US: DRRP Program on Community Living and Participation (Research)

Deadline: 4-Apr-22

The Administration for Community Living has announced an open call for the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) Program: Community Living and Participation (Research).

Under this DRRP priority, applicants must propose a research project that is aimed at improving the community living and participation outcomes among people with disabilities. In carrying out a research project under this program, a grantee must identify one or more hypotheses or research questions and, based on the hypotheses or research questions identified, perform an intensive, systematic study directed toward producing:

new or full scientific knowledge or
understanding of the subject or problem studied.

Funding Information

Estimated Total Funding: $500,000
Award Ceiling: $500,000 Per Budget Period
Award Floor: $495,000 Per Budget Period
Length of Project Period: 60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods

Outcomes

The DRRP must contribute to the outcome of maximizing the community living and participation outcomes of people with disabilities. To contribute to this outcome, the DRRP must:

Conduct research in one or more of the following priority areas, focusing on people with disabilities as a group or on people in specific disability or demographic subpopulations of people with disabilities:
- Technology to improve community living and participation outcomes among people with disabilities.
- Individual and environmental factors associated with improved community living and participation outcomes among people with disabilities.
- Interventions that are designed to contribute to improved community living and participation outcomes among people with disabilities. Interventions include any strategy, practice, program, policy, or tool that, when implemented as intended, contributes to improvements in outcomes for people with disabilities.
- Effects of government policies and programs on community living and participation outcomes among people with disabilities.
- Practices and policies that contribute to improved community living and participation outcomes among people with disabilities.
Demonstrate in its original application, that people 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 disabilities being studied.
Focus its research on a specific stage of research. Research at any stage can be appropriate, including any rigorous quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods research. If the DRRP 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.
Conduct knowledge translation activities (i.e., utilization, dissemination) in order to facilitate stakeholder (e.g., people with disabilities, employers, policymakers, practitioners) use of the knowledge, interventions, programs, technologies, or products that result from the research activities conducted under paragraph (1)(a) of this priority.
Involve people with disabilities in the activities conducted under paragraph (1)(a) in order to maximize the relevance and usability of the DRRP's work and outputs.