Here is today’s Monday Mailer for you:

ACL: Mission, Vision, & Priorities

ACL recently updated their mission, vision, and priorities. Two of ACL’s five strategic priorities are caregiving and connecting people to services.

Caregivers are central to independence and community living. ACL will expand and strengthen supports for family, unpaid, and paid caregivers. They will:

• Scale proven caregiver support programs, including respite and family caregiver services.
• Build grant recipient capacity to deliver sustainable caregiver supports.
• Embed caregiving in health and social systems as a critical prevention strategy against institutionalization.

People must be able to find and navigate services when they need them. ACL will:

• Invest in outreach, marketing, communications, and education to make programs visible and accessible.
• Simplify and modernize systems so that the public knows where to go and how to get the supports they need.
• Expand and strengthen resources made available by aging and disability networks, including Area Agencies on Aging, Centers for Independent Living, Aging and Disability Resource Centers, among others.

Learn about ACL’s other strategic priorities, whole-person health, employment, and protecting rights and preventing abuse, here.

The Role of SHIPs in Helping People with Medicare Navigate Their Coverage

KFF published an issue brief titled, "The Role of SHIPs in Helping People with Medicare Navigate Their Coverage." The State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) provides funding to a national network of state-based SHIPs. SHIPs are part of the No Wrong Door system and offer free, local, in-depth counseling and education to Medicare beneficiaries and their families to help them make informed decisions about their health coverage and benefits. SHIPs often take referrals from 1-800-MEDICARE and other federal aging and disability resources to address more complex beneficiary concerns. Read the full brief here.

USAging Social Connection Grant Opportunity  

USAging’s Strengthening Social Connection in Communities (SSCC) has launched a call for proposals to award 12-month seed grants, not exceeding $35,000 each, to up to 10 organizations within the aging network. Organizations can submit a proposal in one of the two tracks: Program Replication/Expansion or Cross-Sector Partnership.

The goal of this grant is to enhance the health of older adults and caregivers by replicating and sustaining evidence-based and evidence-informed social connection programs, partnerships, and referral processes in communities.

The application deadline is December 5, 2025. Find details on the submission criteria and application process here.

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