[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 77 (Tuesday, April 22, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19585-19595]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-10335]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Availability of The HRSA Competitive Grants Preview
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration.
ACTION: General Notice.
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SUMMARY: HRSA announces the availability of the HRSA Competitive Grants
Preview publication (hereinafter referred to as The Preview) which
constitutes a description of the Agency's competitive grant programs
for Fiscal Year 1997. The purpose of the Preview is to provide the
general public with a single source of program and application
information related to the Agency's annual grant review cycle. The
Preview is designed to replace multiple Federal Register notices which
traditionally advertised the availability of HRSA discretionary funds
for its various programs. The HRSA Preview will appear annually in the
Federal Register. The Fiscal Year 1997 Preview appears as Attachment A
to this notice.
Although the Preview describes the majority of HRSA discretionary
grant program areas, it should be noted that other program initiatives,
responsive to new or emerging issues in the health care area, and
unanticipated at the time of publication of the Preview, may be
advertised through the Federal Register mechanism from time-to-time.
Some programs described in the initial Preview have appeared in Federal
Register announcements earlier this Fiscal Year. Deadlines or other
requirements appearing in the Federal Register are not changed by this
notice.
The Preview will contain a description of all competitive programs
and will include instructions on how to access the Agency for
information and how to receive application kits upon availability.
Specifically, the following information for each competitive grant
program area will be provided: (1) Program Title; (2) Legislative
Authority; (3) Purpose; (4) Eligibility; (5) Estimated Amount of
competition; (6) Estimated number of awards; (7) Funding Priorities
and/or Preferences; (8) Projected Award Date; (9) Application Deadline;
(10) Application kit availability; and (11) The Catalog of Federal
Domestic Assistance (CFDA) program identification number.
The first issue of the Preview relates exclusively to funding under
HRSA discretionary authorities and programs as follows:
Primary Health Care Programs
Community and Migrant Health Centers
Health Care For The Homeless
Grants to States for Loan Repayment Programs
Ryan White Title III Planning Grants
Grants to States for Community Scholarship Programs
Maternal and Child Health Programs
Genetic Services
Managed Care Policy and Children with Special Health Care
Needs
Integrated Services For Children With Special Needs
Partnership for Information and Communications
State Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Support Centers
Health, Mental Health and Safety for Schools
Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Other Infant Death
(OID) Program Support Center
Health And Safety in Child Care Settings
Data Utilization and Enhancement For State/Community
Infrastructure Building and Managed Care
Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children
Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS) Research Grants
Maternal and Child Health Provider Partnership Cooperative
Agreement
Community Integrated Services Systems (CISS)--Local/State
Community Organization Grants
Maternal and Child Health Research Cycle
Long Term Training In Adolescent Health
Long Term Training In Behavioral Pediatrics
Long Term Training In Communication Disorders
Long Term Training In Pediatric Dentistry
Long Term Training In Pediatric Occupational Therapy
Long Term Training In Pediatric Physical Therapy
Long Term Training In Public Health Social Work
Continuing Education and Development
Emergency Medical Services for Children: Implementation Grants
Emergency Medical Services for Children: Planning Grants
Emergency Medical Services for Children: Partnership Grants
Emergency Medical Services for Children: Targeted Issues
Grants
Ryan White Title IV; Grants for Coordinated HIV Services and
Access To Research for Children, Youth, Women and Families
Healthy Start Cooperative Agreements
Traumatic Brain Injury Demonstration Grants
Rural Health Programs
Rural Outreach, Network Development Grant Program
Telemedicine Network
ADDRESSES: Individuals may obtain the HRSA Preview by calling HRSA's
toll free number, 1-888-333-HRSA. The HRSA Preview may also be accessed
on the World Wide Web on the HRSA Home Page at: http://
www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/.
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Dated: April 16, 1997.
Claude Earl Fox,
Acting Administrator.
Attachment A
The Health Resources and Services Administration Competitive Grants
Preview
HRSA Announcements for Federal Fiscal Year 1997
The programs administered by the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) are designed to improve the health of the Nation
by assuring that quality health care is available to underserved and
vulnerable populations and by promoting primary care education and
practice. HRSA, in providing national leadership in health care and
public health, believes that health care is a right. The diversity of
programs supported by HRSA reflects this philosophy and unity of
purpose.
This first issue of the HRSA Competitive Grants Preview will
provide notice to the general public of its competitive grant programs
and diverse funding opportunities, subject to availability of
discretionary funds, during the Federal fiscal year, which begins each
October 1 and ends September 30 of the next calendar year. The Preview
is designed to replace the multiple Federal Register notices which HRSA
has traditionally published during previous fiscal years. Because this
initial issue of the Preview is being distributed during the second
quarter of the fiscal year, it excludes those HRSA programs which have
already been advertised and competed in the early part of FY 1997. The
programs included in this issue have funding effective dates ranging
from June 1 to September 30, 1997. Future issues will be available each
fiscal year and will present a more complete spectrum of programs.
It should be noted, however, that separate Federal Register notices
may be published to enable HRSA to respond to unanticipated issues in
the health services arena, or to comply with specific Congressional
directives.
For each program, the Preview provides a description of the program
category, applicant eligibility, the application deadline, projected
award date, the amount of funds available, funding priorities and/or
preferences, and the phone number to obtain additional information on
specific funding categories. Additionally, the Preview identifies a set
of generic review criteria which represents HRSA's overall approach to
competitive application review. Included in the individual application
package are the final review criteria specific to each program
category.
We are confident that this new approach to advertising funding
opportunities will facilitate easy access to HRSA's program information
and grant materials.
