Specifications include, but are not limited to: Enhancing Digital Literacy Grant Opportunity for Older Adult ; This grant is designed to provide American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding in the form of time-limited grants to Councils on Aging (COAs) to provide: Devices and internet access for older adults; Training and support to older adults in the COAs’ service area and/ or older adults who access the COA with the goal of enhancing digital literacy. Technology training and support should improve older adults’ digital literacy and help them use devices in a meaningful way. Training may be delivered remotely and/or in-person. When possible, in-person training is preferred and can be held anywhere mutually agreed upon by the COA and older person. Applicants must use funds to purchase devices and/or Broadband for older adults and/or Councils on Aging with the objective of strengthening digital literacy of older adults in the COA’s service area. While the emphasis of technology purchases should be for older adults, limited equipment purchases to allow the COA to successfully facilitate digital literacy support is permissible.
