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                          Speeches and Testimony Tips to Recognize, Prevent, or Reduce Cyberattacks and Cybercrimes**December 27, 2021 | Scott Cory, Chief Information Officer, ACL**As we move through the holiday season, new challenges that people and organizations face include the heightened risk and probability of “bad actors”–people with criminal intention, organized crime groups, and state-sponsored groups–seeking to compromise people and organizations’ mobile phones, tablets, and systems to gain access to data and information.
    Protecting Nursing Home Residents’ Right to Safe Visitations This Holiday Season**December 23, 2021 | Beverley Laubert, National Ombudsman Program Coordinator, ACL**In the midst of the holiday season, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) delivered good news for residents of nursing homes across the country: Visitation is now allowed for all residents at all times.
    Highlights from the 2021 EJCC Meeting: COVID, Equity, and Partnerships**December 22, 2021 | Alison Barkoff, Principal Deputy Administrator**Earlier this month, I was honored to chair the first Elder Justice Coordinating Council meeting of the Biden-Harris Administration.
    Policy Round-Up: Organ Transplantation RFI, Vaccine Counseling, SSI & Spousal Impoverishment Standards, and More
    Insight into International Fraud: What are “Money Mules” and what can be done about money mule activity?A guest blog by Jackie Blaesi-Freed
    We All Have a Role to Play During National Family Caregivers Month**November 30, 2021 | Alison Barkoff, Principal Deputy Administrator**It’s fitting that National Family Caregivers Month is celebrated at the same time as Thanksgiving. Last week, we paused as a nation to gather with our families and to give thanks for the good things in our lives.
    Policy Round Up:  Updated vaccine guidance; increasing enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs; Voting accessIn this Policy Round Up, you’ll find:

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Comments needed: CMS interim final rule on vaccine requirements 
From CMS: Two strategies for states to increase enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs 
Input Needed: Document on Addressing Voting Barriers for People with Disabilities
    Honoring those who have served**November 10, 2021 | by Keri Lipperini, Director of the Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs (and former Navy Hospital Corpsman)**
    Guest Blog- Alabama’s New Community Waiver Program: Employment First is Baked Into the Design**November 3, 2021 | Guest blog by James Tucker, Esq. and Lisa Mills, PhD**Like most states, the backbone of Alabama is countless individual women and men who wake up and go to work on most days. Yet, like many other states, too few Alabamians with disabilities have this same opportunity to work and earn a living making a meaningful contribution to the economy.
    Putting Faith to Work: How Faith Communities Can Support Employment for People with Disabilities**October 29, 2021 | Guest blog by Erik Carter, Ph.D and Bill Gaventa, M.Div**How do most of us get our job? It is often through personal relationships and networking that we find out about openings or others connect us to a job of interest. Or, in other words, social capital is often the pathway to work.
  
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