Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) Program: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Model Systems National Data and Statistical Center

Background
The Administrator of the Administration for Community Living establishes a priority for the funding of a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Model Systems National Data and Statistical Center. This Center will advance medical rehabilitation by increasing the rigor and efficiency of scientific efforts to longitudinally assess the experience of individuals with TBI. The TBI Model Systems National Data and Statistical Center must maintain the national longitudinal database for data submitted by each of the TBI Model Systems Centers. This Center must also ensure collection of high quality data, and support rigorous research by the Model Systems centers by monitoring data quality, providing training in the collection of TBI Model Systems data, providing methodological consultation to these centers, and other collaborative tasks.

Grant Details
It is estimated that between 3.2 and 5.3 million Americans are living with disability as a result of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Approximately 2.5 million Americans sustain a TBI each year, and 288,000 of these injuries lead to hospitalization. The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) supports a variety of research projects that focus on the wide range of needs of people with TBI. These projects include the TBI Model System Centers funded through NIDILRR's Model Systems Program. The TBI Model System Centers have developed a national, longitudinal database (TBI Model Systems National Database) of information about the characteristics and life course of people with TBI. NIDILRR seeks to continue and build upon this important source of data by funding a National Data and Statistical Center for the TBI Model Systems that will maintain the TBI Model Systems National Database and improve the quality of information that is entered into it.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include states; public or private agencies, including for-profit agencies; public or private organizations, including for-profit organizations; institutions of higher education; and Indian tribes and tribal organizations.

Period of Performance
The project period is 60 months with five 12-month budget periods.

Grant Value
$692,500 is the estimated total funding for one award, with an award ceiling of $692,500 per budget period and an award floor of $685,000 per budget period.