Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA) Program, 9320-9329 [05-3633]

Agencies

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 37 (Friday, February 25, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9320-9329]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3633]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through 
Alliances (DELTA) Program

    Announcement Type: New.
    Funding Opportunity Number: RFA 05039.
    Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.136.
    Key Dates:
    Application Deadline: April 26, 2005.

I. Funding Opportunity Description

    Authority: U.S. Code Title 42 Chapter 110 Section 10418 
Demonstration Grants for Community Initiatives.

    Background: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): The long-term (10+ 
years) health impact of the Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement 
and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA) Program is a reduction in the 
incidence (i.e., number of new cases) of IPV in

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communities that receive DELTA funding and support. The definition of 
IPV that informs the DELTA Program derives from two CDC publications 
Intimate Partner Violence Surveillance: Uniform Definitions and 
Recommended Data Elements (Saltzman, Fanslow, McMahon, & Shelley, 1999) 
and the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 49 (2000). Specifically, 
these definitions define IPV as including physical violence, sexual 
violence, threats of physical or sexual violence, psychological/
emotional abuse and stalking. The types of intimate partnerships 
included are current spouses, former spouses, current non-marital 
partners, and former non-marital partners. There is no minimum time 
requirement for a relationship to be considered an intimate partner 
relationship as first dates and long-term boyfriend and girlfriend 
relationships are included under the term non-marital partners. 
Additionally, being an intimate partner does not require current 
cohabitation or sexual activities between two individuals. Intimate 
partners may also be of the same-sex or opposite sex. Many 
practitioners and researchers use the term domestic violence rather 
than the term intimate partner violence to refer to the same public 
health problem. However, the DELTA Program uses the term intimate 
partner violence to clarify that this program does not address other 
public health problems that are also referred to as domestic violence 
(i.e., child abuse and elder abuse by relatives other than an intimate 
partner).
    Research has indicated that IPV exists on a continuum from episodic 
violence to battering (Johnson, 1995). Battering IPV occurs when one 
partner seeks to develop and maintain power and control over the other 
partner, while episodic violence occurs with less frequency and 
intensity than battering IPV, and does not include one partner seeking 
to develop and maintain power and control over the other partner. DELTA 
seeks to address the entire continuum of IPV, not just the type of IPV 
referred to as battering.
    The magnitude of the public health problem of IPV in the United 
States can be understood in terms of fatalities and assaults. The 
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (2001) Supplemental Homicide 
Reports indicate that in 1999 more than 1,600 women and men died at the 
hands of an intimate partner. Of these homicides, more than 1,200 or 75 
percent were women. The IPV homicides represented 10.6 percent of all 
homicides in the United States, 32.1 percent of all female homicides, 
and 3.6 percent of all male homicides that year. In terms of nonfatal 
assaults, Tjaden and Thoennes (2000) estimate, based on data from the 
National Violence Against Women Survey, 25 million women and 7 million 
men have experienced an IPV assault at some point in their lives, where 
IPV assault includes physical assaults, rape and stalking behavior.
    Coordinated Community Responses (CCR): Initial efforts to address 
IPV in the United States focused on developing stand-alone 
interventions such as battered women's shelters, protective order 
projects, and mandatory arrest policies (American Prosecutors Research 
Institute & National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, 
1998). The lack of coordination among stand-alone projects often had 
the unintended consequence of decreasing rather than increasing a 
victim's safety. For instance, a pro-arrest policy by a police 
department might be undermined by a lack of pro-prosecution policy by 
the prosecutor's office. In this case, the perpetrator may use violence 
against his partner with the knowledge that he will experience the 
minor consequence of arrest and a night in jail rather than the more 
severe consequence of long-term probation and/or prison as the 
prosecutor will refuse to prosecute the case. Accordingly, in the late 
1970s and early 1980s the CCR model, or local IPV coordinating 
coalition, was developed to coordinate a community's public and private 
IPV intervention resources and services. The CCR definition that 
informs the DELTA Program is: an organized effort, representing diverse 
service sectors (e.g., public health, victim services and law 
enforcement, faith) and populations of a local community, to prevent 
and intervene in IPV. CCRs work to integrate prevention and 
intervention strategies and services through increased communications, 
cooperation, and coordination between participating service sector and 
populations. A CCR may be formally organized (i.e., operating as a 
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization or as a government council) or 
informally organized (i.e. operating without legal status as a group of 
concerned citizens). Task forces, coordinating councils, and coalitions 
operating within a defined geographical area to coordinate services 
that prevent or intervene in IPV are considered to be CCRs.
    Prevention: As noted above, when developed two decades ago, CCRs 
were initially organized to coordinate local community IPV intervention 
services. Today, they still maintain a focus on intervening in IPV or 
reducing the number of re-assaults, rather than preventing IPV from 
initially occurring. Thus, the DELTA Program seeks to integrate 
prevention principles, concepts and practices into local CCRs that 
address IPV, such that the incidence of IPV (i.e., number of new cases) 
is reduced. These prevention principles, concepts and practices include 
the following:
     Preventing first-time perpetration and first-time 
victimization,
     Reducing risk-factors associated with IPV perpetration or 
victimization,
     Promoting protective-factors that reduce the likelihood of 
IPV perpetration or victimization,
     Evidence-based prevention program planning,
     Use of behavior and social change theories in prevention 
program planning,
     Addressing all levels of the social ecology (i.e. 
individual, relationship, community, and society) in prevention program 
planning and evaluation,
     Evaluating prevention programs and activities and using 
results to inform future prevention plans, programs and activities.
    DELTA Structure: To develop the DELTA Program structure, the 
research literature on community coalitions and CCRs was reviewed. 
Specifically, Florin, Mitchell and Stevenson (1993) note that when 
there are multiple local coalitions addressing the same health issue 
within the same state, an organization, known as an intermediary 
organization, is needed. An organization with statewide reach and 
influence is needed to provide these local coalitions with training, 
individualized technical assistance, and funding in order to support 
their development and adoption of state-of-the-field practices. In the 
case of DELTA, an intermediary organization is needed to provide 
training, technical assistance and funding to CCRs to support their 
adoption of state-of-the-field IPV prevention principles, concepts and 
practices. Thus, the DELTA Program seeks to fund one nonprofit 
organization per state to provide prevention-focused training, 
technical assistance, and funding to local CCRs throughout its state. 
As CDC's environmental scan of CCRs operating in 14 states revealed 
that most CCRs are not formally organized, a local nonprofit 
organization in each community will act as the fiscal agent to receive 
local DELTA funding that will support the local CCR's adoption of 
prevention practices, concepts and practices. In order to receive DELTA 
funding, cooperative agreement applicants must have at least 18 months 
experience in providing prevention focused training and technical 
assistance to, and at least 12 months monitoring and funding of local 
CCRs,

