The U.S. Administration for Community Living (ACL) is providing this new competitive funding opportunity to assist eligible state agencies in further implementing requirements of the Lifespan Respite Care Act of 2006, as amended (The Act) – (P.L.109-442 and P.L. 116-324).
Donor Name: Administration for Community Living
States: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/13/2022
Size of the Grant: $239,500 – $299,500
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The Act requires grantees to focus on expanding and enhancing respite care services to family caregivers across the lifespan; improving the statewide dissemination and coordination of respite care and providing, supplementing, or improving access and quality of respite care services to family caregivers, thereby reducing family caregiver strain.
Program Priority Areas
The overarching goal of this funding opportunity is to enhance state systems and capacities to deliver respite care and related services to family caregivers of adults or children with disabilities. With this in mind, applicants should describe their current capacity and outline a
strategy for building or strengthening the systemic infrastructure necessary to address gaps in, and assure consistent provision of, respite care services statewide.
Applicants are also encouraged to discuss any objectives related to the development or strengthening of a policy framework aimed at furthering the long-term continuation and support of statewide respite care service provision. Applicants will also be expected to propose
consumer, programmatic and systems level outcomes and describe how these outcomes will be measured and tracked for the people they will serve.
To be competitive, applicants should fully describe their proposed approaches for advancing their State Lifespan Respite Systems, with particular attention to the following Program Priority Areas:
- Direct service provision, incorporating the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic where appropriate;
- Continued systems development;
- Strengthened collaborations and partnerships ;
- Paid and volunteer respite provider training;
- Identification and reduction of gaps in current services; and
- Targeting underserved and underrepresented populations across the lifespan, with particular emphasis on addressing those most impacted by COVID-19.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $299,500 Per Budget Period.
- Award Floor: $239,500 Per Budget Period.
Grant Period
- 60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods.
Eligibility Criteria
By statute, awards may only be made to eligible state agencies that administer the State program under the Older Americans Act of 1965; administer the State program under title XIX of the Social Security Act, or are designated by the Governor of that state to administer the program activities described in this Announcement.
This grant competition is further limited as follows:
- Eligible state agencies receiving funding under this funding announcement will be required to have developed a Lifespan Respite Care System and build upon the foundation they established by completing an initial Lifespan Respite Grant to the New States.
- Therefore, eligible states include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
