OMHSAS Moves Monthly Stakeholder Meeting to February 24
Webinar
Webinar Series: Entrepreneurship, Disability, & Community Development Financial Institutions
Message from the National Disability Institute:
Accessing capital can be essential for business growth, yet many founders with disabilities report experiencing significant barriers. Join our five-part webinar series to hear from community development financial institutions (CDFI) who have found ways to increase inclusion and from disability-owned businesses on how they obtained the capital they needed.
Who should attend:
- Entrepreneurs with disabilities looking for information on accessing capital and how CDFI lending differs from that of traditional banks;
- CDFIs with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion who wish to ensure they are meeting the needs of business owners with disabilities; and
- Entrepreneurial and other support organizations looking for information to assist their customers to access capital and other financial health supports.
Register for the Introduction to CDFI’s session on February 28, 2023, from 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST.
Register for sessions 2–5, scheduled every other Tuesday from March 7, 2023, through April 18, 2023, from 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST. Each session will include CDFI and the experiences of business owners with disabilities.
ASL interpretation and captioning will be provided during the session. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email Alexis Jones. For more information, visit NDI’s website.
ANCOR Webinar for Members: Unwinding of the Public Health Emergency
2023 Virtual Speaker Series: Free DEI Resources Available in Honor of Black History Month
February is Black History Month
Black History Month focuses attention on the contributions of African Americans to the United States. It honors all Black people from all periods of United States history.
Friday, February 10, 2023
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Structural Racism and Psychiatric Practice: A Call for Sustained Change
Rachel Talley, MD
Structural racism has received renewed focus, fueled by the convergence of major political and social events. As a result, psychiatry as a field has been forced to confront a legacy of systemic inequities.
Dr. Talley will use examples from her clinical and supervisory work to highlight the urgent need to integrate techniques addressing racial identity and racism into psychiatric practice and teaching. This urgency is underlined by extensive evidence of psychiatry’s long-standing systemic inequities. Our field suffers not from a lack of available techniques but rather a lack of sustained commitment to understand and integrate those techniques into our work; indeed, there are multiple published examples of strategies to address racism and racial identity in psychiatric clinical practice.
She will provide recommendations geared toward more firmly institutionalizing a focus on racism and racial identity in psychiatry and suggest applications of existing techniques to our initial clinical examples.
Thursday, February 23, 2023
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Making One’s Way in the World
Illya Eliphis Davis, PhD
Illya Eliphis Davis serves as the Director of Freshmen and Seniors’ Academic Success Programs and Professor of Philosophy at Morehouse College. He is a 1989 philosophy graduate of Morehouse College. He pursued a Master’s degree in Religion and Culture at Harvard University and doctoral studies at The University of Chicago in Philosophy of Religion.
He has published on the political thought of former Morehouse College president Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, African American Religious Experiences, Black existential thought, Black fraternities and sororities, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Professor Davis has provided invited lectures at the United States Department of Labor, The University of Chicago, Duke University, Mississippi State University, and the University of Notre Dame. Most recently, he provided the 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Day talk for the United States Department of Labor.
Professor Davis is a frequent social and political contributor to NPRs WABE-Atlanta. He teaches and researches Africana Philosophy and Race, philosophy of language, and philosophy of religion. He is the proud father of two young ladies: Ilan, a 2021 graduate of Spelman College, and Anya, a sophomore at Spelman College. He is a member of The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated.
If you have any questions, contact Nancy Massey.
OVR State Board of Vocational Rehabilitation Quarterly Meeting Announced
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Start time: 10:00 am
End time: 3:00 pm
Break: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
This meeting will be hybrid, with the in-person portion held at the Best Western Premier in Harrisburg (800 E. Park Dr., Harrisburg, PA) and the virtual portion held via Zoom. The public is invited to attend in person or connect to this meeting using the following information:
You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: March 2, 2023, 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: PA State Board of Vocational Rehabilitation Quarterly Meeting
Please visit this link to join the webinar.
Passcode: 210559
Or One tap mobile:
US: +19292056099,,85656724729#,,,,*210559# or +13017158592,,85656724729#,,,,*210559#
Or Telephone:
Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
US: 1-929-205-6099 or 1-301-715-8592 or 1-305-224-1968 or 1-309-205-3325 or 1-312-626-6799 or 1-646-931-3860 or 1-669-444-9171 or 1-669-900-6833 or 1-689-278-1000 or 1-719-359-4580 or 1-253-205-0468 or 1-253-215-8782 or 1-346-248-7799 or 1-360-209-5623 or 1-386-347-5053 or 1-507-473-4847 or 1-564-217-2000
Webinar ID: 856 5672 4729
Passcode: 210559
CART and sign language interpreters will be available during this meeting. Those using a screen reader can connect via the following link: CART.
