[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 142 (Wednesday, July 26, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34677-34678]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-15663]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Community Living


Notice of Intent To Award a Single-Source Non-Competing 
Continuation Application To Fund Grant Number 90DN0295 University of 
Massachusetts for an Additional 12 Months

SUMMARY: The Administration for Community Living (ACL) recently 
announced the awarding of the University of Massachusetts-Boston to the 
Institute of Community Inclusion (ICI). The University of 
Massachusetts-Boston will maintain and advance the longitudinal study 
describing day and employment services nationwide for individuals with 
developmental disabilities.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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    Program Name: Institute of Community Inclusion.
    Award Amount: $350,000.00.
    Statutory Authority: The Developmental Disabilities and Bill of 
Rights Act of 2000.
    Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 93.631.
    Program Description: The Administration on Developmental and 
Intellectual Disabilities, an agency of the U.S. Administration for 
Community Living, has been funding the ICI for thirty-five years. The 
project's activities include: Studying the effectiveness of state 
developmental disabilities agencies and vocational rehabilitation 
agencies in promoting full inclusion of individuals with intellectual 
and developmental disabilities through employment and other community 
activities; describing national trends in the employment and economic 
status of youth and adults with intellectual and developmental 
disabilities on a state and national basis; highlighting practices and 
outcomes in the transition from school to employment and promote policy 
enhancing integrated employment at both the systems and customer 
levels; developing guidelines for community-based non-work activities; 
implementing www.statedata.info, a Web site illustrating service system 
investment in day and employment services, and www.realworkstories.org, 
a Web site featuring successes of youth with intellectual and 
developmental disabilities in paid jobs in their communities; provide 
an online catalog of innovative state-level strategies that influence 
policy and facilitate access to integrated employment; collaborate with 
the University of Minnesota and the University of Colorado to show 
targeted current year and longitudinal data on the project Web site and 
providing a create-a-chart option allowing reports to be customized. 
The project provides comparative nationwide longitudinal study of the 
employment trends of people with Intellectual/Developmental 
Disabilities and is a thirty-five year body of work.
    Agency Contact: For further information or comments regarding this 
supplemental action, contact Katherine-Cargill-Willis, U.S. Department 
of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living, 
Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 330 C 
Street SW., Washington, DC 20201; telephone 202-795-7322; email 
[email protected].

    Dated: July 17, 2017.
Mary Lazare,
Acting Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging.
[FR Doc. 2017-15663 Filed 7-25-17; 8:45 am]
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