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What is a seed grant?

"Seed" grants often provide small sums of money - generally from the low hundreds into the thousands of dollars - to start a program or project.

What are the four foundational objectives involved in conceptualizing a grant application?

* Asking a meaningful question that is relevant to the funding agency *The use of good science that is innovative for answering the above question *Careful attention *Demonstration of qualifications to carry out the proposed project

Who provides grants?

* The American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF) * National Institutes of Health (NIH) *National Science Foundation (NSF) *National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) *Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) *Department of Defense (DOD) *Department of Education (DOE) *Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) *Veterans Administration (VA) *US Army medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA)

According to Brown et al. (2021), what do contract therapy companies generally provide?

*Better patient outcomes/treatment consistency *Better department margins *Better department accountability/compliance *Better department productivity/efficiency *Better reimbursement *Better wage management

What are strong ways to prove your qualifications on a grant application?

*Prior research or publishing history *Mastery of the scientific literature to demonstrate why the research/program is necessary *Passion for the topic at hand *Proof of your ability to carry out the study (pilot studies, previous successful funding or research partnership)

What are the State Board codes of ethics and why are they important?

*They are clear indications of what to do - and not do - as a developing professional. *They guide practice in a concrete, practical way. *They are the law!****

What members are typical of a capstone or dissertation team?

*Your Doctoral Capstone Coordinator *Your Faculty Mentor/Advisor *Your on-site Mentor *Subject Matter Experts/Committee members *IRB Board members (if necessary) *YOU

Which of the following are health conditions that are objectives in the Healthy People 2030 initiative that occupational therapy could study in a grant-funded program?

*chronic pain *arthritis *cancer

What kind of critical projects are supported by grants?

- Recovery initiatives - Innovation research - Small business funding - Welfare programs - Pell Grant programs

What are the 7 AOTA codes of ethics?

1) Altruism: "An unselfish concern for the welfare of others." (2) Equality: "Treating all persons that is free of bias." (3) Freedom: "Valuing each person's right to exercise autonomy and demonstrate independence, initiative and self direction." (4) Justice: "Providing...services for persons in need of these services and maintain[ing] a goal-directed and objective relationship with recipients of service." (5) Dignity: "The importance of valuing, promoting and preserving the inherent worth and uniqueness of each person." (6) Truth: "Occupational therapy personnel in all situations should be faithful to facts and reality". (7) Prudence: "The ability to govern and discipline oneself through the use of reason"

What are the common reasons why one would receive a NOD?

1. The agency felt that your project does not represent their needs well enough. 2. The agency felt that your decision-making process outlined in your project is not ideal or suitable for meeting their needs. 3.The grant was highly competitive and they ran out of funds after funding "stronger" projects.

*In order of least to most community engagement, what are the five Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium Community Engagement Key Functional Committee Task Force (2011) levels of projects?

1.Outreach programs: 2.Consultation programs: 3.Involvement programs 4.Collaboration programs 5.Shared leadership programs

Who do you go to if you have concerns about ethics in a clinical practice situation?

1.Your supervisor 2.Your state board 3.AOTA commission on ethics 4.State ethics commission

In the post-award phase, what is the average length of time between audits for federal funding agencies, such as The National Institutes of Health?

12 months

How many continuing education hours do you need every two years in the State of Virginia?

20 hours

According to the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium Community Engagement Key Function Committee Task Force in 2011, how many levels of community engagement projects exist?

5

Collaborator

A Key Personnel member of a project or research that contributes their distinct expertise to the project, but may be part of another discipline. They are generally as involved as co-investigators with the project.

Principal investigator

A Key Personnel member, Principal Investigators (PI) lead the scientific development and administration of the project. There can be more than one PI for a given study or program!

What is a Letter of Support?

A Letter of Support is an official document from each of your team members that explain their commitment to your project. Each Key Personnel member of your team will need to draft one for the grant application!

Continuing education

A broad term of sanctioned professional education or development activities.

Who will most likely require a team for grant purposes?

A large corporate grant

What is the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)?

A non-government organization to help patient, patient families and health care practitioners address health problems with solid, consistent information with the purpose of assisting with the care decision process. PCORI prioritizes education and community engagement initiatives for diverse populations, including racial/ethnic minorities, women, children, older adults, rural areas, low-income peoples, poor health literacy, LGBT, veterans, disabilities/special medical needs, rare diseases and genetic diseases. This agency provides grants in tiered ways, with new grantees receiving "seed" funding to establish programs.