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as this RFA is not intended to support initial capacity building in 
these areas. Local fiscal agents and their respective CCRs are required 
to have at least 12 months of prevention program planning experience, 
as this RFA is not intended to support initial prevention program 
planning capacity-building efforts at the local level.
    The structure of the DELTA Program requires applicants to contract 
with an evaluator. This evaluator will be expected to cooperate with 
the CDC's cross-site evaluator, adhere to the steps and terminology in 
the CDC's publication ``Framework for Program Evaluation in Public 
Health,'' and work from an ``empowerment evaluation'' framework to:
     Assist in the development of the state-level Intimate 
Partner Progress Report and Prevention Plan.
     Assist local fiscal agents and their CCRs in their 
development of an Intimate Partner Violence Progress Report and 
Prevention Plan.
     Increase state and local capacity regarding evidence-based 
planning, use of behavior change and social change theories, and 
evaluation by teaching and supporting DELTA participants in the use of 
these concepts as they develop their Intimate Partner Violence Progress 
Report and Prevention Plan.
     Leave an infrastructure of training materials, databases, 
report templates, data collection protocols, etc. such that state and 
local levels are poised to update their Intimate Partner Violence 
Progress Report and Prevention Plan on a bi-annual basis.
    Purpose: The purpose of the DELTA program is to integrate 
prevention principles, concepts and practices into local CCRs that 
address IPV, such that the incidence of IPV (i.e., number of new cases) 
is reduced. This program addresses the ``Healthy People 2010'' focus 
area(s) of Injury and Violence Prevention.
    Measurable outcomes of the program will be in alignment with the 
following performance goal for the National Center for Injury 
Prevention and Control (NCIPC): Increase the capacity of injury 
prevention and control programs to address prevention of injuries and 
violence.
    This announcement is only for non-research activities supported by 
CDC/ATSDR. If research is proposed, the application will not be 
reviewed. For the definition of research, please see the CDC Web site 
at the following Internet address: https://www.cdc.gov/od/ads/
opspoll1.htm.
    Activities:
    Awardee activities for this program are as follows:
    Activities to build capacity in local CCRs:
     Provide prevention-focused training, technical assistance 
and funding to local CCRs and their fiscal agents. Prevention-focused 
training and technical assistance may be provided to local CCRs and 
other local programs that are not direct beneficiaries of DELTA Program 
funding, but this training and technical assistance should not divert 
resources from full support of CCRs and their fiscal agents that 
receive DELTA support. Prevention-focused training and technical 
assistance should meet the definition of prevention principles, 
concepts and practices listed in Section I.
     Provide training and technical assistance to local CCRs 
and their fiscal agents on the topics of community organization, CCR 
development and maintenance, and strategic planning. This type of 
training and technical assistance may be provided to local CCRs and 
other local programs that are not direct beneficiaries of DELTA Program 
funding, but this training and technical assistance should not divert 
resources from the full support of CCRs and fiscal agents that receive 
DELTA support.
     Contract with an in-state evaluator to support local CCRs 
and their fiscal agents in the development of their Intimate Partner 
Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan.
     Assist and monitor local DELTA CCRs and their fiscal 
agents in the development and publication of an Intimate Partner 
Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan by March 30, 2008. The 
development of this publication is a requirement for local fiscal 
agents and local CCRs that receive DELTA Program funding. Local CCRs 
and their fiscal agents should be poised to update and revise this 
publication on a bi-annual basis as this activity is intended to 
increase the local CCR's capacity and continued use of prevention 
principles, concepts and practices, especially evidence-based planning, 
behavior change theories, and evaluation.
     Assist local fiscal agents in institutionalizing 
prevention principles, concepts and practices within their own agencies 
beyond the knowledge and skills of the staff member(s) responsible for 
the local implementation of the DELTA Program.
    Activities to build capacity within Applicant's Organization:
     Participate in training and technical assistance 
activities and opportunities directly related to the DELTA Program 
provided by CDC and training and technical assistance activities and 
opportunities indirectly related to the DELTA Program (i.e., UNC 
PREVENT) where appropriate and feasible.
     Institutionalize prevention principles, concepts and 
practices within applicant's own organization beyond the knowledge and 
skills of the DELTA Program staff member.
     Monitor progress of local CCRs and their fiscal agents 
receiving DELTA Program funding.
     Attend and participate in technical assistance and 
planning meetings coordinated by CDC for all DELTA Program cooperative 
agreement applicants.
     Compile and disseminate DELTA Program results within their 
state.
    Activities to Build Capacity Across Applicant's State:
     Organize and facilitate a DELTA Steering Committee to 
develop and publish a state-level Intimate Partner Violence Progress 
Report and Prevention Plan by June 30, 2008. The Steering committee 
should be representative of the racial, ethnic and gender diversity 
within the state. As prevention of perpetration of IPV by men is a 
priority area for the Division of Violence Prevention due to research 
indicating that the majority of IPV is perpetrated by men, the Steering 
Committee should include individuals who can inform the development and 
implementation of prevention activities and programs directed at men 
and boys. CDC considers the participation of state health department 
staff who oversee violence against women programs in the Steering 
Committee and in the development of this report as paramount.
     Contract with an in-state evaluator to support the DELTA 
Steering Committee in the development of the state-level Intimate 
Partner Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan.
    Activities to build capacity across the nation:
     Collaborate with the CDC, other DELTA cooperative 
agreement applicants, and the CDC-selected evaluation/training 
contractors in establishing mutually-agreed upon goals and objectives; 
the development and implementation of the cross-site evaluation and the 
translation of prevention practices; concepts, and principles for use 
by local CCRs and local fiscal agents.
     Disseminate DELTA prevention principles, concepts and 
practices and lessons learned by presenting at a minimum of one state-
wide conference that addresses IPV in other non-DELTA states in Program 
Periods two or three.
     Disseminate DELTA prevention principles, concepts and 
practices and

