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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 118 / Wednesday, June 23, 2021 / Rules and Regulations iv Leadership, relationship-building, and outreach.
3 Strategic planning, including i Assessments of the States program priorities, challenges, needs, and opportunities in implementing the expanded VR program provisions and other benefits and services under the Rehabilitation Act, as amended by WIOA. Strategic assessments may include targeted reviews of the Unified or Combined State Plans, monitoring reports, Annual Client Assistance Program Report RSA227, other State Plans and reports, and input from agency leadership and staff, SRC
members, clients, applicants, and other key stakeholders;
ii Development of the individual CAPs strategic goals and action plans including their particular training or technical assistance needs, based on identified program priorities, challenges, needs, and opportunities;
and iii Strategic outreach and engagement with State VR agencies, SRCs, and other stakeholders associated with the programs and services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act to increase collaboration in support of improved service delivery and outcomes in the State.
4 Resource management, including i Budgeting and financial oversight practices in support of strategic goals and objectives, consistent with Generally Accepted Accounting Practices; and ii Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards, at 2 CFR part 200, pertinent to CAP and VR program operations.
b Comprehensive plan for the provision of training and technical assistance on the required subject areas and topics, based on a comprehensive assessment of CAP professionals needs.
The training and technical assistance plan must describe the following:
1 Subject areas and topics, specifically, how they will be prioritized and made available in the initial year and subsequent years of the project;
2 Training activities, consisting of both established training modules and ad hoc training responsive to emerging circumstances or trends;
3 Technical assistance, consisting of individualized assistance on applying principles and practices from training on the required subject areas and topics, as well as consultation on options for applying existing law, regulations, and RSA-issued guidance to specific factual circumstances that arise in the course of
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CAP professionals individual or systems advocacy efforts;
4 Training and technical assistance curricula, materials, and tools, which may incorporate the resources developed by current and former RSA
VR technical assistance centers and demonstration projects, available at the National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation Training Materials;
5 Information delivery methods, including in-person and virtual activities, communities of practice, social media, and searchable databases;
and 6 State-of-the-art communication tools and platforms, including an interactive project website, distance learning and convening technologies, and searchable databases.
The comprehensive needs assessment may comprise selective reviews, on a national basis, of RSA227s, Unified or Combined State Plans, RSA State monitoring reports, other State Plans and reports, and input from CAP
professionals and key stakeholders, including VR agency and SRC
representatives.
c Quality control processes to ensure that training and technical assistance activities and materials are updated to reflect the statutory and regulatory changes in the Rehabilitation Act, as amended by WIOA, the RSA policy guidance updates, and future reauthorizations of the Rehabilitation Act.
d Coordination with and leveraging the resources of RSAs vocational rehabilitation technical assistance centers and other Federal or nonFederal programs, including the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition and the recently funded RSA
technical assistance centers on Quality Employment and Quality Management in the development and delivery of CAP
Training project activities, curriculum, materials, and tools.
e Coordination with the entity providing training and technical assistance to the Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights program, consistent with section 509 of the Rehabilitation Act.
f Comprehensive evaluation plan based on performance measures established in the notice inviting applications, consistent with the Government Performance and Results Act.
CAP Training performance will be assessed based on the following considerations:
a Increased capacity to provide individual and systems advocacy, alternative dispute resolution, and outreach to unserved or underserved
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populations, as reported by the CAP
professionals.
b Trends in pertinent CAP services, including individual and systems advocacy.
c Relationship between the observed CAP services trends and the training and technical assistance provided under this priority.
The performance evaluation will be based on a variety of quantitative and qualitative data sources, including, but not limited to:
a RSA227;
b Preand post-training assessments;
c Questionnaires, surveys, and focus groups;
d Success stories; and e Peer reviews.
The evaluation plan must include a logic model that outlines the proposed project activities, outputs, outcomes, baselines, and targets. The plan also must describe how the evaluation results will be used to promote continuous program improvement throughout the grants period of performance.
Types of Priorities:
When inviting applications for a competition using one or more priorities, we designate the type of each priority as absolute, competitive preference, or invitational through a notice in the Federal Register. The effect of each type of priority follows:
Absolute priority: Under an absolute priority, we consider only applications that meet the priority 34 CFR
75.105c3.
Competitive preference priority:
Under a competitive preference priority, we give competitive preference to an application by 1 awarding additional points, depending on the extent to which the application meets the priority 34 CFR 75.105c2i; or 2 selecting an application that meets the priority over an application of comparable merit that does not meet the priority 34 CFR
75.105c2ii.
Invitational priority: Under an invitational priority, we are particularly interested in applications that meet the priority. However, we do not give an application that meets the priority a preference over other applications 34
CFR 75.105c1.
This document does not preclude us from proposing additional priorities, requirements, definitions, or selection criteria, subject to meeting applicable rulemaking requirements.
Note: This document does not solicit applications. In any year in which we choose to use this priority, we invite applications through a notice in the Federal Register.

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