ACL Announces 2025 Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Grant Awards

ACL is pleased to announce four recipients of Chronic Disease Self-Management Education (CDSME) grants totaling approximately $4.9 million in combined funding to implement evidence-based CDSME programs across four states.

ACL's CDSME program provides education and tools to help older adults and adults with disabilities better manage conditions like diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, chronic pain, and depression. With these awards, ACL seeks to develop capacity for, deliver, and sustain evidence-based CDSME programsto improve the behavioral health of older adults and adults with disabilities through statewide initiatives that can be replicated. ACL aims to increase access to programs for older adults with behavioral health conditions, thereby improving their health outcomes, reducing health care costs, and sharing successful strategies nationwide to enhance access and care.

Over the next three years, four new CDSME grantees will reach older adults and adults with disabilities in the greatest need, both economically and socially. Grantees will focus on serving those with behavioral health conditions (e.g., depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorder) and behavioral health stressors (e.g., recent diagnosis of a chronic condition, loss of a loved one, being a caregiver).

The 2025 CDSME grantees are:

• Education Health and Research International, Inc. (Delaware)
• Portland State University (Oregon)
• Texas A&M University
• University of Nevada, Reno

These grantees join a large network of CDSME providers who empower older adults to manage their chronic conditions, collaborate with health care providers and payors, accelerate impact and outcomes, and expand reach.

Direct questions about CDSME to [email protected].

Relevant Notice of Funding Opportunity: HHS-2025-ACL-AOA-CSSG-0034,"Advancing Strategies to Deliver and Sustain Evidence-Based Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Programs to Support Older Adults with Behavioral Health Conditions," posted July 28, 2025.