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BACs: A Vital New Element in Medicaid Service Design and Oversight
Beneficiary Advisory Councils (BACs) are newly established advisory groups in states composed of Medicaid recipients, their family members, and caregivers. Learn more about BACs, including how to join one in your state. … Read More
Date: 09/2024
Author(s): The Grassroots Project, Human Services Research Institute
A National Environmental Scan of the Disability, Systems Change Advocacy Landscape
Initiated in fall 2023 with funding from the Administration for Community Living (ACL), the Grassroots Project: Engage. Connect. Advocate. was created to help build disability grassroots advocacy and to support the development of advocacy skills and capacities in a new generation of grassroots advocates. To inform the activities of the project, Human Services Research Institute (HSRI) conducted an environmental scan mapping the current disability, systems change advocacy landscape. The focus of this process was to assess … Read More
Date: 09/2024
Author(s): The Grassroots Project, HSRI
Cultivating and Sustaining Partnerships to Create Successful Change
These are the webinar slides for the August 29, 2024, webinar on Cultivating and Sustaining Partnerships to Create Successful Change. … Read More
Date: 08/2024
Author(s): TBI TARC
Webinar: Expanding Disability Advocacy by Working Together
These are the slides, plain language summary, and transcription (English) for the August 28, 2024, webinar: "Expanding Disability Advocacy by Working Together: Successful Practices and Outcomes in Coalition Building." YouTube link to webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYoqOEqP4YU … Read More
Date: 08/2024
Author(s): The Grassroots Project, HSRI
Webinar: Coalition Building: Strategies and Perspective in Disability Advocacy
Webinar slides, transcript, and plain language summary: Coalition Building: Strategies and Perspective in Disability (July 18, 2024) YouTube link: Watch the webinar. ACL’s Grassroots Project was launched in 2023 to support national, state, and local disability advocates in building networks to stay informed about the policies that affect people with disabilities and to work together to ensure their perspectives, priorities and preferences are reflected in disability policies and service systems. This national webinar – the … Read More
Date: 07/2024
Author(s): Alixe Bonardi, Kate Brady, Laura Bernas of the Human Services Research Institute (HSRI) July 18, 2024, webinar slides, transcript, and plain language summary