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Resources

For Professionals

• SNAP Food Benefits at Risk for Cuts
• House Budget Reconciliation Sets Disturbing Precedent for Seniors Programs
• Celebrate Older Americans Month by Finding Benefit Programs that Can Help You
• 5 Key Facts Must Inform the Medicare Reform Debate
• SCSEP Targeted in Workforce Investment Act Proposal
• Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: Overview of Key Issues and Guiding Principles
• The Impact of Isolation on the Economic Security of Older Adults

For Older Adults and Caregivers

• Long-Term Services & Supports: Candidate Survey
• You Gave, Now Save

For Advocates

• SNAP Food Benefits at Risk for Cuts
• House Budget Reconciliation Sets Disturbing Precedent for Seniors Programs
• Preventing Funding Cuts for Healthy Aging Programs: What You Can Do to Help

Medicaid HCBS Webinars

With support from the SCAN Foundation, NCOA and the Friday Morning Collaborative are hosting a series of webinars to help state advocates prevent cuts to HCBS and promote the adoption of new options in the Affordable Care Act. Explore these past events.

Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: Overview of Key Issues and Guiding Principles

April 2012

• Listen to the recording
• Download the presentation (PDF)

Speakers:

• Laura Summer, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute
• Sarah Barth, Center for Health Care Strategies
• Ari Neeman, National Council on Disability

State Advocate Experiences and Engagement in Duals Integration

March 2012

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• Download the presentation (PDF)

Speakers:

• Bill Henning, Boston Center for Independent Living
• Dennis Heaphy, Disability Policy Consortium –Massachusetts
• Deborah Doctor, Disability Rights California
• Laurel Mildred, California Foundation for Independent Living Centers
• Karen Keeslar, California Association of Public Authorities

Involvement of State Aging and Disability Advocates in Duals Integration

December 2011

• Listen to the recording
• Download the presentation (PDF)
• Access resources on duals integration models

Speakers:

• Edo Banach, CMS Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office
• Hilary Dalin, NCOA
• Kevin Prindiville, National Senior Citizens Law Center
• Mary Lou Breslin, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

Balancing Incentive Payments Program

October 2011

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• Download the presentation (PDF)

Speakers:

• Anne Montgomery (Senate Special Committee on Aging – Sen. Kohl)
• Effie George (CMS, Disabled and Elderly Health Programs)
• David Braddock (Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, University of Colorado)
• Enid Kasner (AARP Public Policy Institute)

Community First Choice Option and Balance Incentive Payments Program

June 2011

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• Download the presentation (PDF)

Speakers:

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Disabled and Elderly Health Programs
• Bruce Darling (Center for Disability Rights –New York State; National ADAPT)
• Anna Rich (National Senior Citizens Law Center)
• Elizabeth Royal (SEIU)

Implications of Medicaid Block Grants and Spending Caps for Seniors and People with Disabilities

May 2011

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• Download the presentation (PDF)

Speakers:

• John Holahan, Urban Institute
• Edwin Park, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• Patricia Nemore, Center for Medicare Advocacy
• Trisha Roddy, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Cost-Effectiveness of Home and Community-Based Services

March 2011

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• Download the presentation (PDF)

Speakers: 

• Stephen Kaye, Center for Personal Assistance Services, University of California San Francisco
• Lisa Alecxih, The Lewin Group
• K. Charlie Lakin, Research and Training Center on Community Living, University of Minnesota
• Dee Mahan, Families USA

State Budgets: Challenges and Opportunities for Home and Community-Based Services

February 2011

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• Download the presentation (PDF)

Speakers:

• Judy Solomon, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• Wendy Fox-Grage, AARP Public Policy Institute
• Jerry Reilly, Eldercare Alliance – Washington State
• Diane Justice, National Academy for State Health Policy

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