Thank you for working in partnership with HRSA as we seek together
to improve the health status of our citizens.
HRSA's Program Priorities
Academic and Community Partnerships in Health Care Professions
Education
Training the next generation of health professionals through
academic partnerships with communities, moving clinical education
beyond hospital wards and into neighborhood sites.
Managed Care
Bringing poor, uninsured, rural and chronically ill people into the
mainstream of managed care.
Administrative Simplification and Program Management
Improving services to our customers--the recipients of HRSA's
programmatic efforts--by streamlining and consolidating administrative
functions, developing and implementing automated systems, and assuring
that the field offices are full partners.
State and Community Relationships
Working with States to better serve all populations, especially
those unserved or underserved by the private health care system.
Community Infrastructure
Empowering communities to meet their own health care needs building
coalitions of physicians, hospitals, clinics, health departments and
residents to test, evaluate and replicate models of cooperative care.
Integrated HIV/AIDS Programs
Enhancing services provided through the Ryan White CARE Act for
vulnerable populations including people living with HIV/AIDS.
School and Adolescent Health
Helping schools to keep children and adolescents healthy.
Border Health
Safeguarding the health of populations in the 51 U.S. counties
along the U.S./Mexico border.
How To Obtain and Use the Preview
It is highly recommended that you carefully read the introductory
materials, terminology section and individual program category
descriptions before contacting the general number 1-888-333-HRSA.
Likewise, we urge applicants to fully assess their eligibility for
grants before requesting kits. This will greatly facilitate our ability
to assist you in placing your name on the mailing list, and identifying
the appropriate application kit(s), or other information you may wish
to obtain.
To Obtain a Copy of the Preview: To have your name and address
added to, or deleted from the Preview mailing list, please call the
toll free number 1-888 *-333-HRSA. (* Call operator if experiencing
difficulty)
E-mail Address: [email protected]
To Obtain an Application Kit: Upon review of the program
descriptions, please determine which category or categories of
application kit or kits you wish to receive, and contact the 1-888-333-
HRSA number to register on the specific mailing list. If kits are
already available, they will be mailed to you right away.
World Wide Web Access: The Preview is available on the HRSA Home
Page via World Wide Web at http://www.hrsa.dhhs.gov. Application
materials are currently available for downloading in the current cycle
for some HRSA programs. HRSA's goal is to post application forms and
materials for all programs in future cycles.
Grant Terminology
Authorizations: These are provided immediately preceding groupings
of program categories. They are the citations of provisions of the laws
authorizing the various programs.
Application Deadlines: Applications will be considered ``on time''
if they are either received on or before the established deadline date
or sent on or before the deadline date given in the program
announcement or in the application kit materials, unless they arrive
too late for orderly processing.
CFDA Number: The relevant Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
number for the program category or categories listed. The CFDA is a
government-wide compendium of Federal programs, projects, services, and
activities which provide assistance or benefits to the American public.
Cooperative Agreement: A financial assistance mechanism to be used
in lieu of a grant when substantial Federal programmatic involvement
with the recipient during performance is anticipated by the PHS
awarding office.
Eligibility: Authorizing legislation and government programmatic
regulations specify eligibility for individual grant
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programs. In general, assistance is provided to nonprofit organizations
and institutions, governments and their agencies, and occasionally to
individuals. For-profit organizations are eligible to receive awards
under financial assistance programs unless specifically excluded by
legislation.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Special priorities or
preferences which the individual programs have identified for the
funding cycle. For example, some programs give preference to
organizations which have specific capabilities such as telemedicine
networking, or established relationships with managed care
organizations, and a preference may be given to either new or competing
continuation applications.
Matching funds: Several HRSA categories require a matching amount
or percentage of the total project support to come from sources other
than Federal funds. Matching requirements are generally mandated in the
authorizing legislation for specific categories and may be
administratively required by the awarding office.
Review Criteria:
The following are generic review criteria applicable to HRSA
programs:
* That the estimated cost to the Government of the project is
reasonable considering the anticipated results.
* That project personnel or prospective fellows are well qualified
by training and/or experience for the support sought and the applicant
organization, or the organization to provide training to a fellow, has
adequate facilities and manpower.
* That, insofar as practicable, the proposed activities (scientific
or other), if well executed, are capable of attaining project
objectives.
* That the project objectives are identical with or are capable of
achieving the specific program objectives defined in the program
announcement.
The specific review criteria used to review and rank applications
are reflected in the individual guidance material provided with the
application kits. Applicants should pay strict attention to addressing
these criteria as they are the formal basis upon which their
applications will be judged.
HRSA Program Competition in 1997--Primary Health Care Programs
Community and Migrant Health Centers
Authorization: Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act, 42
U.S.C. 254b.
Purpose: To extend preventive and primary health services to
populations currently without such services and to improve the health
status of medically underserved individuals by supporting the
establishment of new health centers and/or new health centers service
delivery sites for existing health centers.
Eligibility: Public and private non-profit entities. Eligible
applicants for health center expansions must be current recipients of
Community and/or Migrant Health Center funding.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of Competition: $15,000,000 with applications
selected so that the ratio of new users from rural areas to new users
from urban areas is not less than 2 to 3, nor greater than 3 to 2.
Estimated Number of Awards: Approximately 30.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Special consideration will
be given to applicants that: (1) Propose to serve a designated
Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community; (2) propose to train and/or hire
former welfare recipients as part of the service delivery plan; (3) are
a part of a developing or operating health center managed care network
or plan in States with established or developing Medicaid managed care
programs; (4) have a demonstrated capacity and ability to provide
required primary health services under Section (b) of this act; or (5)
are in a State that does not currently have any grantees receiving
support under Section (g) of this Act for migratory and/or seasonal
agricultural workers, if applying to serve migratory and/or season
agricultural workers. Special consideration will also be given to
organizations proposing to serve sparsely populated rural areas.
