This symposium will connect federal, state, and local public health and aging leaders — as well as other stakeholders — to the latest science, best practices, and innovative interventions to improve the lives of older Americans.

Their 2023-2024 Expect, Engage, Empower Symposium Series offers an opportunity for the field to join OSERS in the challenge to raise expectations, engage families earlier, and fully empower all individuals who support transition services to improve post-school outcomes for children and youth with disabilities and their families. This webinar will focus on the importance of collaboration between special education, vocational rehabilitation, and centers for independent living.

This webinar will highlight how legal assistance providers can reinforce a valuable rights-based perspective and ensure older adults receive equal treatment and access to housing. Speakers will share practical examples of strategies for legal assistance providers to integrate into an existing social service network fighting for housing rights.

The webinar will focus on lessons learned from the delivery of Without Warning, a support program for those living with younger-onset Alzheimer's disease from the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center.

The program provides assistance for the urgent responses that are needed right before or after a disaster, as well as long-term recovery assistance that can take place years later. The program can help with funding for emergency assistance, debris removal, emergency protective measures, and the restoration of disaster-damaged facilities.

This is the first funding opportunity from the Digital Equity Act’s $1.25 billion Competitive Grant Program and is part of the “Internet for All” initiative, a key component of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda.

During the month of September, we mark the 51st anniversary of the passage of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. To commemorate the first civil rights legislation for people with disabilities, the Disability Employment Technical Assistance Center (DETAC) welcomes two disability-led national organizations to discuss employment — the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) and the Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living (APRIL).

Join the Interagency Committee on Disability Research (ICDR) August lunch & learn webinar, which will feature a 40-minute presentation from Gitendra Uswatte, Ph.D., a professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, on the topic of Long COVID and employment outcomes.

This webinar is for aging and disability network stakeholders who are providing services to support vaccinations for older adults and people with disabilities in their local communities. Attendees will learn about the most recent guidance issued from CDC, including vaccine recommendations, preventive measures, and treatment options available, as well as resources to support older adults and people with disabilities.

This national webinar — the third hosted by the Grassroots Project — will bring together state and local advocates and coalitions to discuss best practices for establishing common goals and collaborating to achieve them, and for ensuring disabled people are leading the charge to drive change.