The Administrator of the Administration for Community Living (ACL) invites applications for a new award for fiscal year (FY) 2024 for the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Employment Among People with Physical Disabilities.
Donor Name: Administration for Community Living
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/24/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) seeks to fund an RRTC on Improving Employment Outcomes Among People with Serious Mental Illness. This RRTC will conduct research toward evidence-based services, supports, and interventions that promote positive employment outcomes among people with serious mental illness.
Priorities
The RRTC must contribute to maximizing employment outcomes among 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 a specific clinical or demographic subpopulation of people with SMI.
- Focus its research on a specific stage(s) of research. If the RRTC is to conduct research that can be categorized under more than one stage, including research that progresses from one stage to another, those stages must be clearly specified and justified.
- Demonstrating, in its original application, that people with SMI from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds will be included in study samples in sufficient numbers to generate knowledge and products that are relevant to the racial and ethnic diversity of the population of people with SMI being studied.
- Serving as a national resource center related to the employment of people with SMI by conducting knowledge translation activities.
- Demonstrating in its original application that people with SMI will be involved in planning and implementing the RRTC’s activities, and in evaluating the RRTC’s work.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $875,000
- Award Ceiling: $875,000
- Award Floor: $850,000
Project Period
60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods.
Eligibility Criteria
States; public or private agencies, including for-profit agencies; public or private organizations, including for-profit organizations; IHEs; and Indian tribes and tribal organizations.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
