Deadline: 15-Jul-2024
The Administration for Community Living is offering grants to help people in American Samoa with significant disabilities to live independently.
This program funds Centers for Independent Living to provide services to people with significant disabilities, as authorized by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (the Act).
Centers funded must provide at least the following core services:
- Information and referral.
- Independent living skills training.
- Peer counseling.
- Individual and systems advocacy.
- Services that:
- Help people transition from nursing homes and other facilities to the community.
- Assist those at risk of entering facilities.
- Help youth transition to postsecondary life.
Funding Information
- Expected total funding: $159,762
- Funding per award for period of performance: $159,762
- Expected awards: 1
- They plan to fund awards in two 12-month budget periods for a total two-year period of performance.
Outcomes
- As you carry out your project, you will evaluate your program each year, prepare an annual report, and keep records that enable you to meet your performance standards. Your reports will include:
- How well the center complies with the standards.
- The number and types of people with significant disabilities receiving services through the center.
- The types of services provided through the center, and the number of people receiving each type of service.
- The sources and amounts of funding for the center.
- The number of people with significant disabilities employed by the center, including in management and decision-making positions.
- If possible, a comparison of the center’s activities in prior years with those in the most recent year.
Approach
- Your center should conduct the following activities:
- Help people with significant disabilities to develop and achieve their independent living goals.
- Promote and practice the independent living philosophy, including:
- Consumer control of decision-making, service delivery, management, policy setting, and direction in the center.
- Self-help and self-advocacy.
- Development of peer relationships and peer role models.
- Equal access for people with significant disabilities to all services, programs, activities, resources, and facilities within their communities, whether public or private, regardless of funding sources.
- Offer services to people with various types of significant disabilities, including underserved people, as described, Independent Living Services and Centers for Independent Living.
- Ensure that consumers are eligible for its services, without excluding anyone based on their type of disability.
- Work to increase the availability and improve the quality of community options for independent living.
- Provide independent living core services and, as appropriate, a combination of other independent living services. These core services are:
- Information and referral.
- Independent living skills training.
- Peer counseling.
- Individual and systems advocacy.
- Services that:
- Help people transition from nursing homes and other facilities to the community.
- Help those at risk of entering facilities.
- Help youth transition to postsecondary life.
- Increase the capacity of communities within the center’s service area to meet the needs of people with significant disabilities.
- Notify people with significant disabilities who could benefit from services about the client assistance program, including contact information.
- Conduct aggressive outreach about the center’s services to reach people with significant disabilities who are unserved or underserved by programs under this title, especially minority groups and urban and rural populations.
Geographic Area
- You must propose to serve areas identified as unserved or underserved by the territory of American Samoa.
- You must demonstrate in your project narrative how a proposed new center is consistent with the design for a statewide network of centers in American Samoa’s Plan for Independent Living.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only these types of organizations may apply:
- Consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability, non-residential, private nonprofit agencies.
- The designated state entity under section 724 of the Act (29 U.S.C. 796f-3).
- All types of private nonprofit entities may apply, including:
- Indian tribal organizations (American Indian, Alaskan Native, Native American).
- Faith-based organizations.
- LGBTQIA2S+ organizations.
- Community-based organizations.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.