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Established in 2003, the Alliance of Leadership and Education (A.L.E.) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) public benefit arm of CAADS (California Association for Adult Day Services). ALE's mission is to explore, develop and disseminate innovative approaches, including best practices and person-centered standards, to enhance the quality of adult day services (ADS), both in California and nationally. ALE strives to benefit the lives of older adults with chronic conditions and people with disabilities and their caregivers through improving access to ADS and advocates for policies to support this goal.
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Current ProjectsCOVID-19 Emergency Response: Education and Training for the adult day services community
The global pandemic has upended lives and exposed older adults and people with disabilities to heightened risk of deadly COVID-10 infection and increased the risk of poor health outcomes from social isolation. Shelter-at-home orders since mid-March forced adult day health care and adult day programs to quickly pivot to remote services for more than 40,000 participants and their households.
ALE leadership sprang into action, partnering with CAADS and the state of California Department of Aging, Department of Health Care Services, and Department of Public Health to quickly design Temporary Alternative Services. ALE then began to design and provide weekly webinars to support providers in making this extraordinary transition. By May 1, 2020 ALE had secured a 9-month grant from the Archstone Foundation to produce weekly webinars called Webtalks which draw an average of 250 attendees per week.
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