Closed · HHS-2021-ACL-AOA-LRLI-0115 · CFDA 93.072 · Discretionary
Lifespan Respite Care Program: State Program Enhancement Grants- Reposting Opportunity to Apply
Federal grant opportunity posted by Administration for Community Living, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $100K-$275K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- August 23, 2021
- Close date
- 2
- Expected awards
The verdict
Lifespan Respite Care Program: State Program Enhancement Grants- Reposting Opportunity to Apply is a closed discretionary listing from Administration for Community Living that offered $100,000 -- $275,000 across 2 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number.
- $100K-$275K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 2
- expected awards
- 93.072
- CFDA program
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement - Lifespan Respite Care Program: State Program Enhancement Grants- Reposting Opportunity to Apply - is cataloged under number HHS-2021-ACL-AOA-LRLI-0115 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 93.072, posted by Administration for Community Living. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on July 23, 2021. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a cooperative agreement.
Award economics. The award range on file is $100,000 -- $275,000. The agency has projected $550,000 in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 2 awards. If the agency funds the expected 2 awards from the $550,000 estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $275,000. Cost sharing or matching funds are required, meaning applicants must contribute a portion of the project budget from non-federal sources, factor this into your financial plan before drafting the proposal. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity closed on August 23, 2021. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number, so monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully, federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed, it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities. Before acting on the deadline or award figures above, verify them directly on the official Grants.gov listing, amendments can change dates and amounts after this page was last refreshed.
Award Range
$100,000 -- $275,000
Close Date
August 23, 2021
Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.
Posted
July 23, 2021
Est. Total Funding
$550,000
Expected Awards
2
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Cost Sharing
Required
Description
The Lifespan Respite Care Act's purpose is threefold: expand and enhance respite care services to family caregivers; improve the statewide dissemination and coordination of respite care; and provide, supplement, or improve access and quality of respite care services to family caregivers, thereby reducing family caregiver strain. States who have received grants under this program have made considerable progress in building or strengthening their capacities to provide respite services. With this new funding opportunity, grantees will be asked to carefully examine the extent to which their state has a Lifespan Respite Care system of direct service and propose approaches that will enable them to incrementally, over the course of the project period, increase the amount (percentage) of direct services they are providing. For many caregivers, respite, which is defined as the temporary relief from the ongoing responsibility of caring for an individual of any age with special needs, is often a critical component of the services and supports they need to continue to provide care. Numerous barriers exist that often make it difficult for caregivers to access respite. Since its implementation in 2009, the Lifespan Respite Care Program has sought to enable states to build systems of respite care that address the challenges and barriers, while making respite services more readily available to caregivers caring for individuals of any age. Under this reposted funding opportunity, grantees will be expected to focus on advancing their existing systems of respite care by proposing direct service activities that proactively expand the state's ability to provide respite and related supports to family caregivers across the lifespan. Grantees will be expected to build on advancements made under previous Lifespan Respite Care Program grants and focus on incrementally increasing the amount (percentage) of direct services they provide each year of their 5-year grant. Grantees will be expected to focus on providing all of the required services (and the optional services as deemed appropriate by the state) as outlined in the Lifespan Respite Care Act, doing so in ways that will ensure increased capacity to meet the objectives of the Act by the end of each grant year. Grantees will be expected to use some portion of their grant funds to provide direct respite services, in accordance with the requirements of the Act. Grantees will also be expected to participate in all program-supported Technical Assistance activities and will l be expected to meet with the ACL program officer on a regular basis to review grant activities and progress towards measurable goals. Successful applicants will be expected to propose measurable performance goals and objectives that tie directly to their identified direct service expansion goals over the course of the 5-year project. Applicants will be expected to describe how they plan to count and record the experiences of people being served as well as the impact of their statewide respite care system on consumers, their families, and employers. Successful applicants will describe how data will be collected and presented and do so in concert with current efforts across existing respite programs/funding streams. In the FOA, applicants will be given examples of performance goals and measures and they will be expected to propose measures and approaches for how they will monitor and report on their progress towards achieving their proposed measurable performance goals.
Eligibility
Grants.gov lists this opportunity under eligibility category code 00. These codes correspond to applicant types (state/local government, tribal organization, nonprofit, educational institution, individual, small business, etc.) defined in Grants.gov's own eligibility reference. See the current Grants.gov eligibility categories or check the official listing below for this opportunity's exact eligibility statement.
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Agency Contact
Lori Stalbaum Lori.Stalbaum@acl.hhs.gov
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