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lessons learned by presenting at a minimum of one national conference 
that addresses IPV in Program Periods two or three.
     Attend and participate in the National Center for Injury 
Prevention and Control Conference in Washington, DC in 2007.
    In a cooperative agreement, CDC staff is substantially involved in 
the program activities, above and beyond routine grant monitoring.
    CDC Activities for this program are as follows:
     Participate in the translation and/or identification of 
prevention principles, concepts, practices, and measures into 
prevention-focused evidenced-based planning, activities, strategies, 
policies and evaluation practices that can be integrated into the CCR 
model.
     Provide guidance on how to hire an evaluation contractor 
and approving the hire of applicant's evaluation contractor.
     Approve the staff and contractors funded through the DELTA 
Program.
     Contract with a third-party to conduct a cross-site 
evaluation.
     Coordinate capacity-building prevention-focused training 
and technical assistance for DELTA grantees by contracting with a 
third-party(ies).
     Provide assistance in the management and technical 
performance of the implementation of prevention principles, concepts, 
practices, leadership, activities, strategies and policies at the state 
and local level.
     Arrange for information sharing among DELTA grantees.
     Analyze cross-site evaluation/research information for 
presentation and publication.

II. Award Information

    Type of Award: Cooperative Agreement.
    CDC anticipates funding this Program Announcement in two cycles 
depending on availability of funds.
    Cycle 1: Fiscal Year Funds: 2005.
    Approximate Total Funding: $1.6 million. (This amount is an 
estimate, and is subject to availability of funds.)
    Approximate Number of Awards: 9.
    Approximate Average Award: $187,000. (This amount is for the first 
12-month budget period, and includes both direct and indirect costs.)
    Floor of Award Range: $125,000. (CDC will not make an award smaller 
than the floor amount.)
    Ceiling of Award Range: $220,000. (This ceiling is for the first 
12-month budget period. CDC will not make an award for larger than the 
ceiling amount.)
    Cycle 2: Fiscal Year Funds: 2006.
    Approximate Total Funding: $1,070,000. (This amount is an estimate, 
and is subject to availability of funds.)
    Approximate Number of Awards: 5.
    Approximate Average Award: $214,000. (This amount is for the first 
12-month budget period, and includes both direct and indirect costs.)
    Floor of Award Range: $168,000. (CDC will not make an award smaller 
than the floor amount.)
    Ceiling of Award Range: $255,000. (This ceiling is for the first 
12-month budget period. CDC will not make an award for larger than the 
ceiling amount.)
    Anticipated Award Date(s): September 30, 2005 (Cycle 1) and January 
30, 2006 (Cycle 2).
    Budget Period Length: 12 months.
    Project Period Length: Three years.
    Throughout the project period, CDC's commitment to continuation of 
awards will be conditioned on the availability of funds, evidence of 
satisfactory progress by the applicant (as documented in required 
reports), and the determination that continued funding is in the best 
interest of the Federal Government.