Projected Award Date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 06/01/97.
Application Availability: 03/97.
CFDA Numbers: 93.224 and 93.246.
Health Care for the Homeless
Authorization: Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act, 42
U.S.C. 254b.
Purpose: Provision of primary health and substance abuse services
to homeless individuals.
Eligibility: Non-profit private organizations and public entities,
including State and local governmental agencies. Grantees and
organizations with whom they may contract for services under this
program must have an agreement with a State under its Medicaid program.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of Competition: $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 3 to 5.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: (1) Applicants located in
those States and other distinct geographic areas (e.g., cities,
counties) which have not previously received Health Care for the
Homeless funds, and/or (2) applicants who have demonstrated unmet need
for services in communities on the U.S./Mexico border with large
numbers of homeless individuals and families.
Projected Award Date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 06/16/97.
Application Availability: 03/97.
CFDA Number: 93.151.
Grants to States for Loan Repayment Programs
Authorization: Section 338I of the Public Health Service Act, 42
U.S.C. 254q-1.
Purpose: To assist States in repayment of educational loans to
health professionals in return for their practice in federally
designated health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) to increase the
availability of primary health services in such areas. States must
provide adequate assurance that they will provide not less than $1 for
each $1 of Federal funds provided in the grant. The Federal and State
funds will be used only for loan repayments for health professionals
who have entered into contracts with States. No other federal funds may
be utilized to meet the required State cash contribution.
Eligibility: Any State. These programs must be administered by a
State agency.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of Competition: $3,000,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 14.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: None.
Projected Award Date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 05/01/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.165.
Ryan White Title III Planning Grants
Authorization: Subparts II and III of Part C of Title XXVI of the
Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 300ff-54(c).
Purpose: To support the activities of a planning process that
prepares organizations and communities to offer comprehensive HIV
primary care services. To assist organizations and communities to
prepare for a higher quality and broader scope of HIV primary care for
a greater number of people in their service area who are HIV infected
or at risk. Planning activities, leading to the establishment of HIV
primary care services, must address the
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requirements of the Ryan White Early Intervention Services Program.
This grant is not an operational grant and does not support the care of
patients.
Eligibility: Non-profit private and public entities, including
local government agencies, that are not currently grant recipients of
the Ryan White Title III program.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of Competition: $650,000, with a limit of $50,000
per award.
Estimated Number of Awards: Up to 13.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Applicants proposing to
serve a rural or underserved community where emerging or ongoing HIV
issues have not been adequately addressed.
Projected Award Date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 05/16/97.
Application Availability: 03/97.
CFDA Number: 93.918.
Grants to States for Community Scholarship Programs
Authorization: Section 338L of the Public Health Service Act, 42
U.S.C. 254t.
Purpose: To assist States to increase the availability of primary
health care in urban and rural federally designated health professional
shortage areas by assisting public or private non-profit community
organizations to provide scholarships for education of individuals to
serve as health professionals in these communities. States seeking
support must agree (directly or through donations from public or
private non-profit entities) that 60% of the total costs of the
scholarships will be paid from non-federal contributions made in cash
by the State and community organization. The State must make available
through cash contributions not less than 15% nor more than 25% of the
costs. The community organization must make available not less than 35%
nor more than 45% of the costs. These grants funds will be expended
only for scholarships to qualified residents of the communities to
become health professionals. No other federal funds may be used to meet
the State and community share of costs.
Eligibility: Any State is eligible to apply. For purposes of this
notice, the term ``State'' means each of the several States including
the District of Columbia. These programs must be administered by a
single State agency.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of Competition: $340,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 12.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: None.
Projected Award Date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 05/15/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.931.
Maternal and Child Health Programs
Genetic Services
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
*Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3--(a) With the exception of training
and research, as described in paragraph (b) of this section, any public
or private entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal organization (as
those terms are defined at 25 U.S.C. 450b) is eligible to apply for
Federal funding under this Part. (b) Only public or nonprofit private
institutions of higher learning may apply for training grants. Only
public or nonprofit institutions of higher learning and public or
private non-profit agencies engaged in research or in program relating
to maternal and child health and/or services for children with special
health care needs may apply for grants, contracts or cooperative
agreements for research in maternal and child health services or in
services for children with special health care needs.
Purpose: To improve the quality, availability, accessibility and
utilization of genetic services as an integral component of
comprehensive maternal and child health care. Grants will be awarded
competitively to support projects on priority topics specified below.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $3,600,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 21.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Priority topics for
projects include: (1) Genetics in primary care; (2) genetic services
networks; (3) comprehensive care for Cooley's Anemia; (4) genetic
services for populations with ethnocultural barriers to care; (5)
comprehensive care for infants with Sickle Cell disease identified
through State newborn screening programs; and (6) genetics in managed
care.
Projected Award date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 04/28/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110A.
Managed Care Policy and Children with Special Health Care Needs
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To support a national policy center to implement
strategic planning to assure the availability and accessibility of
comprehensive, community-based, culturally competent, and family-
centered care to CSHCN and their families in a managed care
environment.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $375,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 1.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Preference will be given to
organizations with proven national experience and an existing
infrastructure for policy analysis at the national level on issues
related to chronic care in the emerging managed care system.
Projected Award date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 04/11/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110C.
