Grants and Funding
Funding Opportunity Announcement — 05/10/2012
Funding opportunity Number: HHS-2012-ACF-ADD-DH-0300
These grants will be used to provide T/TA to P&As in their promotion of full participation in the electoral process for individuals with disabilities, including registering to vote, casting a vote, and accessing polling places; developing proficiency in the use of voting systems and technologies as they affect individuals with disabilities; demonstrating and evaluating the use of such systems and technologies by individuals with disabilities (including blindness) in order to assess the availability and use of such systems and technologies for such individuals; and providing T/TA for non-visual access. (At least one recipient must provide T/TA in this area.)
Funding Opportunity Announcement — 05/11/2012
Funding opportunity Number: HHS-2012-ACF-ADD-DN-0513
These grants will be used to build capacity across and within states through state consortia to create and share policies, practices, and systems that support competitive, integrated employment outcomes to support individuals with I/DD. The Community of Practice (CoP) under this FOA will work to provide information, including the identification of emerging and promising practices across states; establish and maintain mechanisms to share and disseminate data; develop ideas to address competitive, integrated employment challenges in states; provide quality peer-to-peer technical assistance; and promote interagency collaboration and partnership. The partnerships will include key state and local partners that promote culturally competent information and facilitate self-determination to promote effective systems change efforts.
Funding Opportunity Announcement — 05/11/2012
Funding opportunity Number: HHS-2012-ACF-ADD-DN-0514
These grants will be used to develop a Community of Practice (CoP) designed to build capacity across and within States to create policies, practices, and systems to better assist and support families that include a member with I/DD across the lifespan. The CoP will develop and define the scope of the issue; gather information, including the identification of emerging and promising practices across states; establish and maintain mechanisms to share and disseminate data, information, and promising practices; develop ideas to address challenges and opportunities to improve strategies, policies, practices, and systems supporting families of people with I/DD that are culturally competent and facilitate self-determination; provide peer-to-peer technical assistance; and promote interagency collaboration and partnership. The partnerships will include organizations that encourage systemic change and improved capacity to support families of individuals with I/DD.
Funding Opportunity Announcement — 03/09/2012
University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service (UCEDD)
Funding opportunity Number: HHS-2012-ACF-ADD-DD-0307
The Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to make 5-year grants to up to 42 entities designated as University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service (UCEDD). These grantees carry out four core functions: (1) interdisciplinary pre-service preparation and continuing education of students and fellows; (2) community services, including training, technical assistance, and/or demonstration and model activities; (3) research; and (4) dissemination of information. UCEDDs are interdisciplinary education, research and public service units of universities, or public or not-for-profit entities associated with universities that implement the four core functions addressing, directly or indirectly, one or more of the areas of emphasis (i.e. education, health, and employment services available or offered to individuals in a community, and formal and informal community supports) that allows a person with developmental disabilities to exercise self-determination and be integrated in all facets of community living . The DD Act also requires that grantees advise federal, state, and community policymakers on developmental disability issues. Funds made available are used to pay for the Federal share of the cost of the administration and operation of programs designated as UCEDDs.
For more information, please visit: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2012-ACF-ADD-DD-0307
Funding Announcement — 10/01/2011
ADD Funds National Core Indicators (NCI) Project:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) has awarded a 5 year contract totaling $1.5 million to the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS), of Alexandria, VA to increase their efforts with the National Core Indicators (NCI) Project.
"We are very excited about supporting the qualitative approach to understanding the DD service system that the National Core Indicators offers, and helping NASDDDS expand this effort to more States. The NCI data is a useful tool for service systems, researchers, policymakers, families and individuals with developmental disabilities, and will be a great addition to the longitudinal data projects that ADD funds."
In gathering the data, the project staff will collaborate with State organizations advocating for individuals with intellectual and evelopmental disabilities. Based on proven evaluation techniques, a standard set of performance measures will be developed that can be used by States to manage quality and across States for making comparisons and setting benchmarks. This will make it possible to track system performance outcomes on an annual basis and provide appropriate recommendations for future ADD evaluation efforts.
