The National Residential Information Systems Project (RISP)-On-going Data Collection and Information Dissemination | HHS 2018 ACL AOD DNPA 0294

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The National Residential Information Systems Project (RISP) grant opportunity supports an ongoing, longitudinal effort to collect, analyze, and share annual state-by-state and national data on residential services and supports for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). The core purpose is to maintain a reliable, comparable set of statistics that policymakers, researchers, advocates, service systems, and families can use to understand how residential and community-based supports are organized and financed across the United States, and how those choices relate to people s experiences and outcomes over time. A key feature of the project is that it is not limited to a single funding stream; it explicitly covers supports funded through a mix of public and non-public sources, including both Medicaid-funded and non-Medicaid-funded residential and supportive services. That broader scope is meant to provide a more complete picture of the service landscape, not just what appears in one program or payer.

The funded work centers on three major activities. First, the project is expected to use a large, multistate database covering individuals with developmental disabilities to study how personal characteristics (for example, demographics or support needs) interact with housing arrangements, financing approaches, and support models. The intent is to examine associations with outcomes tied to inclusion, self-determination, satisfaction, and broader quality-of-life results, while also considering how state systems and policies shape those outcomes. Second, the project will conduct surveys of state policies and programs on priority topics in residential and other community services. These surveys are meant to capture the policy and administrative context behind the numbers, allowing the database findings to be interpreted alongside information about how states design and manage their systems. Third, the project will maintain an information clearinghouse that organizes and makes accessible practical resources and research related to consumer-controlled housing, the direct support workforce, and community living outcomes. In practice, that means curating materials that help stakeholders understand both the evidence base and the operational realities of providing and improving community-based supports.

Dissemination is a central deliverable rather than an afterthought. The project will publish research findings through annual reports and other products, and it will continue to support web-based tools that make the data usable to non-specialists as well as researchers. Specifically, dissemination will occur through annual reports, the IMPACT product, and theQualityMall.org website, with an emphasis on interactive access. The Build-a-Report tool is highlighted as a way for users to generate customized reports, which helps state agencies, advocates, and providers pull information that is specific to their needs without having to conduct their own complex data analysis. In addition, the grantee is expected to collaborate with other Administration on Disabilities (AoD) data collection projects so the website can display both current-year targeted indicators and longitudinal trends, increasing consistency and reducing duplication across federal data efforts.

Administratively, this was a discretionary cooperative agreement opportunity offered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living (ACL), under CFDA 93.631, within the Science and Technology and other Research and Development activity category. Eligible applicants were public and state-controlled institutions of higher education and private institutions of higher education, signaling that the government was looking for an academic or research-centered lead with the capacity to manage multistate datasets, execute policy surveys, and maintain a public-facing data and reporting platform. The opportunity anticipated a single award, with an award ceiling of $400,000. The funding opportunity number was HHS 2018 ACL AOD DNPA 0294, created May 21, 2018, with an original closing date of July 23, 2018 (applications due by 11:59 p.m. ET). Overall, the grant is designed to keep a long-running national data infrastructure operating year after year, while continuously producing accessible, decision-relevant information about where and how people with I/DD live, what supports they receive, how those supports are funded, and what outcomes are associated with different system approaches.

• The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "The National Residential Information Systems Project (RISP)-On-going Data Collection and Information Dissemination" 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 May 21, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 23, 2018 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 $400,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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