III. Eligibility Information

III.1. Eligible Applicants

    Applications may be submitted by nonprofit private organizations 
that are current recipients of the Domestic Violence Prevention 
Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA) Program, funding 
opportunity number 02122. The authorizing statute, 42 U.S.C. 10418, 
requires that funding shall only be awarded to nonprofit private 
organizations organized for the purpose of coordinating community 
projects for the intervention and prevention of domestic violence. Only 
one application per state will be awarded.
    The competition for this cooperative agreement is being limited to 
current DELTA Program recipients for the following reasons:
    1. The three-year program period of the DELTA Program, funding 
opportunity number 02122, was a planning period where CDC, DELTA 
grantees, local fiscal agents and CCRs developed the prevention 
framework that is to be integrated into the coordinated community 
response model.
    2. The three year program period for this current DELTA cooperative 
agreement will be an implementation and evaluation period where DELTA 
grantees, local fiscal agents and CCRs start implementing the 
prevention framework and evaluating their results.
    3. The evaluation for the DELTA Program, funding opportunity number 
02122, is a dissemination evaluation that is assessing the development 
of prevention capacity within CCRs. The valid measure of prevention 
capacity building relies on local CCRs being given the opportunity to 
implement and evaluate their prevention efforts. Thus, a second program 
period of three years is needed in order for the evaluation to produce 
reliable, valid and useful results that can inform the field.
    As CDC's environmental scan of CCRs operating in 14 states revealed 
that most CCRs are not formally organized, a local nonprofit 
organization in each community will act as the fiscal agent to receive 
local DELTA funding that will support the local CCR's adoption of 
prevention practices, concepts and practices. In order to receive DELTA 
funding, cooperative agreement applicants must have at least 18 months 
experience in providing prevention focused training and technical 
assistance to, and at least 12 months monitoring and funding of local 
CCRs, as this RFA is not intended to support initial capacity building 
in these areas. Local fiscal agents and their respective CCRs are 
required to have at least 12 months of prevention program planning 
experience, as this RFA is not intended to support initial prevention 
program planning capacity-building efforts at the local level. These 
fiscal agents shall be member agencies of their respective CCRs and 
understand that the DELTA Program is to be community-owned by the CCR 
and not agency-driven by the fiscal agent.

III.2. Cost Sharing or Matching

    The DELTA Program project period is three years. For the third year 
of this project period, DELTA cooperative agreement applicants will be 
required to cost share or match 15 percent of the program's cost. This 
is a fixed percentage and is non-negotiable. As cost sharing or 
matching is not required until the third year of the project period, 
the applicant's documentation verifying their ability to meet this 
requirement is not a responsiveness criterion (i.e., applications that 
do not propose matching or cost sharing as specified will not be 
returned without review). Thus, an applicants' documentation verifying 
their ability to meet this requirement is not included in the 
evaluation criteria and applicants are not asked to provide any pre-
award documentation verifying their ability to meet this cost sharing/
matching requirement. The applicant will be expected to meet at least 
half of the 15 percent cost share or match requirement through cash 
contributions. In-kind contributions may provide no more than

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half of the 15 percent cost share or match requirement.
    The regulatory basis for the cost share or matching is 45 CFR parts 
74 and 92 as interpreted in the Awarding Agency Grants Administration 
Manual 3.02.102-3A.1.
    By requiring a 15 percent cost share or match during the final year 
of the project period, CDC seeks to encourage DELTA cooperative 
agreement applicants to identify community and state resources that can 
sustain DELTA activities within the state once the three year DELTA 
Program period ends. As CDC is only requiring a 15 percent cost share 
or match, CDC believes this will not unduly burden DELTA cooperative 
agreement applicants, while encouraging them to actively plan the 
sustainability of the DELTA Program within their state. CDC also 
believes that the DELTA Program within each state will have a greater 
likelihood of success if cooperative agreement applicants contribute to 
the costs of the project by obtaining state and local support.

III.3. Other

    If you request a funding amount greater than the ceiling of the 
award range, your application will be considered non-responsive, and 
will not be entered into the review process. You will be notified that 
your application did not meet the submission requirements.
Special Requirements
    If your application is incomplete or non-responsive to the special 
requirements listed in this section, it will not be entered into the 
review process. You will be notified that your application did not meet 
submission requirements.
     Late applications will be considered non-responsive. See 
section ``IV.3. Submission Dates and Times'' for more information on 
deadlines.
     Non-profit 501 (c)(3) status--provide copy of IRS 
determination letter with application.
     Note: Title 2 of the United States Code Section 1611 
states that an organization described in Section 501(c)(4) of the 
Internal Revenue Code that engages in lobbying activities is not 
eligible to receive Federal funds constituting an award, grant, or 
loan.

IV. Application and Submission Information

IV.1. Address To Request Application Package

    To apply for this funding opportunity use application form PHS 
5161-1.
    Electronic Submission: CDC strongly encourages you to submit your 
application electronically by utilizing the forms and instructions 
posted for this announcement on https://www.Grants.gov, the official 
Federal agency wide E-grant Web site. Only applicants who apply online 
are permitted to forego paper copy submission of all application forms.
    Paper Submission: Application forms and instructions are available 
on the CDC Web site, at the following Internet address: https://
www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/forminfo.htm.
    If you do not have access to the Internet, or if you have 
difficulty accessing the forms on-line, you may contact the CDC 
Procurement and Grants Office Technical Information Management Section 
(PGO-TIM) staff at: 770-488-2700. Application forms can be mailed to 
you.
Program Technical Assistance Conference Call
    There will be a Program Technical Assistance Conference Call on 
Thursday, March 3, 2005 from 3-4:30 p.m. EST. Please e-mail Pam Cox at 
pcox@cdc.gov by February 28, 2005 to request the conference call number 
and code. The conference call number and code will be provided via e-
mail.

