Through this funding opportunity, the U.S. Administration for Community Living (ACL) plans to award a cooperative agreement to a single entity to serve as ACL’s Innovation Lab (the Lab) to conduct research, demonstrations, and evaluations pertaining to falls prevention amongst older adults and older adults with disabilities.
Donor Name: Administration for Community Living
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/22/2023
Size of the Grant: $4,790,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
Purpose
The purpose of this funding announcement is to create an ACL Innovation Lab (“the Lab”) that facilitates the development and scaling of effective practices that promote health and reduce injury among older adults and older adults with disabilities.The achieve this purpose, the Lab, with ACL’s direction and in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, will:Develop a taxonomy for falls prevention research through an in-depth review of falls prevention literature that allows for a structured approach to data collection. Develop relevant research questions and methods, based on that taxonomy, for conducting research using two approaches: core components and community-driven/community-based participatory research on falls prevention and related risk factors. Develop a secure, dynamic system to house the data collected and evidence developed by sub-awardees, complying with ACL’s public access plan and policy in regards to scientific or research data collected as a result of this funding. Fund a cohort of community-based aging and disability service sub-awardees to pilot these approaches, in order to understand and measure the extent to which existing interventions reduce falls and related risk factors for falls. Provide technical assistance to sub-awardees on core components, participatory research designs to measure outcomes, and structured data collection. Conduct both predictive and data analysis on research findings, and disseminate findings. Promote the scaling and sustainability of effective practices that promote health and reduce injury specific to falls prevention and related risk factors.
Program Goals
- Develop a Taxonomy for Falls Prevention Research
- Develop a taxonomy for falls prevention research through an in-depth review of falls prevention literature that allows for a structured approach to data collection as referenced above. Based on that taxonomy, the awardee will develop relevant research questions and methods for conducting research interventions using both core components and community-driven/community-based participatory research on falls prevention and falls risk factors.
- Develop or Build Upon an Existing System to House Research from Sub-Awards
- Develop a secure, dynamic system to house the data collected and evidence developed by subawardees, complying with ACL’s Public Access Plan and policy in regards to scientific or research data collected as a result of this funding opportunity.
- Develop and Implement Sub-awards to Aging Network
- A central deliverable in Year Two will be the disbursement of sub-awards to the Aging Network. The applicant will fund a cohort of up to 15 sub-awards to community-based aging and disability-focused entities to conduct research, in collaboration with and the support of the Lab, using core components and community-based participatory approaches in order to understand and measure the extent to which existing interventions reduce falls and falls risk factors for falls.
- Analysis, Sustainability, and Technical Assistance
- The responsibility of the Innovation Lab will be to serve as a national focal point to provide technical assistance to scale and support new and existing research and evidence for falls prevention and falls risk factors, with an emphasis on organizations in ACL’s aging and disability networks.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $4,790,000
- Award Ceiling: $4,790,000
- Project Period: 36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Special district governments
- State governments
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities.
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