Housing Happenings
2025-07-16 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-08-20 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
LeadingAge New Jersey & Delaware is proud to partner with LeadingAge Maryland and LeadingAge Ohio to offer this educational series designed specifically for affordable housing professionals! Calls are held on the third Wednesday of every month from 12 noon- 1pm EST. These practical learning sessions are designed for service coordinators, property managers, and other individuals who work with older adults in affordable housing settings. Recordings of previous calls can be found here.
Topics for 2025:
The Future of Affordable Housing
Bed Bugs
Dementia Care
Hospice and Palliative Care
Programing and Events
Substance Abuse
Harm Reduction
Mental Health Challenges
Aging Safely in Place
Reach out to the program contact for the registration link.

When:
3rd Wednesday of every month
12-1PM

Where:
VIRTUAL
United States

Contact:
Ivy Beck
ibeck@leadingagenjde.org

Addressing Life Circumstances Among Staff
2025-07-16 12:00 - 13:00
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Fee: LeadingAge NJ & DE Members & NJHA Members: $30 (if you have any trouble accessing the member rate, contact njhaeducation@njha.com) | Non-Members: $60

Life circumstances can have a profound impact on employee health and well-being. These circumstances often extend beyond traditional issues like access to healthcare and can include socioeconomic status, ethnicity and more. Aging services organizations face unique challenges because the impact of these life circumstances can affect their ability to provide quality care. The focus of this session will be on how aging services organizations can design benefit packages that improve employee wellness and address how to promote holistic health for staff.
FACULTY
Tamalyn Wandler, Esq. L.L.M.
Director of Compliance, Innovative Benefit Planning

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Describe one (1) way an employee’s performance is impacted by life circumstances.
Describe one (1) benefit package strategy that will support life circumstances and foster well-being.
List one (1) strategy to retain and enhance organizational performance.

CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION
Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board Accreditation
This continuing education program is sponsored/conducted by the Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey (HRETNJ) and is in compliance with N.J.A.C. 8:34-7.3 to provide licensed nursing home administrator (LNHA) education credits accepted by the Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board. This education activity may only be used for continuing education credit and not to meet academic college credits.
This education activity has been approved for a total of 1.0 LNHA continuing education credits.
Society for Human Resource Management
New Jersey Hospital Association is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities. This program is valid for 1.0 PDCs for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.
ACCESSIBILITY AND ACCOMMODATION
We are committed to making our event accessible to all attendees. If you have any specific accessibility needs or require accommodations to fully participate, please contact us at njhaeducation@njha.com.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION – You will receive three email confirmations:

Registration Confirmation includes your receipt.
Course Access Confirmation includes the link to sign in. Allow up to 5 minutes for course access.
Webinar Confirmation will contain information about joining the webinar with an option to add the event to your calendar.

CONTACT
For questions, contact NJHA Education at njhaeducation@njha.com.

Housing Happenings
2025-07-16 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-08-20 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-17 12:00 - 13:00
LeadingAge New Jersey & Delaware is proud to partner with LeadingAge Maryland and LeadingAge Ohio to offer this educational series designed specifically for affordable housing professionals! Calls are held on the third Wednesday of every month from 12 noon- 1pm EST. These practical learning sessions are designed for service coordinators, property managers, and other individuals who work with older adults in affordable housing settings. Recordings of previous calls can be found here.
January – no call
February – Join Housing Happenings for a look at key trends in affordable housing. You’ll hear from Juliana Bilowich, Director of Housing Operations and Policy with LeadingAge National.
Reach out to the program contact for the registration link.

When:
3rd Wednesday of every month
12-1PM

Where:
VIRTUAL
United States

Contact:
Ivy Beck
ibeck@leadingagenjde.org

Assisted Living Network
2025-07-16 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-08-20 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-09-17 14:00 - 15:00
The Assisted Living Network meetings feature discussions on current hot topics of interest to assisted living providers. The AL Network fosters member discussions and connections on emerging and perennial issues, and members are encouraged to suggest future topics that will be of interest to members. We encourage members to share their best practices or state developments on assisted living policy.

Email Staff Convener: Janine Finck-Boyle
Join the Network
Meeting Schedule: Third Wednesday of the month at 2 p.m. ET

HR Roundtable - Open To All Members!
2025-07-16 14:00 - 15:00
Join Us July 16 For An Overview of A Career Mentor Opportunity through William Paterson University
All members are invited to join our July Human Resources Roundtable Meeting, held July 16th at 2 pm. We will be joined by Debbie Feingold, Assistant Director of the Pesce Family Mentoring Institute at William Paterson University. Details are below; if you would like the calendar invitation sent to yourself or a colleague, don’t hesitate to reach out!
The Pesce Family Mentoring Institute at William Paterson University is looking for passionate, successful professionals—like you—to help shape the future. As a mentor, you’ll be paired one-on-one with a motivated student who is actively preparing for their career or graduate studies. Your mentorship can be the difference that helps a student turn ambition into achievement.

