Health Reform Webinar Series: What's In It for People With ASD?

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Health Reform Webinar Series

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: What's In It for People With Disabilities?

AUCD is pleased to present this 4-part webinar series addressing aspects of health reform that have, or will have, significant impact on people with disabilities. Webinars will also address opportunities for network members.

Insurance Market Reforms and Long-Term Services and Supports

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

4:00-5:00 pm Eastern

This webinar will inform participants about how the general insurance market reforms will impact people with disabilities and describe the long term services and supports provisions. These include the CLASS Act, Community First Choice Option, and Money Follows the Person provisions.

Speakers:

Kim Musheno, Director of Legislative Affairs, AUCD

Marty Ford, Director of Legal Affairs and Co-Chair LTSS, The Arc/UCP Policy Collaboration Task Force

Prevention and Wellness

Thursday, June 17, 2010

4:00-5:00 pm Eastern

This webinar will cover provisions related to opportunities for UCEDDs to participate in research, data collection and analysis, and to develop promising practices in the area of health promotion and wellness for individuals with disabilities.

Speakers:

Annie Toro, Governmental Relations Director, Trust for America’s Health

Implications for Individuals and Families with Autism

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

4:00-5:00 pm Eastern

This webinar will focus on provisions that directly impact persons with autism spectrum disorders. This includes training of providers working with children and adults with autism and insurance market reforms that will help people with autism get appropriate interventions and services.

Speakers:

Stuart Spielman, Senior Policy Advisor & Counsel, Autism Speaks

Jeff Sell, Vice President, Public Policy, Autism Society of America

Workforce Provisions­­

Thursday, July 8, 2010

4:00-5:00 pm Eastern

This webinar will cover provisions related to opportunities to provide training to health and allied health care providers caring for individuals with disabilities as well as provisions directly related to direct support professionals.

Speakers:

Christiane A. , Director, Federal Affairs, Association of American Medical Colleges

Carol Regan, Director, PHI Government Affairs and Health Care for Health Care Workers Campaign

Tannaza Resouli, Senior Legislative Analyst , Association of American Medical Colleges

First time joining a webinar?The visual portion of the webinar will be conducted via GoToWebinar and the audio portion via telephone or VoIP (requires microphone and speakers). After registration you will be given a unique web address for viewing the webinar and audio information.

We hope you will be able to join us for this webinar series!For questions regarding this webinar series, please contact Dawn Rudolph, AUCD Interim Technical Assistance Director. An archived recording of each webinar will be made available.

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