$40 (Live webinar + recording)

When enrolling in Medicare, beneficiaries have the option of choosing Original Medicare with a Medigap or enrolling in a private Medicare Advantage Plan. Choosing which is best often requires understanding the benefits of each option and your client’s unique needs.  

Experts from the Medicare Rights Center will discuss the following topics: 

• Medicare Advantage coverage, rules, and enrollment 
• Medigap coverage rules, and enrollment 
• Comparison of coverage options 
• Options for making coverage changes

Join us for a conversation featuring volunteers from I AM ALS as we discuss caring for a loved one living with ALS, navigating the caregiving journey, and the resources, support, and community available to help families along the way.

This is the first webinar in our Conversations in Caregiving series leading up to the National Caregivers Conference. The series explores the caregiving journey across a range of diagnoses and caregiving topics. This session is designed for family caregivers and anyone supporting a loved one living with ALS.

Join us for a conversation featuring volunteers from I AM ALS as we discuss caring for a loved one living with ALS, navigating the caregiving journey, and the resources, support, and community available to help families along the way.

This is the first webinar in our Conversations in Caregiving series leading up to the National Caregivers Conference. The series explores the caregiving journey across a range of diagnoses and caregiving topics. This session is designed for family caregivers and anyone supporting a loved one living with ALS.

Cost: $60.00

As a society, we are finally beginning to understand that “structural racism” does not represent a single point of impact. We now know that it forms a web of barriers and obstacles for Black and Brown people the impact of which is adversely synergistic and compounding. As a result, Black and Brown individuals experience significant weathering and their communities remain on a perpetual downward trajectory. At the core of structural racism is racial bias, or race-based beliefs, attitudes, and ideas that are socially encoded and embedded into systems which perpetuate them. Today, anti-Black and anti-Brown racial biases, both explicit and implicit, are a deeply ingrained part of American culture. As such, our system of mental health actively facilitates and perpetuates racial bias. This presentation aims to help the participant to recognize their own implicit biases, how they are formed and assumed, and how to recognize them in systems and society. Strategies will also be offered to support participants’ becoming bias-resistant and ultimately reducing the undercurrent of racial bias in our mental health system at large.

Program Description This course led by Dr. Jessica Smedley will offer an overview of advocacy, the various ways that we can serve as advocates as mental health professionals and applications for practice.

Learning Objectives By the end of this training, participants will be able to: List at least 2-3 types of advocacies in mental health Identify ways to implement advocacy into community and/or clinical practice

Target Audience: Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs, LPCs, LMHCs

FREE!

Join us online to uncover why good kids dodge homework and how to turn that around with ease!

Why Good Kids Fight Homework
And what you can do about it.

Does homework time feel like a nightly battle in your house?

The tears. The arguments. The endless reminders. The sudden need for a snack, drink, toilet break… and somehow the homework still isn’t done.

The good news? Your child isn’t trying to make life difficult.

In this practical parent workshop, you’ll discover the real reasons children resist homework and learn how to identify your child’s unique “homework personality”.

Cost: $5.00

Join NAMI NJ for a fun-filled day under the sun in the park. We are going to have raffles, games, surprise activities, a great lunch, and wonderful company. Please join us to celebrate together.

Complementary tickets are available for those in need. Please email btyus@naminj.org

Module 1 From the National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning Hunter College School of Social Work:

Sibling Practice Curriculum Module 1 focuses on enhancing understanding of sibling-related issues in out-of-home care. The importance of siblings in your life and the lives of others will be discussed.  Myths and truths about sibling separation and the negative impact of sibling separation will be discussed.

This class will be held online and a link to the class will be sent out ahead of time. 

This Forum is Free & Open to the Public

If you wish to attend in-person or to submit comments to be read at the Forum, please contact:
Colleen, croche@njsilc.org  or
Mary, meneary@njsilc.org
by 8/25.

Learn about NJ SILC and Centers for Independent Living.

Hear about their current systems advocacy activities.

