{"id":28275,"date":"2025-10-03T10:46:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/?post_type=news&#038;p=28275"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:46:54","slug":"beth-marks-and-jasmina-sisirak-awarded-250000-for-year-6-supplement-to-support-the-implementation-of-the-national-healthy-brain-initiative-for-people-with-intelle","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/beth-marks-and-jasmina-sisirak-awarded-250000-for-year-6-supplement-to-support-the-implementation-of-the-national-healthy-brain-initiative-for-people-with-intelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth Marks and Jasmina Sisirak awarded $250,000 \u200bfor Year 6 Supplement \u200bt\u200bo Support the Implementation of the National Healthy Brain Initiative \u200bfor People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities"},"template":"","news_categories":[17],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-28275","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-grants"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","hide_subtitle":true,"intro_text_body":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/profiles\/marks-beth\/\">Beth Marks<\/a> (PI) and <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/profiles\/sisirak-jasmina\/\">Jasmina Sisirak<\/a> (Co-PI) have recently received Year 6 funding through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/aging-programs\/php\/nhbi\/index.html\">CDC\u2019s National Healthy Brain Initiative<\/a> to support implementation of the Healthy Brain Initiative for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (HBI-PwIDD). As part of the CDC\u2019s Healthy Brain Initiative, HBI-PwIDD seeks to promote brain health and to address stigma, underdiagnosis, and disparities in Alzheimer\u2019s disease and \u200brelated\u00a0dementia\u200bs among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through disability-affirming public health approaches.<\/p>\n<p>In Year 6, \u200bt\u200bhe focus will be on expanding the dissemination of culturally inclusive resources, refining brain health guidelines for providers, and \u200bcontinued\u00a0scaling \u200bof\u00a0the\u00a0\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/healthmattersprogram.org\">HealthMatters Program <\/a>and the HealthAdvocacy Program\u00a0to strengthen caregiving support and foster \u200bbrain health promotion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HBI-PwIDD is a Component B project within a robust, interconnected network. This network includes the Alzheimer\u2019s Association (Component A), Component B organizations focused on populations heavily burdened by Alzheimer\u2019s disease \u200band related dementia\u00a0(UsAgainstAlzheimer\u2019s, \u200bThe\u00a0International Association for Indigenous Aging, and the UIC HealthMatters \u200bProgram), and 43 state, local, territorial, and tribal recipients of the CDC\u2019s BOLD Infrastructure Public Health Program.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"","content_author":"Jasmina Sisirak","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"news_include_thumbnail":false,"components":false,"SEO_meta_description":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28280,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28275\/revisions\/28280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=28275"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=28275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}