Funding Announcement — 10/01/2011
ADD Provides 3 million in Funds for Employment Initiatives:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) has awarded 6 Projects of National Significance: Partnerships in Employment Systems Change grants. These funds will be used to support consortiums aimed at improving existing state systems to increase competitive employment outcomes for youth and young adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
These grants will be used to create partnerships in States to promote system change efforts leading to the development of policies that support competitive employment in integrated settings for youth and adults with developmental disabilities.
Improving access to appropriate employment supports is among the most important priorities expressed by the DD community. Beyond the opportunity to earn wages, the benefits of competitive, integrated employment include expanded social relationships, improved self-worth, transferable work skills, and increased self-determination. These grants will contribute to better employment outcomes for people with developmental disabilities." said Commissioner Sharon Lewis of ADD.
The grantee award recipients are:
- Regents of University of California/UCLA
- Iowa Coalition for Integrated Employment
- Mississippi Department of Mental Health
- University of Missouri
- University of Rochester
- Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities
ADD is further supporting these grantee efforts with additional data collection, technical assistance, and evaluation activities to ensure success of these efforts, as well as creating strong replication and dissemination avenues. Funding has been awarded to the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) to provide training and technical assistance to the 6 newly awarded grantees. ICI will also collect data, analyze, and report on the employment and economic status of youth and young adults, ages 16 to 30, with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Finally, the Lewin Group has been awarded a multi-year contract to evaluate the Partnerships in Employment Systems Change efforts.
Funding Announcement — 10/01/2011
ADD Funds Data Collection For Supporting Families Project:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) announces the award of $200,000.00 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota for fiscal year 2012 to plan, develop and implement a longitudinal data collection and analysis project relating to supports and services provided to families of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD).
"As more families continue to be the primary support structure for many people with developmental disabilities across the lifespan, we need to better understand the needs of these families, and what services and supports are available to them. This project will provide important data to inform service systems, researchers, policymakers, and families." said Commissioner Sharon Lewis of ADD.
States vary greatly in the ways they support families, and how they define “family support” services. Some of the services and supports that states currently offer include in-home care assistance, respite services, financial services such as cash subsidies and vouchers, assistive technology and environmental modifications, adaptive medical equipment, family counseling, family training, parent support groups. Often “family centered” supports planning processes are utilized to determine the supports and services necessary for families, while “person-centered” planning provides the opportunity for an individual with a disability to direct their supports and services.
The project, collaborating with an Expert Advisory Panel, made up of families of people with ID\DD, and other groups, will examine data that have been previously collected by states on supports and services, develop key definitions related to supports and services; create a standard set of key state indicators that can be used to benchmark progress; and develop a profile of such supports and services that can be updated and used to track trends. The culmination of these efforts will be an online data dashboard that can be used to track, compare and contrast progress made on achieving outcomes at the national and state levels.
ADD also funds a project at the University of Minnesota to analyze annual state-by-state and national statistics on residential services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD). For more information about ADD projects, please visit www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/add
Announcement of FY 2012 Estimated Allotments — 07/15/2011
Notification of fiscal year 2012 (Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 136 / Friday, July 15, 2011 / Notices) estimated Federal allotments to State Councils on Developmental Disabilities and Protection and Advocacy Systems. The tables provide estimates for fiscal year (FY) 2012 funding (October 1, 2011 - September 30, 2012).
The allotments listed are preliminary estimates only for FY 2012 and are likely to change dependent upon final data and appropriations.
FY 2012 P&A Estimated Allotments [PDF - 70KB]
FY 2012 DDC Estimated Allotments [PDF - 66KB]
Funding Opportunity Announcement — 07/11/2011
Funding Opportunity Title: Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Grants to Protection and Advocacy Systems (P&As)
Funding opportunity Number: HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-VOTEP-0200
This announces the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 funds under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), Pub.L. No. 107-252, Title II, Subtitle D, Part 2, Sections 261 to 265, Payments to States and Units of Local Government to Assure Access for Individuals with Disabilities (42 U.S.C. 15421-25). This announcement sets forth the requirements and conditions States must meet to receive funds under Sections 261 to 265 of the HAVA.
