Our 2025 theme, A Place at the Table, recognizes the importance of local nutrition programs and the meals being served in communities across the country. ACL, its partners, and local programs can use this theme to highlight several key topics, like the benefits of getting to know your community and program participants and how coming together over meals can improve health and well-being.

The 2024 plan update prioritizes supports for people with ADRD and their families and caregivers, who need supports that go beyond the care provided in formal settings such as doctors’ offices, hospitals, or nursing homes.

Join ACL to learn more about the National Caregiver Support Collaborative (NCSC), an innovative new initiative offering resources and technical assistance to aging, tribal, and kinship caregiver support networks.

The purpose of the DRRP program is to achieve the goals, and improve the effectiveness, of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act by generating new knowledge or developing methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies that advance a wide range of health and function, community living, and employment outcomes among people with disabilities, especially people with disabilities who have the greatest support needs.

Join the ACL-funded National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center (NADRC) for their upcoming webinar, "Life Experience Informing Careers in Dementia Services and Supports," which will highlight the intersection of careers in supporting people living with dementia and caregivers — and how dementia caregivers' personal experiences inform their work.

The purpose of the Switzer Research Fellowships Program is to build research capacity by providing support to highly qualified individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to conduct research on rehabilitation, independent living, and other experiences and outcomes of people with disabilities.

This funding opportunity is designed for applicants to develop a statewide initiative to address the capacity for — and delivery and sustainability of — evidence-based CDSME and support programs with a focus on improving the behavioral health of older adults and adults with disabilities.

The Link Center's Shared Learning Groups are an opportunity to dive into important topics together, sharing resources, information, and ideas to better support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), brain injuries, and other disabilities and co-occurring mental health conditions.

On October 29, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced an opportunity to participate in a second cohort of the Housing and Services Partnership Accelerator (HSPA). This opportunity offers individualized technical assistance to help states reduce homelessness by addressing health-related social needs, such as services connecting older adults and people with disabilities to accessible, affordable housing.

Social isolation and loneliness are key risk factors for fraud and exploitation. Learn about this important topic — and resources available to address it — by joining ACL's Commit to Connect webinar. This webinar will highlight the annual Eldercare Locator Home for the Holidays campaign, which this year focuses on avoiding financial scams.