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Office of Disability Employment Policy

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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.

Past Grants

Grants awarded in 2011

Grants awarded in 2010

Grants awarded in 2009

Grants awarded in 2008

  • No grants were awarded in 2008.

Grants awarded in 2007

Concluded Grants

Grants awarded in 2006

Grants awarded in 2005

  • No grants were awarded in 2005.

Grants awarded in 2004

Grants awarded prior to 2004