State Actions To Sustain Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports During COVID-19 August 26 Kaiser Family Foundation brief Strategies To Meaningfully Engage Medicaid Home-and-Community-Based Services (HCBS) Beneficiaries Sept 3 ACL and CMS webinar slides Living at Home in Rural America: Accessibility for Older Americans and People with a Disability August 19 joint HHS-HUD-USDA information bulletin COVID-19 […]
AAHD has joined the Mental Health Liaison Group (MHLG) seeking $4.5 billion in next year’s funding for mental health and substance use SAMHSA program funding. The August 28 letter is here: PDF. […]
AAHD has joined a Legal Action Center led letter to Congress supporting Medicaid support 30 days prior to release and 30 days after reentry to jail and prison. The August 14 letter, focused on mental health and substance use treatment, is here: PDF. […]
COVID-19 Face Coverings: Balancing the ADA with Public Health August 5 NIDILRR NARIC shared NW ADA Center fact sheet Person-Centered Planning Facilitation: Summary of Research and Findings July 31 Long Term Quality Alliance shared June ACL funded, HSRI paper The Challenges of Behavioral Health-General Health Integration: The Persistence of the Mind-Body Problem August Annals of […]
Racial Disparities in the Time of COVID-19: Persons with ID/DD July 27 NASDDDS and HSRI shared National Core Indicators data brief Reducing COVID-19 Disparities & Achieving Health Equity (CDC) July 28 TFAH announced CDC report A Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Communities Across America July 28 TFAH shared CDC Foundation funded Springboard Thriving […]
Addressing Barriers To ADA’s (Americans with Disabilities Act) Right to Community Participation July 23 Brandeis University Community Living Policy Center slides as resource for the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities ADA at 30 briefing The Right To Live in the Community: A Long Journey for People with Disabilities – Video July 22, 2020 NIDILRR NARIC […]
Person-Centered Planning and the Pandemic – Tools and Approaches During and Beyond July 9 ACL funded NCAPPS webinar slides Patient and Family Engaged Care: An Essential Element of Health Equity July 13 National Academy of Medicine discussion paper. Advocates Oppose CMS Further Delay of Medicaid HCBS Settings Rule July 14 CMS Medicaid home-a The Role […]
AAHD has joined the Mental Health Liaison Group advocating an increase in Medicaid matching (FMAP) during COVID-19. The June 25 MHLG letter is here: PDF. […]
Developing and Implementing State Olmstead Plans To Increase Access To Community-Based Services June 22 SAMHSA-NASMHPD-Bazelon Ctr webinar materials Long-Term Services & Supports Coordinator: A Promising (Massachusetts) Practice To Advance Independent Living, Recovery, and Integrated Care June 15 Brandeis Community Living Policy Center webinar materials How COVID-19 Can Spark Transformative Change in Long-Term Services and Supports […]
Housing Disparities for People with Disabilities: Unaffordable, Inadequate, and Dangerous June 17 NIDILRR NARIC shared April Brandeis U Community Living Policy Center brief Homelessness and COVID-19: A Merger of 2 Epidemics June 18 NIHCM webinar materials Future Planning for the Homelessness Response Systems: Lessons from Seattle/King County, Los Angeles, and Houston June 17 U.S. Interagency […]