Project Grant DRW16000001

This Project Grant award of $250,000.00 from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), under the ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) program, will fund a 3-year research project at the University of Massachusetts Boston to assess the impact of Community Rehabilitation Provider (CRP) characteristics and service delivery models on employment outcomes for individuals with...

The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living, awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to provide advanced multidisciplinary postdoctoral rehabilitation training in research focused on improving employment outcomes for persons with disabilities. The 5-year Advanced Rehabilitation Research and Training (ARRT) program aims...

The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living has awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR) under the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) program. The grant, which runs from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will support AIR's "Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research" project. The project aims to improve the...

The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), which is part of the Administration for Community Living, has awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. The three-year grant, which runs from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2027, will fund a formative evaluation and evaluability assessment of a behavioral health coaching program for adults with disabilities living in subsidized housing. The key...

The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), a program within the Administration for Community Living, has awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to Cornell University to conduct research on "Employer Attitudes and Practices Towards Hiring Justice-Involved Individuals with Disabilities: Improving Employer Engagement with Vocational Rehabilitation and Workforce Systems". This 3-year grant, effective September 1, 2025, aims to improve...

The University of Massachusetts Boston has been awarded a $500,000 Project Grant by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA Program 93.433) to support the "Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training Program: Employment for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities." This 3-year grant, effective June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2028, will fund research, development, and training initiatives focused on improving employment...

The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), part of the Administration for Community Living, awarded a $500,000 Project Grant titled "The Dignity of Work: Creating Pathways to Improved Employment Outcomes for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities." The grant, awarded to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR), a prominent non-profit research organization, aims to support research,...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $681,469 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct a mixed-methods study investigating the relationships between provider bias, experiences of ableism, and health outcomes for people with mobility disabilities. The project aims to prospectively assess the explicit and implicit disability biases of 40 rehabilitation...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) program to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY). The grant, titled "Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on People with Disabilities," will fund research and development activities to improve the lives of people with physical...

This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Federal Grant Program CFDA 93.433, aims to revise an existing employability skills curriculum for justice-involved youth with disabilities. The goal is to implement the updated curriculum in community-based juvenile service settings, rather than just correctional facilities. The 3-year project will accomplish the following: 1) identify content, processes, and...