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Advanced Training in Translational and Community Engaged Scholarship to Improve Community Living and Participation of People with Disabilities

Award Number: 90ARCP0004
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY, INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH
OPDIV: ACL
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 06/01/2020
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2026

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Advanced Training in Translational and Community Engaged Scholarship to Improve Community Living and Participation of People with Disabilities - <p>The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) proposes to provide an intensive interdisciplinary postdoctoral training program that will actively engage scholars in research designed to improve the community living and participation outcomes for persons with disabilities. This advanced training program will focus on sub-populations of disabled persons who are most likely to encounter the greatest number of barriers to community living and participation: minorities, persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and persons with severe physical disabilities. Moreover, the training program will emphasize preparing scholars to conduct research that has real world impact (i.e., guiding and changing services, programs, organizations and policies that influence the lives of persons with disabilities). As such it will emphasize: a) translational scholarship that uses empirical knowledge to develop, refine, and test optimal community participation assessment instruments, services and environmental strategies to support these outcomes; and b) community-engaged scholarship premised on the notion that knowledge is generated by researchers, practitioners and individuals with disabilities and other stakeholders collaborating not only to generate theory and research but also to advance practice. Engaged scholarship employs participatory methodologies that involve stakeholders in the research process and directly improve services, programs, organizations and policies. Both, knowledge translation and community-engaged scholarship aim at addressing environmental and social barriers to community living and participation. The proposed postdoctoral training program will recruit and enroll up to 6 highly qualified post doctoral fellows from a variety of disciplines. Particular efforts will be made to recruit postdoctoral trainees with disabilities as well as those from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Each trainee will complete an intensive advanced training program (average of two years) designed to assure acquisition of key skills critical to successful research careers. The training program will include: a) didactic preparation, b) close mentoring by highly qualified researchers, c) immersion in ongoing research, and d) field placement in carefully selected programs or organizations that serve the target populations. Trainees will undergo a structured and closely-supervised training process with a range of opportunities for didactic and experiential training using the latest technology and with common expected milestones. Trainees will be matched with faculty mentors conducting research on community living and participation. At the same time, each trainee's program will be individually designed to assure that the trainee has access to the most rigorous and relevant concepts and research methodologies in community living and participation. The project will monitor and assure high quality training, and will support trainees to develop capacity to enter productive research careers that directly improve services, programs, policies, and societal attitudes toward people with disabilities.</p>


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2024	University of Illinois	809 S Marshfield Ave M/C 551	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	5	3/4/2025	OTHER REVISION	$0
2025	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S Marshfield Ave M/C 551	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	02	5	4/11/2025	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$0
2025	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S Marshfield Ave M/C 551	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	02	5	4/11/2025	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$0
2025	2023	University of Illinois	809 S Marshfield Ave M/C 551	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	5	3/4/2025	OTHER REVISION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $199,999 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S Marshfield Ave M/C 551	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	5/3/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$199,999
2024	2023	University of Illinois	809 S Marshfield Ave M/C 551	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	4	1/23/2024	OTHER REVISION	$0
2024	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S Marshfield Ave M/C 551	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	5/3/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2022	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S Marshfield Ave M/C 551	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	5/3/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2022	University of Illinois	809 S Marshfield Ave M/C 551	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	4	1/23/2024	OTHER REVISION	$0
2024	2021	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S Marshfield Ave M/C 551	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	5	5/3/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2021	University of Illinois	809 S Marshfield Ave M/C 551	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	4	1/23/2024	OTHER REVISION	$0
2024	2020	University of Illinois	809 S Marshfield Ave M/C 551	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	4	1/23/2024	OTHER REVISION	$0
														Subtotal = $199,999

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $199,999 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S Marshfield Ave M/C 551	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	4	4/21/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$199,999
2023	2022	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S Marshfield Ave M/C 551	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	4	4/21/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $199,999

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $199,999 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S Marshfield Rm 520	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	3	6/2/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$199,999
2022	2021	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S Marshfield Rm 520	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	3	6/2/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2022	2020	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S Marshfield Rm 520	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	3	6/2/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $199,999

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $199,999 )
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S Marshfield Rm 520	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	2	6/22/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$199,999
2021	2020	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S Marshfield Rm 520	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	2	6/22/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $199,999

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $199,999 )
2020	2020	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S Marshfield Rm 520	Chicago	IL	60612	COOK	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	1	4/20/2020	NEW	$199,999
														Subtotal = $199,999

Grand Total All Awards = $999,995

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Advanced Training in Translational and Community Engaged Scholarship to Improve Community Living and Participation of People with Disabilities

Award Number: 90ARCP0004

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY, INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH

OPDIV: ACL

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 06/01/2020

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2026

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