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The President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID) will be hosting its next meeting on Thursday, September 26, 2024, from 9:00 am – 4:00 p.m. ET, and Friday, September 27, 2024, from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm ET. Register for the meeting here.

The meeting is open to the public and will be hosted at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The meeting will take place in the Switzer Building Conference Room 1400, located at 330 C Street, SW, Washington, DC 20201. Members of the public can observe the meeting in person or virtually. To observe the meeting in person, seating will be available for the first 25 individuals to reserve seats due to space limitations. In order to observe the proceedings in person or virtually, you must register in advance.

The Committee will discuss the 2024 PCPID Report focused on home and community-based services (HCBS) as it relates to direct support professionals, employment, community living, and federal support programs. The Committee will also discuss emerging issues facing people with intellectual disabilities.

Comments and suggestions, especially from people with intellectual disabilities, are welcomed. If there are comments that you would like to inform the PCPID, please share them using ACL’s comment form. Comments received by Friday, September 13, 2024, will be shared with the PCPID at the meeting.

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The resources for the Administration for Community Living’s (ACL) Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Technical Assistance and Resource Center’s (TARC) June 2024 webinar Cognitive Impairment in Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Neurologic Informed Care are now available and posted on the ACL website. The resources posted include the webinar recording (captioned and available on YouTube) and webinar slides.

During the webinar, John D. Corrigan, PhD, ABPP, introduced the new American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) expectations for the treatment of persons with cognitive impairment, including “Neurologic Informed Care,” as described in the new criteria. Implications for the identification of people in treatment who have a history of brain injury, as well as the use of accommodations to make treatment more accessible, were discussed.

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Overview of HHS’ Final Rule Implementing Section 504 of the Rehab Act
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
2:00 pm ET
Register Here

On May 1, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) made disability rights history with the release of a long-awaited final rule implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This comprehensive update — the first since the initial regulation was put into place more than 40 years ago — creates one of the most powerful tools we have ever had to combat discrimination based on disability in health care and human services.

In this webinar, leaders from the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will provide an overview of the rule’s critical provisions for the disability and aging networks. ASL and CART will be provided. A recording will be available on ACL’s website shortly after the webinar.

ACL was proud to work with their partners in the OCR and the disability community to achieve this top priority, and they are looking forward to working with OCR, the disability and aging networks, and the broader community to ensure that people with disabilities know about the rule’s powerful provisions to uphold their civil rights and guarantee they have equal access to health care and human services.

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Thursday, March 21, 2024
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Register for the Meeting

The President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID) will host a virtual meeting for its members to address issues surrounding home and community-based services (HCBS) to be examined in the Committee’s Report to the President. All the PCPID meetings, in any format, are open to the public. This virtual meeting will be conducted in a discussion format with committee members addressing the issues and recommendations identified by PCPID work groups proposing to be incorporated in the PCPID Report to the President. View more details published in the Federal Register notice.

For further information, please email ACL.

This meeting will include CART and American Sign Language (ASL) services. If there are additional reasonable accommodation requests, please contact J. Welborn and Sensis Agency by Thursday, March 7.

Stakeholder input is very important to the PCPID. Comments and suggestions, especially from people with intellectual disabilities, are welcomed. If there are comments related to HCBS or other areas that you would like to inform the PCPID, please share them through the PCPID comment form. Comments received by March 12 will be shared with the PCPID at the March 21 meeting.

About the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Initially established in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the PCPID advises the president and the secretary of health and human services on a broad range of topics that impact people with intellectual disabilities, as well as the professional fields that support people with intellectual disabilities and their families. Its goal is to improve the quality of life experienced by people with intellectual disabilities by upholding their full citizenship rights, independence, self-determination, and lifelong participation in their communities.

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