UCEDD Director’s Coffee with AIDD - AUCD Home Directors... · 2013-11-25 · FY 2014 Funding Update • We are currently under continuing resolution until January 15, 2014 • ESTIMATED.

UCEDD Director’s Coffee with AIDD

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AIDD Updates

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Staffing Updates • Sharon Lewis, Principal Deputy Administrator, ACL,

Secretary Sebelius’ Senior Advisor on Disability Policy • Aaron Bishop, Acting Commissioner • Suad Jama is no longer with AIDD • Pamela O’Brien, primary point of contact for all

UCEDD questions • Other staff assigned to work on UCEDD grants:

– Shawn Callaway – Rita Stevens

• Staffing updates will be announced as they are available

Grants Staffing • LaDeva Harris is new OGM/ACL grants

management specialist: [email protected]; (202) 357-3437

• Rimas Liogys is new OGM/ACL grants management officer and OGM Director: [email protected]; (202) 357-3454

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We Moved! • Mailing Address:

– Administration for Community Living Washington, DC 20201

• Physical Address: – One Massachusetts Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20001

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Website Addresses • New AIDD website address:

– http://www.acl.gov/Programs/AIDD/Index.aspx • ACL website address:

– http://www.acl.gov/index.aspx

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Grants and Funding Updates

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FY 2014 Funding Update • We are currently under continuing

resolution until January 15, 2014

• ESTIMATED funding for FY 2014 award is $535,215 – Cost of living was unchanged for July (the date

used for determining the UCEDD COLA)

• The FINAL core award amount will be determined once final appropriations are passed - plan accordingly!!

FY 2014 Funding Update, cont. FY 2014 New and Continuing Applications: • NEW: 3 UCEDDs are submitting their 5 year

application in FY 2014: – Due date TBD – Aiming to publish FOA in January and have applications

due in March

• CONTINUATIONS: We anticipate continuation applications will be due March/April 2014

Grant Procedures • Currently exploring with OGM how to streamline

grant actions – – Carry over budget requests – Continuation applications

• Grant Solutions – Submit post-award requests and annual and final PPRs – Receive notices – Can only have one PI in the system

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UCEDD Updates

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Program Performance Report • This year we implemented the new PPR

template! • Piloted the “Tier 1 Review Tool” • “Funding hiatus” set us back – completing

review of PPRs and analysis of data • Staff following up in coming weeks

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UCEDD PPR (cont.) • We will use information submitted this first

year as a “baseline”

• Information received will be analyzed and further guidance or revision to the template might be determined based on the result of this analysis.

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New AIDD Measure • AIDD was exploring creating “super measures”

for the DD Network programs • This measure would replace the program

specific GPRA measures in the PPRs • AIDD recently announced this effort is shifting

to an internal process

UCEDD FY 2012 Data Results Preliminary

Training • Trained a total 52,062 (pre-service

preparation) • Trained a total of 611,136 (continuing

education/community training)

UCEDD FY 2012 Data Results Preliminary

Technical Assistance and Services • Provided total of 483,781 hours of

technical assistance • Provided a total of 216,223 of specialized

services offered to enhance the well being and status of the recipient (model services)

• Provided a total of 27,790 services that are being field tested as promising or exemplary/best practices (demonstration services)

UCEDD FY 2012 Data Results Preliminary

Research and Information Dissemination

• Performed a total of 168,699 research activities

• Total of 3,152 research projects conducted by the UCEDDs

• Total number of dissemination activities: 7,151,165 (website hits)

Minority Partnership & Diversity

• Evaluation of minority partnership grants

• URC Resources: http://www.aucd.org/template/page.cfm?id=851 Copyright © 2011 Free Vector Advisors

Higher education is separate and unequal

• The 468 top-tier universities in the country are largely white and Asian.

• The 3,250 two-year, four-year lower-tier schools are black and Latino. – Overcrowded – Under-resourced – Less likely to produce graduates – Working students

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• 80 percent of top performing minority students don't apply to college.

• In the future, the majority will be coming from lower income families – may not have the same set of family resources and supports to successfully complete

• For Latino population, high school graduation rate has increased. Enrollment in college has increased but most are enrolling in 2 year institutions – this can be a point of entry.

