Today we celebrate the start of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) and recognize the often overlooked talents that people with disabilities bring to the workforce. This is a year of milestone anniversaries for the disability community as we celebrate 30 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act and 75 years of NDEAM. This year's NDEAM theme, "increasing access and opportunity," reflects the impact of these two milestones.

We need your help promoting ACL’s Social Care Referrals Challenge to create and modernize health IT solutions to foster connections between health care systems and community-based organizations that provide social care for older adults and people with disabilities.

Focus on COVID-19 & Dementia: Fall Webinar Series NADRC is hosting a free webinar series on COVID-19 and dementia. Each webinar will focus on organizations that have pivoted their service delivery system to continue serving and supporting people living with dementia and their caregivers during the pandemic.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a

Promising Practices for Promoting Flu Vaccinations for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries During COVID-19 Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 3:00-4:00 PM ET Webinar Registration

Register for the webinar on Thursday, October 1 at 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. ET.

By Tom Moran, Deputy Administrator for Regional Operations and Partnership Development

The Administration for Community Living (ACL) has awarded a $1.75 million cooperative agreement to Rush University that will fill the gaps in health professions training programs by embedding disability-related content on the health care of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD) into interprofessional health education curriculum.

A paper by Dr. Laura Shannonhouse, Associate Professor, Georgia State University; Matthew Fullen, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech; and Mary Chase Mize, Doctoral Student, Georgia State University