[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 22 (Thursday, February 2, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6533-6535]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-2531]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Developmental Disabilities: List of Recipients, Project 
Descriptions, and Funding Levels for Grants and Contracts Awarded Under 
Fiscal Year 1994 Projects of National Significance

AGENCY: Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD), 
Administration for Children and Families (ACF), HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adele Gorelick, Program Development 
Division, Administration on Developmental Disabilities, 202/690-5982.

Description of Projects of National Significance

    Under Part E of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill 
of Rights Act, as amended by Public Law 103-230 in 1994, grants and 
contracts are awarded for Projects of National Significance that 
support the development of national and State policy to enhance the 
independence, productivity, and integration and inclusion of 
individuals with developmental disabilities through:
     Data collection and analysis;
     Technical assistance to enhance the quality of State 
developmental disabilities councils, protection and advocacy systems, 
and university affiliated programs; and
     Other projects of sufficient size and scope that hold 
promise to expand or improve opportunities for people with 
developmental disabilities, including:

--Technical assistance for the development of information and referral 
systems;
--Educating policy makers;
--Federal interagency initiatives;
--The enhancement of participation of racial and ethnic groups in 
public and private sector initiatives in developmental disabilities;
--Transition of youth with developmental disabilities from school to 
adult life; and
--Special pilots and evaluation studies to explore the expansion of 
programs under part B (State developmental disabilities councils) to 
individuals with severe disabilities other than developmental 
disabilities.

    In accordance with Section 162(f) of the Developmental Disabilities 
Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, as amended by Public Law 103-230 in 
1994, the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, which 
administers the Projects of National Significance program, provides the 
following list of recipients of grants and contracts in each of the 
areas authorized in subsections (a) and (b):
Grants

     University of New Hampshire, Institute on Disability, 
Durham, NH--''National Home of Your Own Technical Assistance Center,'' 
a Five-Year Technical Assistance Center to facilitate broad-based 
systems change at State and national levels, create partnerships 
between agencies concerned with housing, and increase person-owned/
controlled housing for persons with disabilities [a co-operative 
agreement]-- $500,000.
     United Cerebral Palsy, Inc., Community Services Division, 
Washington, DC--''Project PAS-Port for Change,'' a Project of National 
Significance supporting and training coalition members to analyze 
Personal Assistance Services (PAS) availability and financing in each 
state and to propose systemic change--$99,897.
     Connecticut Union of Disability Action Groups, Inc., 
Wethersfield, CT--''Personal Assistance Services Through Leadership and 
Self Advocacy,'' a Project of National Significance providing 
leadership training so that people with developmental disabilities can 
have freedom and control of their own lives in their homes and 
communities--$100,000.
     Coalition for Independence, Kansas City, MO--''Each One, 
Teach One: Providing PAS through Teaching Persons with Disabilities 
Self-Advocacy and Leadership Skills,'' a Project of National 
Significance setting up a self-advocacy model where consumers will be 
trained to manage, pay, monitor, and, if necessary, fire their own 
providers, as well as train other PAS consumers in self-advocacy and 
leadership skills--$100,000.
     Children's Hospital CA-UAP, Department of Pediatrics, Los 
Angeles, CA--''CAS PAS Project: Advancing Personal Assistance Services 
through Consumer Leadership & Advocacy,'' a Project of National 
Significance implementing a 5-year PAS plan for California, developing 
a statewide cross-disability database, and conducting PAS training 
conferences to teach consumers skills in community leadership, 
outreach, and education--$100,000.
     New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning 
Council, Albany, NY--''Personal Assistance Services through Leadership 
and Self Advocacy,'' a Project of National 

