2022 Censoni and Compass Award Honorees
The National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS) regularly honors professionals in both the public and private
NASDDDS is pleased to announce ACL has awarded the association and our partners a cooperative agreement totaling an estimated $3.25
ACL announced three new discretionary grant awards in response to the Assistive Technology (AT) Alternative Financing Program (AFP) Funding Opportunity
PHI recently released their new report, Direct Care Workers in the United States: Key Facts. The report provides a new
Per a recent press release, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) will award $1.2 million in grants to 15 local county Birth to 3 Programs across the...
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced an Early Case Resolution (ECR) with the State of Connecticut after...
This week, Pennsylvania released a Self-Advocate Transition Guide to assist people with disabilities and their families during readjustment to the COVID-19 pandemic. The guide can support individual decision-making around how to...
Pennsylvania’s Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) and the Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) recently announced that the latest edition of the Positive Approaches Journal is now...
Washington State was featured in the NASDDDS podcast, Navigating The Storm: Technology Use During Emergencies developed for the virtual conference held in early June. The podcast explores several areas of technology...
The Supporting Older Americans Act of 2020 (H.R.4334), passed earlier this year by the US Senate, includes a reauthorization of the National Family Caregiver Support Program (NFCSP). The NFCSP...
President Trump has signed into law the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act (PPPFA), an attempt to address challenges around the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) aimed at providing COVID-19 relief.
Republican and Democratic leaders of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives committees charged with overseeing Medicaid sent a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex...
The National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS) condemns the murder of George Floyd and the many other Black Americans who have lost their lives in...
In anticipation of moving forward and in response to member requests, NASDDDS has taken several steps to provide real-time assistance to state I/DD leadership...
The Center for Healthcare Strategies (CHCS) issued two new blogs focusing on Medicaid's role in the next phase of the COVID-19 response. Per CHCS, across the nation, government, business,...
The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) released a new issue brief discussing the differences in COVID-19 infection rates of urban versus rural areas in the United States.
The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) and allies have issued a letter in support of the “All Dependent Children Count Act” and the “All Dependents Count Act,” efforts...
The National Council on Disability (NCD), an independent, nonpartisan federal agency that provides advice to the President and Congress on disability policy issues, has issued a letter to Congressional...
Mental Health Awareness Month (also referred to as "Mental Health Month") has been observed in May in the United States since 1949, reaching millions of people through the media, local events,...
United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Senators Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), sent a letter urging...