Grant Details

Through this funding opportunity, the Administration on Aging (AoA), part of the Administration for Community Living (ACL), plans to award 3-4 cooperative agreements to domestic public or private non-profit entities. The intent of these awards is to strengthen integrated networks that address the behavioral and social determinants of health of older adults and adults with disabilities, and increase the number of these individuals who participate in evidence-based chronic disease self-management education and self-management support programs.

This funding opportunity has two goals: Goal 1: Strengthen integrated state or regional networks that address the social and behavioral determinants of health of older adults and adults with disabilities. These networks should have:

• the capacity to strategically incorporate evidence-based chronic disease self-management education (CDSME) and self-management support programs within a broader integrated health context that includes other programs/services related to the social determinants of health (e.g. nutrition, transportation, care coordination, etc.);
• the ability to deliver and embed evidence-based CDSME/self-management support programs into an integrated, sustainable program network.

Goal 2: Significantly increase the number of older adults and adults with disabilities who participate in evidence-based CDSME and self-management support programs to empower them to better manage these chronic condition(s). All programs proposed to be implemented using ACL funding must be on the list of pre-approved interventions in Appendices B and C. Applicants must propose to implement a minimum of two of the approved CDSME/self-management support programs. At least one of the proposed programs must be a CDSME program listed in Appendix B.