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PA Council on Aging to Host Social Isolation Symposium
The Pennsylvania Council on Aging (PCoA) has announced that they will host the first-ever Social Isolation Symposium on March 23 and 24, 2021. The symposium will feature nationally-known speakers focusing on the impact of social isolation, and how to get older adults to ensure their continued health and wellbeing. In addition to older adults, individuals who work with older adults, including caregivers and health care staff, stakeholders, and the public are encouraged to participate.
The two-day virtual event offers attendees a chance to participate in more than a dozen workshop sessions or select those of particular interest. Session topics include older adult suicide prevention; how to prevent social isolation among LGBTQ older adults; engaging, supporting, and empowering family caregivers; using partnerships and collaborations to reduce social isolation; staying social in a socially distanced world; getting seniors online, and more. To view the various sessions and to participate in the symposium, use this registration link.
RCPA Member CareLink Names Gary Woomer Chief Executive Officer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CareLink Community Support Services
March 16, 2021
Gary Woomer Named Chief Executive Officer at CareLink
MEDIA, PENNSYLVANIA — CareLink Community Support Services today announced that the agency’s Board of Directors has named Gary Woomer as permanent Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Woomer was installed as CareLink’s Interim CEO after Eileen Joseph retired in December 2020.
“Gary Woomer is an experienced mental healthcare professional, a strong leader, and a fantastic choice for CEO,” said CareLink Board Chair Scot Stetka. “He has been with CareLink for more than 20 years and possesses a comprehensive understanding of the agency that is unmatched. We are confident that Gary has the expertise to grow CareLink into an even greater, more successful organization.”
Mr. Woomer joined CareLink as a Program Director in 1999 and has since served as Regional Director, Vice President of Program Operations, and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to his tenure at CareLink, Mr. Woomer was employed at Prime Care, Inc. in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
“I am honored and proud to assume the role of CEO at CareLink, an organization that I have been with for most of my professional life,” Mr. Woomer said. “I look forward to continuing to work closely with our exceptional management team and staff to move the agency forward and meet the challenges of the next decade.”
Mr. Woomer holds an Executive Leadership Certificate from the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute at Bryn Mawr College, a master’s degree in health services administration from the University of St. Francis, and a bachelor’s in psychology from Shippensburg University.
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Since 1959, CareLink Community Support Services has been dedicated to providing people with mental illness and developmental disabilities with the caring support they need to live, work, and participate in the community with dignity and independence. CareLink currently serves individuals in 33 community programs throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey.
Media Contact:
Kate Rosin
CareLink Community Support Services
[email protected]
(610) 874-1119, ext. 613
www.carelinkservices.org
PA Capitol to Reopen to the Public on March 22
RCPA Member Merakey Announces Mobile Competency Restoration Team (MCRT)
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate
DATES: 3/24/21 – 5/19/21
FEE: FREE
The University of Southern Florida Muma College of Business is offering this free course and certificate to the public. The two-hour weekly modules will begin on March 24 with a new module offered every Wednesday until May 19. Modules/work do not need to be completed live.
OCYF Updated Certificate of Compliance Guidance
The Office of Children Youth & Families (OCYF) has provided an update regarding providers’ renewal application(s) for a Certificate of Compliance. Licensing Administration continues to work diligently to process the renewal applications as quickly as possible. However, given OCYF’s limitations in working remotely and a temporary reduction in staff, they cannot meet past commitments to issue a renewal Certificate of Compliance within 5 days of receipt of application. Until staffing is restored, the new goal is to have agencies’ renewed Certificate of Compliance emailed to the provider prior to the expiration date of your current Certificate of Compliance.
To minimize phone calls and emails concerning the anticipated date of the renewal issuance, as the provider Certificate of Compliance is completed, it will email it to you. OCYF is currently processing March expiration dates and have not finished them yet. Please wait until April to inquire about a March expiration date.
Beginning in April, you should inquire about your certificate’s status only if your Non-Provisional Certificate of Compliance has expired or will expire within a week, and you did not receive the renewed Certificate of Compliance in your email. Be sure to check your Spam/Junk folder as some OCYF emails have been found in them. A Non-Provisional Certificate of Compliance is a Certificate number that ends with a zero (i.e., 123450).
OCYF acknowledges there is a deadline to return the renewal application found on the renewal application packet coversheet, HS1230. However, given the mail delays during the pandemic and the backlog in issuing the renewal licenses, that deadline is not crucial. Provided OCYF has the application prior to the expiration date of your agencies’ Certificate of Compliance, OCYF can process it before it expires. It is not necessary to call or email to request an extension or notify OCYF that it will be late.
The Bureau of Equal Opportunity has requested that during the pandemic, the Civil Rights Compliance Questionnaires be emailed to their offices as staff are working remotely. Again, there is no need to call or email to request an extension or notify them that the Questionnaire will be late. The email addresses are:
- Central/Northern/Southeast Regions – [email protected]
- Western Region – [email protected]
A Provisional Certificate of Compliance (ending in a 1, 2, 3, or 4) is never automatically renewed with receipt of the renewal application. The region determines when the Certificate is ready to be renewed. If you have further questions, please contact RCPA Children’s Policy Director Jim Sharp.
REISSUED ODP Announcement 21-027 – Extension of Appendix K for ODP Waivers Approved
CPS and Transport-Trip Fixed Cost Reimbursement 1/1/21–6/30/21
(From ODP)
To: Providers of CPS and Transport-Trip Services
The survey is now available for providers to submit for potential reimbursement of fixed costs for the period 1/1/21 thru 6/30/21.
The Fixed Costs Reimbursement Survey can be found at https://odp-cps-transport-reimbursement.questionpro.com. This survey will remain open until March 31. It will not be extended, so if you wish to have your fixed costs considered, you must complete this survey by March 31, 2021.
For more information, please see the original communication that was sent on March 10, 2021:
To: Providers of CPS and Transport-Trip Services
In the coming week, ODP will begin allowing providers to submit information on their fixed costs to be considered for potential reimbursement. In preparation for this, providers who wish to be considered should begin gathering the following information: Estimated CPS revenue 1/1/21-6/30/21, Estimated Transport Trip revenue 1/1/21-6/30/21, Estimated Fixed Costs 1/1/21-6/30/21 for Building related expenses (Lease/Mortgage, Utilities, Insurance and Maintenance) and Vehicle related expenses (Lease/Depreciation, Insurance and Maintenance). We will also ask for Actual Fixed Costs for the period 7/1/19-6/30/20 for the same categories.
We recognize that this is not a comprehensive list of the fixed costs you may incur, but is meant to capture the significant ones consistently across providers. We will collect this information via an online survey over the course of a few weeks. Upon analyzing the submitted information and available funding, providers could expect to receive reimbursement for some or all of these costs in form of a gross adjustment issued prior to the end May.
Rick Smith l Director
PA Department of Human Services l Office of Developmental Programs
Bureau of Financial Management and Program Support
625 Forster Street Room 412 l Harrisburg, PA 17120
717.783.4873
www.dhs.pa.gov www.myodp.org
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