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Significance encouraging individuals with disabilities and family 
members to serve as leaders and advocates and training them on a State 
and regional basis in the skills and techniques for systems impact--
$100,000.
     University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN--''The National 
Residential Information Systems: Ongoing Data Collection and 
Information Dissemination on Residential Services for Persons with 
Developmental Disabilities,'' a Project of National Significance that 
continues to maintain annual statistics on State and nonstate 
residential services, conduct state policy and program surveys on key 
topics in residential and other community services, and conduct 
secondary analyses of other important national data bases and research 
projects, thereby providing a centralized source of information for 
integrating persons with DD into community settings--$200,000.
     University of Illinois at Chicago, UAP, Chicago, IL--''5th 
National Study of Public MR/DD Spending,'' a Project of National 
Significance that extends all revenue, expenditure, and program data 
elements to complete a 19-year record of evolving MR/DD services 
through development of comprehensive resource allocation profiles for 
each State and the U.S.--$200,000.
     Children's Hospital, Boston, MA--''Ongoing National Data 
Collection on Day and Employment Services for People with Developmental 
Disabilities,'' a Project of National Significance collecting and 
analyzing national data documenting service utilization and trends for 
individuals with mental retardation and other developmental 
disabilities--$200,000.
     Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council, Baltimore, 
MD--''Expanding the Targeted Constituency of the MD DDC: A Feasibility 
Study,'' a Project of National Significance examining the fiscal, 
programmatic, and other implications of expanding the Maryland DDC to 
include other individuals who might benefit from the Councils' 
programs--$150,000.
     Texas Rehabilitation Commission, Austin, TX--''Expanding 
the Scope of Developmental Disabilities Councils: Implications for 
Texas,'' a Project of National Significance studying the feasibility 
and implications of expanding the scope of DDCs system change, capacity 
building, advocacy, and other activities mandated under ADD law--
$134,452.
     University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences, Graduate 
School, San Juan, Puerto Rico--''Self-Advocacy and Empowerment of 
Individuals in Puerto Rico Culture,'' a Project of National 
Significance expanding the services of the Puerto Rico University 
Affiliated Program (UAP) to develop strategies to enhance the 
leadership effectiveness and advocacy skills of young adults with 
developmental disabilities and their families, thereby enabling young 
adults to impact the service delivery system serving as advocates on 
critical issues--$100,000.
     People First of Tennessee, Inc., Nashville, TN--``The Lift 
Every Voice Leadership Project,'' a Project of National Significance 
providing consumers with the tools to meaningfully affect policy within 
institutions/service providers, and laws, utilizing training, 
materials, and supports to develop a model for how others with 
disabilities can impact service delivery, effect the policymaking 
process through advocacy, and bring ideas to the community through 
events and media--$74,688.
     University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI--``Family and 
Youth Leadership Development to Promote Full Inclusion,'' a Project of 
National Significance building on the knowledge and capabilities of 
parents of youth from African American and Hispanic/Latino backgrounds 
and developing models for parent and youth leadership development--
$100,000.
     University of Georgia, University Affiliated Program, 
Athens, GA--``Georgia Leadership Training for Youth of Color with 
Disabilities Project,'' a Project of National Significance including 10 
individuals with disabilities and 10 without disabilities participating 
in training designed to help individuals understand each other's 
problems and develop their mutual interest in building better 
communities--$100,000.
     Temple University, Philadelphia, PA--Project convening a 
national working meeting to arrive at a consensus about steps needed to 
ensure that people with developmental disabilities are afforded their 
due process rights as a victim of crime or as an alleged offender and 
producing a report of findings, action steps, and recommendations--
$50,000.
     Rose Kennedy Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 
Bronx, NY--``Systems Change to Promote Collaborative Home-Based 
Services for Infants and Toddlers with or at Risk of Developmental 
Disabilities,'' a Projects of National Significance supplement to the 
University Affiliated Program core grant initiating two interagency 
efforts to promote home-based service development: (1) building and 
expanding collaborative efforts with the Visiting Nurse Service (VNS) 
and (2) using the knowledge and experience gained from the VNS 
collaboration to enable the UAP to collaborate with at least one local 
Head Start agency to plan an outreach program to initiate home-based 
services--$50,000.
     University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO--``Leadership and 
Choices,'' promoting leadership, choices, advocacy skills, and 
involvement of consumers and family members with the American 
Association of University Affiliated Programs, the University 
Affiliated Programs network, and in their communities; and providing a 
mechanism for developing long-term plans and a structure for carrying 
out consumer council goals--$3,488.
     University of Colorado, University Affiliated Program, 
Denver, CO--Project convening a conference on the state of knowledge 
regarding the use of facilitated communication and providing a forum 
for researchers to present their investigations--$15,000.

Contracts

     AlphaTech Corporation, Arlington, VA--a Management 
Information Systems (MIS) project to support the uniform automated 
collection, analysis, and reporting of grantee information on ADD's DD 
State Councils, P&As, UAPs, and PNS programs and plans and to 
facilitate decision making at the grantee, regional, and central office 
levels--$108,145.
     DAE Corporation, Chevy Chase, MD--PNS Annual Panel 
Review--$149,307.
     National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems, 
Inc., Washington, DC--Technical Assistance--$120,000.
     American Association of University Affiliated Programs, 
Silver Spring, MD--Technical Assistance--$166,117.
     KRA Corporation, Silver Spring, MD--Support for Topical 
Meetings--$173,563.
     Advanced Resource Technologies, Inc., Alexandria, VA--Part 
A, Study of Developmental Disabilities Councils Expansion--$142,535.
     National Association of Developmental Disabilities 
Councils (NADDC), Washington, DC--Technical Assistance to DDCs--
$120,000.
     KRA Corporation, Silver Spring, MD--Study of ADD Grants 
Formula--$28,208.

Interagency Agreements

     President's Committee on Mental Retardation, Department of 
Health and Human Services--$35,000.
     Administration on Native Americans, Department of Health 
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Human Services--a project with the Navaho Consortium to develop a 
Native American Protection & Advocacy System--$30,000.
     Administration on Native Americans, Administration on 
Children, Youth and Families, the Indian Health Service, and the Public 
Health Service--a study of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome--$50,000.
     Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 
Department of Health and Human Services--a study of Disabilities with 
the National Center for Health Statistics--$50,000.

Other Funding

     National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN)--
Conference--$6,000.
     Americorps National Service Program, providing educational 
opportunities for Americans with and without disabilities to increase 
the independence, productivity, and community integration of people 
with disabilities, including personal assistance services and help for 
communities to realize the goals of accessibility, employment, and 
inclusion of the Americans with Disabilities Act--$166,743.
     Projects of National Significance Recission for funding 
for national disasters--$60,858.

Total FY 94 PNS Appropriation: $3,784,000
Total Amount Funded: $3,784,000

    Dated: January 17, 1994.
Reginald Wells,
Deputy Commissioner, Administration on Developmental Disabilities.
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