HAVA, signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 29, 2002, contains several provisions that will enable State governments responsible for elections and individuals associated with operating the election process to establish, expand, and improve access to and participation in the election process by individuals with the full range of disabilities (e.g., visual impairments, including blindness, hearing impairments, including deafness; the full range of mobility impairments; including gross and fine motor impairments; emotional impairments; and intellectual impairments).
For more information, please visit: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-VOTEP-0200
Funding Opportunity Announcement — 07/07/2011
Funding Opportunity Title: Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Grants for Voting Access for Individuals with Disabilities
Funding opportunity Number: HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-VOTE-0201
This announces the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 funds under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), Pub.L. No. 107-252, Title II, Subtitle D, Part 2, Sections 261 to 265, Payments to States and Units of Local Government to Assure Access for Individuals with Disabilities (42 U.S.C. 15421-25). This announcement sets forth the requirements and conditions States must meet to receive funds under Sections 261 to 265 of the HAVA.
HAVA, signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 29, 2002, contains several provisions that will enable State governments responsible for elections and individuals associated with operating the election process to establish, expand, and improve access to and participation in the election process by individuals with the full range of disabilities (e.g., visual impairments, including blindness, hearing impairments, including deafness; the full range of mobility impairments; including gross and fine motor impairments; emotional impairments; and intellectual impairments).
For more information, please visit: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-VOTE-0201
Funding Opportunity Announcement — 06/29/2011
Funding Opportunity Title:Projects of National Significance: Partnerships in Employment Systems Change Training and Technical Assistance
Funding opportunity Number:HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-DN-0206
The Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announces the availability of $200,000 of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 funds to provide training and technical assistance to Partnerships in Employment Systems Change projects funded under announcement HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-DN-0156 that design and implement statewide model demonstration projects that stimulate and advance systems change in order to expand competitive employment in integrated settings for youth and young adults with developmental disabilities to include intellectual disabilities. Resources through this funding opportunity announcement will support the development of training and technical assistance for approximately 6 Partnerships in Employment Systems Change projects.
For more information, please visit: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-DN-0206
Funding Opportunity Announcement — 06/10/2011
Funding Opportunity Title: Projects of National Significance: Partnerships in Employment Systems Change
Funding opportunity Number: HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-DN-0156
The Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announces the availability of 2.2 million of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 funds for projects developed by consortia that demonstrate a collaborative approach to creating employment systems change at the state level on behalf of youth and young adults with developmental disabilities (DD) including youth and young adults with intellectual disabilities (ID). As defined by the American Association of Intellectual and Developmental disabilities, the term intellectual disability is characterized by significant limitations in intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem solving) and in adaptive behavior, which covers a range of everyday social and practical skills and originates before the age of 18. Funding through this announcement will be used to design and implement statewide model demonstration projects through Partnerships in Employment Systems Change grants that stimulate and advance systems change in order to expand competitive employment in integrated settings for youth and young adults with DD including ID.
For more information, please visit: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-DN-0156
Funding Opportunity Announcement — 06/10/2011
Funding Opportunity Title: Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) to Assist Protection and Advocacy Systems (P & As) to Establish or Improve Voting Access for Individuals with Disabilities.
Funding opportunity Number: HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-DH-0202
The Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announces the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 funds authorized under Section 291 of HAVA. This section provides for the award of grants for Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) to assist Protection and Advocacy Systems (P & As) in:
- Promoting full participation in the electoral process for individuals with disabilities, including registering to vote, casting a vote, and accessing polling places;
- Developing proficiency in the use of voting systems and technologies as they affect individuals with disabilities;
- Demonstrating and evaluating the use of such systems and technologies by individuals with disabilities (including blindness) in order to assess the availability and use of such systems and technologies for such individuals; and
- Providing T/TA for non-visual access. (At least one recipient must provide T/TA assistance in this area.)
For more information, please visit: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-DH-0202
Funding Opportunity Announcement — 06/08/2011
Funding Opportunity Title: Projects of National Significance: Data Collection for Supporting Families
Funding opportunity Number: HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-DN-0208
The Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 funds to award one cooperative agreement to plan, develop and implement one longitudinal data collection and analysis project relating to supports and services provided to families of individuals with developmental disabilities, including individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID/DD). The data project shall develop key definitions related to supports and services; collect state level baseline data; create a standard set of key State indicators that can be used to benchmark progress; develop a profile of such supports and services that can be updated and used to track trends; and develop an online data dashboard that could be utilized to track, compare and contrast progress made on achieving outcomes at the National and State levels. The project will include a rigorous evaluation plan to demonstrate that the stated outcomes have been achieved.