The agenda for this meeting can be found on the State Board’s web page. Anyone who would like to make public comment prior to the meeting may submit their comments via email. Additional auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. Please send your request electronically.
DETAC Webinar on Ticket to Work Program for Job Seekers With Disabilities — Feb. 14
Join the Disability Employment Technical Assistance Center (DETAC) for a webinar about how Centers for Independent Living (CILs) and their programs serve ticket holders in the Ticket to Work program. The webinar will cover the structure of the Ticket to Work program, how involvement can lead to diversified funding for CILs, and how the program can help people with disabilities find employment in the community.
Speakers
- Robert Pfaff, Social Security Administration
- Kris Carrier, New Horizons Independent Living Center
The webinar will take place Tuesday, February 14, 2023, from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm. Register here to attend the webinar.
DLTSS Training: Unwinding Home and Community-Based Services Public Health Emergency Flexibilities
Date: February 8, 2023
Time: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm ET
Registration Required
Closed captioning will be available.
In this webinar, the Department of Long-Term Services and Supports (DLTSS) will be discussing state requirements and opportunities for resuming Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) operations when we approach the end of the Public Health Emergency (PHE). This includes:
- CMS resources to support states in unwinding PHE flexibilities, including considerations for HCBS;
- An overview of HCBS-related PHE flexibilities to unwind, with a focus on the 1915(c) HCBS in 1915(c) waivers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) approval process;
- An overview of HCBS-related PHE flexibilities that can be made permanent in 1915(c) waivers and the CMS approval process; and
- Other considerations for HCBS programs when unwinding from the PHE.
Following the presentation, webinar participants will have the opportunity to ask questions.
AAW Amendment Approved by CMS
ODP Announcement 23-008 announces that the amendment to the Adult Autism Waiver (AAW), effective January 1, 2023, was approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on January 13, 2023. The amendment to the AAW includes the following substantive changes:
- Adding reserved waiver capacity for individuals who are discharged from a state center or are released from incarceration after a period of at least six consecutive months.
- Aligning of provider qualifications in the AAW with the Consolidated, Community Living, and Person/Family Directed Support (P/FDS) waivers, whenever possible.
- Allowing relatives to deliver the Life Sharing component of the Residential Habilitation service.
- Requiring that agencies that provide Residential Habilitation/Life Sharing be qualified and enrolled to provide Residential Habilitation/Life Sharing in the Consolidated or Community Living waivers.
- Increasing the annual fiscal limit in the Transportation service to $5,000 per participant’s Individual Support Plan (ISP) year.
- Allowing one of the four required individual monitorings conducted by the Supports Coordinator each year to be conducted remotely. NOTE: For all individuals receiving Residential Habilitation (Community Homes or Life Sharing), remote monitorings are not permitted. See ODP Announcement 22-085 for additional information.
- Allowing delivery of direct services using remote technology (teleservices). The requirements in the AAW will become effective when Appendix K flexibilities expire, six months after the expiration of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency.
- Aligning the Assistive Technology service, where possible, with the Consolidated, Community Living, and P/FDS waivers. This includes adding generators for the participant’s primary residence.
- Adding a new service, Remote Supports. A separate communication will be published in the coming weeks, providing instructions about how to add new Remote Supports procedure codes to ISPs. Remote Supports should not be added to ISPs until this communication is published.
The waiver application approved by CMS and the record of change document are available here.
ODP will be holding a webinar to discuss major changes made in the approved AAW amendment. Webinars specific to Remote Supports will be scheduled and communicated in the coming weeks. The date, time, and registration link for the general AAW amendment webinar are as follows:
- February 6, 2023
- 10:00 am – 11:00 am
- Register here
Upcoming Webinars From National Council: Free With Your RCPA Membership
Advancing Trauma- and Resilience-Informed Health Care Systems — Webinar on January 18
January 18, 2023, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm ET
REGISTER
A trauma-informed approach to care acknowledges that health care organizations and care teams need a complete picture of a patient’s life situation — past and present — to provide effective services with a healing orientation. Trauma-informed practices hold the potential to improve patient engagement, treatment adherence, and health outcomes, as well as provider and staff wellness.
This webinar, cosponsored by the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) and the Better Care Playbook, will highlight how Denver Health, a large health system in Colorado, is implementing a trauma- and resilience-informed approach into organization-wide policy and practice, while also focusing on addressing systemic racism and biases. Panelists — including Maria Gonsalves Schimpf, MA, MT-BC, Director, Denver Health RESTORE; Kris Gaw, MBA, FACHE, Chief Operating Officer, Denver Health; and Ken Epstein, PhD, LCSW, Consultant, P.R.E.P. for Change Consulting — will discuss their efforts, including building staff capacity, promoting organizational culture change, and gaining leadership buy in.
Denver Health is a participant in Advancing Integrated Models, a national initiative led by CHCS and made possible through support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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