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State Resources

NASHP Chart: State Approaches to Family Caregiver Education, Training, and Counseling, May 2020. This chart and interactive map highlights education, training, and counseling services for family caregivers in state Medicaid waivers.

NASHP Tracker: States’ Appendix K Waivers of Home- and Community-Based Services, May 2020. This interactive map tracks states’ use of Appendix K waivers to modify services for older adults and their family caregivers during the COVID-19 crisis.

NASHP Blog: State Approaches to Family Caregiver Education, Training, and Counseling, April 2020. NASHP reviewed states’ Medicaid 1115 waivers and state plan amendments covering older adults and adults with physical disabilities to highlight their unique approaches to education, training and counseling for caregivers.

NASHP Blog: Five Ways States Can Better Meet the Needs of Caregivers, March 2020. As part of its work to help develop a national strategy to better support caregivers through its RAISE Act Family Caregiver Resource and Dissemination Center, the NASHP with support from The John A. Hartford Foundation, reviewed major caregiving reports, including 12 state reports, and identified the top five policy recommendations that all of the state reports had in common.

View a Webinar on Family Caregiving Policies and Innovations, Feb. 20, 2020. Funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation, NASHP’s RAISE Family Caregiver Resource and Dissemination Center hosted a webinar to discuss state and federal policies and initiatives to support family caregivers. The webinar provided an overview of the Recognize, Assist, Include, Support and Engage (RAISE) Family Caregivers Act and featured Tennessee and Washington State leaders who shared their policies and innovations to support family caregivers. Other participants included representatives from the US Administration for Community Living and The John A. Hartford Foundation. View the webinar here.

State Policy Innovations to Support Family Caregivers: States are developing new initiatives to support family caregivers, who provide nearly $470 billion in unpaid health care support and services each year to relatives, friends, and neighbors. Passage of the federal Recognize, Assist, Include, Support, and Engage Family Caregivers (RAISE) Act underscores the urgent attention this issue requires. This blog, State Policy Innovations to Support Family Caregivers, written with support from The John A. Hartford Foundation, explores Hawaii, Washington, and Minnesota’s innovative efforts to assist family caregivers.

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