Integrated Services for Children With Special Health Care Needs
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To demonstrate innovative and nationally replicable
models of community-based services in two areas: (1) Reduction of
barriers to service integration for young children with special health
care needs and their families; (2) Promoting the accessibility of
``medical homes'' (i.e., ongoing source of health/medical care) for
CSHCN and their families through family/professional partnerships.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $900,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 8-10.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Preference will be given to
public and private community-based providers and programs; community/
State agency partnerships; and community coalitions.
Projected Award Date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 05/16/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110F.
Partnership for Information and Communications
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To enhance communication between the Maternal and Child
Health Bureau and governmental, professional and private organizations
representing leaders and policy makers concerned with issues related to
maternal and
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child health. It facilitates dissemination of new maternal and child
health related information of these policy and decision makers and
provides those individuals and organizations with a means of
communicating issues directly to the Maternal and Child Health program
and to each other.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $1,100,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 5.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: For FY 1997, preference for
funding will be given to national membership organizations representing
State Governors and their staffs; State Health Officers; nonprofit and
for-profit managed care organizations; and coalitions of organizations
promoting the health of mothers and infants.
Projected Award date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 04/15/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110G.
State Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Support Centers
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To support State MCH agencies, or their designees, to
stimulate and promote Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Programs in
communities in order to enhance needs assessment and quality
improvement efforts. Projects will support training and technical
assistance activities that would be targeted to the particular needs
within the State.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3*.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $600,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 5.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Preference for funding will
be given to Title V programs or their designees. Projected Award date:
09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 05/13/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110I.
Health, Mental Health and Safety for Schools
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to support a
process that will result in development of advisory guidelines for
assuring basic health and safety in Kindergarten-12 grade school
settings. The standards will be developed through a consensus process,
which relies upon exchanges among groups of experts in specific topical
areas to determine the state of the science and art. The guidelines
will consolidate the best features of the array of guidelines,
recommendations, and standards presently in existence.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $200,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 1.
Funding Priorities and or Preferences: Preference for funding will
be given to organizations which have credibility in the education
community and the capacity to address all aspects of health services,
health education, and injury and violence prevention in the school
environment.
Projected Award date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 06/03/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110M.
Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To involve organizations having an historic interest in
adolescent health in developing the programming of HRSA's Office of
Adolescent Health (OAH). The OAH will collaborate with these
organizations in seeking policy guidance from and providing
programmatic information to their memberships.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $100,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 1.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: For FY 1997, preference for
funding will be given to national membership organizations representing
the professional discipline of nursing. Other professional disciplines
may be the focus of future competitions.
Projected Award date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 06/17/97
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110N.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome(SIDS) and Other Infant Death (OID) Program
Support Center
Authorization: Title V of the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C.
701.
Purpose: This cooperative agreement will fund population-based
activities (e.g., systems analysis, epidemiology, health promotion) in
support of development of community-based services to reduce as much as
possible the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Other
Infant Deaths (OID), to appropriately support families when an infant
death does occur, and will analyze standardized information about
infant deaths in the hope of discovering factors which can be
ameliorated to reduce the risk of a future infant death.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $350,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 1.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: None.
Projected Award date: 06/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 04/18/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110O.
Health and Safety in Child Care Settings
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: This cooperative agreement supports the development and
implementation of State-based programs to expand the number of public
(public health nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, nutritionists,
dentists, mental health providers, and others) and private sector
(managed care supported outreach staff and others) health professionals
trained to serve as health care consultants to child care programs.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $175,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 1.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: None.
Projected Award date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 06/03/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110P.
Data Utilization and Enhancement for State/Community Infrastructure
Building and Managed Care
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To enable State MCH and CSHCN programs to enhance the use
of qualitative and quantitative analytic methods in local program
solving for MCH populations. Awards are intended to supplement or
complement existing data utilization activities and to foster and
strengthen continuing collaboration among State and local public health
agencies, private sector efforts and academic institutions.
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Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $1,000,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 15-17.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Special consideration will
be given to proposals seeking to identify and track emerging issues
resulting from health care structural, financial, and demographic
changes (e.g., health care and welfare reform, managed care waivers,
population income shifts, etc.).
Projected Award date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 06/30/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110U.
Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C 701.
Purpose: To improve access to health services and utilize
preventive strategies. The initiative encourages additional support
from the private sector and from foundations to form community-based
partnerships to coordinate health resources for pregnant women, infants
and children. Proposals are invited in the following program areas: (1)
Local initiatives that are community-based, family-centered,
comprehensive and culturally relevant and improve access to health
services for infants, children, adolescents, or children with special
health care needs (CSHCN), and (2) initiatives which show evidence of a
capability to meet cost participation goals by securing funds for the
second and sequential years of the project.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $500,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 10.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: In the interest of equitable
geographic distribution, special consideration for funding will be
given to projects from States without a currently funded project in
this category. These States are cited in the application guidance.
Projected Award date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 04/17/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110V.
Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS) Research Grants
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To support research on CISS-sponsored early intervention
services programs within the context of developing and expanding local
service delivery systems. The intent is to generate new knowledge on
early intervention services models and on how to integrate these models
into existing systems of care at the community level while sustaining
the essential nature and demonstrated effectiveness of the original
prototypes.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are included in the application
kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $600,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 2.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: None.
Projected Award date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 07/01/97.
Application Availability: 01/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110AN.
Maternal and Child Health Provider Partnership Cooperative Agreement
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To support an effort to encourage private sector
involvement and strengthen private-public partnerships to restructure
and improve perinatal health services in communities and states and to
improve coordination of an access to community health resources for
women of reproductive age and infants. The awardee will be expected to
analyze the current circumstances and obstacles to providers in the
delivery of maternal and infant health services, develop strategies to
improve maternal and infant health status and service systems through
collaboration with national and state public health organizations, and
disseminate and communicate concerns and information pertaining to the
issues and strategies employed to their members and to other national
organizations.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $200,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 1.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Preference for funding will
be given to national membership organizations representing providers of
obstetrical and gynecological services.
