Current Projects

ALE 2022 Program Accomplishments

NYU COLLEGE OF NURSING: ALE COMPLETED THE ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECT WITH NYU RORY MYERS COLLEGE OF NURSING TO EXAMINE HOW PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA RECEIVE SERVICES FROM CALIFORNIA ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE CENTERS. ALE SERVED AS A LIAISON WITH THE CA ADHC SITES AND PROVIDED ADVICE RELATED TO CURRENT SPECIFIC CA DEMENTIA DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS.
 
PANDEMIC CRISIS: ALE CONTINUED TO FACILITATE THE PROVIDER AND STATE WORK GROUP TO ADDRESS ONGOING CHALLENGES RELATED TO THE PANDEMIC EMERGENCY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE DESIGN OF EMERGENCY REMOTE SERVICES AND IMPLEMENTATION THEREOF BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 2022.
 
EDUCATION:
1) PROVIDED LEADERSHIP IN PREPARING FOR AND EXECUTING THE CAADS ANNUAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE.
2) FACILITATED A GENERAL MEETING FOR THE PROVIDER COMMUNITY.
​3) CREATED CONTENT FOR PROVIDER EDUCATION WEBINARS RELATED TO THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF MEDI-CAL AND OTHER BENEFICIARIES.

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Past Grant Supported Projects 

​Archstone Foundation Grant 
MAY 1, 2020 - September 2021 II $75,000
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COVID-19 Emergency Response: Supporting Resilience and Building Community Through Educational Webinars During the Public Health Emergency

Thomas J. Long Foundation
ADVANCING THE COMMUNITY BASED HEALTH HOME (CBHH)
JAN 2015 (36 months) || $750,000

To replicate and advance the pioneering concepts of the Community Based Health Home (CBHH) as an emerging model for stabilizing health and psychosocial risk factors for older adults served in adult day health care settings whose complex conditions are exceptionally challenging.

SCAN Health Plan Community Giving
CBAS COMMUNITY HEALTH HOME
JAN 2013 (36 months) || $2,000,000

​To create a Community Based Adult Services Health Home by building on the unique
​bio-psycho-social CBAS service platform by adding a specially trained skilled nurse to serve as health navigator for the neediest of the elderly dual eligibles served in CBAS centers in order to keep them aging in place in the community and out of more costly institutional settings.

The California Wellness Foundation
​CORE OPERATING SUPPORT
JUN 2011 (36 months) || $100,000
JUN 2008 (36 months) || $150,000

Adult Day Services programs will improve their community capacity to serve underserved
​low-income populations by increasing the awareness of the program model as a necessary component of community-based long term care within health care reform activities and policies.

The California Community Foundation
TOPS: TRACKING OUTCOMES FOR PROGRAM SUCCESS
AUG 2011 (24 months) || $90,000

To maintain and promote the growth of the TOPS database system initiated as part of the California Community Foundation's Adult Day Care Project to strengthen the capacity of licensed Adult Day Services providers to assess program effectiveness and measure client outcomes in order to:
(1) Make evidence-based decisions
(2) Improve program quality
(3) Streamline data gathering for reports
(4) Outreach to potential clients (marketing)
(5) Attract funding from multiple sources
(6) Conduct effective advocacy
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CORE OPERATING SUPPORT
​AUG 2009 (24 months) || $102,000
To develop and facilitate strategic opportunities for adult day services to play an appropriate role within new and emerging health care reform and long term care structures and systems.

Archstone Foundation
ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE AT A CROSSROADS: Conversion to a Federal Medicaid Waiver Creates Both Opportunity and Risk
2005 (36 months) || $300,000
2004 (12 months) || $15,000

​To use this conversion from an optional Medi-Cal benefit to a benefit under a federal Medicaid waiver, which carries great risk for disruption of services for beneficiaries, as an opportunity to create a collaborative redesign effort working with policy makers, CMS, state departments, providers, and other stakeholders. The desired result will be a planned and careful transition to a modernized ADHC program, operating under a federal waiver that will provide, for the first time in California, opportunities for research and policy development based on data and treatment outcomes.