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The Context of Living with Spinal Cord Injury: A Program of Collaborative Research Advancing the Science of Environmental Factors and Disability

Award Number: 90SIMS0021
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY, INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH
OPDIV: ACL
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER

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The Context of Living with Spinal Cord Injury: A Program of Collaborative Research Advancing the Science of Environmental Factors and Disability - The conditions in the places where people live, work, and socialize have a powerful effect on health. For people with spinal cord injury (SCI), community conditions can affect employment opportunities, healthcare access, and independent living. Unfortunately, many community places remain inaccessible, placing people with SCI at risk for poor outcomes. The goal of this five-year multisite collaborative project is to build the research infrastructure needed to generate actionable information about how communities live shape disability. This information will inform ongoing policy efforts to maintain the hard-fought gains for social inclusion for people with disabilities. The objectives are: 1) to improve the capacity of the national SCI Model Systems (SCIMS) database to conduct ongoing research in geographic disparities in outcomes (the SCIMS-CDF); 2) to generate robust estimates of geographic, racial/ethnic, and rural-urban health disparities; and 3) to identify the processes that shape health disparities by engaging with people with SCI as they navigate community places using Smartphones and wearable technology. Anticipated outcomes include: 1) a database resource that will improve the surveillance of the needs of the SCI population conducted by the SCIMS program; and 2) new knowledge about patterns of disparities and the role of environmental factors. Products of this research will include the SCIMS-CDF database. The utilization of the SCIMS-CDF will produce new knowledge about patterns of disparities after SCI. Combined with the information gained directly from consumers about environmental barriers encountered in daily life, this information will help rehabilitation professionals and policy makers determine where to target resources to improve the lives of people with SCI: towards disadvantaged groups, disadvantaged communities, or both.


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: 2024 ( Subtotal = $899,713 )
2024	2024	KESSLER FOUNDATION, INC	120 EAGLE ROCK AVE STE 100	EAST HANOVER	NJ	07936	MORRIS	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	3	7/22/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$899,713
2024	2023	KESSLER FOUNDATION, INC	120 EAGLE ROCK AVE STE 100	EAST HANOVER	NJ	07936	MORRIS	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	3	7/22/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2022	KESSLER FOUNDATION, INC	120 EAGLE ROCK AVE STE 100	EAST HANOVER	NJ	07936	MORRIS	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	3	7/22/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $899,713

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $899,401 )
2023	2023	Kessler Foundation, Inc.	120 Eagle Rock Ave Ste 100	EAST HANOVER	NJ	07936	MORRIS	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	2	8/9/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$899,401
2023	2022	Kessler Foundation, Inc.	120 Eagle Rock Ave Ste 100	EAST HANOVER	NJ	07936	MORRIS	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	2	8/9/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $899,401

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $897,898 )
2022	2022	KESSLER FOUNDATION, INC.	120 Eagle Rock Ave Ste 100	EAST HANOVER	NJ	07936	MORRIS	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	1	8/31/2022	NEW	$897,898
														Subtotal = $897,898

Grand Total All Awards = $2,697,012

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The Context of Living with Spinal Cord Injury: A Program of Collaborative Research Advancing the Science of Environmental Factors and Disability

Award Number: 90SIMS0021

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

OPDIV: ACL

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER

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