The Administrator of the Administration for Community Living (ACL) invites applications for a new award for 2023 for the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Community Living and Participation Among People with Serious Mental Illness (SMI).
Donor Name: Administration for Community Living
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/09/2023
Size of the Grant: $875,000
Grant Duration: 60 months
Details:
Purpose
The purpose of the RRTCs, which are funded through the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program, is to achieve the goals of, and improve the effectiveness of, services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act through well-designed research, training, technical assistance, and dissemination activities in important topical areas as specified by NIDILRR. These activities are designed to benefit people with disabilities, family members or caregivers, rehabilitation service providers, policymakers and other research stakeholders. The purpose of this particular RRTC is to contribute to improving the community living and participation outcomes of individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) by conducting research activities and serving as a national resource center for training, technical assistance and dissemination.
Priorities
With the funding of this NOFO, the Administrator of the Administration for Community Living establishes a priority for a RRTC grant on Community Living and Participation Among People with Serious Mental Illness (SMI). For the purposes of this priority, SMI refers to a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities (Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee, 2017).
The RRTC must contribute to improving the community living and participation outcomes of people with SMI by:
- Conducting research activities in one or more of the following priority areas, focusing on people with SMI as a group or on people in specific disability or demographic subpopulations of individuals with SMI:
- Technology to improve community living and participation outcomes among people with SMI.
- Individual and environmental factors associated with improved community living and participation outcomes among people with SMI.
- Interventions that contribute to improved community living and participation outcomes among people with SMI. Interventions include any strategy, practice, program, policy, or tool that, when implemented as intended, contributes to improvements in outcomes among people with SMI.
- Effects of government practices, policies, and programs on community living and participation outcomes among people with SMI.
- Focusing research on one or more specific stages of research. If the RRTC plans to conduct research that can be categorized under more than one of the research stages, or research that progresses from one stage to another, those stages must be clearly specified. These stages and their definitions are provided in this notice;
- Conducting one or more research studies at the intervention efficacy or scale-up evaluation stages of research;
- Ensuring that people with SMI from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds will be included in study samples in sufficient numbers to generate knowledge that is relevant to the full racial and ethnic diversity of people with SMI being studied. The RRTC must describe and justify the racial and ethnic distribution of adults with SMI who will participate in the proposed research activities;
- Serving as a national resource center related to community living and participation among people with SMI by conducting knowledge translation activities that include, but are not limited to:
- Providing information and technical assistance to people with SMI and their representatives, mental health service providers, and other relevant stakeholders;
- Providing training, including graduate, pre-service, and in-service training, to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, rehabilitation service providers and other disability service providers, to identify and facilitate more effective delivery of services to individuals with SMI. This training may be provided through conferences, workshops, public education programs, in-service training programs, and similar activities;
- Disseminating research-based information and materials related to community living and participation among people with SMI to key stakeholders, including individuals with SMI and their representatives; mental health service providers, or other relevant stakeholders; and
- Conducting a state-of-the-science conference on its designated priority research area. The RRTC must hold this conference by the fourth year of the project period and publish a comprehensive report on the final outcomes of the conference by the fifth year of the project period. and
- Involving people with SMI and other key stakeholder groups in conducting the Center’s research activities, to ensure the research-based information generated by the RRTC is effective, usable, and accessible. Key stakeholder groups may include but are not limited to national consumer organizations for people with SMI, organizations in the ACL aging and disability networks, and mental health care providers.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $875,000
- Maximum Award Amount: $875,000
- Propose a project period that exceeds 60 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Special district governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- City or township governments
- Small businesses
- County governments
- State governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
