HCBS Settings Webinar Series: Promising Practices in State Approaches to Implementing Federal Criteria

The Administration for Community Living (ACL), in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and other national partners, is hosting a technical assistance webinar series showcasing innovative strategies and approaches states are taking to implement the federal settings criteria for home and community-based services (HCBS). The series is designed to help ACL's networks, partners, and external stakeholders identify strategic ways for engaging in their state's continuous HCBS systems transformation efforts. One webinar will detail an overview of innovative state strategies in establishing assessment, validation, and remediation of HCBS environments; training/technical assistance models states have launched to ensure providers can make modifications to comply with the rule; and ways to continuously monitor HCBS settings. Another webinar concerns a review of promising practices that states are using for provider transformation, and their strategies to build provider capacity to enhance community integration and availability of non-disability specific settings. The final webinar will review creative instances of state policy reforms, reimbursement/rate reordering, and meaningful stakeholder engagement activities to enable ongoing HCBS systems-change.