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• Consider the economic contributions of UCEDDs

Completing college degree has greatest outcome for people

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Attention of the Administration • President developing higher education rating

system to counter U.S. News and World Report – Rather than rating schools based on selectivity, the

system will use metrics of access, completion, and affordability to rank the nation's colleges and universities.

– White House considers this a way of addressing diversity in higher education

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Contract Updates • Thanks to AUCD for all the hard work!

• Date for 2014 TA Institute: March 20 –

21, 2014 at the Crystal City Hilton, Arlington, VA

Interagency Efforts • Project with Office of Women’s Health, FDA to

make materials accessible to women with disabilities

• Project with NIDRR around data collection/analysis in Virginia

• Collaborating with ACF and OSEP on early childhood initiatives

Background In 2012, AIDD initiated a project to review

and revise MTARS(Monitoring Technical Assistance Review System) used to conduct on-site monitoring of Grantees

Quality Review System

Quality Review System As a result, AIDD

1. Rebranded MTARS to the Quality Review System 2. Replaced MTARS with a 3 Tiered Review Model Tier One: annual compliance & outcome review of

PPRs/Continuation Applications Tier two: periodic in-depth desk audits of compliance

& outcome review conducted by 1 federal staff person and 2 peers, similar to the previous MTARS team structure.

Tier three: on-site review for red flag programs conducted by federal staff and peers as needed.

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Quality Review System 3. Convened a workgroup of AUCD, Grantees, &

AIDD staff to finalize the revised model 4. Working in program teams (DDC,UCEDD,P&A)

to develop a framework and the procedures for Tier 1 and Tier 2 review processes

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Quality Review System Tier 1 Workgroup Teams

Analyzed the DD Act, program regulation

requirements, PPRs /Plan templates for compliance items to review annually Identified additional items for the templates Created the Tier 1 Review Tool 36

Quality Review System AIDD staff used the Tier 1 tool to review FY

2012 PPRs AUCD and AIDD are conducting a Follow-

up Review of the Tier 1 Tool to identify where adjustments are needed.

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Quality Review System Tier Two Workgroup Teams are:

Developing procedures for periodic compliance

and outcomes review Determining how organizational reviews may be

conducted Developing the criteria for reviewing the

programs in Tier 2, using existing tools

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Other activities: – Explore having a data management system – Conduct pilots in 2013 – Revise the guidance – Continue to roll-out information to grantees – Conduct training as needed – Determine resources (staffing and funding) 39

Quality Review System

PNS Updates

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PNS Update • Three new three year grants to provide regional technical

assistance to state self-advocacy organizations. Specific activities will include: – Assisting with grant writing and securing funding for self-

advocacy; – Supporting self-advocacy groups to develop by-laws and become

incorporated as formal non-profit 501(c)3 organizations; – Developing strategies for delivering state-to-state technical

assistance; – Providing a central hub for self-advocacy groups to come together

and share thoughts, ideas, and information; – Developing a web-based blog or online community to promote

communication and sharing of resources and providing training on self-advocacy and leadership development.

• The grantee award recipients are: – The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN)-Washington, D.C

includes Washington State, California, Oregon and Montana. – Self-Advocacy Becoming Empowered (SABE) –Northport, AL

includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

– Vermont Protection and Advocacy, Inc. -Montpelier, VTis collaborating with self-advocacy groups in six states.: Self Advocacy Association of New York State Green Mountain Self-Advocates in Vermont, Massachusetts Advocates Standing Strong, Advocates in Action Rhode Island, Inc., People First of New Hampshire, and Speaking Up For Us of Maine.

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PNS Update (cont.) • AIDD continued funding of:

– Partnerships in Employment Systems Change (Vanderbilt University and Alaska Governor’s Council on Disabilities and Special Education)

– Community of Practice for Supporting Competitive Integrated Employment for Individuals with I/DD (The Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) at the University of Massachusetts Boston)

PNS Update (cont.) – Data Collection (Research and Training Center on

Residential Services and Community Living, Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota; The Coleman Institute, University of Colorado; Institute for Community Inclusion, University of Massachusetts Boston)

– Community of Practice for Supporting Families of Individuals with I/DD (National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities)

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Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Administration for Community Living

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

(p) 202-690-6590 (f) 202-205-8037

AIDD website: http://www.acl.gov/Programs/AIDD/Index.aspx ACL website: http://www.hhs.gov/acl