The Administration for Community Living is seeking applications for its Scaling Up Evidence-Based Services to Promote Competitive Integrated Employment Among People with Disabilities.
Donor Name: Administration for Community Living
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/26/2023
Size of the Grant: $900,000
Grant Duration: 60 months
Details:
The purpose of the DRRPs is to achieve the goals of, and improve the effectiveness of, services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act, by generating new knowledge, or developing methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies that advance a wide range of health and function, community living, and employment outcomes among people with disabilities, especially people with disabilities who have the greatest support needs. Under this particular DRRP priority, the grantee must conduct research to further build the evidence base for an employment intervention or program that promotes competitive integrated employment among people with disabilities. The DRRP must focus its research on an existing intervention or program that has previous evidence of efficacy. The DRRP must further strengthen that evidence base or bring the intervention to scale in real-world settings.
Priority
Under this priority, the Project must conduct research on the effect of an intervention or program on competitive integrated employment outcomes among people with disabilities.
When the research is complete and if the results provide evidence about the effectiveness of the employment intervention, the Project must provide training, technical assistance, and knowledge translation activities to promote the uptake and adoption of the findings. In order to advance knowledge and practice in this area, the Project must focus on an employment intervention or program that has previous evidence of efficacy rather than developing a new, untested intervention or program and continue to build stronger evidence of its effectiveness and feasibility. The target population for the employment intervention or program can be people with any type of disability. The Project’s activities must be designed and conducted in close collaboration with members of the target population of people with disabilities and other relevant stakeholders. To optimize future implementation or adoption of the intervention or program, the Project’s research activities must be conducted in a real-world setting where the employment intervention or program is designed to be implemented as part of an existing service delivery system. The Project must conduct research activities at the “intervention efficacy” or “scale-up evaluation” stage, or some combination of these two stages.
Under this priority, the Project must be designed to contribute to the following outcomes:
- Evidence of effectiveness of an employment intervention or program that has been shown in previous research to improve competitive integrated employment outcomes among people with disabilities. The Project must contribute to this outcome by conducting high quality and rigorous research activities to establish stronger evidence than is currently available.
- Evidence of the feasibility of the employment intervention or program for implementation in a real-world setting in which it is designed to be implemented. The Project must contribute to this outcome by conducting research activities in collaboration with members of the target population of people with disabilities, representative organizations from the intended setting, and other relevant stakeholders who will be crucial to the successful implementation of the employment intervention or program.
- Increased awareness and use of the evidence generated under paragraphs 1 and 2 among key stakeholders. The Project must contribute to this outcome by developing and implementing a knowledge translation plan that includes dissemination, training, and technical assistance as appropriate. In implementing its knowledge translation plan, the Project must coordinate with the NIDILRR-funded Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research.
- Improved awareness and understanding among key stakeholders, of cutting-edge, evidence based interventions and programs that support competitive integrated employment among people with disabilities. The Project must contribute to this outcome by communicating and sharing information about trends and evolving knowledge related to competitive integrated employment – directly with NIDILRR/ACL, the Office of Disability Employment Policy, people with disabilities and their representatives, disability organizations, service providers, and other interested parties.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $900,000
- Award Ceiling: $900,000
- Award Floor: $895,000
Project Period
60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods.
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- State governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility
States; public or private agencies, including for-profit agencies; public or private organizations, including for-profit organizations; IHEs’ and Indian tribes and tribal organizations. Foreign entities are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement. Faith based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement.
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