The Center of Excellence to Align Health and Social Care’s 2025 Community Care Hub National Learning Community (NLC) is offering a unique opportunity to strengthen your organization’s capacity, expand existing partnerships, and share your insights with peers nationwide.

November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to recognize and celebrate the rich cultures, traditions, histories, and contributions of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States. Here at ACL, it’s also a time to highlight our work to support tribal elders and people with disabilities living independently in tribal and indigenous communities across the country.

Every year, ACL's Eldercare Locator leads “Home for the Holidays,” a campaign to encourage friends and families to use holiday visits as an opportunity to talk about an important topic affecting the health and well-being of older adults. This year, the focus is on increasing awareness of common scams, including tips to avoid fraud and what to do if you suspect you’re a victim.

All submissions will be considered for inclusion in the Social Engagement Innovations Hub — a searchable clearinghouse of best practices and data-driven interventions, programs, and services promoting social connections across populations. Contributing to this hub will encourage adoption, replication, and awareness of programs to address social isolation and loneliness.

The purpose of the Switzer Research Fellowship 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.

Celebrated every November, National Family Caregivers Month (NFCM) is a time to recognize and honor family caregivers across the country. It offers an opportunity to raise awareness of caregiving issues, educate communities, and increase support for caregivers.

The purpose of the federal SBIR program is to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector, strengthen the role of small business in meeting federal research or research and development needs, and improve the return on investment from federally funded research for economic and social benefits to the nation.

The purpose of the FIPs program is to generate new knowledge through research or to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies to maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family/caregiver support, and economic and self-sufficiency of people with disabilities, especially people with the greatest support needs.

Free NCAPPS technical assistance is currently available through the end of August 2025. To apply for technical assistance, states must complete and submit the online application form. States that submit applications by the end of the day on December 31, 2024, will receive priority review. Applications submitted after this date will be considered based on remaining available funding.

ARRT grants are intended to increase the number of high-quality disability and rehabilitation researchers. Grants are made to institutions of higher education to provide research training to individuals with doctorates or similar advanced degrees. The researcher trained by these grants will improve the community living and participation, employment, and health and function outcomes for people with disabilities.