Posted July 14, 2014 | An historic bipartisan, bicameral bill that amends and reauthorizes the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) through fiscal year 2020, has been passed by both the Senate and House and is headed to President Obama for signature (on Tuesday, July 22, as reported by the Advocacy Monitor blog). H.R. 803, [...]
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CMS Identifies Options for States Impacted by the Department of Labor Rule
Posted July 3, 2014 | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an Information Bulletin (IB) to assist states in the wake of the Department of Labor’s regulations pertaining to domestic service workers. As background for the IB, CMS states that, “...it is anticipated that many states will determine that, for purposes of [...]
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What We’re Reading: Nov. 16, 2015
Administration for Community Living: Remembering Jamie Kendall ACL is mourning the loss of Jamie Kendall, Acting Director of the Independent Living Administration, who died November 12. Jamie was an inspirational leader, brilliant colleague and dear friend, but these words do not begin to really capture who she was, or how many people she touched. In [...]
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What We’re Reading: Oct. 19, 2015
Government Executive: Disabled employees in federal government reach all-time high More individuals with disabilities work for the federal government than in any time in the 34 years agencies have been tracking the statistic. Between fiscal years 2011 and 2014, federal agencies hired nearly 72,000 full-time permanent employees with disabilities. Between fiscal 2013 and 2014, the [...]
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What We’re Reading: Sep. 28, 2015
Health News Florida Isolation Increases Florida's Rural Suicide Rates Florida's rural counties are seeing suicide rates for youth almost double that of the state's large cities. And experts say isolation, poverty, access to firearms and a lack of mental health resources are to blame. — Daylina Miller & Nancy Klingener (Sep. 24) Kaiser Health News [...]
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What We’re Reading: Sep. 21, 2015
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Invisible Epidemic It’s an invisible epidemic, as devastating as diabetes but out of the public eye. Look around you, at your family, your neighbors, your coworkers. Chances are excellent that you’ll see someone suffering from mental illness. Nearly one in five adults in Georgia battles mental illness in any given year. [...]
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What We’re Reading: June 29, 2015
We’re taking stock of last week’s SCOTUS news and all of the headlines since, including: new CMS sub-regulatory guidance on housing supports and home and community-based settings; telehealth adoption by Medicare; state laws supporting family caregivers; gaps for students with invisible disabilities; and, transportation needs among older adults. We were right to be on SCOTUS [...]
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What We’re Reading: June 15, 2015
This week we’re reading about new Medicaid initiatives to fund supportive housing; pay and benefits for home care workers; the results of a new fall-prevention initiative; state efforts to pay for (and rebalance) LTSS; and a trio of new reports on employment and disability, affordable housing and Medicaid BIP. Kaiser Health News is taking a [...]
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What We’re Reading: June 8, 2015
This week our focus is still on mental health following Thursday’s news of the latest in mental health reform legislation. We’re also gearing up to celebrate the 16th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision later this month, we’re reading up on the intersection of disability and employment, with a cover story from Governing magazine. [...]
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What We’re Reading: May 11, 2015
This week we’re reading about the need for new and different strategies to support aging in place, mental health parity, employment of people with disabilities, and access to home and community-based services. The Atlantic explores older Americans’ desire to age in place, suggesting if “staying independent is what people want,” attitudinal changes about natural supports [...]
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