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AUCD Weekly - September 20, 2023


September 20, 2023

Announcements

AUCD 2023: You're Invited to the Awards Ceremony

Join us on the evening of Tuesday, November 7 as we come together to celebrate this year’s AUCD Award Recipients. At the annual Awards Ceremony, we recognize people, programs, and organizations for their leadership and contributions. AUCD awardees offer an outstanding example in leadership, advocacy, research, policy, and practice. Their work creates more diverse and inclusive communities for people with disabilities and their families. Awards are given in 10 categories and honor individuals in the AUCD Network, and local, state, and federal partners. Please RSVP when registering for the Conference to save your seat.

Applied Positive Psychology Virtual Course Begins October 4 Program

Register now for Applied Positive Psychology: Learning to Help People with IDD-MH Through Theory, Practice, & Technique with Dan Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP hosted by the National Center for START Services at the University of New Hampshire. This 6-week live, virtual course (October 4 to November 8 on Wednesdays 3:00-4:45 ET) will provide attendees with the skills and tools needed to implement foundational positive psychology approaches within their respective practice settings. This course is open to masters-level professionals (or those with 3+ years of experience) who work within developmental and/or mental health settings.

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Funding

NCBDDD and ASPHN - WIC Developmental Monitoring Project

Deadline: October 2, 2023

Award Ceiling: TBD

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits proposals for research projects that will apply computational approaches to develop parametrically detailed behavioral assays across mental-health relevant domains of function. These projects should focus on behavior in humans and test computational models in healthy subjects. For future applications, NIMH is particularly interested in behavioral measures, models, and parameters that have the potential for back-translation from humans to animals, especially for pre-clinical therapeutics development. NIMH is also interested in models that can be extended to clinical populations in the future.

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Resources

Researchers to Identify Key Brain and Behavioral Changes in Aging Women with Premtuations of the Fragile X Gene, FMR1

First documented two decades ago among a small group of men who had grandchildren with Fragile X Syndrome, Fragile X-associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS) has more recently been identified in women. Researchers at the University of Kansas Life Span Institute, Kansas IDDRC, and colleagues now are working to learn more about its effects in women. 

HHS Takes the Most Significant Action in a Decade to Make Care for Older Adults & People with Disabilities More Affordable and Accessible

In their continued efforts to improve access to health care and lower costs for millions of Americans, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), today finalized a rule to streamline enrollment in the Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs), making coverage more affordable for an estimated 860,000 people.  CMS estimates today’s improvements will save older adults and people with disabilities nearly 19 million hours in paperwork each year and reduce state administrative burden by over 2 million hours annually. All told, this action, together with the historic progress made under the President’s prescription drug law will help an estimated 1.2 million older adults and people with disabilities with limited income afford their Medicare coverage and health care costs. 

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