The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network has new resources for kinship work.

New topical resources on homelessness are available. Also, funding for homeless continuums of care (CoCs) may offer Aging Network organizations with a new option for partnering.

On August 1, the Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) Subcommittee released the FY 2025 appropriations report with the funding numbers for all Older Americans Act (OAA) programs. While USAging’s top OAA priorities did not receive the increases desired, we are still happy to report that the Senate did not propose any funding cuts to OAA programs, with most programs mirroring FY 2024 funding levels.

On July 31, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee passed, in a vote of 20 to 1, S. 4776, the Older Americans Act (OAA) Reauthorization Act of 2024. The bill reflects seven months of advocacy by USAging, our members and others, as well as the active engagement of eight HELP Committee Senators and their staff members who served on a bipartisan OAA working group.