by Nikki Montgomery | Nov 20, 2024 | Family Voices, Resource/Publication
Family Voices has launched My Language, My Care, a free online course about language access rights and services. In this course, participants learn how health care is better when people can communicate with their health care provider in their preferred language. The...
by Nikki Montgomery | Nov 7, 2024 | Policy Action
The lame duck session is any meeting of the House of Representatives or Senate that takes place after a November election and before the new Congress starts their new session. This also applies to presidents and other lawmakers who are retiring or did not win their...
by Nikki Montgomery | Nov 7, 2024 | Policy Action
The National Institutes of Health is in the first stage of developing an agency-wide NIH Strategic Plan for Disability Research. The strategic plan will identify scientific themes and develop operational goals and objectives to advance research activities that promote...
by Nikki Montgomery | Nov 7, 2024 | Policy Action
ACL awarded a Project of National Significance on Community Collaborations for Employment to increase and enhance collaborations across existing local systems to maximize a seamless experience and outcomes of youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities...
by Nikki Montgomery | Nov 7, 2024 | Policy Action
Check out the newly released 2024 Prenatal-to-3 State Policy Roadmap. The Roadmap provides a summary of state progress on the following 12 recommended policies and strategies. In addition, the Roadmap provides details on the impact of each recommendation, how to...