Centers for Independent Living Competition—North Carolina (ACL)

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31063
• Date: 07 May 2020
• Published date: 07 May 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

Funds: $110,000 for one award with a project period of

one year.

Eligibility: Nonprot organizations.

Areas: ACL said the center must provide the following

core services: information and referral; independent living

skills training; peer counseling; individual and systems

advocacy; and services that facilitate transition from

nursing homes and other institutions to the community,

assistance to those at risk of entering institutions and

the transition of youth to postsecondary life.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# HHS-2020-ACL-AOD-IL-0422

Centers for Independent Living Competition—

North Carolina (ACL)

Scope: The Administration for Community Living’s

Administration on Disabilities seeks applications for the

Centers for Independent Living Competition—North

Carolina to provide independent living services focused

on enabling an individual to achieve independence in

their community.

Deadline: June 22, 2020.

Funds: $335,000 for one award with a project period of

one year.

Eligibility: Nonprot organizations.

Areas: ACL said the center must provide the following

core services: information and referral; independent living

skills training; peer counseling; individual and systems

advocacy; and services that facilitate transition from

nursing homes and other institutions to the community,

assistance to those at risk of entering institutions, and

the transition of youth to postsecondary life.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# HHS-2020-ACL-AOD-

IL-0420

Eects of disasters on health care systems

serving health disparity populations (NIH)

Scope: The National Institutes of Health seeks (R01)

research project grant applications for the Long-Term

Effects of Disasters on Health Care Systems Serving

Health Disparity Populations announcement to support

investigative and collaborative research focused on

understanding the long-term effects of natural and/or

human-made disasters on health care systems serving

health disparity populations in communities in the United

States, including the U.S. territories.

Deadline: Feb. 5, 2020; June 5, 2020; and Oct. 5, 2020.

Funds: The number of awards depends on

appropriations and the submission of a sufficient

number of quality applications. The maximum project

period is ve years.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations, including small businesses; nonprot

organizations; and state, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments; among others.

Areas: NIH said potential topic areas include but are

not limited to: change in demographics (including

migration, return migration and fatalities) following

the disaster(s) and/or public health emergencies and

subsequent change in actual or projected population

health prole, health care needs to ensure access to

services and health/health care disparities across the

lifespan; strategies to ensure access to continuity of

care and enhance prevention and treatment of acute

exacerbations of chronic diseases (especially among

patients with multiple medical conditions, disabilities

and/or complex medical needs; for example, mitigation

strategies to ensure storage, availability and delivery of

medications and protection of electronic health records

and health care system functionality); post-disaster

and/or public health emergency health care systems

redesign strategies; and systems analyses to identify

needs for or best practices of coordination among health

care systems and the health care workforce, public

health units, local and federal agencies, community

organizations, addiction treatment providers, community

resources and affected communities in relation to

preparedness, response to or recovery from disasters

and/or public health emergencies in communities

affected by health and health care disparities.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# PA-20-172

Rural Telementoring Training Center (HRSA)

Scope: The Health Resources and Services

Administration seeks applications for the Rural

Telementoring Training Center (RTTC) announcement

to train academic medical centers and other centers

of excellence to create or expand technology-enabled

collaborative learning and capacity-building models

(such as Project ECHO, ECHO-like models and other

emerging models in the eld).

Deadline: June 16, 2020.

Funds: $1 million for one award.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: HRSA said the RTTC program’s objectives

emphasize the following: identifying and expanding

current and new telementoring learning programs;

developing freely accessible tools and resources to

support telementoring learning program planning

and implementation; and creating a standardized

telementoring learning program data set and evaluation

toolkit. HRSA expects the RTTC to provide technical

assistance resources that are national in scope and

that will meet the needs of rural communities and

practitioners.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# HRSA-20-108

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