with an exciting provision. The Pathways to Partnerships Innovative Model Demonstration Project, RSA’s largest discretionary grant, focuses on building partnerships between the systems that support disabled youth as they transition from school to adult life to increase their opportunities for competitive integrated employment.

The ACL-funded Transit Planning 4 All (TP4A) program is hosting two virtual town halls to identify unmet and emergent transportation accessibility barriers, obstacles, and needs for people with disabilities and older adults across the nation.

Dr. Catherine Ipsen and Andrew Myers from the University of Montana, and Dr. Andrew Houtenville from the University of New Hampshire, will discuss employment outcomes for people with disabilities in rural and urban areas over time, as well as rates of telework, inability to work due to closed businesses, getting paid, and the ability to look for work in rural and urban areas.

In this DETAC webinar, learn how AT programs assess specific sensory, physical, social, emotional, and cognitive challenges. The process for analyzing, determining, and providing support to individuals, employment staff and businesses will be shared. In addition, case examples in which AT was successfully applied, resources and program information will be highlighted.

The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) at ACL has opened a new funding opportunity under the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) Program for projects for translating the findings and products of DRRP research into practice.

Join the National Council on Aging (NCOA) National Institute of Senior Centers (NISC) for a live web event celebrating its Programs of Excellence awardees in the Health and Wellness category. This awards program gives senior centers an opportunity to share their innovative programs and the impact they have on the people they serve and their communities.

The EO directs actions to improve job quality for the professionals who provide the critical services that make community living possible for millions of people. It includes actions to improve support for the 53 million family caregivers who provide the overwhelming majority of long-term support to older adults and people with disabilities. It also directs actions to expand availability of home and community-based services, including those funded by Medicaid and the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Join Commit to Connect for a webinar to learn about the Temple University Community Participation Measure. This tool assesses self-directed community participation interests of adults with psychiatric disabilities and autistic adults to guide community inclusion supports planning.