Discuss Independent Living issues affecting people with disabilities.

Suggest concerns for SILC to address in NJ’s 2027 IL State Plan.

Join in-person:

Hilton Garden Inn 800 Rt. 130 South Hamilton, NJ 08690

Join remotely:

Zoom Link Meeting ID: 810 2491 0755 Passcode: 21361

This is a free event open to adults of color who were adopted or are former foster youth. Space will be provided for participants to explore and share experiences around international adoption, foster care, transracial/interracial adoption, search and reunion, birth/first family and other topics of interest to the group.

Free!

Hospital readmissions are costly, disruptive, and often preventable—especially for older adults transitioning home after a hospital stay. The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) evaluates readmission rates for six high-impact conditions and procedures: Heart Failure, Heart Attack, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery, Elective Total Hip or Knee Replacement, and Pneumonia.

Professionals play a critical role in ensuring safe, smooth transitions that reduce the risk of readmissions. This webinar will highlight the most common challenges older adults face after discharge—such as medication management, mobility limitations, and follow-up adherence—and provide practical strategies to address them. Participants will learn how incorporating home-based support can improve recovery, promote independence, and lessen the burden on family caregivers.

Join Pact’s Executive Director and fellow adoptive parent, Beth Hall, to find community and talk about transracial adoption, race and identity issues that may be coming up for you or members of your family. The focus for these calls is transracial adoption. These free calls are open only to current members of Pact. If you have not purchased a Pact membership (or your membership is not current) you can join at pactadopt.org.

September is National Preparedness Month, and the City of East Orange is offering FREE WORKSHOPS to teach East Orange residents how to plan in case of an emergency.

Topics:

* First-Aid and Hands Only CPR

* Disaster Preparedness

Go-Bag Giveaways | Learn Hands Only CPR | Safety and Preparedness Tips | Free Blood Pressure Checks | Fire Extinguisher Demos | Light Refreshments and More!

Free, monthly virtual support calls provide a safe space for BIPOC adoptive, foster and kinship parents of BIPOC teens and young adults.

Join Raquel Vivanco, Director of the Adoptive Parents of Color Collaborative (APCC) and fellow adoptive parent, to find community and talk about parenting adopted and foster teens and young adults of color, including challenges, and helpful strategies. We will discuss how relationships shift as our young ones grow in their journey and how we can support ourselves and our loved ones.

This call is for people of color who are parenting adopted/foster teens and young adults of color.  Please be respectful of their space.

Under federal law, residents of long-term care facilities have broad rights to make decisions regarding their lives. This webinar will include information on law and advocacy strategies that enable residents to participate in care planning, control the health care and medication that they receive, accept visitors at any hour of the day or night, and vote in the upcoming elections. In general, the assisted living discussion will apply to facilities that accept Medicaid payment for services.

Who Should Attend:

This training will provide strategies for professionals assisting nursing facility and assisted living facility residents, including:

• Long-term care ombudsman representatives.

• Legal services attorneys and paralegals.

• Other aging network professionals.

During this webinar, we will walk through what the research actually shows about placing children with kin rather than with caregivers who do not already share their family, culture, and community connections. That evidence is a major reason there has been a federal preference for placing children with relatives for almost thirty years, why states have built on that preference in their own laws, and why the movement toward kin-first child welfare agencies continues to gain momentum. But the research varies in quality — some of it is well-established, some of it is still debated, and some areas remain genuinely limited. We will walk through all three, honestly, so you leave with an accurate picture of what we know and do not yet know.

FREE!

The Meet the Model series from the Post-Adoption Center introduces the core components of the Post-Permanency Model, designed to guide states, tribal nations and territories in delivering coordinated services to adoptive and guardianship families. The model is outlined in detail in the Post-Adoption Center’s Program Manual, which services as the blueprint for building comprehensive, community centered and accessible post-permanency services. We break down the 253-page manual into smaller pieces. This session focuses on the Respite Care Component.