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Other Interagency Activities 

 

Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN Initiative)


The BRAIN Initiative is a large-scale effort to equip researchers with fundamental insights necessary for treating a wide variety of brain disorders like Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury. Five federal agencies: NIH, NSF, FDA, DARPA, and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).

 

 

 

Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility


Report to the President Human Service Transportation Coordination, Executive Order 13330

President Bush issued an Executive Order on Human Service Transportation in February 2004 that directed Federal agencies and departments to work together to ensure that transportation services are comprehensive and accessible for all. The federal Interagency Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility (CCAM) released its report to the President on how to coordinate human service transportation in order to meet fundamental needs in today's society, as well as the CCAM members' action plans and five recommendations.

 

 

 

Curb Cuts to the Middle Class Initiative


The "Curb Cuts Initiative" is a Federal cross-agency effort working to increase equal employment opportunities and financial independence for individuals with disabilities, with a particular emphasis on individuals with significant disabilities.

 

 

 

Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Interagency Coordinating Committee

 

This coordinating committee's mission is to facilitate the sharing of information concerning the efforts of Federal agencies in deafness and other communication disorders, specifically the seven scientific areas of human communication, and to foster collaboration among Federal agencies.

 

 

Diabetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee (DMICC)

 

Originally mandated by Public Law 93-354 and established in 1974, the Diabetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee (DMICC) is chaired by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and includes other members of the Department of Health and Human Services and other Federal agencies that support diabetes-related activities. ​The DMICC facilitates cooperation, communication, and collaboration on diabetes among these government entities.

 

 

Disability Employment Initiative (DEI)


ODEP jointly funds and administers the DEI with DOL's Employment and Training Administration to improve education, training and employment opportunities, as well as outcomes for youth and adults with disabilities who are unemployed, underemployed, and/or receiving Social Security disability benefits.

 

 

 

Down Syndrome Consortium


This consortium meets two to three times each year to discuss research findings and progress toward achieving research, management, infrastructure, and other goals set out by NIH after consultation with national organizations and agencies interested in Down syndrome.

 

 

 

Employment First


Employment First is a national movement promoting integrated, community-based employment as the first choice for people with significant disabilities. ODEP supports an Employment First State Leadership Mentoring Program and an Employment First Community of Practice.

 

 

 

Fair Housing Accessibility FIRST


Sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Fair Housing FIRST is designed to promote compliance with the Fair Housing Act design and construction requirements.

 

 

 

Federal Healthy & Ready To Work (HRTW) Interagency Workgroup

 

Established to improve coordination among Federal/state agencies and advocacy groups in supporting youth with disabilities in transition to work independence.

 

 

Federal Forum on Aging Related Statistics


The Federal Forum on Aging Related Statistics brings Federal agencies together to improve aging-related statistics. The specific goals of the Forum are to improve both the quality and use of data on the aging population.

 

 

 

Health People 20/20 (HP2020)

 

Health People is a 10-year agenda, produced by the U.S. Health and Human Services, created to improve the Nation's overall health. Health People 20/20 strives to: identify nationwide health improvement priorities, increase public awareness and understanding of the determinants of health, disease, and disability and the opportunities for progress, and provide measurable objectives and goals that are applicable at the national, state, and local levels.

 

 

 

HHS Initiative on Multiple Chronic Conditions


This initiative supports a large number of programs to prevent and manage multiple chronic conditions.

 

 

 

Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC)


The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) is a Federal advisory committee that coordinates all efforts within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concerning autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Through its inclusion of both Federal and public members, the IACC helps to ensure that a wide range of ideas and perspectives are represented and discussed in a public forum.

 

 

 

Interagency Collaborative to Advance Research in Epilepsy (ICARE)

 

This group's annual meeting is a forum for sharing information about ongoing and planned epilepsy research activities; highlighting advances and discussing needs and opportunities; and promoting increased collaboration toward common research goals.

 

 

 

Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (IPRCC)

 

This committee, established under the Affordable Care Act, is charged with developing a summary of advances in pain care research supported or conducted by Federal agencies relevant to the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of pain and diseases associated with pain.

 

 

Interagency Working Group on Neuroscience


This group coordinates activities in neuroscience research across the Federal government with a focus on the fundamental understanding of learning, brain development and plasticity, and brain health and recovery. They re-chartered in 2015.

Leadership for the Employment of Americans with Disabilities (LEAD Initiative)

The goal for this initiative is to significantly increase the population of individuals with severe disabilities employed by the federal government.

 

 

 

Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee (MDCC)

 

The Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research and Education Amendments of 2001 ("MD-CARE Act"; P.L. 107-84) authorized the establishment of the MDCC to coordinate activities across the NIH and with other Federal health programs and activities relevant to the various forms of muscular dystrophy (MD).

 

 

National Robotics Initiative (NRI)

 

This initiative focuses on developing robots that work with or beside people to extend or augment human capabilities. Five agencies: DOD, NSF, NIH, NASA, Department of Agriculture.

 

 

NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research


The Blueprint for Neuroscience Research is a cooperative effort among the 15 NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices that support neuroscience research.

 

 

 

NIMH Early Psychosis Prediction and Prevention Initiative (EP3)


NIMH's (EP3) works to accelerate research on detecting risk states for psychotic disorders, preventing the onset of psychosis in high risk individuals, and improving clinical and functional outcomes among persons in the earliest stages of serious mental illnesses.

 

 

 

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)/Trauma Brain Injury (TBI) Workgroup
 

This HHS-derived workgroup is a joint effort of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Strokes (NINDS), who work closely with the VA and DOD to address the problems of PTSD, TBI, and service-related suicide.

 

 

President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID)


The mission of PCPID is to provide advice and assistance to the President of the United States and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on a broad range of topics that impact people with intellectual disabilities and the field of intellectual disabilities. Undergirding the Committee’s mission is the goal to improve the quality of life that is experienced by people with intellectual disabilities, by upholding their full citizenship rights, independence, self-determination, and life-long participation in their respective communities.

 

 

 

Promoting the Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE Program)


The PROMISE program is an interagency collaboration of the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, Labor and the Social Security Administration. State agencies have partnered to develop and implement model demonstration projects that provide coordinated services and supports designed to improve the education and career outcomes of children with disabilities receiving SSI, including services and supports to their families.

 

 

 

Public Health Action Plan to Integrate Mental Health Promotion and Mental Illness Prevention with Chronic Disease Prevention, 2011 - 2015

 

The purpose of this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) action plan is to focus on mental health (MH) promotion and mental illness (MI) prevention as it relates to chronic disease prevention. Strategy 2 calls for supporting research into determinants and protective factors of MH, antecedents, and risk factors for MI, and their relationships to chronic diseases.

 

 

White House Neuroscience Initiative


This initiative encompasses a variety of government neuroscience programs, including the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease; BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative; and Neuroethics: Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, among other disability-related initiatives.

 

 

Last Modified: 11/17/2023