Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

CMHS Consumer Affairs E-News
May 11, 2007, Vol. 07-79

NIDRR Long-Range Plan for Fiscal Years 2005-09

The National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) Long-Range Plan for Fiscal Years 2005-09: Executive Summary is a concise synopsis of the full NIDRR Long-Range Plan for Fiscal Years 2005-09. The full plan guides the work of NIDRR, the federal government's key agency for disability and rehabilitation research. It includes highlights of past NIDRR research, assesses emerging needs and sets new directions for the future.

The Executive Summary includes the NIDRR Logic Model and future research priorities in the domains of employment, participation and community living, health and function, technology for access and function, and disability demographics.

Also included are discussions of the three strategies NIDRR uses for realizing its strategic goals: research, knowledge translation and capacity building. An important feature is a new plan for management improvements, including: fixed schedules for announcing competitions and making awards; a description of the annual priority-setting process; performance assessment of programs and projects; continuous planning using environmental scans and performance results; and validation of knowledge generated by NIDRR projects.

The Executive Summary and the full NIDRR Long-Range Plan for Fiscal Years 2005-09 can be accessed on NIDRR's home page at http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/index.html.

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