What is professional development?

A self directed, reflective process of lifelong learning aimed at maintaining practitioner competence, ensuring client safety and quality outcomes, enhancing or expanding professional practice, and reaching career goals PD supports OT practitioners in providing evidence based practice services that are efficient and relevant, especially in the modern interdisciplinary healthcare environment It also encourages participation in professional activities that lead to innovations in practice, leadership, education and research (AOTA, 2016).

Project director

A sometimes Key Personnel that serves as the "right hand" of the PI for larger projects to administrate the day-to-day tasks. These members may be charge of recruiting/training research assistants, setting up meetings, recruitment of participants, and managing all of the forms/data collection. (meant for larger projects)

Contact hour

A unit of measurement that represents one scheduled hour of instruction given to a participant.

What is a grant?

A way for the government or organizations to fund projects of interest

What are community engagement programs?

Are of primary interest to many funding agencies due to the immediate term application and provision of services to the benefit of numerous vulnerable populations. Serve as vehicles for pilot studies, and need teams to administrate.

What legislative act signaled the shift towards contract therapy models in occupational therapy practice?

Balanced budget act

Co-investigator

Co-investigators are Key Personnel who are involved with the scientific development or execution of the program or research, but are not responsible for the leadership of the task at hand.

Involvement Programs

Community is involved through direct participation in the solution of the program; goal is to increase community partnership through visibility an access (ex. Community lead public boards for key community issues for advertisement of the county government)

Consultant

Consultants are Key Personnel that supply advice and services that allow them to be significantly involved in the project. They may supply software, provide technical assistance, training, equipment set up, or some executables that demand expert use.

What is contract therapy?

Contract therapy is a professional model in which a setting (or facility) works with a dedicated therapy provider (company) on a contractual basis.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009)

Created a government website that allows the public to track stimulus and grant funding

Executive Order 13576 (2011)

Created a model of data sharing tools to improve transparency of federal grant spending

What is dissemination?

Dissemination is the process of passing on - or disseminating - knowledge onto other parties.In context, it is the process of publishing or presenting new knowledge with the explicit purpose of furthering the knowledge base and epistemology of a profession.

Post-doctoral grants are generally awarded to terminal research degree graduates, with the intent of funding specialized areas of research expertise. According to Holtzclaw et al. (2018), which of the following areas are currently of interest in clinical practice for post-doctoral grant payors?

Ethics, cancer, interdisciplinary research programs, human genomics, workplace analysis, pain, health policy

How do you identify a research grant and program project using this system?

F: Fellowship K: Career Development Rewards N: Research Contract P: Program ProjectR: Research Project S: Research-Related Program T: Training Grant U: Cooperative Agreement Y: Interagency Agreement

Shared leadership programs

Final decision making capacity is made at the community level; goal is broad health outcomes for broad communities (ex. Tribal health programs)

Foundation Grants

Foundation grants are produced by foundations, which are non- government organizations that serve a societal, corporate or philanthropic interest.

Graduate research assistant

Graduate (student) research assistants are considered Key Personnel. Often the tactical members of your team, they are very important for data collection, participant recruitment, data management, organization and writing tasks, and the overall "building" of the project.

Which of the following are considered Key Personnel on grant project team?

Graduate assistant, co-investigator, principal investigator, consultants

What is the basic framework of grants?

Grants are executed in three general phases: 1. Pre-award a. Finding funding b. Applying for opportunities 2. Award a. Award decisions 3. Post-award a. Implementation b. Reporting & Closing

Outreach programs

Have only some community involvement; goal is to educate a community on a given topic of inequity (ex. Community fundraisers and awareness programs)

What is a critical step in affirming to a funding agency of the scientific strength of your research/program?

Identification of appropriate sample sizes through power analysis

Lobbying Disclosure Act (1995)

If any institution receives federal grant money, they can't use it for lobbying purposes.

Community engagement programs and services are a primary interest to numerous funding agencies for which primary reason?

Immediate term application and service provision to vulnerable populations

When receiving grant funds and working for an institution, who generally receives the money on your behalf?

Institution

What kind of grant would you apply for as a capstone student?

Institutional

Which of the following types of grants are associated with the disbursement of "seed money"?

Institutional + Foundation

What type of grant is the Shenandoah University Faculty 400/800?

Institutional grant

What is an IRB?