IV.2. Content and Form of Submission Application

    Electronic Submission: You may submit your application 
electronically at: https://www.grants.gov. Applications completed online 
through Grants.gov are considered formally submitted when the applicant 
organization's Authorizing Official electronically submits the 
application to https://www.grants.gov. Electronic applications will be 
considered as having met the deadline if the application has been 
submitted electronically by the applicant organization's Authorizing 
Official to Grants.gov on or before the deadline date and time.
    It is strongly recommended that you submit your grant application 
using Microsoft Office products (e.g., Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, 
etc.). If you do not have access to Microsoft Office products, you may 
submit a PDF file. Directions for creating PDF files can be found on 
the Grants.gov Web site. Use of file formats other than Microsoft 
Office or PDF may result in your file being unreadable by our staff.
    CDC recommends that you submit your application to Grants.gov early 
enough to resolve any unanticipated difficulties prior to the deadline. 
You may also submit a back-up paper submission of your application. Any 
such paper submission must be received in accordance with the 
requirements for timely submission detailed in Section IV.3. of the 
grant announcement. The paper submission must be clearly marked: 
``BACK-UP FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION.'' The paper submission must 
conform with all requirements for non-electronic submissions. If both 
electronic and back-up paper submissions are received by the deadline, 
the electronic version will be considered the official submission.
    Paper Submission: If you plan to submit your application by hard 
copy, submit the original and two hard copies of your application by 
mail or express delivery service. Refer to section IV.6. Other 
Submission Requirements for submission address.
    You must submit a project narrative with your application forms. 
The narrative must be submitted in the following format:
     Maximum number of pages: 25--If your narrative exceeds the 
page limit, only the first 25 pages will be reviewed.
     Font size: 12 point unreduced.
     Double spaced.
     Paper size: 8.5 by 11 inches.
     Page margin size: One inch.
     Printed only on one side of page.
     Held together only by rubber bands or metal clips; not 
bound in any other way.
    Your narrative should address activities to be conducted over the 
entire three year project period, and must include the following items 
in the order listed:
     Abstract (no more than one page).
     Organization history and description (no more than one 
page).
     Organization's agreement to use the definition of IPV 
provided in this RFA as the basis for DELTA Program activities and 
implementation.
     Experience (minimum of 18 months) in providing prevention-
focused training and technical assistance to CCRs and local fiscal 
agents (no more than two pages).
     Experience (minimum of 12 months) in funding and 
monitoring local fiscal agents and their CCRs regarding their 
implementation of prevention principles, concepts and practices (no 
more than two pages).
     Implementation Plan for DELTA Program: Local level. 
Provide a logic model and narrative of no more than four pages 
describing the applicant's plans to build capacity in local CCRs in 
accordance with the Activities section of this program announcement. 
For assistance on how to design a logic model, access CDC's Web site: 
https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/physical/handbook/step2.htm. In regard 
to outcomes for the logic model and narrative, due to the DELTA Program

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project period being three years, applicants should only include short-
term and intermediate outcomes (i.e., capacity building) in their logic 
model and not long-term outcomes (i.e., a reduction in IPV incidence 
and prevalence). The logic model should list only one objective and a 
quantitative performance measure of effectiveness for that objective 
that will be used to measure the intended short-term and intermediate 
outcomes over the program period. Measures of effectiveness must relate 
to the performance goals stated in the ``Purpose'' section of this 
announcement: Increase the capacity of injury prevention and control 
programs to address the prevention of injuries and violence. Measures 
must be objective and quantitative, and must measure the intended 
outcome. The narratives that accompany the logic models should 
elaborate and clarify the timelines, inputs, activities, outputs, 
outcomes, and performance measures of effectiveness listed in the logic 
model diagram.
     Implementation Plan for DELTA Program: State level. 
Provide a logic model and narrative of no more than four pages 
describing the applicant's plans to build capacity at the state level 
in accordance with the Activities section of this program announcement. 
In regard to outcomes for the logic model and narrative, due to the 
DELTA Program project period being three years, applicants should only 
include short-term and intermediate outcomes (i.e., capacity-building) 
in their logic model and not long-term outcomes (i.e., a reduction in 
IPV incidence and prevalence). The logic model should list only one 
objective and a quantitative performance measure of effectiveness for 
that objective that will be used to measure the intended short-term and 
intermediate outcomes over the program period. Measures of 
effectiveness must relate to the performance goals stated in the 
``Purpose'' section of this announcement: Increase the capacity of 
injury prevention and control programs to address the prevention of 
injuries and violence. Measures must be objective and quantitative, and 
must measure the intended outcome. The narratives that accompany the 
logic models should elaborate and clarify the timelines, inputs, 
activities, outputs, outcomes, and performance measures of 
effectiveness listed in the logic model diagram.
     Implementation Plan for DELTA Program: Organizational 
level. Provide a logic model and narrative of no more than four pages 
describing the applicant's plans to build capacity within its own 
organization in accordance with the Activities section of this program 
announcement. In regard to outcomes for the logic model and narrative, 
due to the DELTA Program project period being three years, applicants 
should only include short-term and intermediate outcomes (i.e., 
capacity building) in their logic models and not long-term outcomes 
(i.e., reduction in IPV incidence and prevalence). The logic model 
should list only one objective and a quantitative performance measure 
of effectiveness for the objective that will be sued to measure the 
intended short-term and intermediate outcomes over the program period. 
Measures of effectiveness must relate to the performance goals stated 
in the ``Purpose'' section of this announcement: Increase the capacity 
of injury prevention and control programs to address prevention of 
injuries and violence. Measures must be objective and quantitative, and 
must measure the intended outcome. The narratives that accompany the 
logic models should elaborate and clarify the timelines, inputs, 
activities, outputs, outcomes and performance measures of effectiveness 
listed in the logic model diagram.
     Implementation Plan for DELTA Program: National level. 
Provide a logic model and narrative of no more than four pages 
describing the applicant's plans to build capacity within its own 
organization in accordance with the Activities section of this program 
announcement. In regard to outcomes for the logic model and narrative, 
due to the DELTA Program project period being three years, applicants 
should only include short-term and intermediate outcomes in their logic 
models (i.e., capacity building) and not long-term outcomes (i.e., 
reduction in IPV incidence and prevalence). The logic model should list 
only one objective and a quantitative performance measure of 
effectiveness for the objective that will be sued to measure the 
intended short-term and intermediate outcomes over the program period. 
Measures of effectiveness must relate to the performance goals stated 
in the ``Purpose'' section of this announcement: Increase the capacity 
of injury prevention and control programs to address prevention of 
injuries and violence. Measures must be objective and quantitative, and 
must measure the intended outcome. The narratives that accompany the 
logic models should elaborate and clarify the timelines, inputs, 
activities, outputs, outcomes and performance measures of effectiveness 
listed in the logic model diagram.
     Summary (no more than one page).
     Budget Justification (not counted within stated page 
limit).
    Additional required information should be included in the 
application appendices. The appendices will not be counted toward the 
narrative page limit. The additional required information is:
     Appendix A: Two letters of support from local CCR members, 
each representing a different CCR, describing the prevention-focused 
training and technical assistance provided by the applicant over the 
past 18 months.
     Appendix B: Copy of the application used by the applicant 
to award funds to local fiscal agents and CCRs to implement prevention 
principles, concepts and practices.
     Appendix C: Copy of IRS determination letter.
    You are required to have a Dun and Bradstreet Data Universal 
Numbering System (DUNS) number to apply for a grant or cooperative 
agreement from the Federal government. The DUNS number is a nine-digit 
identification number, which uniquely identifies business entities. 
Obtaining a DUNS number is easy and there is no charge. To obtain a 
DUNS number, access https://www.dunandbradstreet.com or call 1-866-705-
5711.
    For more information, see the CDC Web site at: https://www.cdc.gov/
od/pgo/funding/pubcommt.htm. If your application form does not have a 
DUNS number field, please write your DUNS number at the top of the 
first page of your application, and/or include your DUNS number in your 
application cover letter.
    Additional requirements that may require you to submit additional 
documentation with your application are listed in section ``VI.2. 
Administrative and National Policy Requirements.''