Projected Award date: 09/97.
Contact Person: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 05/13/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110AP.
Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS)--Local/State Community
Organization Grants
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To support community organization activities in two areas:
(1) Local level agencies; and (2) State MCH agencies. Funds may be used
to hire staff to assist in consortium building and to function as
community organizers, to help formulate a plan for integrated services
systems, to obtain and/or provide technical assistance, and to convene
community or State networking meetings for information dissemination
and replication of systems integration programs.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $1,000,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 20.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: (1) Preference for funding
of local level agencies will be given to local communities. In the
interest of equitable geographical distribution, special consideration
for funding will be given to projects from communities without a
currently-funded CISS project. (2) Preference for State Community
Organization Grants will be given to State MCH agencies.
Projected Award date: 09/97.
Contact 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 04/30/97.
Application Availability: 01/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110AR.
Maternal and Child Health Research Cycle
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To encourage research in maternal and child health which
has the potential for ready transfer of findings to health care
delivery programs. Of special interest are projects that address
factors and processes that lead to disparities in health-status and the
use of services among minority and other disadvantaged groups as well
as health promoting behaviors, quality outcome measures, and system/
integration reform.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $1,900,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 12.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Within the issues/questions
comprising the research agenda, preference for funding will be given to
projects which: (1) seek to develop measures of racism
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and/or study its consequences for the health of mothers and children;
(2) investigate the role that fathers play in caring for and nurturing
the health, growth, and development of children; and (3) address the
factors and processes that enhance the quality, safety, access, and
effectiveness of health care services provided to mothers and newborns,
especially in light of the impact of managed care.
Projected Award date: 07/97 and 12/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 03/01/97 and 08/01/97.
Application Availability: 02/97 and 06/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110RS.
Long Term Training in Adolescent Health
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To provide interdisciplinary leadership training for
several professional disciplines at the graduate and postgraduate
levels to prepare them for leadership roles in training for, research
on, or development of organized systems for delivery of services in
programs providing adolescent health care.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $2,200,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 6.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Applications are encouraged
from Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine of accredited U.S.
Medical Schools or certain pediatric teaching hospitals having formal
affiliations with schools of medicine.
Projected Award date: 07/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 03/21/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110TA.
Long Term Training in Behavioral Pediatrics
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To enhance behavioral, psychosocial and developmental
aspects of general pediatric care through support for fellows preparing
for academic leadership roles in behavioral pediatrics and to provide
pediatric practitioners, residents, and medical students with essential
biopsychosocial knowledge and clinical expertise.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $1,000,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 8.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Applications are encouraged
from Departments of pediatrics with an identifiable behavioral
pediatrics unit/program within accredited medical schools in the United
States.
Projected Award date: 07/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 03/21/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110TB.
Long Term Training in Communication Disorders
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C 701.
Purpose: To provide leadership in communication disorders education
through support of: (1) Graduate training of speech/language
pathologists and/or audiologists to assume leadership roles in programs
providing health and related services for populations of children,
particularly those with special health care needs; (2) development and
dissemination of curriculum resources to enhance pediatric content in
communication disorders training programs; and (3) consultation
technical assistance and continuing education in communication disorder
geared to the needs of the MCH community.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $400,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 3.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Applications are encouraged
from departments or programs of audiology, communication disorders or
speech and language pathology in institutions of higher learning that
offer a graduate degree and are accredited for graduate education by
the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Council on
Academic Accreditation.
Projected Award date: 07/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 03/14/97.
Application Availability: 01/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110TC.
Long Term Training in Pediatric Dentistry
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To provide leadership in pediatric dentistry education
through support of: (1) postdoctoral training of dentists in the
primary care specialty of pediatric dentistry to assume leadership
roles related to oral health programs for populations of children,
particularly those with special health care needs; (2) development and
dissemination of curriculum resources to enhance pediatric content in
dentistry training programs; and (3) consultation, technical assistance
and continuing education in pediatric dentistry geared to the needs of
the MCH community.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $400,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 3.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Applications are encouraged
from advanced education programs in pediatric dentistry accredited by
the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) at institutions which
offer graduate degrees at the Master's level and above.
Projected Award date: 07/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 03/14/97.
Application Availability: 01/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110TG.
Long Term Training in Pediatric Occupational Therapy
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To provide leadership in pediatric occupational therapy
training through support of: (1) Post-professional graduate training of
occupational therapists for leadership roles in programs providing
health and related services for populations of mothers and children,
particularly those with special health care needs; (2) development and
dissemination of curriculum resources to enhance pediatric content in
occupational therapy training programs; and (3) consultation, technical
assistance and continuing education in occupational therapy geared to
the needs of the MCH community.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $400,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 3.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Applications are encouraged
from schools or departments of occupational therapy accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE).
Preference will be given to schools/departments with a pediatric focus
or which are developing such a doctoral program.
Projected Award date: 07/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 03/14/97.
Application Availability: 01/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110TH.
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Long Term Training in Pediatric Physical Therapy
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To provide leadership in pediatric physical therapy
education through support of: (1) post-professional graduate training
of physical therapists for leadership roles in programs providing
health and related services for populations of mothers and children,
particularly those with special health care needs; (2) development and
dissemination of curriculum resources to enhance pediatric content in
physical therapy training programs; and (3) consultation, technical
assistance and continuing education in pediatric physical therapy
geared to the needs of the MCH community.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $400,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 3.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Applications are encouraged
from post-professional-level graduate degree programs for physical
therapists. Preference will be given to established doctoral programs
with a pediatric focus or to advanced masters programs with a pediatric
focus which are developing such a doctoral program.
