ACL’s Commit to Connect initiative, in collaboration with engAGED: The National Resource Center for Engaging Older Adults, is launching a Call for Innovations to identify model interventions, programs, and services addressing social isolation and loneliness.

The focus of this joint council meeting is the forthcoming update of the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers. The meeting will be open to the public. Registration is not required to attend.

This office hour will highlight strategies, models, and programs from 50 Forward Mohawk Valley, specifically their Bill Payer Program to protect older adults from financial fraud through friendly visits, building age-friendly communities, and person-centered planning.

ACL’s Projects of National Significance (PNS) Community Collaborations for Employment (CCE) grants, launched in 2021, support stakeholder collaborations to better facilitate transitions of youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) between schools to employment and community living. As the seven grants conclude their final year, the CCE teams from Kansas and North Carolina will share highlights from their work, including successful strategies, effective partnerships, outcomes, and lessons learned.

These projects will help enhance innovation, strengthen network capacity, develop new practices, and produce replicable tools and strategies to improve nutrition outcomes for older adults. This year’s awards focus on increasing access to nutrition services for older adults with behavioral health conditions, including those experiencing homelessness.

The five grantees include health care systems, public health departments, and a state-level nonprofit organization. They will receive approximately $6.25 million in combined funding to implement evidence-based falls prevention programs in their respective communities.

ACL aims to increase access to programs for older adults with behavioral health conditions, thereby improving their health outcomes, reducing health care costs, and sharing successful strategies nationwide to enhance access and care.

On November 18, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Administration for Community Living (ACL) hosted The Power of Caregivers for a Healthy America: Building a Better Future Together, a national event recognizing the nation’s more than 63 million family caregivers and over 5 million direct care workers whose dedication helps people live independently and strengthens communities across the country.

ACL has awarded $8.39 million to expand person-centered, trauma-informed (PCTI) services through an expert-led resource and technical assistance center. Building on a decade of demonstrated success in improving quality of life for Holocaust survivors and strengthening the capacity of caregivers and professionals nationwide, this award will broaden the reach of PCTI services to communities across the country.

ACL has awarded eight new State Program Enhancement Grants under its Lifespan Respite Care Program, which supports state efforts to develop, enhance, and coordinate systems of accessible, community-based respite services.