Falls Prevention and Chronic Disease Self-Management Education grantees, these resources can help you strengthen outreach and participation.

Strategic Partnerships

Forming partnerships is a key component to expanding programmatic reach in your community. Learn how to engage new partners and leverage your collaborations with different organizations to bring in participants from various populations and demographics.

Grand Rounds: Falls Prevention: It Takes a Community! (with Marymount University)

Program fidelity

Leader training and fidelity monitoring are the hallmarks of quality assurance for falls prevention and CDSME programs that have been approved by the Administration for Community Living (ACL) as meeting strict evidence-based criteria for health promotion and disease prevention programs. Beneficial outcomes for older adults participating in evidence-based CDSME and falls prevention programs depend on the program being implemented with fidelity.

Sustainability Workgroup:  Adapting Evidence-Based Programs to Better Meet Participant Needs While Maintaining Fidelity (2 part series)

 

Data collection and management

This guidance is specific to organizations with Prevention and Public Health grants administered by the Administration for Community Living. Find information on data collection requirements, privacy and security recommendations, optional data fields, and more.

Creating a Strong Semi-Annual Report

Marketing and recruitment

Marketing is a key component of recruiting participants into your workshop. Learn about various marketing strategies used for different population groups.

Mastering Effective Communications: Key Strategies

Business acumen

Sustainability is concerned with ensuring that evidence-based programs are readily available and easily accessible to older adults over time. Explore our toolkits, roadmaps, and best practices examples that can help strengthen the sustainability of your programs.

Capacity-Building Workgroup: Successful Partnership Development

Sustainability Workgroup: Older Americans Act (OAA) Basics

Social Work Month

During Social Work Month, NCOA emphasizes why social workers are essential to effective falls prevention for older adults. This webinar explores the role of social workers, highlighting how fall risk is multifaceted and shaped by health conditions, home environments, behavioral health, and social isolation. Viewers will also gain insight into how integrating social workers into their teams can strengthen falls prevention efforts and improve outcomes for older adults.

How Social Workers Can Support Falls Prevention

The Impact of Evidence-Based Caregiver Programs

This is Part 2 of our Caregiver Series! Hear from the developers of five leading evidence-based caregiver programs — TCARE, REACH, Building Better Caregivers, the Stress-Busting Program, and Powerful Tools for Caregivers — as they discuss the real impact these evidence-based programs.

Applying Behavioral Change Theories to Participant Recruitment

Amanda Krisher, LCSW-C and NCOA's Associate Director of Behavioral Health, discusses behavior change models to support participant recruitment and engagement.

Universal Design in Programming

Julianne Lee, Community Health Educator with Rural Health Network of South Central NY (CDSME 2023 grantee), talks through considerations when providing accessible programming to your network.