OpportunityTitle: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS): Promoting the Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE) CFDA Number 84.418P
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: 1. Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants are the 50 States and the District of Columbia. A consortium of States may also apply. A grantee, subgrantee, or partner under this program is not eligible to receive funding for the SSA national evaluation contract. An applicant must meet the following requirements to be eligible to compete for funding under this program:      (a) Single State applicant. A single State with adequate child SSI recipients, as described in paragraph (d) of this section, may apply.   The State applicant must:      (1) Designate a lead coordinating entity, which must be a State agency; and      (2) Submit an application that has been signed by the State&apos;s Governor and the administrative head of the State&apos;s lead coordinating entity.      (b) Consortium of States applicant. A consortium of States may apply in order to meet the minimum sample size eligibility requirement,   as described in paragraph (d) of this section.      (1) One of the States participating in the consortium must submit an application on behalf of the consortium;      (2) Each of the consortium States must designate a lead coordinating entity, which must be a State agency;      (3) The application must be signed by the Governor of each State and the administrative head of each State&apos;s lead coordinating entity;      (4) The applicant on behalf of the consortium is the grantee and is legally responsible for the use of all grant funds and ensuring that the project is carried out by the consortium in accordance with Federal   requirements;      (5) Each member of the consortium is legally responsible to carry out the activities it agrees to perform (EDGAR, 34 CFR 75.129); and      (6) Each State participating in the consortium must have partnerships with at least three common agencies (or equivalent for   administering common programs). (Described in Partnerships under paragraph (a) of the Project Activities section of this notice.)      (7) Each State participating in the consortium must provide the coordinated set of required and other services and supports as proposed in the application (described in paragraph (b) of the Application Requirements section of this notice.) This set of coordinated services and supports must be the same across all States in the consortium.      (c) Lead coordinating entity. The lead coordinating entity must partner with other State agencies and is encouraged to partner with   local agencies and organizations that play or have the potential to play a substantial role in the development and implementation of policies and practices affecting child SSI recipients and their families (see Partnerships under the Project Activities section of this notice and the related application requirements).      (d) Minimum sample size. The State or consortium of States must have a sufficient number of children between the ages of 14 and 16 who receive SSI to, within two years of the start of the project, recruit the minimum sample size of 2,000 child SSI recipients into the MDP and begin providing MDP interventions to half of those recruited. This sample size is necessary to assess the effectiveness of each MDP. If   the MDP chooses to exceed the minimum sample size, half of the child SSI recipients must still be assigned to the treatment group and half to the control group. Each MDP will be evaluated separately because ED and its Federal PROMISE partners expect grantees to vary in their approaches to implementing PROMISE (see the Evaluation and Project Assessment Activities section of this notice).
Description: Note: Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice. For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice. The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html. Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information. Purpose of Program: Promoting the Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE) is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Under PROMISE, ED will fund States to develop and implement model demonstration projects (MDPs) that promote positive outcomes for children who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and their families. Specifically, PROMISE is intended to improve the provision and coordination of services and supports for child SSI recipients and their families to enable them to achieve improved outcomes. These outcomes include graduating from high school ready for college and a career, completing postsecondary education and job training, and obtaining competitive employment in an integrated setting and, as a result, achieving long-term reductions in the child recipients&apos; reliance on SSI. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.418P. Applications for grants under the PROMISE competition, CFDA number 84.418P, must be submitted electronically using the Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site at www.Grants.gov. Through this site, you will be able to download a copy of the application package, complete it offline, and then upload and submit your application. You may not email an electronic copy of a grant application to us. You may access the electronic grant application for the PROMISE competition at www.Grants.gov. You must search for the downloadable application package for this competition by the CFDA number. Do not include the CFDA number&apos;s alpha suffix in your search (e.g., search for 84.418, not 84.418P).
GrantorContactEmailDescription: e-Mail: Program Manager
GrantorContactText: Julius Cotton &lt;br/&gt;ED Grants.gov FIND Systems Admin. &lt;br/&gt;Phone 202-245-6288 &lt;br/&gt;EducationGrantInquiries@ed.gov &lt;br/&gt;Program Manager: &lt;br/&gt;Corinne Weidenthal &lt;br/&gt;U.S. Department of Education &lt;br/&gt;400 Maryland Avenue SW., room 4115 &lt;br/&gt;Potomac Center Plaza(PCP) &lt;br/&gt;Washington, DC 20202-2600. &lt;br/&gt;Telephone: (202) 245-6529 or by email:  &lt;br/&gt;corinne.weidenthal@ed.gov.
CloseDateExplanation: Applications Available: May 21, 2013.     Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: June 20, 2013. Notice of Intent To Apply: ED will be able to develop a more efficient process for reviewing grant applications if it has a better understanding of the number of entities that intend to apply for funding under this competition. Therefore, we strongly encourage each potential applicant to notify ED by sending a short email message indicating the applicant&apos;s intent to submit an application for funding. If the applicant is submitting an application on behalf of a consortium also indicate the States that will be involved. The email need not include information regarding the content of the proposed application. This email notification should be sent to Corinne Weidenthal at corinne.weidenthal@ed.gov. Applicants that fail to provide this email notification may still apply for funding. Dates of Pre-Application Webinars: May 30, 2013 and June 4, 2013.Dates of Pre-Application Webinars: Interested parties are invited to participate in pre-application webinars. The pre-application webinars with staff from ED and its Federal PROMISE partners will be held on May 30, 2013 and June 4, 2013; and a teleconference will be held on June 27, 2013, between 2:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., Washington, DC time. Date of Pre-Application Teleconference: June 27, 2013. For further   information about the pre-application webinars and teleconference, see the PROMISE Web site at www.ed.gov/promise. Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: August 19, 2013.