ODEP - Office of Disability Employment Policy
Disability Employment Policy Resources by Topic
Grants
ODEP utilizes grants to assist in developing policies and identifying effective practices that lead to increase employment for people with disabilities. More information about grant opportunities, as well as ODEP's active and concluded grants is below.
Current Grant Opportunities
Notice of Availability of Funds and Solicitation for Grant Applications for Cooperative Agreements under the Disability Employment Initiative — SGA-DFA-PY-11-11
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), in coordination with Department of Labor's (DOL's) Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), announces the availability of approximately $20 million for a third round of cooperative agreements to state agencies that administer the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998. These funds provide an opportunity for states to develop and implement a plan for improving effective and meaningful participation of persons with disabilities in the workforce. DOL is using this funding to make six to ten grant awards designed to: 1) improve educational, training, and employment opportunities and outcomes of youth and adults with disabilities who are unemployed, underemployed, and/or receiving Social Security disability benefits; and 2) help these individuals with disabilities find a path into the middle class through exemplary and model service delivery by the public workforce system. The DOL will award DEI grants for a three-year period of performance.
- Issue Date: April 16, 2012
- Closing Date: June 1, 2012
- Full Announcement (PDF)
Past Grants
Grants awarded in 2011
Grants awarded in 2010
Grants awarded in 2009
- National Technical Assistance, Policy, and Research Center for Employers on Employment of People with Disabilities
- Registered Apprenticeship for Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities Initiative
Grants awarded in 2008
- No grants were awarded in 2008.
Grants awarded in 2007
- National Technical Assistance and Research Center to Promote Leadership for Employment and Economic Independence for Adults with Disabilities
- National Technical Assistance Center on Transition and Employment for Youth with Disabilities
Concluded Grants
Grants awarded in 2006
- Self-Employment for Adults and Youth with Disabilities Research and Technical Assistance
- Disability Case Study Research Consortium on Employer Organizational Practices in Employing People with Disabilities
Grants awarded in 2005
- No grants were awarded in 2005.
Grants awarded in 2004
- Telework/Telecommuting Pilot Research
- Chronic Homelessness Employment Technical Assistance Initiative
Grants awarded prior to 2004
- Ending Chronic Homelessness through Employment and Housing Projects
- Working for Freedom, Opportunity and Real Choice Through Community Employment Action Grant Initiative
- High School/High Tech State Development and Implementation Grants
- Innovative State Alignment Grants for Improving Transition Outcomes for Youth with Disabilities through the Use of Intermediaries
- Intermediary Grants for Mentoring Youth with Disabilities
- Customized Employment Grant Initiative
- Home Modification Grants
