Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2019 ACL AOD DNDM 0359
The Supported Decision Making Across the Lifespan Planning Grant (HHS 2019 ACL AOD DNDM 0359) is a discretionary cooperative agreement offered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living (ACL), through a collaboration between the Administration on Aging (AoA) and the Administration on Disabilities (AoD). The purpose is to help states plan future, state-based collaborative projects that strengthen decisional supports for adults across the full age spectrum, bridging the aging and disability communities. The focus is not limited to Supported Decision Making (SDM), but explicitly includes SDM as an important model while also requiring states to examine other tools and systems that can build or preserve decisional capacity and reduce unnecessary or overly restrictive guardianship.
The grant is designed as a one-year planning effort rather than an implementation program. ACL expected to award three to five planning grants, with a federal share of roughly $50,000 to $75,000 per award (award ceiling $75,000). By the end of the planning period, each grantee is expected to deliver a written product that captures the state’s groundwork for longer-term reform and coordination, including a shared strategy for improving how adults are supported in making decisions about their lives.
A central requirement is the creation or strengthening of a state coalition that is genuinely representative and built on formal commitments. Applicants must either use an existing coalition or form a new one, and the coalition must be documented with signed Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs). These MOUs are meant to show which entities helped shape the application and how they will work together to carry out the planning goals. At a minimum, the coalition must include representation from: the state Working Interdisciplinary Networks of Guardianship Stakeholders (WINGS) group or a similar guardianship stakeholder network (or a plan to recruit a coalition that includes a WINGS representative); a person with an intellectual or developmental disability; a representative from the state office of public guardianship if the state has one and/or representatives from Bar Association Elder Law and Disability Law sections; and representatives from both the judicial system and the legislative branch. In practical terms, the grant is pushing states to put the key systems that shape decision-making rights at the same table, including people directly affected by these systems.
The written planning deliverable must include a comprehensive assessment of how decisional support currently works in the state and what needs to change. This includes mapping a range of approaches to decisional support used in the state, with SDM as a prominent option but not the only one. It also requires a review of the state’s guardianship operations, policies, or systems, and any related policies that affect decision-making supports across adulthood. Grantees must identify what strategies are already being used, describe key existing coalitions and state-specific characteristics, and highlight promising practices that could be expanded. The assessment must also examine perceived barriers, along with realistic alternatives and limitations on reform, particularly around how supported decision making may function as an alternative to guardianship in certain circumstances. Another required element is an analysis of judicial precedent relevant to decisional support, signaling that states should consider how court decisions, interpretations, and legal culture may enable or constrain reform.
Beyond assessment, the planning year must include a structured, formative consensus process to produce a draft state coalition action plan (or to add substantially to an existing plan). This action plan is expected to be grounded in core principles and to advance or improve a full range of decision-making supports for adults across the lifespan. It must include proposed remedies and solutions that stakeholders identify as most important, and it should also name future partners who would be willing to commit to later implementation work. The process does not stop at drafting: grantees must present the draft action plan to stakeholders for input, and then secure approval of a final state coalition action plan. The overall structure makes clear that ACL is funding states to do the hard coordination work up front, so that future implementation efforts can be more targeted, broadly supported, and legally and practically feasible.
Eligible applicants include a wide range of entities that could credibly convene statewide partners, such as independent school districts; public/state-controlled and private institutions of higher education; nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education in those categories); and Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments). The opportunity was posted June 18, 2019, with an original application deadline of August 19, 2019, and required electronic submission by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. Overall, the grant is best understood as a catalyst for state-level alignment across disability, aging, legal, and policy systems, aimed at expanding practical and rights-respecting ways for adults to receive support in decision-making without unnecessarily defaulting to guardianship.Apply for HHS 2019 ACL AOD DNDM 0359
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Supported Decision Making Across the Lifespan Planning Grant" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.631.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 18, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 19, 2019 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 $75,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, 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.
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