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HRSA Awards $14 Million to Help Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) today announced more than $14 million in FY 2008 grants to improve the health and well-being of children and youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
“Autism is a condition that presents special challenges for many families and the providers who treat these special children,” said HRSA Administrator Elizabeth M. Duke. “These grants, funded by HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau, demonstrate our commitment to improving the care of children with autism spectrum disorders.”
Today's funds are awarded from six HRSA programs:
- Twenty-one universities and research organizations will receive grants worth almost $5.6 million, as part of HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Other Related Disabilities (LEND) program. Four are new grantees and seventeen are existing LEND grants. LEND trains future leaders in a variety of disciplines to improve the health of children who have or are at risk of developing neurodevelopmental disabilities or other similar conditions such as autism.
- Six states will receive grants totaling almost $1.8 million to improve access to health care and related services for children and youth with ASD and other developmental disabilities. Grantees will implement existing state plans to improve services for these young people.
- The Association of University Centers on Disabilities in Silver Spring, Md., will receive a grant worth almost $500,000 for the National Interdisciplinary Training Resource Center. The grant will provide technical assistance, build and sustain partnerships with other organizations and service systems already serving children with ASD and other developmental disabilities, translate research into evidence-based practice and utilize existing and develop new data systems to capture and report project outcomes.
- The General Hospital Corporation of Boston will receive an award of almost $4 million to conduct research on interventions to improve the physical health and well-being of children and adolescents with ASD and other developmental disabilities.
- The Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles will receive $2 million to conduct research on the behavioral, mental, social, and/or cognitive health and well-being of children and adolescents with ASD and other developmental disabilities.
- The Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs will receive a $250,000 award to develop the State Public Health Coordinating Center for Autism. Funds will develop a strategy for defining, supporting, and monitoring the role of state Public Health agencies in assuring that children and youth with ASD and other developmental disabilities receive early and timely identification, diagnosis, and intervention.
Tables listing grant recipients are found below:
Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental & Related Disorders Training Program
| Organization |
City |
State |
Amount |
University of Alabama at Birmingham |
Birmingham |
Ala. |
$200,000 |
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences |
Little Rock |
Ark. |
$550,000 |
Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles-School of Physical Therapy |
Los Angeles |
Calif. |
$200,000 |
University of Colorado Denver |
Aurora |
Colo. |
$550,000 |
University of Connecticut Health Center |
Farmington |
Conn. |
$550,000 |
Children's Research Institute |
Washington |
D.C. |
$200,000 |
University of Illinois at Chicago |
Chicago |
Ill. |
$549,999 |
Indiana University, School of Medicine |
Indianapolis |
Ind. |
$200,000 |
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute |
Kansas City |
Kan. |
$195,155 |
Children's Hospital |
Boston |
Mass. |
$200,000 |
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska |
Omaha |
Neb. |
$200,000 |
Trustees of Dartmouth College |
Hanover |
N.H. |
$200,000 |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
Bronx |
N.Y. |
$200,000 |
University of Rochester |
Rochester |
N.Y. |
$200,000 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Chapel Hill |
N.C. |
$200,000 |
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
Philadelphia |
Pa. |
$200,000 |
University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
Memphis |
Tenn. |
$200,000 |
Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
Nashville |
Tenn. |
$200,000 |
University of Utah |
Salt Lake City |
Utah |
$200,000 |
University of Vermont |
Burlington |
Vt. |
$200,000 |
University of Washington |
Seattle |
Wash. |
$200,000 |
TOTAL: |
$5,595,154 |
State Implementation Grants for Improving Services for Children and Youth with ASD
Organization |
City |
State |
Amount |
Alaska Department of Health and Social Services |
Anchorage |
Alaska |
$300,000 |
The Hope School |
Springfield |
Ill. |
$300,000 |
The Curators of the University of Missoui |
Columbia |
Mo. |
$297,957 |
Utah Department of Health |
Salt Lake City |
Utah |
$300,000 |
Washington Department of Health |
Olympia |
Wash. |
$300,000 |
Wisconsin Dept. of Health and Family Services |
Madison |
Wis. |
$300,000 |
TOTAL: |
$1,797,957 |
National Interdisciplinary Training Resource Center
Organization |
City |
State |
Amount |
Association of University Centers on Disabilities |
Silver Spring |
Md. |
$500,000 |
Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health (AIR-P Network)
Organization |
City |
State |
Amount |
General Hospital Corporation |
Boston |
Mass. |
$4,000,000 |
Autism Intervention Research Network on Behavioral Health (AIR-B Network)
Organization |
City |
State |
Amount |
Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles |
Los Angeles |
Calif. |
$2,000,000 |
State Public Health Coordinating Center for Autism
Organization |
City |
State |
Amount |
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs |
Washington |
D.C. |
$250,000 |
For more information on HRSA's Maternal and Child Health programs, visit www.mchb.hrsa.gov.
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