Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2022 ACL AOD DDTI 0099
The University Centers of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) Diversity Fellowships grant opportunity is a discretionary funding program from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Community Living (ACL), specifically through the Administration on Disabilities (AoD). It is designed to help UCEDDs strengthen cultural competence and reduce disparities for people with developmental disabilities by expanding and supporting a more diverse pipeline of trainees and future leaders in developmental disabilities-related fields. The underlying policy driver is the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), which emphasizes that federally funded services and supports must respect personal preferences and cultural differences, and must make specific efforts to ensure that individuals with developmental disabilities from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds, and their families, have meaningful access to the same community services and individualized supports available to others.
A major theme of the opportunity is workforce diversity as a practical strategy for equity and better outcomes. The DD Act explicitly calls for recruitment efforts in disciplines connected to developmental disabilities (including pre-service education, community training, professional practice, administration, and policymaking) to bring more racial and ethnic minorities into these fields. The intent is not only representation, but also the development of appropriate skills, knowledge, and role models, and ultimately having enough qualified personnel to meet the needs of a country with increasingly diverse demographics. The opportunity reinforces that DD Act-funded programs are expected to serve people from unserved and underserved communities and to ensure full inclusion in program activities, rather than treating cultural and linguistic diversity as an add-on.
The grant also clarifies what "culturally competent" means in this context, using the DD Act definition: services, supports, or other assistance delivered in ways that respond to a participant's beliefs, interpersonal styles, attitudes, language, and behaviors, and that maximize the likelihood of meaningful participation. In practical terms, the fellowship program is expected to support trainees who come from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and to place them in experiences that improve their ability to engage communities effectively while also helping UCEDDs strengthen how they design and deliver community-based work.
Funding from this opportunity supports the creation or expansion of UCEDD diversity fellowship programs that recruit and retain trainees from historically underrepresented communities. The fellowship is intended to be more than a short training rotation; it should be a structured experience that includes formal training, mentoring, and active engagement with the national UCEDD network. A central expectation is that each funded UCEDD recruits at least one trainee from a diverse background and provides that trainee an opportunity to pursue a capstone project aimed at systemic change. Those capstone activities can be grounded in community-based organizations, policy initiatives, programs, or other community-centered settings, with the goal of addressing real-world barriers and inequities faced by underserved populations.
Another core component is knowledge exchange. The grants are meant to help UCEDDs build a cohort of diverse trainees across the national UCEDD network and to create a forum for sharing and transferring knowledge locally and nationally. Funded centers are expected to participate in a national forum coordinated by AUCD (the Association of University Centers on Disabilities), which serves as a mechanism for cross-center learning, dissemination of effective approaches, and broader network collaboration. In effect, the program aims to create a multiplier: training diverse fellows within individual UCEDDs while also connecting them into a national learning community that can accelerate improvements in culturally competent practice.
From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is a grant (FundingInstrumentType: Grant) categorized under Income Security and Social Services (CFDA/Assistance Listing: 93.632). The funding opportunity number is HHS-2022-ACL-AOD-DDTI-0099. The program planned to make up to 10 awards, with an award ceiling of $100,000 per grant, and it was originally posted on February 25, 2022 with an application deadline of April 26, 2022 (with electronic submissions due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the deadline date). Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," with additional eligibility details referenced in the full notice, but the program is clearly structured around UCEDDs as the intended recipients and implementers of the fellowship model.
Overall, the opportunity is focused on building sustained capacity inside the UCEDD network to recruit, train, mentor, and retain fellows from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, while simultaneously producing community-based capstone work that targets systemic inequities. The expected end result is a stronger, more representative developmental disabilities workforce and UCEDD programming that is better equipped to engage underserved communities and improve participation, access, and outcomes for people with developmental disabilities across diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic groups.Apply for HHS 2022 ACL AOD DDTI 0099
- 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 "University Centers of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Diversity Fellowships" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.632.
- This funding opportunity was created on Feb 25, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 26, 2022 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 $100,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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