IV.3. Submission Dates and Times

    Application Deadline Date: April 26, 2005.
    Explanation of Deadlines: Applications must be received in the CDC 
Procurement and Grants Office by 4 p.m. Eastern Time on the deadline 
date. If you submit your application by the United States Postal 
Service or commercial delivery service, you must ensure that the 
carrier will be able to guarantee delivery by the closing date and 
time. If CDC receives your submission after closing due to: (1) carrier 
error, when the carrier accepted the package with a guarantee for 
delivery by the closing date and time, or (2) significant weather 
delays or natural disasters, you will be given the opportunity to 
submit documentation of the carrier's guarantee. If the documentation 
verifies a carrier problem, CDC will consider the

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submission as having been received by the deadline.
    This announcement is the definitive guide on application content, 
submission address, and deadline. It supersedes information provided in 
the application instructions. If your submission does not meet the 
deadline above, it will not be eligible for review, and will be 
discarded. You will be notified that you did not meet the submission 
requirements.
    Electronic Submission: If you submit your application 
electronically with Grants.gov, your application will be electronically 
time/date stamped which will serve as receipt of submission. In turn, 
you will receive an e-mail notice of receipt when CDC receives the 
application. All electronic applications must be submitted by 4 p.m. 
Eastern Time on the application due date.
    Paper Submission: CDC will not notify you upon receipt of your 
paper submission. If you have a question about the receipt of your LOI 
or application, first contact your courier. If you still have a 
question, contact the PGO-TIM staff at: 770-488-2700. Before calling, 
please wait two to three days after the submission deadline. This will 
allow time for submissions to be processed and logged.

IV.4. Intergovernmental Review of Applications

    Executive Order 12372 does not apply to this program.

IV.5. Funding Restrictions

    Restrictions, which must be taken into account while writing your 
budget, are as follows:
     Funds may not be used for research.
     Reimbursement of pre-award costs is not allowed.
     Budgets for each budget period should include travel costs 
for three staff: DELTA Project Coordinator, the applicant's evaluation 
contractor, and the applicant's executive director, to attend three 3-
day planning and training meetings in Atlanta, Georgia with CDC staff, 
other cooperative agreement applicants, and the CDC-selected evaluation 
contractor. The applicant should also budget for extensive state-wide 
travel for the evaluation contractor to visit local fiscal agents and 
their CCRs in order to gain knowledge of their prevention programs and 
activities and train and provide technical assistance regarding 
evaluation and the development of the Intimate Partner Violence 
Progress Report and Prevention Plan. The applicant should also budget 
for travel for the evaluation contractor to support the DELTA Steering 
Committee in the development of the state-level Intimate Partner 
Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan.
     For the first budget period, applicants shall contract 
with private nonprofit organizations (i.e., local fiscal agents) to 
maintain the continuity of the DELTA Program in CCRs that address IPV 
in local communities. Applicants shall request only the amount of 
funding these local fiscal agents will expend during the first budget 
period. These private nonprofit organizations shall be member agencies 
of these CCRs and understand that the DELTA Program is to be community-
owned by the CCR and not agency-driven by the private nonprofit 
organization.
     During the first budget period, applicants shall designate 
between $50,000-$75,000 of the first year budget period's award to 
contract with an evaluator, approved by CDC, to assist with the 
development of the state and local versions of the Intimate Partner 
Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan.
     Local fiscal agents are required to devote the equivalent 
of a seventy-five percent FTE to the implementation and evaluation of 
the DELTA Program at the local level.
     Applicants are required, at a minimum, to have the 
equivalent of one FTE assigned to DELTA Program programmatic 
activities.
     Funding may not be used for construction.
     Funding may be used to purchase computer equipment and 
software, and Internet connection equipment and software.
     Funding may not be used to provide direct services to 
victims or perpetrators of IPV.
     No more than 10 percent of local fiscal agent funding may 
be used to coordinate intervention services.
     Funding may not be used for intervention-oriented media or 
awareness campaigns that promote awareness of the problem of IPV or 
awareness of where to receive services.
     Funding may be used for prevention-oriented media or 
awareness campaigns that promote the protective factors at each level 
of the social ecology.
     DELTA Program funds may be used by local fiscal agents and 
their CCRs to adapt, develop, and produce prevention-focused 
educational materials, media campaigns, or curricula. It is required 
that the adaptation, development and production of such materials are 
based on the best available evidence input from representatives from 
the community for which the materials are developed. The 
representatives must be active participants in the adaptation, 
development, production, implementation and evaluation processes. It 
will be the applicant's responsibility to monitor this funding 
restriction.
    Guidance for completing your budget can be found on the CDC Web 
site, at the following Internet address: https://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/
funding/budgetguide.htm.

