This webinar will share practical techniques for creating customized jobs that work for job seekers and employers. Participants will learn how lean strategies can improve employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities and businesses and hear about employers’ experiences with customized employment, including what worked and its value to their organizations.

Through a three-year cooperative agreement, Northwestern University will lead a national effort to help increase enrollment in ABLE accounts and improve financial literacy among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and other disabilities.

Recently updated with support from ACL, the Home Modification Information Network (HMIN) is a free online resource for individuals, caregivers, professionals, organizations, and others seeking information on home modifications.

ACL is pleased to announce the publication of Federal Register Notices to seek nominations for two family caregiving-related advisory councils.

Centered on three essentials — a safe place, treatment to heal, and opportunities to grow — the resource offers actionable strategies to strengthen services, financing, data use, and cross-system collaboration.

National Kinship Care Month is an opportunity to help bring attention to the experiences of kinship and grandfamilies, highlight their strengths and challenges, and recommit to building stronger systems that recognize and support them.

The aging and disability networks are encouraged to review the proposed redesign and share their perspectives. Input from organizations that represent and serve older adults, people with disabilities, caregivers, and their communities can help ensure the NHIS continues to provide relevant, accurate, and useful information for the populations we serve.

During Malnutrition Awareness Week, ACL joins the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) in raising awareness about prevention, early identification, and treatment.

Behavioral health is important to overall health and well-being. This Suicide Prevention Month is an opportunity to highlight ACL’s ongoing work to address depression, substance use, social isolation, and other factors that can affect mental health and suicide risk among older adults and people with disabilities.

Throughout September, ACL and organizations across the country are raising awareness about how many falls can be prevented and promoting practical strategies that help older adults maintain their health, independence, and well-being.