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See how Georgia adapted to the pandemic through a disciplined, data-driven approach. Case Study: How Georgia meets the increased needs of seniors during COVID When COVID-19 appeared in early 2020, human services agencies across the country had to adapt overnight. Georgia's Department of Human Services' Division of Aging Services (DAS) was up to the task. They created new partnerships with restaurants, placed emergency funds into use quickly, and streamlined decision-making. The state's commitment to continuous quality improvement and data collection helped to: Reduce time spent in training and competencies by 30-35 percent Lower document revision overhead by 20-40 percent Cut the time spent in audit prep by 30-40 percent

Resources and assistance to support HUD's community partners Home Programs Resources Training

Join us for our December SOARing Over Lunch Call!     SOARing Over Lunch! Tuesday, December 15, 2020 1:00 p.m. ET Our next SOARing Over Lunch  call is scheduled for Tuesday, December 15, at 1:00 p.m. ET . Please join us for this informal call to have your SOAR questions answered directly by the SAMHSA SOAR TA Center!  While there is no agenda set in advance for these calls, we do want your ideas! Please e-mail us at soar@prainc.com to submit any questions and/or topics that you would like us to discuss.  ** These are listen-only calls.** Participants will type questions into a chat box and listen to the presentation via computer speakers. Log-in:  h ttps://prainc.adobeconnect.com/soaringoverlunch2/   Choose Listen Only on the bottom

Grant Announcements Grants for Expansion and Sustainability of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances Application Due Date: Friday, January 5, 2021 SAMHSA is accepting applications for the Grants for Expansion and Sustainability of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (System of Care [SOC] Expansion and Sustainability Gr

WellSky important update WellSky pushed an update to the LSA export today, Wednesday, December 9 th at 12:00 PM Central.  Please be sure you've re-exported and resubmitted to the HDX 2.0 after that date/time. This update resolved these specific flag ids: 484, 486, 538, 539, 757, 779, 780, 804 and 848. Communities will spend the entire month of December working with their AHAR liaisons on data cleaning and vendors will continue to make periodic updates to the export to resolve flag files and incorporate new sample code.  This will likely require several additional uploads to the HDX 2.0.      Copyright © 2020 WellSky. All Rights Reserved. 11300 Sw

Dear friend,   This message is from Kay Moshier McDivitt, Senior Technical Assistance Specialist at the Alliance. I'm reaching out to share with you a little about our work over the last several months.   We've had to learn to do things a little differently in 2020, as I'm confident you have as well.   This year, the Alliance launched its first online training platform, the