The Administration for Community Living (ACL) invites applicants for a new award for 2023 Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Disability Statistics and Demographics.
Donor Name: Administration for Community Living
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/05/2023
Size of the Grant: $875,000
Grant Duration: 60 months
Details:
NIDILRR’s RRTC program is authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. The purpose of the RRTCs 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. The purpose of this particular RRTC is to conduct activities to advance the use and usefulness of disability data and statistics to inform disability policies and practices toward providing full opportunities and accommodations for people with disabilities.
Priority
The Administrator of the Administration for Community Living establishes a priority for a Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Disability Statistics and Demographics. This RRTC must conduct innovative and rigorous research, knowledge translation, training, dissemination, and technical assistance activities to advance the use and usefulness of disability statistics to inform disability policy and the provision of services to people with disabilities.
Under this priority, the RRTC must contribute to the following outcomes:
- Improved quality of national disability data and statistics that are relevant to improving community living and participation, employment, and health and function outcomes among people with disabilities. The RRTC must contribute to this outcome by:
- Collecting and synthesizing information toward innovative methodologies for conducting and analyzing surveys of people with disabilities, including but not limited to the following:
- sampling techniques;
- methods for identifying and collecting valid and reliable data from people inm disability subgroups who are not easily identified with current standard question sets;
- methods for appropriately collecting valid and reliable data from people with disabilities who are from one or more underserved communities identified in Executive Order 13985, such as Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color; members of religious minorities, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons; persons who live in rural areas, and persons otherwise affected by persistent poverty or inequality;
- methods to promote data standardization and interoperability across data sources that contain disability data.
- advanced statistical modeling techniques or methods to address questions and hypotheses about disability populations.
- Establishing and disseminating recommendations based on the findings from the activities conducted in (a)(i).
- Collaborating with key stakeholders, including people with disabilities, disability advocacy organizations, researchers, federal and state disability data administrators, and others. Organizational collaborators may include but are not limited to NIDILRR-funded grantees with responsibilities for generating or maintaining disability data, including the Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems, Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems, and Burn Model Systems programs, as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act National Network.
- Involving people with disabilities in conducting its research, training, technical assistance, and dissemination activities.
- Collecting and synthesizing information toward innovative methodologies for conducting and analyzing surveys of people with disabilities, including but not limited to the following:
- New knowledge of the experiences and outcomes of people with disabilities in the U.S., to inform the development of disability policies and programs. The RRTC must contribute to this outcome by:
- Conducting innovative, timely analyses of high-quality, relevant survey or administrative data, which may include person-level and environmental factors, to address critical disability program and service needs.
- Evaluating progress toward achieving national goals of improved outcomes for people with disabilities and their families.
- Providing statistical consultation, including specialized analyses of disability data, to facilitate the increased and appropriate use of survey and administrative data by policymakers, advocates, people with disabilities, and other stakeholders.
- Improved access to and increased use of disability statistics. The RRTC must contribute to this outcome by:
- Providing technical assistance on disability statistics and demographics for federal and other government agencies, policymakers, consumers, advocates, researchers, and other relevant interested parties.
- Disseminating research findings in clear and useful formats to federal and other government agencies, policymakers, consumers, advocates, researchers, and other stakeholders to enhance planning, policymaking, program administration, and delivery of services to people with disabilities.
- Developing and disseminating an annual report on disability in the United States that includes statistics on status and trends related to the prevalence of disabilities in the U.S., as well as the employment, health, community living, and other outcomes of current importance in monitoring the experiences and well-being of people with disabilities.
- Developing and maintaining a web-enabled platform that provides: (1) open access to existing survey and administrative data sources related to disability, and (2) user friendly analytic tools allowing users to generate national, state, and local population estimates and reports.
- Improved capacity in the field of disability research to collect and analyze statistical data about the enabling or disabling characteristics of the built and social environments in which people live. The RRTC must contribute to this outcome by:
- Working with NIDILRR and ACL to conceptualize, plan for, and create methodological infrastructure for the systematic collection of environmental-level variables that contribute to the health, community living, and employment outcomes of people with disabilities.
- Improved national capacity to collect and analyze disability data. The RRTC must contribute to this outcome by:
- Providing training to doctoral and post-doctoral students to build relevant, specialized research capacity among the next generation of disability statisticians and disability data collectors and analysts.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $875,000
- Award Ceiling: $875,000
- Award Floor: $870,000
- Length of Project Period: 60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods.
Eligible Applicants
- Special district governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- State governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- For profit organizations other than Small businesses
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- County governments
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