ACL's National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) is pleased to announce seven new DRRP grants totaling approximately $4.7 million in first-year funding. The purpose of the DRRP program is to plan and conduct research, demonstration projects, trainings, and related activities to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology.

Through the 2027 request for proposals, Community Care Corps will continue expanding a nationwide network of locally driven volunteer programs that connect families with practical support and strengthen communities.

The awards, made through ACL’s National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), keep a nationwide resource operating for people with disabilities, employers, public agencies, businesses, and others who want to understand and carry out the ADA.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Administration for Community Living (ACL), today announced $35,763,912 in fiscal year 2026 funding for 68 new grants from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR).

The Jewish Federations of North America’s Center on Aging, Trauma, and Holocaust Survivor Care is inviting practitioners, researchers, and others working in aging services to propose 60-minute, in-person sessions sharing their experiences with person-centered, trauma-informed approaches. Proposals may highlight a promising practice or program model, research findings, challenges encountered in the field, or lessons that could help others strengthen their work with older adults.

ACL’s Administration on Aging is awarding a new cooperative agreement to ADvancing States to support the National I&R Support Center. The National I&R Support Center advances ACL’s strategic priority of connecting people to services by helping older adults, people with disabilities, caregivers, and families connect with information, services, and supports.

The center will advance ACL’s caregiving strategic priority by increasing services available to grandfamilies and kinship families. Its work will support the health and well-being of caregivers, children, and parents and help implement the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers by scaling replicable models that support grandfamilies and kinship families in their caregiving roles.

The center will provide training, technical assistance, and resources to State Lifespan Respite Care Program grantees, their partners, caregivers, and the broader respite care network.

ACL is pleased to announce the selection of awardees to receive funding for a third round of Advancing State Implementation of the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers grants. Six state units on aging (SUAs) will receive cooperative agreements for a range of activities to support family caregiving.

The Administration for Community Living (ACL), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has selected 70 winning teams in Phase 1 of its Cultivating Connected Communities Prize Challenge, a national competition to expand the accessibility of community garden models nationwide.