Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) Program: Traumatic Brain Injury Model System (TBIMS) Centers Collaborative Research Project | HHS 2018 ACL NIDILRR DPTB 0253

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This funding opportunity is a discretionary research grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living (ACL), through the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). It falls under the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) program within the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program (CFDA 93.433). The central aim of the broader DRRP program is to support research plus dissemination and utilization activities that lead to better rehabilitation methods, procedures, and technologies. The end goal is practical impact: helping people with disabilities, especially those with the most severe disabilities, achieve fuller inclusion in society across employment, independent living, family support, and long-term economic and social self-sufficiency. The work is also intended to strengthen the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.

This specific DRRP competition focuses on traumatic brain injury (TBI) and is designed as a Traumatic Brain Injury Model System (TBIMS) Centers Collaborative Research Project. The purpose is to improve the lives of individuals with TBI by funding a multi-site collaborative research effort on one or more topics related to rehabilitation after TBI. In practice, that means the project is expected to be carried out across multiple sites and to use collaboration to produce stronger evidence than a single-site study could typically generate. A key expectation is that the project will leverage the existing capacities of the TBIMS Centers Program, using the clinical and research infrastructure associated with TBIMS to accelerate progress and produce results that can inform real-world rehabilitation practice. The opportunity explicitly emphasizes contributing to evidence-based rehabilitation interventions, signaling that the funded work should help build a stronger scientific foundation for what works in TBI rehabilitation and how to implement it.

Eligibility is tied to the TBIMS model system requirements rather than being limited only to currently funded TBIMS Centers. Applicants may be a current TBIMS Center, but they do not have to be. What matters is that the applicant institution meets the same eligibility criteria used for TBIMS Centers, particularly the ability to provide a true continuum of care for people with TBI. This continuum includes emergency medical services, acute care services, acute medical rehabilitation services, and post-acute services. In other words, the applicant must be positioned to support research grounded in the full trajectory of TBI care, from immediate treatment through rehabilitation and community reentry, which is essential for studying rehabilitation outcomes and interventions across settings and time.

A wide range of organizations are eligible to apply, including state, county, city or township, and special district governments; independent school districts; public and private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations; nonprofits with and without 501(c)(3) status; and for-profit organizations (other than small businesses), with additional eligibility clarification referenced in the notice. The award has a ceiling of $600,000, and the announcement anticipated making one award. The opportunity was posted January 12, 2018, with an application deadline of March 13, 2018, and required electronic submission by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date.

• The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) Program: Traumatic Brain Injury Model System (TBIMS) Centers Collaborative Research Project" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.433.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jan 12, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 13, 2018 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $600,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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