Notice2024-19418
Announcing the Intent To Award a Single-Source Supplement for the Strengthening the Direct Care Workforce: A Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Initiative
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Published
August 29, 2024
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Health and Human Services DepartmentCommunity Living Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Community Living (ACL) announces the intent to award a single-source supplement to the current cooperative agreement held by the National Council on Aging for the "Strengthening the Direct Care Workforce: A Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Initiative". The administrative supplement for FY 2024 will be in the amount of $1,787,524 bringing the total award for FY 2024 to $3,087,207. The supplement will provide sufficient resources to enable the grantee and their partners to increase funding for technical assistance (TA) to state aging and disability partnerships to collaborate with workforce entities to strengthen the Direct Care Workforce. The funding will enable the grantee to support additional states, including at more robust levels than originally planned.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 168 (Thursday, August 29, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70192-70193]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-19418]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Community Living
Announcing the Intent To Award a Single-Source Supplement for the
Strengthening the Direct Care Workforce: A Technical Assistance and
Capacity Building Initiative
AGENCY: Administration for Community Living, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Community Living (ACL) announces the
intent to award a single-source supplement to the current cooperative
agreement held by the National Council on Aging for the ``Strengthening
the Direct Care Workforce: A Technical Assistance and Capacity Building
Initiative''. The administrative supplement for FY 2024 will be in the
amount of $1,787,524 bringing the total award for FY 2024 to
$3,087,207. The supplement will provide sufficient resources to enable
the grantee and their partners to increase funding for technical
assistance (TA) to state aging and disability partnerships to
collaborate with workforce entities to strengthen the Direct Care
Workforce. The funding will enable the grantee to support additional
states, including at more robust levels than originally planned.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information or comments
regarding this program supplement, contact Caroline Ryan, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community
Living, telephone (202) 795-7429; email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a8cbc9dac7c4c1c6cd86dad1c9c6e8c9cbc486c0c0db86cfc7de"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b1d2d0c3deddd8dfd49fc3c8d0dff1d0d2dd9fd9d9c29fd6dec7">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Through this initiative, ACL is advancing
the capacity to recruit, train and retain a high-quality, competent,
and effective direct care workforce of professionals capable of meeting
the growing needs that older adults and people with disabilities have
for such supports. The purpose of this program is to catalyze change at
a systems level that will address the insufficient supply of trained
DCWs, promote promising practices at all levels of the service
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system and improve data collection to enable a full understanding of
the workforce issue.
The intended outcomes of the initiative are as follows:
1. Increase the availability and visibility of tools and resources
to attract, train and retain the direct care workforce in quality jobs
where they earn livable wages and have voice in their working
environment, and have access to benefits and opportunities for
advancement.
2. Increase the number of states that develop and sustain
collaborations across state systems and workforce agencies to implement
strategies that will improve the recruitment, retention, and
advancement of high quality DCW jobs.
Program Name: Strengthening the Direct Care Workforce: A Technical
Assistance and Capacity Building Initiative.
Recipient: The National Council on Aging.
Period of Performance: The supplement award will be issued for the
third year of the five-year project period of September 30, 2022
through September 29, 2027.
Total Award Amount: $3,087,207 in FY 2024.
Award Type: Cooperative Agreement.
Statutory Authority: Section 411(13) of the Older Americans Act,
section 161 (2) of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill
of Rights Act, and section 21 program of the Rehabilitation Act of
1973.
Basis for Award: The National Council on Aging is currently funded
to carry out the objectives of the project entitled Strengthening the
Direct Care Workforce: A Technical Assistance and Capacity Building
Initiative for the project period of September 30, 2022 through
September 29, 2027. This supplement will enable the grantee to carry
their work even further, providing technical assistance to more state
partnerships. The additional funding will also expand grantee's
capability to produce issue briefs, case studies, and other materials
to disseminate lessons learned and best practices via the Direct Care
Workforce Strategies Center website. The NCOA is uniquely positioned to
complete the work called for under this cooperative agreement. NCOA's
partners on this project include the University of Minnesota Institute
on Community Integration, National Association of Councils on
Developmental Disabilities, Advancing States, PHI, Lincoln University
Paula J. Carter Center on Minority Health and Aging, National
Association of Medicaid Directors, National Council on Independent
Living, Center for Innovation, National Alliance for Caregiving,
National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities
Services, and Social Policy Research Associates (SPR). The grantee, and
all partners, will work in close coordination with one another and ACL
on those tasks and activities to which they have committed to ensure
realization of project goals and objectives.
ACL believes it is in the best interest of the Federal Government
to supplement the current grantee's existing project. Establishing an
entirely new grant project at this time would be potentially disruptive
to the current work already well under way. Further, it could create
unintended duplication of effort and missed opportunities for greater
coordination. Additionally, if this supplement is not provided, the
project would be unable to expand its current technical assistance and
training efforts to reach more state partnerships across aging,
disability and workforce stakeholders to work together to strengthen
the direct care workforce.
Dated: August 24, 2024.
Alison Barkoff,
Principal Deputy Administrator for the Administration for Community
Living, performing the delegable duties of the Administrator and the
Assistant Secretary for Aging.
[FR Doc. 2024-19418 Filed 8-28-24; 8:45 am]
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