IV.6. Other Submission Requirements

    Application Submission Address:
    Electronic Submission: CDC strongly encourages applicants to submit 
electronically at: https://www.Grants.gov. You will be able to download 
a copy of the application package from https://www.Grants.gov, complete 
it offline, and then upload and submit the application via the 
Grants.gov site. E-mail submissions will not be accepted. If you are 
having technical difficulties in Grants.gov they can be reached by E-
mail at www.support@grants.gov">www.support@grants.gov or by phone at 1-800-518-4726 (1-800-
518-GRANTS). The Customer Support Center is open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. 
Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.
    Paper Submission: If you chose to submit a paper application, 
submit the original and two hard copies of your application by mail or 
express delivery service to:
    Technical Information Management--RFA 05039, CDC Procurement and 
Grants Office, 2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA 30341.

V. Application Review Information

V.1. Criteria

    Applicants are required to provide measures of effectiveness that 
will demonstrate the accomplishment of the various identified 
objectives of the cooperative agreement. Measures of effectiveness must 
relate to the performance goal stated in the ``Purpose'' section of 
this announcement: Increase the capacity of injury prevention and 
control programs to address the prevention of injuries and violence. 
Measures must be objective and quantitative, and must measure the 
intended outcome. Applicants are expected to develop four measures of 
effectiveness, one for each level of capacity-building as described in 
section IV.2. Content and Form of Submission. Measures of effectiveness 
will be an element of evaluation.
    Your application will be evaluated against the following criteria:
    a. Experience (25 points) in providing prevention-focused training 
and technical assistance to local CCRs and

