CAPLAW Webinar

The highly-anticipated OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) vaccine mandates have been issued.

Under the OSHA ETS, employers with 100 or more employees must ensure their workers are either fully vaccinated or are submitting negative COVID-19 tests at least once a week by January 4, 2022. The separate CMS vaccine mandate applies to all employees at health care facilities that receive federal funding from Medicare or Medicaid, and it also requires employees to be vaccinated by January 4, 2022. The CMS vaccine mandate does not give employees the option to test weekly in lieu of getting vaccinated.

CAPLAW recently issued a step-by-step compliance guide to help the Community Action network navigate the employee vaccination mandates announced by OSHA, Head Start, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In this resource we describe the planning process your CAA should consider as you develop and update your policies to reflect the new requirements. We also provide two template policies to assist your CAA in complying with the new mandates: a mandatory vaccination policy and a policy requiring vaccinations or allowing employees to choose weekly COVID-19 testing and face coverings. In this webinar we discuss these essential resources, as well as the status of ongoing litigation challenging these mandates.

The Office of Head Start has released its long-awaited vaccination mandate (the Rule), which will be published as an interim final rule with comment period in the Federal Register on November 30, 2021. The Rule amends the Head Start Program Performance Standards to require masking for individuals aged two and older. It also requires vaccination for all Head Start staff, contractors whose activities involve contact with or providing direct services to children and families, and volunteers working in classrooms or directly with children.

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Join the federal Office of Community Services (OCS), CAPLAW, and the National Community Action Partnership for a webinar on Thursday, January 27th discussing the critical role that the Community Action network can play in facilitating the Low-Income Home Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP). With over $1.1 billion in new emergency funding, LIHWAP helps low-income households maintain access to drinking water and wastewater services by paying for water utility reconnections and bills. Grant recipients may work with local CAAs to distribute LIHWAP funding to benefit eligible households.

The webinar will feature CAAs from Michigan, Iowa, and Kentucky sharing their experiences planning for and launching their LIHWAP programs, and how they are leveraging other sources of funding such as Emergency Rental Assistance, LIHEAP, and CSBG, to provide utilities assistance to their communities. CAPLAW will also discuss its new resource, LIHWAP: A Primer for the Community Action Network, which is an online guide that helps the Community Action network navigate the program and better understand the role that CAAs may play in facilitating the funding. The resource incorporates current federal guidance and addresses aspects of the program critical to Community Action.

Travel with us for the first webinar in CAPLAW's Conductor Series, focused on CAPLAW's animated board training video People: How Do You Get the Right People on the Board? Along the way, watch the full board training video with CAPLAW, followed by a discussion about strategic board recruitment, analyzing board strengths and weaknesses, and assessing board candidates.

Travel with us for the second webinar in CAPLAW's Conductor Series, focused on CAPLAW's animated board training video Process: The CAA Board Meeting Ecosystem - Consent Agendas and the Conservation of Time. View this board training video with frequent CAPLAW-led pauses to understand consent agendas and how to use them.

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Ready to chat in the café car? Travel with us for the third webinar in CAPLAW's Conductor Series, focused on CAPLAW's animated board training video Purpose: In Boards We Trust. Break out into small groups to hash out the fiduciary duty of loyalty and conflicts of interest with fellow travelers, then collaborate with CAPLAW to find practical takeaways.

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