Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Invites States to Participate in State Medicaid Learning Collaborative on Supporting Adults with I/DD

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it is hosting Supporting Adults with I/DD and Their Aging Parents & Caregivers: State Medicaid Learning Collaborative in November.

The event details from CMS are below:

Supporting Adults with I/DD and Their Aging Parents &Caregivers: State Medicaid Learning Collaborative

Date: November 9, 2021

Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT

Learning Collaborative Registration  Please complete by October 29, 2021.

The learning collaborative is an opportunity for states to develop new solutions and identify promising practices to improve the delivery of supports and services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and their aging caregivers.  CMS has long supported initiatives to expand access to home and community-based services for older adults and people with disabilities.  State Medicaid agencies can leverage these initiatives to address the current and future needs of adults with I/DD and their aging caregivers.

The learning collaborative will consist of six monthly virtual learning sessions between November 2021 and April 2022. The duration of each event is not expected to exceed 90 minutes.  Participants will actively engage and share experiences and challenges among their peers, identify promising practices, and support the implementing of promising strategies in their states.  Each event will have a pre-identified topic with accompanying resources for states to reference at a later time.