During the last two decades, the number of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD) living in community settings and receiving home- and community-based services (HCBS) increased dramatically. While this led to better outcomes, including people with ID/DD making more of their own choices and being a part of the community, there are great variations in the accessibility of quality HCBS across the country.

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the Administration for Community Living (ACL) will receive $150 million to increase the public health workfor

Medicare Open Enrollment started on October 15 and will end on December 7. There are many resources available to help make Medicare and the process of signing up for it easier to understand.

As National Disability Employment Awareness Month closes, ACL is announcing Mentra as the $100,000 grand prize winner of the Inclusive Pipeline for American Businesses Challenge competition. 

The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) held a Grantee Stakeholder Meeting on October 20, 2021 at 1:00 pm ET.  Listen to the October 20 call. It is also captioned for accessibility.

From U.S. Equal Employment Office Commission Chair Charlotte A. Burrows: Each October, the nation commemorates National Disability Employment Awareness Month to recognize the many contributions of persons with disabilities to our country’s economy and workplaces. In 1988, Congress first declared National Disability Employment Awareness Month, an extension of a week that had been celebrated since 1945, to raise awareness of the employment needs and contributions of individuals with all types of disabilities.  

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a new "one-stop shop" on Medicaid.gov to make it easy to access information about states' plans to enhance, expand, and strengthen home and community-based services using new Medicaid funding made available by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP). 

The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) at ACL has funded 81 new grants and contract awards in fiscal year 2021, ranging from six-months long Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects building new technology to five-year centers conducting research

ACL released a report on the fifth year of data collected by the National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System (NAMRS).

ACL is pleased to announce the recently awarded cooperative agreement to the National Council on Aging (NCOA) to operate the new Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center. The first year of this three-year project has an award of $250,000.