Institutional review board

Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act (1977)

Law that distinguished the difference between contracts, cooperative agreements and grants.

What system is utilized for organizing, finding and accessing federal grants?

Letter code system

The Maryland code of ethics for Occupational Therapy (OT) practice is a comprehensive document of expected conduct from all OT licensees. Which of the following can be found in the .03 Professional Competence category of this document?

Maintain competence by meeting the requirements of continuing education in accordance with COMAR 10.46.04

What is the Award Phase?

Making binding agreements with funding agencies

DATA act (2014)

Mandated that federal grant awards must be accessible to the public on a single website

Of the following, which of these grant sources generally is considered both the most prominent and the largest contributor of grant monies to healthcare in the United States?

NIH grants (federal)

What occupational scientific/therapeutic model fits well with community engagement projects?

Occupational justice

Corporate Grant

Often not a concern for our profession, these grants are a merger of generally private companies (often pharmaceutical) and a researcher, educator, or division to achieve a certain scientific project outcome. Offers huge opportunities for grant money totals and resources! Often faces scrutiny - who owns the data?

What is the Interprofessional Education Collaborative?

One of the major driving forces that shifted federal grants into requiring proof of multidisciplinary teams to administer major projects.

What is the preferred type of journal that federal funding agencies request for dissemination of projects?

Open journals

Significant contributor

Other Significant Contributors (OSCs) are those who contribute to the scientific development or execution of the project, but are doing so on an "as needed" basis. They are not considered Key Personnel.

Collaboration programs

Outright community involvement with partnerships with community members from the initial development of the progression of the program to the solution; goal is partnership ex. (University-community-organizational relationship project to address barriers to HIV care)

*According to Lubbeke et al. (2021), what are the 4 P's for identifying stakeholders?

Patients, providers, payors, policy makers

What type of calculation should you base your sample size off of?

Power

State Association

Provides continuing education opportunities on a state level to providers, alongside opportunities to allow practitioners to provide their own continuing education

AOTA

Provides the largest role in reviewing and pre-approving continuing education content; professionalism, and advocacy arm that "gate keeps" content for applicability to professional practice.

On slide 12, what are the top three methods of dissemination in occupational therapy?

Publishing, Presenting, Posters

What are the two time frames in which grant audits (progress reports) generally occur?

Quarterly (every 4 months) or annually (every 12 months)

What document do you check in your state to discover professional development requirements for maintaining your license

Regulations document

What are researchers looking for in a partnership?

Researchers are looking to partner with clinicians who are willing to replicate previous works and retest their instruments for validation in other settings.

Non public sanctions

Reserved for less serious offenses, these do NOT go on your "public record" when your license is viewed by the public 1. Letter of Education: A "kind" and documented way for the board to notify a party of a very minor ethical violation without any further punishment. 2. Letter of Admonishment: A "much less kind" and documented way for the board to notify a party of a minor ethical violation without any further punishment.

What is the AOTA code of ethics and why are they important?

The AOTA Code of Ethics - which you may have already heard about already - is a "standard of practice". A standard of practice is a essentially an explanation of how things should be done (a freestanding guide to ethical practice), but is not a legal statute or regulation.

What is the NIH roadmap and how did It influence competition for grants?

The National Institutes of Health Roadmap was created in 2002 in order to define and progress the path of biomedical research for the 21st century. In 2006, however, the NIH Reform Act was enacted by congress in order to expand the scope of medical professionals who can participate in the process through cross-disciplinary research. Good news: with the NIH Roadmap expansion in 2004 to start including other healthcare professions in the mix, OTs suddenly had realistic access to grant programs! Bad news: So did everyone else!

What is Evidence Based Practice?

The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients

What is the Post Award phase?

The final step in the grant process; it is the "longest" step - in a sense - and is measured in months and years. The execution of your project, but with a few extra steps.

What is a Notice of Declination (NOD)?

The letter of declination is exactly what it sounds like: a declination from the agency to fund your project.

What is a Notice of Award (NOA)?

The letter that you receive from a funding agency if chosen for funding?

Federal Grant

These are the really important ones! These grants often are among the largest and most well managed grants available.Most of the funding for federal grants is managed directly by the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Institutional grants

These types of grants often come from institutions such as hospitals, universities and school systems, generally only being accessible to employees of these institutions. Generally offered to those who present sound ideas for projects that the institution wishes to have started.

Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (2006)

Those receiving grant awards must report their award data into a federal government database.

