The Administration for Community Living is accepting applications for its Strengthening Aging Services for Minority Populations Through Technical Assistance, Resource Development, and Program Coordination.
Donor Name: Administration for Community Living
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/26/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000 – $210,032
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
Priority Areas
- Option A. Older Adults Equity Collaborative: Technical Assistance & Resource Center (OAEC-TARC) Program
- In proposing approaches, identify critical priority areas for the three-year project. You will need to be very specific in defining your priority areas. Some broad ideas to consider include:
- Social isolation among diverse older adults and family caregivers, including its negative impact on health.
- Family-focused supports and programs for multiple generations.
- Aligning family caregiver-related project activities with the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers.
- Housing and homelessness.
- Legal and financial issues and preparedness.
- Workforce re-entry, engagement, and development.
- Reframing the reality of aging as a positive.
- Trauma and its impact on aging.
- Supports for persons with dementia and their family caregivers.
- Self-advocacy.
- Unique needs and challenges of diverse older adults and family caregivers in rural areas.
- Aging with a disability within diverse populations of older adults.
- Bridging the gaps between the aging and disability networks.
- You will need to show your capacity to design and deliver training, TA, and resource tools. This includes using the following approaches and concepts:
- Limited resources and achieving measurable impacts.
- Embedding efforts in the aging services network to ensure long-term ownership.
- Using technology to reach greater numbers of people more efficiently.
- Supporting volunteerism to sustain service delivery, training, and activities.
- Achieving long-term sustainability.
- In proposing approaches, identify critical priority areas for the three-year project. You will need to be very specific in defining your priority areas. Some broad ideas to consider include:
- Option B. Older Adult Equity Collaborative (OAEC) Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance (CCTA)
- In proposing approaches, identify critical priority areas for the three-year project. You will need to be very specific in defining your priority areas. Some broad ideas to consider include:
- Integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion with aging and disability issues and concerns.
- Aligning project activities, where applicable, with the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers.
- Advocacy as a tool for sustaining the project after funding ends.
- Addressing the needs of diverse older adults and family caregivers living in inner-city areas.
- Addressing institutional racism in service provision.
- Leveraging opportunities for intergenerational opportunities.
- In proposing approaches, identify critical priority areas for the three-year project. You will need to be very specific in defining your priority areas. Some broad ideas to consider include:
You will need to show your capacity to coordinate technical assistance across multiple organizations and population groups, including your use of webinars, conference presentations, and social media.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,150,160
- Option A: $205,000 to $210,032 per budget period
- Option B: Up to $100,000 per budget period
- Period of performance: 36 months
Uses of funds
- Option A. Older Adults Equity Collaborative: Technical Assistance & Resource Center (OAEC-TARC) Program
- Recommended Activities and Use of Funds
- Under Option A, ACL-AoA will fund five new cooperative agreements. No single organization may receive more than one award under this option.
- The purpose is to create a technical assistance and resource center that supports older adults and the service networks they turn to for help.
- You must select only one of these target populations: African American; Hispanic; Asian and Pacific Islander; Native American; or LGBTQ seniors and their respective family caregivers.
- Applicants should show how they will bring a broad, effective approach both to supporting the aging services network and to providing direct support to older adults and their family caregivers.
- Recommended Activities and Use of Funds
- Option B. Older Adult Equity Collaborative (OAEC) Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance (CCTA)
- Recommended Activities and Use of Funds
- Under Option B, ACL-AoA will make one award to one entity to continue developing the OAEC Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance (CCTA). The purpose is to promote greater alignment, collaboration, and coordination across:
- the five resource centers funded under Option A;
- other ACL-funded resources centers focused on older adults, family caregivers and, where relevant, persons with disabilities; and
- other stakeholders and entities to promote greater crosscutting work on behalf of diverse older adults and their family caregivers.
- Recommended Activities and Use of Funds
Eligibility Criteria
- Domestic public or private non-profit organizations
- State and local governments
- Indian tribal governments and organizations (American Indian/Alaskan Native/Native American)
- Faith-based organizations
- Community-based organizations
- Hospitals
- Institutions of higher education
- To be considered eligible you must also:
- Have experience in serving racial, ethnic minority, or LGBTQ older adult populations and family caregivers at the national level; and
- Not propose conduit or pass-through funding for another agency to lead the project.
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