Announcements

The agenda for the October 15th mini summit can be found here! Please register for the entire afternoon and feel free to choose when to log off or on based on the session you wish to attend, or plan to attend all of them! The summit will run from 12:00…

On Wednesday, September 23, 2026, Iowa HHS posted a Public Notice regarding the 1915 (c) Home and Community Based Services AIDS/HIV, Brain Injury (BI), Children’s Mental Health (CMH), Elderly, Health and Disability (HD), Intellectual Disabilities (ID), and Physical Disability (PD) Waivers. Please see the HHS website for more information.

On behalf of the DD Council, Disability Rights Iowa, and Wartburg College Slife Social Work Institute, you are invited to a Disability Policy Issues Forum. The Disability Policy Issues Forum is a non-partisan, voter education event to provide Iowans with disabilities and members of their support team an opportunity to…

Join Iowa Compass for a quarterly webinar to learn more about Iowa Compass and how to search the resource database to connect older adults, people with disabilities and complex health-related needs of all ages, and caregivers with services and supports. This webinar will be recorded. The target audience includes Managed…

This is a reminder that the contract with Boston University to provide ADRC No Wrong Door training through CADER will end 9/30/2026. There is still time to complete the 22-hour training! This training is designed to build foundational knowledge and applied skills in supporting older adults and people with disabilities….

The Iowa Compass resource database successfully transitioned to our new software platform on July 13! Thank you for your patience and support throughout this process. We’ll continue making minor refinements over the coming weeks to further improve the platform.