True or false? One way to best demonstrate to funding agencies that your question is both meaningful and fundable is by aligning your research or program to the mission of the agency.

True

What does an "official, legally binding issuance" of award mean on a NOA?

When you sign off on the included agreement, you become legally bound to fulfill the full terms of the grant

What are 2 overarching types of sanctions that a state board issues a respondent?

a. Public b. Non-Public

What is the purpose of Close Out?

a.Ensure final reports on your project or research are received and assessed b.All of the costs that you occurred against the funds you received are actually allowed c.Any amount due to either the funding agency or to you are assessed, and then payment is arranged

What does the Shenandoah University Grant "The Faculty 400/800" cover?

a.Participation in continuing education programs and seminars b.Research projects c.Participation in presentations for research d.Participation in National and State conventions

What are generally provided on these progress reports?

a.The acknowledgement of any changes to any thing on the grant agreement, such as the procurement of any items that weren't on the original application. b.Progress made towards meeting the designated goal objectives and goals are addressed. c.If your goal has not been addressed yet, then you clearly state why.

Foundations grants often have guidelines that distinguish them from other types of grants. Which of the following are characteristic of foundation grants?

a.They often has pre-proposal systems that allow for screening of applications. b.They generally disperse seed money - small sums of money - to initiate individual research programs. c.There are generally faster turn around times for applications.

How long must you maintain your grant associated records for once your project is complete?

at least 3 years

Consultant examples

biostatistician, administrator, site authorities, NIH Co-investigator

NBCOT

certified public stakeholder is the Occupational therapists are ultimately competent and up-to-date with continuing education

What are methods of completing professional development?

continuing education courses, mentoring students (or being mentored yourself), residency programs, post-graduate training, research, participating in volunteer activities, going for a post- professional degree, pro-bono services and participating in AOTA/State Association/NBCOT activities.

Who is responsible for paying all denials in a facility-contract therapy relationship?

contract company

True or False: the use of grant funding is authorized for lobbying and political activisitic purposes.

false

True or False? The Shenandoah University Faculty 400/800 grant covers supplies and technology for teaching.

false

Consultation programs

feedback is solicited from the community; goal is to create a program that adapts to the needs of the community in real time (ex. County government or Medical Center programs for access to critical services)

When working with children, criminals, or economically disadvantaged individuals, which IRB approval would you need for a proposal?

full approval

State Board

have the final say in how many continuing education contact hours one needs to maintain their license

What process is the grant writing process similar to?

research process

Public sanctions

reserved for more serious offenses, these DO go on the "public record" when your license is viewed by the public: 1.Reprimand: A statement of sanction that is made public on an individual's license with no further punishment. 2.Probation: A series of terms and conditions that a licensee must follow for a predetermined period of time or else they may be subject to a much more severe punishment. 3.Suspension: A period of time in which a licensee cannot practice, however their license remains active. 4.Revocation: The most serious outcome, this is the permanent removal of an individual's license. Licensees may become eligible to reapply for a license after a set period of time, however their chances of becoming re-licensed is up to heavy board scrutiny and prejudice.

What are criteria are grant applications evaluated based upon the NIH Federal grant application guidelines?

significance, investigators, innovation, approach, environment

Who maintains all of the risk in a facility-contract therapy relationship?

the institution company assumes all of the risk

T or F Community partnership, including partnered projects, presence on advisory panels for community institutions and facility access is essential for community-engaged research and grants.

true

T or F There are ethical concerns that often accompany partnerships for grant monies, such as scrutiny about who is in true ownership of the data, pressure to produce results that is consistent with the vision of the corporation, and real risk of bias.

true

T or F one of the most important benefits of institutional grants for both universities and their associated medical systems is the access to both university resources and medical center patient populations.

true

True or False: In a competitive grant, funding agencies have the right to award you a partial reward instead of the full amount.

true

True or False: When accepting a grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), you are subject to federal regulations regarding the administration of your grant award.

true

True or False? A consultant should state their rate or charge for services, alongside their projected number hours per budget period in their Letter of Support when submitting to a grant funding agency.

true

True or False? Community level projects often serve as vehicles for pilot studies, which allow a "test run" of a given program within a community.

true

True or false? The AOTA code of ethics and the State Licensure code of ethics are similar but distinctly independent documents.

true

True or false? The directions provided for a given grants will likely give you specific instructions for formatting, documentation, deadlines, and appendices guidelines.

true