February 09, 2024

Updates

LeadingAge Indiana Housing Providers - please let us know how we can serve you in 2024!

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The LeadingAge Indiana Leadership VIP program is a year-long program designed to develop statewide aging services leaders. The program provides a challenging and engaging learning environment that enhances the leadership capacity of aging services professionals, so they are better equipped to serve our field.

  • Session 1: Communication: Connecting Through Conversation (April 9 -10)

  • Session 2: Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Techniques to Transform Individuals and Organizations (April 30)

  • Session 3: Coaching – Moving People Forward and Managing Conflict (June 13 -14)

  • Session 4: Developing Employees and Goal Setting (July 30-31) 

The core course sessions are facilitated by Lena Morris, Vice President of Careers, Culture and Development at Indiana Electric Cooperatives. She has over 15 years of experience in professional development and training, including toles with Target corporate and Roche Diagnostics. This program is eligible for a maximum of 33 hours of CEU.

Exclusively sponsored by 

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2024 Indiana General Assembly - Legislative Session  

  • Here is our current Bill Tracker and Newsletter - both updated weekly - and please visit our Advocacy webpage. 
  • The Legislative Session will be taking a break from Feb. 7-12.  All Bills still moving will switch chambers for second half treatment.   

Member Roundtable / Committee reminder - For additional engagement opportunities, we remind you that LeadingAge Indiana hosts the following Roundtable / Committees for Provider and Associate members:

  • Human Resources Roundtable (every other month on the 3rd Friday of the month),
  • Marketing Roundtable (every month on the 4th Friday of the month),
  • Faith Leader Roundtable (every month on the 1st Friday of the month at 9:00 am),
  • Public Policy Committee meeting (every month on the 2nd Friday of the month),
  • Reimbursement Roundtable (meets quarterly (first one was - Jan. 25)), and
  • Education Committee (meets quarterly (first one - April 1)). 
  • For all other engagement opportunities - please visit our website.   

Please share this information with others who may benefit from participating. Our team would love to see you at any/all these events.  For more information, please reach out to Eric Essley or Tina Bowman.

Housing Network Call on Mondays – next call February 12. The LeadingAge Housing Network meets Mondays 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. ET for our regular weekly call. All LeadingAge members are welcome to attend.

Join the Housing Network call here.

Take Action: Urge Congress to Pass the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act. More than 23 million U.S. households are enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP)—including many HUD-assisted older adult households, thanks to the work of housing providers who supported ACP enrollment among residents. Without congressional action to extend the program funding, the ACP will stop enrolling new eligible households in early February and will run out of funds to support currently enrolled households in April, 2024. LeadingAge is asking you to call on Congress to provide additional funding for the ACP by enacting the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act (S. 3565 / H.R. 6929). The bi-partisan, bicameral bill would provide $7 billion to keep the Federal Communications Commission program running through 2024. Members can also keep up with the latest on internet access in affordable senior housing and get involved in the LeadingAge internet connectivity workgroup.

LeadingAge Analysis Available: HUD MF Service Coordinator Grant Funding Opportunity. Download the resource here, and keep up with LeadingAge’s work on Service Coordination and supportive services in affordable housing here.  

Upcoming Service Coordinator Grant Funding Webinars. The next upcoming opportunity to learn more about HUD’s new grant funding for Service Coordinators in Multifamily Housing communities.

You can view all of LeadingAge’s housing gatherings, including the recording of our first Service Coordinator grant workshop on January 11 and info about our upcoming HOTMA Q&A on February 28. Contact LeadingAge Director of Housing Operations and Policy: Juliana Bilowich jbilowich@leadingage.org / 2025081212 for more info on accessing Service Coordination and HOTMA content.

LeadingAge Supports Improving Housing Stability. LeadingAge commented in support of HUD’s December 1 proposed rule, “30-Day Notification Requirement Prior to Termination of Lease for Nonpayment of Rent,” which would require 30-day notifications to HUD-assisted residents prior to lease terminations for nonpayment of rent. The proposed rule formalizes and extends a policy temporarily in place related to the public health emergency. Read LeadingAge's comments here.

HUD Clarifies Contract Bifurcation for Housing Preservation. On January 31, HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs published a Housing Notice titled Approval and Processing of Requests to Bifurcate Contracts. The Notice applies to bifurcation requests submitted to HUD on or after February 1, 2024. LeadingAge supports HUD’s housing preservation and asset management flexibility efforts.

Recording and Summary Available: HOTMA Implementation Q&A 2.0 with Jenny DeSilva. Review the recording and recap for LeadingAge’s second HOTMA Q&A with Jenny DeSilva, President of DeSilva Housing Group. During the January 25 members-only call, we discussed all things HOTMA implementation for mission-driven housing providers, including an update on implementation timing, asset limitations, and the passbook rate and TRACS errors confusion. The summary and recording of our December 12 Q&A session, where we discussed asset limits, passbook rate adjustments, TRACS errors, and more, is also available. Members can also register for our third HOTMA Q&A on February 28.

More generally focused - LeadingAge Policy Update Calls; all calls are at 3:30 p.m. ET on Mondays and Wednesdays. Interested individuals can sign up to join LeadingAge’s Policy Update calls here. You can also find previous call recordings of every 3:30 LeadingAge call here. Note that to access recordings of the calls you need a LeadingAge password. Any staff member of any LeadingAge member organization can set up a password to access previous calls and other members-only content.

For all Housing, Home Health & Hospice Updates, please visit our site