Projected Award date: 07/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 03/14/97.
Application Availability: 01/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110TI.
Long Term Training in Public Health Social Work
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To provide leadership in public health social work
education through support of: (1) graduate training of social workers
for leadership roles in programs providing health and related services
for populations of mothers and children, including those with special
health care needs; (2) development and dissemination of curriculum
resources to enhance MCH content in social work training programs; and
(3) consultation, technical assistance and continuing education in
public health social work geared to the needs of the MCH community.
Category A programs provide a Master's degree in social work, while
category B programs provide a Master's degree in public health
following the MSW or combined with a doctoral degree in social work.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $400,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 3.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: For Category A grants,
applications are encouraged from graduate programs of social work with
a Master's Degree program which is fully accredited by the Council on
Social Work Education (CSWE), and which have a concentration in health.
For Category B grants, applications are encouraged from graduate
schools of public health accredited by the Council on Education in
Public Health (CEPH), or schools of social work (accredited by CSWE)
offering a university-approved post-MSW program in public health social
work leading to the MPH or combined MPH and PhD/DSW. The two programs
must have a formal affiliation.
Projected Award date: 07/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 03/14/97.
Application Availability: 01/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110TL.
Continuing Education and Development
Authorization: Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 701.
Purpose: To facilitate timely transfer and application of new
information, research findings, and technology related to MCH through:
1) short-term, non-degree related courses, workshops, conferences,
symposia, institutes, and distance learning strategies and/or; 2)
development of curricula, guidelines, standards of practice and
educational tools/strategies intended to assure quality health care for
the MCH population. The goal is to improve the health status of the MCH
population through enhancing the leadership capabilities and practices
of professionals in MCH and related services and through modifying the
systems that deliver services.
Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3 *.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $1,000,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 15.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: None.
Projected Award Date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 07/01/97.
Application Availability: 04/97.
CFDA Number: 93.110TO.
* Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3-(a) With the exception of
training and research, as described in paragraph (b) of this
section, any public or private entity, including an Indian tribe or
tribal organization (as those terms are defined at 25 U.S.C. 450b)
is eligible to apply for federal funding under this Part. (b) Only
public or nonprofit private institutions of higher learning may
apply for training grants. Only public or nonprofit institutions of
higher learning and public or private non-profit agencies engaged in
research or in programs relating to maternal and child health and/or
services for children with special health care needs may apply for
grants, contracts or cooperative agreements for research in maternal
and child health services or in services for children with special
health care needs.
Emergency Medical Services for Children: Implementation Grants
Authorization: Section 1910 of the Public Health Service Act, 42
U.S.C. 300w-9.
Purpose: To improve the capacity of a State's EMS program to
address the particular needs of children. Implementation grants are
used to assist States in integrating research-based knowledge and
state-of-the-art systems development approaches into the existing State
EMS, MCH, and CSHCN systems, using the experience and products of
previous EMSC grantees. Applicants are encouraged to consider
activities that (1) Address identified needs within their State EMS
system and that lay the groundwork for permanent changes in that
system; (2) develop or monitor pediatric EMS capacity; (3) will be
institutionalized within the State EMS system.
Eligibility: States and Accredited Schools of Medicine.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $1,000,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 4.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: None.
Projected Award date: 08/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 04/11/97.
Application Availability: 01/97.
CFDA Number: 93.127A.
Emergency Medical Services for Children: Planning Grants
Authorization: Section 1910 of the Public Health Service Act, 42
U.S.C. 300w-9.
Purpose: To enable a State to assess needs and develop a strategy
to begin to address those needs. Funds may be used to hire staff to
assist in the assessment of EMSC needs of the State; obtain technical
assistance from national, State, regional or local resources; help
formulate a State plan for the integration of EMSC services into the
existing State EMS plan; and plan a more comprehensive grant proposal
based upon a needs assessment performed during the planning grant
project period. The proposal should provide evidence of the State's
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improving pediatric emergency medical services and describe the method
by which applicant will identify problems, assess needs, and develop a
planning process for improving EMSC. A comprehensive approach,
addressing physical, psychological, and social aspects of EMSC along
the continuum of care, should be reflected in the proposed planning
process.
Eligibility: States and Accredited Schools of Medicine.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $100,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 2.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: None.
Projected Award date: 07/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 04/11/97.
Application Availability: 01/97.
CFDA Number: 93.127B.
Emergency Medical Services for Children: Partnership Grants
Authorization: Section 1910 of the Public Health Service Act, 42
U.S.C. 300w-9.
Purpose: To support activities that represent the next logical step
or steps to take to institutionalize EMSC within EMS and to continue to
improve and refine EMSC. Proposed activities should be consistent with
documented needs in the State and should reflect a logical progression
in enhancing pediatric capabilities. For example, funding might be used
to address problems identified in the course of a previous
implementation grant; to increase the involvement of families in EMSC;
to improve linkages between local, regional, or State agencies; to
promulgate standards developed for one region of the State under
previous funding to include the entire State; to devise a plan for
coordinating and funding poison control centers; or to assure effective
field triage of the child in physical or emotional crisis to
appropriate facilities and/or other resources.
Eligibility: States.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $1,920,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 32.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: None.
Projected Award date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 04/11/97.
Application Availability: 01/97.
CFDA Number: 93.127C.
Emergency Medical Services for Children: Targeted Issue Grants
Authorization: Section 1910 of the Public Health Service Act, 42
U.S.C. 300w-9.
