Learn more about how you can help encourage aging network agencies to find new volunteers with the Got an Hour? Give it Back Campaign. The "Got an Hour?" Campaign is designed to help local agencies attract volunteers to programs that work with seniors. The webinar will review the "Got an Hour?" Campaign's downloadable materials, webinars, and a search tool (powered by VolunteerMatch.org) to help connect prospective volunteers with opportunities and programs in their own neighborhood.
Learn about Senior Medicare Patrol's Volunteer Risk and Program Management (VRPM) policies and their impact on the larger Aging Network, including data to show how many SHIPs, AAAs and Ombudsman programs have already been effected. Hear from both Rebecca Kinney, SMP Program Manager at ACL, and Ginny Paulson, the SMP Resource Center Director, about how flexibility of the VRPM policies and procedures is an ACL strategic objective to allow for local level customization and implementation.
The December technical assistance call will include an overview of the National Alzheimer's Call Center, as well as their numerous available on-line resources. Presenters will focus on various special populations such as aging parents of adult children with physical and developmental disabilities where dementia may be affecting the parent and/or adult child with disabilities, and younger people with dementia.
The Supreme Court's historic ruling striking down Section 3 of the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), was an enormous victory for same-sex couples and their families, and affirms that they deserve equal treatment under the law. NCOA's Center for Benefits Access is holding a webinar on December 4, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST to help participants understand the impact of the U.S.
People with disabilities are a rich part of the rural fabric of America. Yet many people ask why a person or a family would remain in a rural community when faced with considerable hardships such as lack of Internet access and technology, lack of reliable transportation, and lack of needed supports and services. Why is rural America is so important to those that live there anyway? Why not just move if things are so hard? Those are the easy questions to answer.
