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HHS' Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response recently published Discharge Planning and Care Coordination during the COVID-19 Pandemic, a resource developed in partnership with ACL and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. This tool is designed to support nurses, social workers, case managers, and others conducting discharge planning for adults with disabilities after COVID-19 treatment.

ACL's National Paralysis Resource Center (managed by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation) will open a new funding opportunity for community-based organizations that serve people living with any type of paralysis.

The Administration for Community Living (ACL) awarded the National Center for Benefits Outreach and Enrollment (NCBOE) to the National Council on Aging, Inc. (NCOA).

ACL awarded one cooperative agreement to the ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center to operate the Lifespan Respite Care Program: Technical Assistance and Resource Center (TARC). The goal of the TARC is to support the Lifespan Respite Care program, its grantees, and the national effort to ensure availability of, and access to, comprehensive, high quality respite care services and information for family caregivers across the lifespan. With this grant the TARC will work to:

The Administration for Community Living (ACL) awarded the State Health Insurance Assistance Program Technical Assistance Center (SHIP TA Center) to the Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging (NEI3A).

ACL's Office of Healthcare Information and Counseling has awarded the Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging as the Senior Medicare Patrol National Resource Center (SMPNRC). The

“Kinship Families and Grandfamilies” are families in which children are raised by their grandparents, other extended family members, or adults with whom they have a close family-like relationship. Currently, there are an estimated 2.7 million children in grandfamily/kinship households without parents in the home.

Transitions, including from school to college or work in the community and from pediatric to adult health care providers, can present unique challenges for people with Intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). One significant challenge is that the transition services and supports currently offered to youth and adults with IDD by school and health systems are often fragmented and difficult to navigate.