Purpose: To address specific, focused issues related to the
development of EMSC knowledge and capacity, with the intent of
advancing the state of the art of creating tools or knowledge that will
be helpful nationally. Proposals must have a well-conceived methodology
for analysis and evaluation. Targeted issue priorities have been
identified based on the EMSC Five Year Plan. Proposals may be submitted
on emerging issues that are not included in the identified priorities.
However, any such proposals must demonstrate relevance to the Plan and
must make a persuasive argument that the issue is particularly
critical.
Eligibility: States and Accredited Schools of Medicine.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $1,050,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 7.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Cost-benefit analyses
related to EMSC, Implications of managed care for EMSC, Evaluations of
EMSC components, Risk-taking behaviors of children and adolescent,
Models for improving the care of culturally distinct populations,
Children's emergencies in disasters.
Projected Award date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 04/11/97.
Application Availability: 01/97.
CFDA Number: 93.127D.
Ryan White Title IV; Grants for Coordinated HIV Services and Access to
Research for Children, Youth, Women and Families
Authorization: Public Law 104-145, Title IV Ryan White CARE Act
Amendments, 42 U.S.C. 300ff-71.
Purpose: To link clinical research and other research activities
with comprehensive care systems, and to improve and expand the
coordination of a system of comprehensive care for children, youth,
women, and families who are infected/affected by HIV. Funds will be
used to support programs that: (1) Cross established systems of care to
coordinate service delivery HIV prevention efforts and clinical
research and other research activities; and (2) creatively address the
intensity of service needs high costs, and other complex barriers to
comprehensive care and research experienced by underserved, at-risk and
economically limited populations. Activities under these grants should
address the goals of: increasing client access by linking HIV/AIDS
clinical research trials and activities with comprehensive care;
fostering the development and support of comprehensive, culturally
competent, community-based and family-centered care infrastructures;
and emphasizing prevention within the care system.
Eligibility: All public and private entities, nonprofit and for
profit.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $15,500,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 23.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Preference for funding in
this category will be given to projects that have: (1) Established and
currently support a comprehensive, coordinated, system of HIV care
serving either children, youth, women, or families; and (2) linked with
or initiated activities to link with clinical trials or other research.
Projected Award date: 08/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 04/18/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.153A.
Healthy Start Cooperative Agreements (Phase II)
Authorization: Section 301 of the Public Health Service Act, and
Public Law 104-208, 42 U.S.C. 241(a).
Purpose: To operationalize successful infant mortality reduction
strategies developed during the demonstration phase and to launch
Healthy Start projects in new rural and urban communities (i.e.,
communities currently without a HSI-funded project). Competition is
open to community-based entities interested in replicating or adapting
existing Healthy Start models. All new HSI communities will be required
to receive mentoring from one or more existing HSI projects.
Eligibility: Public or nonprofit private organizations, or tribal
and other nonprofit organizations representing American Indians, Native
Hawaiians, or Pacific Islanders, applying as or on behalf of an
existing community-based consortium, and have infant mortality
reduction initiatives already underway. In the case of applications
with overlapping project areas or more than one applicant for the same
project area, only one applicant will be considered for funding.
Applicants must be in partnership with a current Consortium which has
been: a) In operation at least the last two years prior to the date of
application, and, b) involved in MCH activities (e.g. health fairs,
support groups) in the project area. A consortium which has organized
as community-based organization may
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apply if it has demonstrable management and administrative experience.
New communities targeted under Healthy Start-Phase II are those in
which infant mortality problems are most severe, resources can be
concentrated, implementation is manageable, and progress can be
measured. A project area is defined as a geographic area for which
improvements have been planned and are being implemented. A project
area must represent a reasonable and logical catchment area. The
project consortium's responsibility for this catchment area includes
the provision of ongoing advice to and oversight of the delivery of
project services for the duration of the project period. Proposed
activities should incorporate the Healthy Start principles of
innovation, community commitment and involvement, increased access,
service integration, and personal responsibility. Applicants are
eligible for funding under Healthy Start Phase-II if, for the baseline
three-year period 1991-1993, the proposed project area had the
following verifiable characteristics:
An average infant mortality rate of at least 12.9 deaths per
1,000 live births, from vital statistics data, and at least three of
the following:
--A percentage of births to teens which exceeded the national
average of 5.0 percent of live births;
--A percentage of low birthweight births which exceeded the national
average of 7.1 percent of live births;
--A rate of postneonatal mortality which exceeded the national
average of 3.6 per 1,000 live births;
--A percentage of children under 18 with family incomes below the
Federal Poverty level which exceeded the national average of 19.9%
for 1990. (Federal Register dated 3/6/97).
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $54,000,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 30.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Preference for funding will
be given to an approved applicant to achieve an equitable national
geographic distribution across all States and territories.
Projected Award date: 08/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 04/15/97.
Application Availability: 01/97.
CFDA Number: 93.926B.
Traumatic Brain Injury Demonstration Grants
Authorization: Section 1252 of the Public Health Service Act, 42
U.S.C. 300d-52 et seq.
Purpose: Category 1, State Planning Grants--Planning grants are
intended to support the development of core capacity components for
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) services. Category 2, State Implementation
Grants--Implementation grants are intended for States to have the core
capacity components in place. These grants will support activities that
represent the next logical step(s) in building a Statewide system to
assure access to comprehensive and coordinated TBI services.
Eligibility: Only State governments are eligible for funding under
the TBI demonstration grant program.
