PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To support projects to provide academic training in areas of personnel shortages identified by the Secretary to increase the number of personnel trained in providing vocational rehabilitation services to individuals with disabilities.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. EDUCATION;
- Handicapped Education;
2. EMPLOYMENT, LABOR, AND TRAINING;
- Program Development;
- Job Training, Employment;
3. HEALTH;
- Education and Training;
4. INCOME SECURITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES;
- Research, Demonstration;
- Training Assistance;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Individual/Family;
- Handicapped;
- Physically Afflicted (e.g. TB, Arthritis, Heart Disease);
- Mentally Disabled;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Public non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- U.S. Territories and possessions (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Private non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Quasi-public non-profit institution/organization;