Guidance from Administration on Community Living

Three-part Setting Rule Webinar Series

HCBS Settings Webinar Series: Promising Practices in State Approaches to Implementing Federal Criteria. ACL, in partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other national partners, is hosting a three-part technical assistance webinar series highlighting innovative strategies and approaches states are taking to effectively implement the federal settings criteria for home and community-based services (HCBS). The webinar series is intended to help ACL’s networks, partners, and external stakeholders identify strategic ways to engage in their state’s ongoing HCBS systems transformation efforts.

• December 18, 2018: Slide deck from part three of this webinar series, “Ongoing HCBS Systems Change Before & After STP Final Approval” and a recording of the webinar may be downloaded here.
• November 29, 2018: Slide deck from part two of this three-part webinar series on “Promising State Strategies for Working with Providers to Meet the HCBS Settings Criteria & Promote Optimal Community Integration” and a recording of the webinar may be downloaded here.
• November 8, 2018: Slide deck from part one of this 3 part webinar series: Innovative State Approaches to Promoting Compliance with the Federal HCBS Settings Criteria and a recording of the webinar may be downloaded here.

HHS-Wide Guidance on Person-Centered Planning and Self Direction

ACL and CMS launched the National Center on Advancing Person-Centered Practices and Systems (NCAPPS). NCAPPS assists states, tribes, and territories to transform their long-term care service and support systems to implement HHS policy on person-centered thinking, planning, and practices.