SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Autism Family Care-
givers Act of 2022’’. 
SEC. 2. CAREGIVER SKILLS TRAINING PILOT PROGRAM. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the 
Health Resources and Services Administration, shall carry 
out a program, to be known as the Caregiver Skills Train-
ing Pilot Program, under which the Secretary shall award 
grants to eligible entities to provide evidence-based care-
giver skills training to caregivers, including family care-
givers, of children with autism spectrum disorder or other 
developmental disabilities or delays, for the purposes of— 
(1) improving the health outcomes and quality 
of life of such children and their caregivers; and 
(2) teaching caregivers of such children evi-
denced-based intervention strategies to promote— 
(A) improvement in the mental and phys-
ical well-being of such children and their care-
givers; and 
(B) the greater inclusion of such children 
in family and community life. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive an award 
under subsection (a), an entity shall be— 
(1) a nonprofit or other community-based orga-
nization; 
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(2) a Federally qualified health center; 
(3) an academic health center; 
(4) a health system; or 
(5) a collaboration or consortium of 2 or more 
entities listed in paragraphs (1) through (4). 
(c) APPLICATION.—To seek a grant under this sec-
tion, an eligible entity shall submit to the Secretary an 
application that includes— 
(1) a description of— 
(A) the applicant’s experience delivering 
evidence-based caregiver skills training to care-
givers, including family caregivers, of children 
with autism spectrum disorder or other develop-
mental disabilities or delays; 
(B) the activities that the applicant pro-
poses to carry out through the grant; and 
(C) how such activities will achieve the 
purposes described in subsection (a); and 
(2) a plan for— 
(A) coordination with community-based or-
ganizations, State and local early intervention 
providers, Medicaid systems, schools, and other 
providers of early intervening services; 
(B) collaboration with health care payors 
(including public and private insurance), State 
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departments of insurance, health plans, and 
other relevant payors; 
(C) expanding the skills training program 
proposed to be carried out through the grant; 
and 
(D) achieving sustainability of such pro-
gram. 
(d) SELECTION OF GRANTEES.— 
(1) SELECTION
CRITERIA.—In awarding a 
grant to an eligible entity or a collaboration or con-
sortium of 2 or more entities described in subsection 
(b), the Secretary shall require at least one of the 
recipients to— 
(A) have at least 3 years of demonstrated 
experience— 
(i) 
delivering 
evidence-based, 
cul-
turally competent caregivers skills training 
programs described in subsection (a), in-
cluding in medically underserved commu-
nities; 
(ii) providing services to children with 
autism spectrum disorder or other develop-
mental delays and disabilities, as well as 
collaborating directly with their families; 
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(iii) providing individual caregiver 
coaching as part of skills training to care-
givers of children with autism spectrum 
disorder or other developmental delays and 
disabilities; and 
(iv) working with self-advocates or 
adults with autism spectrum disorder or 
other developmental delays and disabilities; 
and 
(B) demonstrate the ability to access re-
sources from and collaborate with— 
(i) health care providers; 
(ii) allied health professionals; 
(iii) educators; 
(iv) social workers; and 
(v) nonprofessional family caregivers 
who assist with daily living and develop-
mental activities, including for children 
with autism spectrum disorder or other de-
velopmental delays and disabilities. 
(2) 
REDUCING
DISPARITIES.—In 
awarding 
grants under this section, the Secretary may con-
sider, as appropriate, the extent to which an eligible 
entity can deliver evidence-based, culturally com-
petent caregivers skills training programs for chil-
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