Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System: 2021-2026 - The Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System (NNJSCIS) was established as a NIDILRR-sponsored Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems (SCIMS) center of care in 1990 and continues to provide outstanding care, research, and education for people with spinal cord injury living in the New Jersey tristate area. The NNJSCIS is a cooperative effort of Kessler Foundation, Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, and University Hospital, who together provide a comprehensive continuum of state-of-the-art care for people with spinal cord injury and their families from the time of injury, through rehabilitation and return to the community, and for the rest of their lives. The NNJSCIS also conducts cutting-edge research, ranging from clinical trials to epidemiological studies and has made consistent and substantial contributions to the SCIMS longitudinal database for over 30 years. For the 2021-2026 cycle, the NNJSCIS proposes a site-specific research project that addresses NIDILRR’s employment domain through a randomized controlled trial to determine the efficacy of early intervention with Vocational Resource Facilitation versus standard care (referral only to state vocational rehabilitation agency services) in helping newly injured people with spinal cord injury return to competitive integrated employment. The NNJSCIS also proposes a module research project that addresses another key issue outlined in the employment domain: benefits use after spinal cord injury. The goals of this project are to: 1) identify sources of formal and informal financial assistance used by people with spinal cord injury; 2) understand factors related to use and non-use of financial assistance; and 3) propose meaningful and relevant measures of key types of financial assistance for inclusion in the SCIMS database.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).