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Centers for Independent Living provide services to individuals with significant disabilities to assist them to function more independently in family and community settings, by developing and supporting a statewide network of centers for independent living. Under this program, federal funds are used for the establishment and operation of centers for independent living that offer a combination of services. Services must include core services including: information and referral services, training in independent living skills, peer counseling, individual and systems advocacy, and as appropriate, a combination of any other independent living services specified by the sponsoring agency. Each center must have a governing board composed of a majority of persons with severe disabilities. The majority of the staff and individuals in decision-making positions must be individuals with disabilities. Not less than 1.8 percent and not more than 2 percent of federal funds appropriated for the program must be reserved to provide training and technical assistance under contracts with entities experienced in the operation of centers for independent living.
The principal eligible applicants are the private nonprofit agencies that received funding directly or through subgrants of contracts under the Centers for Independent Living program in fiscal year 1992. If funds remain available after all the principal eligible applicants have been funded, other centers for independent living and state agencies may receive funding based on satisfactory applications (including territories/possessions).
Regional contacts: Appropriate Regional Commissioners, Rehabilitation Services Administration (Appendix VII). Headquarters contact:
Don Thayer
Office of Developmental Programs
Rehabilitation Services Administration
OSERS
Department of Education
330 C Street, SW
Washington, DC 20202-2575
(202) 205-9315
This program assists each state to develop a statewide, comprehensive, multidisciplinary, interagency system to provide early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families.
Funds are used to assist states in planning, developing, and implementing their statewide systems of early intervention services. Funding may also be used to provide direct services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families that are not otherwise provided by other public or private sources, to expand and improve on services for infants and toddlers with disabilities that are otherwise available and to provide a free appropriate public education, to children with disabilities from their third birthday to the beginning of the following school year.
The 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Secretary of the Interior and the following jurisdictions may apply, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Republic of Palau, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Gail Houle
Division of Educational Services
Office of Special Education Programs
Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
(202) 205-9084
This program establishes projects for the purpose of improving special education and related services to children and youth with serious emotional disturbance. Support may be provided for projects to improve special education and related services for children and youth with serious emotional disturbance. Demonstration projects to provide services for children and youth with serious emotional disturbance are supported. Funds for demonstration projects may be used to facilitate interagency and private sector resource pooling to improve services for children and youth with serious emotional disturbance. Information and training for those involved with, or who could be involved with, children and youth with serious emotional disturbance may also be supported.
Institutions of higher education, state and local education agencies, and other appropriate public and private nonprofit institutions or agencies may apply for funds under this program.
Doris Andres
Office of Special Education
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
(202) 205-8125
This program is designed to address the special education, related services, and early intervention needs of children and youth with severe disabilities, including deaf blindness. Children with severe disabilities are those who, because of the intensity of their physical, mental, or emotional problems, need highly specialized education, social, psychological, and medical services. Included in this group are children with severe emotional disturbance, autism, severe and profound mental retardation, and those who have two or more serious disabilities such as deaf-blindness, or mental retardation and blindness. Projects are supported to improve states’ capacities to serve children with severe disabilities by promoting changes to service delivery systems.
State education agencies, local education agencies, and non-profit organizations may apply.
Anne Smith
Division of Educational Services
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
Department of Education
330 C Street, SW
Washington, DC 20202-2644
(202) 205-8971
e-mail: Anne.Smith@ed.gov
This program has three primary objectives:
Awards may include research, development, demonstrations, training, dissemination, and other activities addressing program objectives.
Institutions of higher education, state education agencies, local education agencies and other appropriate public and private non-profit institutions or agencies, including the state job training coordinating councils and service delivery area administrative entities established under the Job Training Partnership Act may apply for funding.
Michael Ward
Division of Educational Services
Office of Special Education Programs
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
(202) 205-8163
e-mail: Mike_Ward@ed.gov
This program provides grants to states to assist them in developing and implementing comprehensive, consumer, responsive statewide programs of technology-related assistance for individuals of all ages with disabilities. Grants are awarded to carry out the functions authorized under the Act. States may provide assistance to statewide community based organizations or directly to individuals with disabilities.
Kate Seelman
NIDRR
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-2572
(202) 205-8134
url: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/NIDRR
This program is designed to advance the availability, quality, use, and effectiveness of technology, educational media, and materials in the education of children and youth with disabilities and the provision of related services and early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities. Contracts, grants or cooperative agreements may support projects or centers for the purpose of advancing and improving technology, educational media, and materials in the education of the disabled; and how they can be used more effectively to design and adapt new technology, educational media, and materials in developing and marketing new technology, and to disseminate information on their availability and use.
Institutions of higher education, state and local education agencies, public agencies, and private nonprofit or profit agencies or organizations may apply for funds under this program.
Ellen Schiller
Division of Innovation and Development
Office of Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
(202) 205-8123
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