Deadline: 13-Aug-21
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Administration for Community Living is seeking applications for the Projects of National Significance: Community Collaborations for Employment Program.
The purpose of the Community Collaborations for Employment Program is to increase and enhance collaborations across existing local systems to maximize a seamless experience and outcome of youth with ID/DD as they transition between school and work in the community. Since a transition period for youth with ID/DD is a multifaceted process, ACL recognizes that no one person, institution, or organization acting alone can provide all the supports and services needed.
The Administration for Community Living, Administration on Disabilities (AoD) seeks to fund approximately eight (8) community-based collaboration models in select communities as demonstration projects that will design and test effective transition services and activities to increase the number of youth with ID/DD:
- Finding and keeping long-term, career-focused competitive integrated employment (CIE)
- Graduating from post-secondary education programs
- Living and participating fully in their communities
The CCE project will fund broad stakeholder collaborations in select communities that will work to increase the capacity of those communities to provide transition services and facilitate improved transition activities between schools and the communities for individuals with ID/DD.
The community collaboration will work together to:
- Conduct an environmental scan of all types of services available to support the transition process,
- Reduce the complexity of existing transition services,
- Increase the smooth exchange among the various supportive programs,
- Eliminate unnecessary duplication,
- Create tools to increase consistency across service agencies, and
- Ultimately expand and strengthen the services available to students and youth with ID/DD and their families.
This grant project timeline has four key stages:
- Establishing and Maintaining a Community Collaboration Pilot
- Conducting a Community Landscape Analysis
- Developing a Community Collaboration Employment Transition Plan
- Implementing the Community Collaboration Employment Transition Plan
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $ 1,600,000
- Award Ceiling: $ 225,000 Per Budget Period
- Award Floor: $ 175,000 Per Budget Period
- Expected Number of Awards: 8
- Length of Project Period: 60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods
Eligibility Criteria
Domestic public or private non-profit entities including state and local governments, Indian tribal governments and organizations (American Indian/Alaskan Native/Native American), faith-based organizations, community-based organizations, hospitals, and institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332427