This article contains information about prevention and preparedness strategies for workplace violence, including physical assaults and mass shootings.
When was the last time tempers got heated at your nonprofit?
Did two or more employees clash? Did people receiving services argue with each other? Maybe someone receiving services disagreed with a team member. Or maybe the conflict arose between an employee and a third party, like an angry family member or spouse.
From Jill Jacobs, Commissioner of ACL’s Administration on Disabilities:
October 31st marked 60 years since President John F. Kennedy signed the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act). The DD Act advanced a fundamentally different vision of what it means to live with a developmental disability.
The National Survey on Health and Disability (NSHD) is live and needs your help! The NSHD gives voice to the concerns of people with disabilities and documents their experiences with a variety of issues. Those include access to health care, insurance coverage, housing, transportation, Long COVID, employment and more. It also explores aspects of people's sense of belonging and how they matter.
USAging’s Aging and Disability Business Institute, in partnership with Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University in Oxford, OH, has launched its fifth CBO–Health Care Contracting Survey to collect data on the experiences of aging and disability community-based organizations (CBOs), such as Centers for Independent Living contracting with health care entities and forming networks. Survey responses are critical to the understanding of how aging and disability CBOs and networks are adapting to contracting opportunities and challenges.
RTC:Rural 2023-2028 is funded! We could not have achieved this without our fabulous partners across the CIL network. We have an excellent slate of new projects and opportunities for you to help ensure our efforts represent disability voices and experiences. These timely new projects include accessing and utilizing data, examining Personal Assistance Services workforce capacity, rural health promotion, rural transportation vouchers, and capacity building in home usability.
