October 4, 2023
Announcements
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.
Friday, October 6, 2023, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
On the first Friday of every month, corresponding with the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, the national Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) team offers a live broadcast via Zoom Webinar to share numbers and the latest news about disability employment. Join us to hear from our hosts and expert panelists from the field who discuss current topics, findings and events.
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The LFDN is open to LEND family discipline faculty and staff only. The LFDN, an activity of ITAC, is a LEND-specific group whose primary purpose is to provide technical assistance services and develop best practices for supporting Family activities, Family Faculty, and Family LEND trainees throughout the larger AUCD and LEND network as well as other training programs across the country, through publications, products, presentations, and mentoring. For more information or to be added to the listserv, please email the AUCD staff liaison, Jeanette Córdova, at jcordova@aucd.org.
Deadline: October 13, 2023
AUCD is collecting comments from our network on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the proposed regulations for Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The proposed rule, “Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Health and Human Services Programs and Activities”, will strengthen protections, advance equity, and bolster protections for people with disabilities while participating in any service or activity that receives funding from HHS.
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Funding
Deadline: November 1, 2023
Award Ceiling: TBD
Biogen’s Grants Management & Strategic Giving Office stewards the biotechnology company’s global grant and giving strategy to catalyze scientific innovation, address unmet patient needs, and advance medical and disease education.The office invites applications for its Medical Education grants program, which will award grants to qualified institutions or organizations supporting independent medical and educational activities for healthcare professionals and researchers. Medical education may be accredited or non-accredited.
Deadline: November 14, 2023
Award Ceiling: $750,000
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invites applications for its Health Policy Fellows program, which supports RWJF’s vision for building a Culture of Health by creating a strong and diverse leadership in health policy committed to advancing health and health equity. Fellows will meet with national leaders well-versed in health, healthcare policy, health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism; think tanks and interest groups; key executive branch officials; and members of Congress and their staffs. A concentrated orientation prepares the fellows for immediate success in federal legislative and executive branch positions. The program seeks outstanding mid-career health professionals, behavioral and social scientists, and others interested in health and the drivers of health who are skilled and committed, with expertise in health and health equity, and can offer an informed perspective on important and complex challenges facing policymakers.
Deadline: November 14, 2023
Award Ceiling: $750,000
The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to implement the demonstration authority in Section 373(i) of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended (OAA), using the framework provided by the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers (the Strategy). The project funded under this NOFO will focus solely on goal 4 of the Strategy: strengthening financial and workplace security of family caregivers. The target audiences for the technical assistance and related activities of the successful grantee are entities typically involved with implementing and operating programs funded by the OAA, including state units on aging (SUAs); area agencies on aging (AAAs); local aging services and family caregiver support providers; kinship, grandparent and grandfamily services providers; tribes and tribal entities, and other entities that may be part of the aging and/or tribal services networks. Additionally, given the NFCSP’s inclusion of family caregivers of individuals with early onset-dementia and older relative caregivers supporting adults with disabilities, ACL desires that applicants identify how they will work to advance the capacity of the program to reach and serve these populations more effectively, with specific emphasis on approaches for strengthening the financial and workplace security of family caregivers.
Resources
ACL’s Disability Information and Access Line has launched a new tool to help people with disabilities to find local services and resources to support community living. Through DIAL’s new website and its searchable database, users can now find the information they need, at any time of day, every day of the year.
A guide to change the landscape of autism research and create the conditions for true engagement and equitable outcomes for the African American autism community. Family Voices transforms systems of care to better work for all children and youth, especially those with special health care needs and disabilities. For more information, visit www.familyvoices.org.
The NSCH is the largest national- and state‐level survey on the health and well‐being of children, their families, and their communities, providing timely information and comprehensive data on a range of topics such as: prevalence and impact of special health care needs; healthcare quality and access; physical and mental health. adverse childhood experiences; *NEW* in the 2022 NSCH are data related to healthy and ready to learn, housing instability, eating and weight related behaviors and concerns, fetal alcohol syndrome disorder diagnosis and evaluation, and receipt of supplemental security income.
