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Virginia: COVID-19: Creative and Promising Social Connectedness Practices
Description: Virginia has compiled some examples of service flexibility and maintaining social connectedness from interviews, conversations, and a statewide survey from its AAAs.…
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Illinois Care Connections FY21 Final Report
I'm excited to share the FY21 Illinois Care Connections final report. The Illinois Department on Aging (the SUA and ADRC/NWD grantee), partnered with the Illinois Department of Human Services and…
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Illinois: Illinois Care Connections
Description: The Illinois Assistive Technology Program (IATP) developed Illinois Cares Connections in partnership with the Illinois NWD System (Department on Aging (IDoA),…
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Proactive Vaccine Outreach Strategies: American Samoa “Vaccinate to Registrate” and Jingle Competition
Key Partners: American Samoa Community College, University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD), the Department of Health, the Office of Protection and Advocacy (OPAD),…
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Proactive Vaccine Outreach Strategy: Virginia: Encouragement and Support from State to Local Level
The Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services developed this digital flyer for local ADRC sites to encourage proactive vaccine outreach.…
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ADRCs Poised to Provide Person-Centered Counseling on COVID-19 Risks and Vaccine Decision-Making
Person-centered counseling is all about facilitating informed decision making. Through the use of person-centered counseling, the NWD System will empower individuals to make informed choices about…
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Proactive Vaccine Strategy: Michigan local ADRC partners with multiple partners for in home vaccinations!
In May 2021, the Detroit Area Agency on Aging, the local ADRC, launched a program to vaccinate individuals unable to travel to a vaccine site. They piloted the program with the initial goal to…
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ADBI: Health Care Outreach Toolkit
Description: This toolkit from the Aging and Disability Business Institute (ADBI) offers guidance for aging and disability community-based organizations (CBOs),…
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ACL: Social Connectedness Handout
Description: This handout provides definitions for key terms (e.g, social connectedness), recommendations and resources on addressing social connectedness,…
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ACL: State Strategies for Supporting Caregivers
Description: ACL has developed the attached one-pager highlighting some of the innovative strategies states have continued or implemented to support caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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ACL: How ACL’s Disability and Aging Networks Can Help People with Long COVID
Description: Finding the resources and supports you need can be overwhelming, but the Administration for Community Living’s programs, and the disability and aging networks that provide them,…
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ACL: Tools for Reaching a Remote Audience
Description: This tip sheet provides an overview of some popular tools to reach out to and connect with your audience. Click here to access the resource: https://acl.…
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UMASS: Community Life Engagement Toolkit
Description: This toolkit was developed to help service providers develop and improve high quality supports for community life engagement (CLE). Inside you will find guideposts for success,…
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ACL: Social Isolation Screening Resources for ADRCs/NWD Systems
Description: This document provides information on some of the tools ADRCs/NWD Systems are using to screen for social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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ACL: Funding Opportunities List
Description: This document is a compilation of recent funding opportunities from ACL and its partners that may support ADRCs/NWD System activities.
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Lewin Group: Money Follows the Person Demonstration Legislation from 2005 - 2021
This document summarizes and includes language from legislation pertaining to the Money Follows the Person Demonstration.
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ACL: Advancing the NWD System through Money Follows the Person Demonstration Partnership
This document describes the benefits that can be achieved through partnerships between the NWD System and the Money Follows the Person Demonstration, as well as strategies for developing…
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Medicaid: Money Follows the Person Resources Page
Description: This page on the Medicaid.gov website provides information on the Money Follows the Person program, including program goals, grantee information, and evaluation information and reports.…
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ADRC TA Exchange: Building Collaborative Partnerships between the Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration and ADRCs
Description: This toolkit provides partnership support to both Aging and Disability Resource Centers and Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration programs and contains useful information…
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AoA: Care Transitions Toolkit - Chapter Six: Implementation and Day-to-Day Operations
This chapter provides information on cross-training partners; identifying appropriate candidates for your program; providing care transitions support to consumers and caregivers;…
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AoA: Care Transitions Toolkit - Chapter Five: Building Organizational Capacity
This chapter provides information on building internal infrastructure; staffing models and workflow; ensuring person-centeredness; costs and billing procedures;…
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AoA: Care Transitions Toolkit - Chapter Three: Developing Effective Partnerships
This chapter provides information identifying potential CT partners; cross cultural strategies for strengthening partnerships; making the business case;…
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AoA: Care Transitions Toolkit - Chapter Two: Taking Time to Plan
This chapter provides information on conducting a root cause analysis, assessing your organization; program policies, and procedures, and day-to-day operations; service management;…
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AoA: Care Transitions Toolkit - Chapter One: Getting Started
This chapter provides a definition and overview of care transitions, evidence-based models and how the aging network supports care transitions. Since the original care transitions toolkit…
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AoA: Care Transitions Toolkit - Overview
The Administration on Aging (AoA) developed a toolkit in 2012 to provide guidance to the aging network on how to begin or establish care transitions programs.…
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