The Administration on Developmental Disabilities is responsible for administering the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000, Public Law 106-402, 42 U.S.C. 15001 et seq. (DD Act of 2000). Section 161(2) of the DD Act authorizes ADD to “support the development of National and State policies that reinforce and promote, with the support of families, guardians, advocates, and communities, of individuals with developmental disabilities, the self-determination, independence, productivity, and integration and inclusion in all facets of community life of such individuals through — (A) family support activities" and (B) and “data collection and analysis.”
For more information, please visit: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-DN-0208
Funding Opportunity Announcement — 05/24/2011
Funding Opportunity Title: Projects of National Significance: American Indian Developmental Disabilities Leadership Development Initiative Funding Opportunity Number (FON): HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-DN-0179
The Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) and the Administration for Native Americans (ANA) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announce the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 funds to award one cooperative agreement to develop leadership among people with developmental disabilities, to include intellectual disabilities, and their families, in Native American communities. The Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 Public Law 106-402, Section 161(2)(D)(42 U.S.C. 15081-18083) states “…projects of sufficient size and scope that hold promise to expand or improve opportunities for such individuals including — (v) projects that enhance the participation of racial and ethnic minorities in public and private sector initiatives in developmental disabilities…”
Applicants must be tribal entities, public and private agencies serving American Indians and Alaska Natives in partnership with organizations with a demonstrated record of supporting individuals with developmental disabilities and their families in leadership development activities. The eligible entities must demonstrate support from applicable State Developmental Disabilities (DD) Networks, indicating through a letter of support, the roles that the DD Network members will play in this endeavor and the level of commitment that each will provide. The level of commitment may include time, space or materials. Applicants must demonstrate the capacity to provide culturally-appropriate training and leadership experiences to American Indians and Alaska Natives with developmental disabilities across a broad regional area and family members of such individuals, while building the capacity of such individuals to advocate for themselves.
For more information, please visit: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2011-ACF-ADD-DN-0179
Announcement of FY 2011 Estimated Allotments — Revised 05/24/2011
Notification of fiscal year 2011 estimated (revised) Federal allotments to State Councils on Developmental Disabilities and Protection and Advocacy Systems. The tables provide estimates for fiscal year (FY) 2011 funding (October 1, 2010 - September 30, 2011).
FY 2011 P&A Estimated Allotments [PDF - 23KB]
FY 2011 DDC Estimated Allotments [PDF - 27KB]
FY 2011 HAVA P&A Estimated Allotments [PDF - 23KB]
FY 2011 HAVA SOS Estimated Allotments [PDF - 23KB]
Closed Opportunities
Grants Availability: Issued 06/09/2010 * Closed 07/27/2010 *
Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) to Assist Protection and
Advocacy Systems (P&As) to Establish or Improve Voting Access for Individuals with Disabilities,
Funding Opportunity No. HHS-2010-ACF-ADD-DH-0021
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ADD-DH-0021
Grants Availability: Issued 03/11/2010 * Closed 04/09/2010 *
Help America Vote Act (HAVA) – Payments to Protection and Advocacy Systems (P&As),
Funding Opportunity No. HHS-2010-ACF-ADD-VOTE-0019
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/hhs-2010-acf-add-vote-0019
FY 2010 DD Council Final Allotment TableIssued 01/26/2010
As per PL 111-117, signed on December 16, 2009
FY 2010 Protection and Advocacy Systems Final Allotment Table Issued 01/26/2010
As per PL 111-117, signed on December 16, 2009
Announcement of FY 2010 Estimated Allotments Issued 03/25/2009
Notification of fiscal year 2010 estimated Federal allotments to State Councils on Developmental Disabilities and Protection and Advocacy Systems
Archived Grants/Funding Announcements:
Please refer to the following PDF [65KB] for a listing of old funding/grant announcements, and please contact Syed Rafiuddin at syed.rafiuddin@acf.hhs.gov to request copies.