Learn more and apply for this grant. ACL’s new Legal Assistance Enhancement Program (LAEP) will support legal assistance enhancements and innovations in four key areas:

At ACL, we believe that people of all ages, with and without disabilities should be able to live, grow, learn, and work side by side. Community living makes all of us, and our shared future, stronger. Our mission is to make it possible for all people.

Led by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, National Nutrition Month® focuses attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits.

On January 10, 2019, the NIDILRR-funded Family Support Research and Training Center (FSRTC) held a special webinar hosted by Easter Seals on the Strategic Plan for Family Support Research, which was released last year in November. Dr. Sandra Magaña of University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Brian Grossman of University of Illinois at Chicago and Randa Abdelrahim, graduate student at University of Illinois at Chicago, presented on the years long process of developing the strategic plan and highlights of the plan.

A new grant opportunity from the Administration for Community Living has been announced for the Alzheimer’s Disease Programs Initiative (ADPI).

A new Capacity-Building Toolkit for Including Aging and Disability Networks in Emergency Planning is now available called the

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Today, ACL posted new data on the Long-Term Care Ombudsman program’s impact in fiscal year 2017. Looking through the data, I am struck by both the scope and the impact of the work that ombudsmen do every day. As the Ombudsman program enters its 40th year as a mandatory program of the Older Americans Act, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on some of the data ACL has compiled, highlight some of the amazing work done by programs across the country, and discuss some important developments for the future of the program.