Join the webinar to learn more about participating in ACL’s
MENTAL Health Innovation Challenge competition. This Challenge
is designed to develop a software platform that increases awareness of,
access to, and use of social engagement technologies and programming to
help curtail the impact of loneliness and social isolation.
The MENTAL Health Innovation Challenge asks care partners,
local communities, businesses, non-profit organizations, institutions,
healthcare providers, technologists, academics, and others in the global
community for innovative solutions to combat loneliness and social
isolation in vulnerable populations including veterans, older adults,
persons with disabilities living alone, racial and ethnic minority
populations, as well as those who live in care facilities and group homes
who may be isolated from visitors and family members during a quarantine.
New Resources
Available
New resources are available on the MENTAL Health Innovation Challenge webpage,
including materials from previous webinars (replays, slides, and
transcripts), frequently asked questions document, links to the Eldercare
Locator and No Wrong Door state leads, and more.
About the MENTAL Health Innovation Challenge:
Launched by the Administration
for Community Living (ACL) and the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Health (both divisions of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), a total of $750,000 in
prizes will be awarded for the development of an easy-to-use online
system that matches socially-isolated people's needs, interests, and
abilities with programs, activities, technologies, and resources that can
help users connect to others and engage in the community. The winning
system will be announced and demonstrated in January 2021 at CES.
And the winning system ultimately will become the centerpiece of a
national public awareness campaign.
About the partners for MENTAL Health Innovation Challenge:
- The
Administration
for Community Living (ACL) at U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services was created around the fundamental
principle that older adults and people of all ages with disabilities
should be able to live where they choose, with the people they
choose, and with the ability to participate fully in their
communities. By funding services and supports provided by networks
of community-based organizations, and with investments in research,
education, and innovation, ACL helps make this principle a reality
for millions of Americans.
- The Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Health at U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services oversees the Department’s key public health
offices and programs, a number of Presidential and Secretarial
advisory committees, 10 regional health offices across the nation,
the Office of the Surgeon General, and the U.S. Public Health
Service Commissioned Corps.
- In
1976, Congress established the White House Office of Science and Technology
Policy to provide the President and others within
the Executive Office of the President with advice on the scientific,
engineering, and technological aspects of the economy, national
security, homeland security, health, foreign relations, the
environment, and the technological recovery and use of resources,
among other topics.
- The
mission of the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to fulfill
President Lincoln's promise “To care for him who shall have borne
the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan” by serving and
honoring the men and women who are America’s veterans. Within the
VA, the Veterans
Health Administration is the largest integrated health
care network in the United States, with 1,255 health care facilities
serving nine million enrolled veterans each year.
- The Federal Communications
Commission regulates interstate and international
communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in
all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. An
independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the
Commission is the federal agency responsible for implementing and
enforcing America’s communications law and regulations.
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