Evaluation Criteria: Category 1: The composition of the Board;
commitments from all identified organizations or individuals;
organizational and meeting arrangements; the adequacy of the State's
proposed method for developing a Statewide needs assessment; the
adequacy of the State's proposed method for linking its plan of action
to the findings of the Statewide needs assessment; involvement of
necessary public/private organizations and agencies to assure a
comprehensive approach; the qualifications and experience established
for the designated lead person for TBI; and, the reasonableness of the
budget. Category 2: The adequacy of proposed methodology to assure full
core capacity; the relevance of the goals and objectives to the
identified needs assessment; and the adequacy of the plan for
organizing and carrying out the project; involvement and participation
of TBI survivors, families, and organizations; collaboration and
coordination among the entities in the TBI continuum; project
involvement in multidisciplinary and multisystem approach to TBI
development; and sustainability of the proposed project. Matching
requirement: Non-Federal cash contributions of not less than $1.00 for
each $2.00 of Federal funds required.
Estimated Amount of the Competition: $2,800,000.00.
Number of Expected Awards: 23.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: None.
Projected Award Date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 05/30/97.
Application Availability: 02/97.
CFDA Number: 93.TBA-1.
Rural Health Programs
Rural Outreach, Network Development Grant Program
Authorization: Public Law 104-299, The Health Centers Consolidation
Act of 1996, 42 U.S.C. 254b.
Purpose: To expand access to, coordinate, restrain the cost of, and
improve the quality of essential health care services, including
preventive and emergency services, through development of integrated
health care delivery systems or networks in rural areas and regions.
Funds are available for projects to support the direct delivery of
health care and related services, to expand existing services, or to
enhance health service delivery through education, promotion, and
prevention programs. The emphasis is on the actual delivery of specific
services rather than the development of organizational capabilities.
Projects may be carried out by networks of the same providers (e.g. all
hospitals) or more diversified networks. Funds are also available to
support planning and development of vertically integrated health care
networks in rural areas. Vertically integrated networks must be
composed of three or more separate providers. There must be a
memorandum of agreement or other formal arrangement between members of
a network.
Eligibility: Rural public or nonprofit private organizations that
include three or more health care providers or other entities that
provide or support the delivery of health care services. The
administrative headquarters of the organizations must be located in a
rural county or in a rural census tract or an urban county, or an
organization constituted exclusively to provide services to migrant and
seasonal farm workers in rural areas and supported under Section 330G
of the Public Health Service Act. These organizations are eligible
regardless of the urban or rural location of the administrative
headquarters.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimate amount of competition: $16,000,000.
Number of expected awards: 80.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Funding preference may be
given to applicant networks that include: (1) A majority of the health
care providers serving in the area or region to be served by the
network; (2) any federally qualified health centers, rural health
clinics, and local public health departments serving in the area or
region; (3) outpatient mental health providers serving in the area or
region; or (4) appropriate social service providers, such as agencies
on aging, school systems, and providers under the WIC program, to
improve access to and coordination of health care services.
Projected award date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
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Application Deadline: 03/31/97.
Application Availability: 12/96.
CFDA Number: 93.912.
Telemedicine Network
Authorization: Pub. L. 104-299, The Health Centers Consolidation
Act of 1996, 42 U.S.C. 254b.
Purpose: To demonstrate how telemedicine can be used as a tool in
developing integrated systems of health care, improving access to
health services for rural citizens and reducing the isolation of rural
health care practitioners, and to collect information for the
systematic evaluation of the feasibility, costs, appropriateness and
acceptability of rural telemedicine. Grantees may not use in excess of
40% of their federal grant funds each year for the purchase or lease
and installation of equipment (i.e., equipment used inside the health
care facility for providing telemedicine services such as codecs,
cameras, monitors, computers, multiplezers, etc.). Grantees may not use
federal funds to purchase or install transmission equipment (i.e.,
microwave towers, satellite dishes, amplifiers, or laying of telephone
or cable lines). Grantees may not use federal funds to build or acquire
real property or for construction, except to the extent that such funds
are used for minor renovations related to the installation of
telemedicine equipment. No more than 20% of the amounts provided under
the grants can be used to pay for the indirect costs associated with
carrying out the activities under the grant.
Eligibility: In general, any public (non-federal) or private-
nonprofit entity that is: (1) A health care provider and a member of an
existing or proposed telemedicine network, or (2) a consortium of
providers that are members of an existing or proposed telemedicine
network. The applicant must be a legal entity capable of receiving
federal grant funds. The applicant may be located in either a rural or
urban area. Other telemedicine network members may be public or
private, nonprofit or for-profit. Health facilities operated by a
federal agency may be members of the network but not the applicant. A
telemedicine network shall, at a minimum, be composed of a multi-
specialty entity that is located in an urban or rural area, which can
provide 24-hour-a-day access to a range of specialty care services, and
at least two rural health care facilities, which may include rural
hospitals (fewer than 100 staffed beds), rural physician offices, rural
health clinics, rural community health clinics and rural nursing homes.
Evaluation Criteria: Final criteria are reflected in the
application kit.
Estimated Amount of Competition: $4-5 Million.
Number of expected Awards: 10-14.
Funding Priorities and/or Preferences: Funding preference will be
given to applicant networks that include: (1) A majority of the health
care providers serving the area or region to be served by the network;
(2) any federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, and
local public health departments serving in the area or region; (3)
outpatient mental health providers serving in the area or region; or
(4) appropriate social service providers (e.g., agencies on aging,
school systems, and providers under the WIC program) to improve access
to, and coordination of, health care services.
Projected Award Date: 09/97.
Contact: 1-888-333-HRSA.
Application Deadline: 06/97.
Application Availability: 04/97.
CFDA Number: 93.211.
[FR Doc. 97-10335 Filed 4-21-97; 8:45 am]
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