Block Grant 2020J1BX0013

This Project Grant award for $156,500.00 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to optimize safety toolkits for elopement among individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The project will use secondary data from a prior randomized clinical trial to develop subcategories of elopement behaviors and guide modifications to existing safety...

The Autism Society of Central Virginia (ASCVS) was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Assistance Program (CFDA 16.015) to provide in-person training, prevention information, and education for first responders on missing persons with autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The 3-year grant, which starts on October 1, 2023, will fund the ASCVS Creating Autism-Friendly Communities...

The Autism Project (TAP) was awarded a $149,994 Project Grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Assistance Program (CFDA 16.015). The grant will fund TAP's primary activities, which include: Adding elopement prevention content to all TAP trainings and developing topic-specific videos to address barriers within underserved communities. TAP will create a minimum of three videos on the unique autism experience in the Black community, the...

The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), part of the Administration for Community Living, awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Kairon Connect, PBC and Easter Seals Greater Houston. Over a six-month period, this grant will be used to iteratively develop, test, and evaluate the usability and effectiveness of emotional intelligence training tools for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). These tools will be integrated into an existing...

This federal Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will fund the implementation and evaluation of an online parent training program called "Online Parent Training in Early Behavioral Intervention (OPT-IN-EARLY)". The $621,682 award to Drexel University will provide caregivers of children awaiting an autism diagnosis with...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant will support Products For Any Lifestyle, Inc. (PAL) in developing a wearable device and machine learning model to predict and prevent meltdowns in children with autism. The NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program aims to advance breakthrough technologies addressing national challenges. PAL will create a prototype wearable that continuously monitors biometrics to predict meltdowns using individualized machine learning models. By...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) project grant, under CFDA 47.041, is awarded for $200,000 to the University of the Pacific to develop a novel wearable sensing and analysis system for early detection of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in young children and toddlers. The research aims to leverage non-invasive wearable devices to collect physiological and environmental data, and then use machine learning to identify physiological biomarkers and early...

This Project Grant award of $132,033 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) aims to support research and training to execute a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a culturally and linguistically adapted therapy program for Latino young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their Spanish-speaking parents. The award will allow the principal...

This $148,130 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance will support the National Autism Association's (NAA) efforts to reduce deaths and injuries of individuals with autism who wander or elope from safe environments. The funding will allow the NAA to continue its "Big Red Safety Box" program, which provides educational and prevention tools on wandering risks and strategies to families, schools, and first...

This $120,000 Project Grant was awarded on July 1, 2025 by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support (CARES) Act Program (CFDA 93.877). The grant will fund a research project by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to characterize the interactions of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or developmental disabilities (DD) with the...