Nursing Home Network
2025-07-22 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-08-26 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-09-23 14:00 - 15:00
Each Nursing Home Network meeting features a brief presentation and Q&A with a guest speaker on current hot topics of interest to Nursing Homes. The guest speaker is followed by policy updates from LeadingAge policy experts with the rest of the call devoted to member discussion and interaction. A handout with pertinent resources is provided to members prior to each meeting, and an article summarizing the meeting is posted on the website and emailed to participants with the following month’s calendar invite.

Email Staff Convener: Jodi Eyigor
Join the Network
Meeting Schedule: Last Tuesday of the month at 2 p.m. ET

Adult Day and Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Network
2025-07-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-08-28 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-25 13:00 - 14:00
Staff of LeadingAge members who provide adult day services, meals, personal care, transportation, and other HCBS will meet monthly to discuss and provide input on policy, regulations, operations, quality, reimbursement, and workforce. The Network will sometimes feature an outside speaker and always have a topic for discussion on trending news. The group is open to anyone who works at a LeadingAge member organization interested in discussing home and community-based services and Medicaid waiver/state plan services, and more than one member of any organization is welcome to participate.

Email Staff Convener: Georgia GoodmanJoin the NetworkMeeting Schedule: Fourth Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. ET

Life Plan Community LeadingAge Member Network
2025-07-24 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-08-28 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-09-25 14:00 - 15:00
Each Life Plan Community Network meeting features a panel-led discussion on current hot topics of interest to LPCs. We also foster member discussion and connection on these issues, and members are encouraged to suggest future topics for the good of the group. After each meeting, enrolled members receive tools, resources, notes, slides and the full meeting recording.

Email Staff Convener: Dee Pekruhn
Join the Network
Meeting Schedule: Last Thursday of the month at 2 p.m. ET

Affordable Senior Housing Roundtable: Housing Managers & Service Coordinators
2025-08-05 10:30 - 12:30
Our Summer roundtable will be on August 5th at The Atrium at Navesink Harbor. We will be joined by Renee Koubiadis, MSW, LSW, who serves as Senior Policy Advisor for the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Division of Housing and Community Resources. Doors open at 10:00 am for a networking breakfast, with the DCA presentation beginning at 10:30. Following our discussion, enjoy a pontoon ride in the Navesink Harbor!
New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (NJ DCA) is working with the Rutgers Institute for Families to create a New Jersey Housing-Based Case Management Institute. This work will ensure that housing professionals are prepared and skilled in supporting practices that effectively engage consumers who are unhoused or housing insecure so that they may facilitate access to and maintenance of stable, affordable housing options. Using an ecosystem-based participatory research process that bring in housing services providers, persons with lived experience and expertise, institutions, and government to create statewide standardized competencies and a curriculum that can be used by NJ DCA and housing services providers. The institute focuses on 3 roles within the housing services and supports ecosystem: Housing Case Manager, Resource Navigator, and Housing Navigator through introductory, foundational, and ongoing professional elective courses.

Having grown up in poverty in Camden County, Renee Koubiadis has been an advocate and community organizer, helping disempowered populations use their voices towards social change throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and nationally for over 21 years. Renee currently serves as Senior Policy Advisor for the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Division of Housing and Community Resources. Prior, she was the Anti-Poverty Program Director of New Jersey Citizen Action where she led the statewide Anti-Poverty Network as she had since 2016. Renee is a Licensed Social Worker in New Jersey and holds an MSW from Temple University and a BASW from Rutgers University.

Questions? Reach out to Ivy Beck, Communications & Events Manager (ibeck@leadingagenjde.org)
LeadingAge New Jersey & Delaware Senior Housing Roundtable
Are you ready to elevate your knowledge and network with industry leaders in the senior living and aging services sector? Look no further than our exclusive member Roundtables & Committees, where we bring together experts, professionals, and enthusiasts to delve into pressing topics that shape the future of mission driven aging services.

Human Resources Roundtable
2025-08-13 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-09-10 10:00 - 11:00
Meets virtually the second Wednesday of each month for member led conversations on trending priorities and concerns for aging services HR staff.
This roundtable is for provider members of LeadingAge New Jersey & Delaware.
Reach out to Ivy for the calendar invite or with any questions: ibeck@leadingagenjde.org.

Cost Containment: Why Healthcare Costs So Much!
2025-08-13 12:00 - 13:00
Date: Aug. 13, 2025 | Time: 12 – 1:00 p.m.
Fee: LeadingAge NJ & DE & NJHA Members: $30 | Non-Members: $60
LANJDE members can reach out to NJHAEducation@njha.com for assistance registering at the member rate.
Register Here
Learn proven strategies to reduce your company’s benefit spend and uncover hidden fees in your benefits package. When managing your health care costs, you can’t do the same thing repeatedly and expect a different result. Health insurance is a billion-dollar business with many inefficiencies along with hidden revenue streams that do not benefit employers. Most health insurance providers are not transparent in pricing, making it difficult for employers to understand their true plan costs. To break the cycle and master a better solution, employers need to find the components causing waste within their employer-sponsored health plan.
During this seminar, you will learn the components causing the waste within your health plan. We will review several strategies available to middle-market employers that can be deployed to eliminate waste, reduce costs, and put money back in your employees’ pockets.
FACULTY
Terriann Procida – CEO, Innovative Benefits Planning
John Romaska – Vice President of Benefits Consulting, Innovative Benefit Planning
LEARNING OUTCOMES

List one way to improve delivery of care while improving the quality of care.
Describe one way of measuring risk based on data.
Explain how the PBM Market works.

CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION
Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board Accreditation
This continuing education program is sponsored/conducted by the Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey (HRETNJ) and is in compliance with N.J.A.C. 8:34-7.3 to provide licensed nursing home administrator (LNHA) education credits accepted by the Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board. This education activity may only be used for continuing education credit and not to meet academic college credits.
This education activity has been approved for a total of 1.0 LNHA continuing education credits.
Society for Human Resource Management
New Jersey Hospital Association is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities. This program is valid for 1.0 PDCs for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.

Continuing Care at Home Network
2025-08-14 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-09-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Webinar
This member-led group welcomes all LeadingAge members who currently operate, or who are interested in learning more about starting a Continuing Care at Home program. Members rotate host duties, and meeting details are posted in the CC@H Member Community. This group also hosts CC@H conferences twice each year, as well as offers learning sessions at national LeadingAge conferences.

Email Staff Convener: Dee Pekruhn
Join the Network
Meeting Schedule: Second Thursday of each month at 2 pm ET

Disability Rights NJ Overview of Services for LTC Residents with Paralysis
2025-08-14 14:30 - 15:00
Join a representative from Disability Rights NJ, a nonprofit advocacy organization, to learn about an opportunity for legal services for people with paralysis that may be of benefit to your facility’s residents. Disability Rights NJ’s grant from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation allows the organization to provide legal services to people with paralysis in long term care facilities looking to transition to the community.
Registration Required! Register Here.

Facilities Peer Network
2025-09-17 11:30 - 12:30
Members are invited to join our Facilities Peer Network which meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 11:30 AM. This network is a dedicated space for professionals managing the physical environment in their organizations. The network meets virtually via zoom on a monthly basis to connect, collaborate, and share best practices. This group is open to all members.
If you would like to be added to the calendar invitation to access the zoom details, please email Faith McCarrick at fmccarrick@leadingagenjde.org.

Alzheimer’s in Focus: Advancing Care and Community Support
2025-09-23 13:00 - 14:00
Register Here!
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) are growing public health challenges with far-reaching impacts on individuals, families, and the care workforce. This session will explore the broad impact of dementia in communities and why it is a critical issue in public health.
Participants will learn about the work of the Alzheimer’s Association in supporting families and professionals through education, tools, and access to resources. It will also introduce person-centered approaches to dementia care that emphasize dignity, individual strengths, and quality of life—key strategies for improving care outcomes and enhancing the caregiving experience.
Target Audience:
Care professionals/those caring and advocating for those impacted by ADRD.
Event Objectives:

Describe the public health impact of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) on individuals, families, and care systems.
Identify the resources and support services provided by the Alzheimer’s Association to assist professionals and families in dementia care.
Apply person-centered care principles to improve communication, engagement, and quality of life for individuals living with dementia.

Speaker Bios:
Sara Murphy, Alzheimer’s Association
Sara Murphy is the Vice President of Programs and Services for the Greater Pennsylvania Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. She has been with the Association for nearly 14 years, previously serving as Program Director for the Mississippi Chapter, where she oversaw programs and services across all 82 counties. Since relocating to Pennsylvania in 2016, Sara has led the delivery of programs and services across 59 of the state’s 67 counties.
With a background in nutrition, wellness, intergenerational programming, and gerontology, Sara brings a well-rounded perspective to dementia care. She also has direct experience working with individuals living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias, having spent five years in the long-term care field supporting residents at all levels of care—from independent living to memory care.
Registration Fees
LeadingAge NJ & DE Members: $40 (50% member savings!)
Non Members: $80
All employees of communities that are LeadingAge NJ & DE members are also members of our association. If you are a member but are not seeing the member rate, it likely means you aren’t logged into the system on your member profile. For assistance accessing your member profile, reach out to us at info@leadingagenjde.org
CEU Information:
This program has been submitted but not yet approved for Continuing Education for 1.0 total participation hours by NAB/NCERS.
To receive continuing education credit for LeadingAge PA-sponsored webinars, attendees must register under their name, participate through the link supplied after registering and complete the evaluation after the webinar.

Staffing Ratio Waiver & Satisfaction Survey Overview with DNHRQAC
2025-10-03 10:00 - 11:00
Join us for a virtual briefing with the Delaware Nursing Home Residents Quality Assurance Commission (DNHRQAC), DHCFA, and LeadingAge NJ & DE. This session will provide an update on the staffing ratio waiver and share information on the upcoming satisfaction survey for residents, families, and staff. Members will have the opportunity to hear directly from the Commission and ask questions during this discussion.
When: Friday, Oct 3, 2025 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Where: Virtual, via Zoom. Registration Required
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/X5ozzoB2STyAbwBqOKbYgw
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
