ACL's National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) is announcing a 2022 a Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems (SCIMS) Collaborative Research Project grant award. The planned project period for the grants is September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2027, with an estimated funding amount of $900,000 per year.
The SCIMS Centers provide comprehensive, multidisciplinary services to people with spinal cord injury as a prerequisite for conducting research that contributes to the development of and access to evidence-based rehabilitation with the ultimate goal of improving the health and function, community living and participation, and employment outcomes of people with spinal cord injury. The purpose of this SCIMS multi-site collaborative research project is to use the collaborative capacity of the SCIMS Centers to conduct high quality multi-site research toward improving outcomes of people with SCI.
The grant was awarded to the Kessler Foundation (East Hanover, NJ) for a project titled 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 shape the disability experience. This information will inform ongoing policy efforts to maintain the hard-fought gains for social inclusion for people with disabilities.
View more details about this project. Contact Theresa SanAgustin at NIDILRR if you have questions about the SCIMS Program.
To stay current on NIDILRR grant opportunities, please visit grants.gov and search: NIDILRR or 93.433.
NIDILRR, part of ACL, generates new knowledge and promotes its effective use so that people with disabilities can perform activities of their choice in the community. NIDILRR also works to expand society’s capacity to provide full opportunities and accommodations for people with disabilities.