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local fiscal agents (no more than two pages). Does the applicant 
demonstrate at least 18 months experience in providing prevention-
focused training and technical assistance to local CCRs and local 
fiscal agents? Does the applicant clearly demonstrate that their 
training and technical assistance was prevention-focused, and not 
intervention focused? Does the applicant clearly demonstrate that their 
training and technical assistance included prevention principles, 
concepts and practices such as preventing first-time perpetration and 
first-time victimization; decreasing risk factors, increasing 
protective factors, evidence-based planning, theory, and evaluation? 
Does the applicant include two letters of support from local CCR 
members, each representing a different CCR, describing the prevention-
focused training and technical assistance provided to them by the 
applicant over the past 18 months?
    b. Experience (25 points) in funding and monitoring local fiscal 
agents and their CCRs regarding their implementation of prevention 
principles, concepts and practices (no more than 2 pages).
    Does the applicant demonstrate at least 12 months experience in 
funding and monitoring local fiscal agents and their CCRs regarding 
their implementation of prevention principles, concepts and practices? 
Does the applicant adequately describe their funding process (from 
announcement of available funds, to review, to award)? Does the 
applicant adequately describe their monitoring process (reports 
required, site visits, products delivered)? Does the applicant provide 
a copy of the application used by the applicant to award funds to local 
fiscal agents and CCRs to implement prevention principles, concepts and 
practices?
    c. Implementation Plan for DELTA Program (15 points): Local level. 
Does the applicant include a logic model's core elements:
     Inputs.
     Activities.
     Outputs.
     Initial outcomes.
     Intermediate outcomes.
     Influential factors.
     One performance measure of effectiveness (replaces 
traditional logic model's goal)?
    Are each of these core elements adequately addressed? Does the 
applicant address each of the activities to build capacity in local 
CCRs:
     Prevention-focused training, technical assistance and 
funding.
     Training and technical assistance regarding community 
organization, CCR development and maintenance and strategic planning.
     Assistance to and monitoring of local fiscal agents and 
their CCRs in their development and publication of an Intimate Partner 
Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan.
     Assisting local fiscal agents in institutionalizing 
prevention principles, concepts and practices within their own 
agencies.
     Use of evaluation contractor in the development of the 
Intimate Partner Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan.
    Is the applicant's implementation plan adequate to meet the short-
term and intermediate outcomes listed in the logic model? Is the 
applicant's one performance measure of effectiveness objective, 
quantifiable, measurable and realistic? Can the proposed activities and 
outputs realistically lead to the outcomes proposed? Are the proposed 
activities and timelines (as described in the narrative) feasible?
    d. Implementation plan for DELTA Program (15 points): State level. 
Does the applicant include a logic model's core elements:
     Inputs,
     Activities,
     Outputs,
     Initial outcomes,
     Intermediate outcomes,
     Influential factors and
     One performance measure of effectiveness (replaces 
traditional logic model's goal)?
    Are each of these core elements adequately addressed? Does the 
applicant address each of the activities to build capacity across 
Applicant's state:
     Organize and facilitate a DELTA Steering Committee to 
develop and publish a state-level Intimate Partner Violence Progress 
Report and Prevention Plan.
     Develop a steering committee that is representative of the 
racial, ethnic and gender diversity within the state.
     Develop a steering committee that includes individuals who 
can inform the development and implementation of prevention activities 
and programs directed at men and boys.
     Use of evaluation contractor in the development of the 
Intimate Partner Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan. Is the 
applicant's implementation plan adequate to meet the short-term and 
intermediate outcomes listed in the logic model? Is the applicant's one 
performance measure of effectiveness objective, quantifiable, 
measurable and realistic? Can the proposed activities and outputs 
realistically lead to the outcomes proposed? Are the proposed 
activities and timelines feasible?
    e. Implementation plan for DELTA Program (10 points): 
Organizational level. Does the applicant include a logic model's core 
elements:
     Inputs,
     Activities,
     Outputs,
     Initial outcomes,
     Intermediate outcomes,
     Influential factors and
     One performance measure of effectiveness (replaces 
traditional logic model's goal)?
    Are each of these core elements adequately addressed? Does the 
applicant address each of the activities to build capacity within 
Applicant's organization:
     Participate in training and technical assistance 
activities and opportunities provided by CDC;
     Institutionalize prevention principles, concepts and 
practices within their own organization;
     Monitor progress of local CCRs and their local fiscal 
agents;
     Attend and participate in technical assistance and 
planning meetings coordinated by CDC;
     Compile and disseminate DELTA Program results within their 
state;
     Is the applicant's implementation plan adequate to meet 
the short-term and intermediate outcomes listed in the logic model? Is 
the applicant's one performance measure of effectiveness objective, 
quantifiable, measurable and realistic? Can the proposed activities and 
outputs realistically lead to the outcomes and performance measure 
proposed? Are the proposed activities and timelines (as described in 
the narrative) feasible?
    f. Implementation Plan for DELTA Program (5 points): National 
level. Does the applicant include a logic model's core elements:
     Inputs,
     Activities,
     Outputs,
     Initial outcomes,
     Intermediate outcomes,
     Influential factors and
     One performance measure of effectiveness (replaces 
traditional logic model's goal)?
    Are each of these core elements adequately addressed? Does the 
applicant address each of the activities to build capacity across 
Applicant's state:
     Collaborate with CDC, other DELTA cooperative agreement 
applicants, and the CDC-selected evaluation/training contractors.

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     Disseminate DELTA prevention principles, concepts and 
practices and lessons learned by presenting at a minimum of one state-
wide conference that addresses IPV in non-DELTA states in Program 
Periods two and three.
     Disseminate DELTA prevention principles, concepts and 
practices and lessons learned by presenting at a minimum of one 
national conference that addresses IPV in Program Periods two and 
three.
     Attend and participate in the National Center for Injury 
Prevention and Control Conference in Washington, DC in 2007.
    Is the applicant's implementation plan adequate to meet the short-
term and intermediate outcomes listed in the logic model? Is the 
applicant's one performance measure of effectiveness objective, 
quantifiable, measurable and realistic? Can the proposed activities and 
outputs realistically lead to the outcomes proposed? Are the proposed 
activities and timelines feasible?
    g. Applicant's Agreement (5 points) to use the definition of IPV 
provided in this RFA as the basis for DELTA Program activities and 
implementation. Does the applicant explicitly state their agreement to 
use the definition of IPV (i.e., continuum from episodic violence to 
battering) provided in this RFA as the basis for DELTA Program 
activities and implementation?

V.2. Review and Selection Process

    Applications will be reviewed for completeness by the Procurement 
and Grants Office (PGO) staff, and for responsiveness by the National 
Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Incomplete applications and 
applications that are non-responsive to the eligibility criteria will 
not advance through the review process. Applicants will be notified 
that their application did not meet submission requirements.
    An objective review panel will evaluate complete and responsive 
applications according to the criteria listed in the ``V.1. Criteria'' 
section above. Objective reviewers will be Federal employees who do not 
work within NCIPC and/or external experts with no conflict of interest 
regarding the outcome of the awarding process. Each complete and 
responsive application will have primary, secondary and tertiary 
reviewers. The objective review panel will meet to discuss and score 
each application based on the reviewers' comments.
    In addition, the following factors may affect the funding decision:
     Maintaining geographic diversity (The authorizing statute, 
42 U.S.C. 10418, requires that funding shall be awarded to 
organizations that are geographically dispersed throughout the 
country.)
     Preference will be given to applicants who have received 
funding in a previous project period.
    CDC will provide justification for any decision to fund out of rank 
order.

V.3. Anticipated Announcement and Award Dates

    Anticipated Announcement Date: May 15, 2005.
    Anticipated Award Date(s): September 30, 2005 and January 30, 2006.

VI. Award Administration Information

VI.1. Award Notices

    Successful applicants will receive a Notice of Grant Award (NGA) 
from the CDC Procurement and Grants Office. The NGA shall be the only 
binding, authorizing document between the applicant and CDC. The NGA 
will be signed by an authorized Grants Management Officer, and mailed 
to the applicant fiscal officer identified in the application.
    Unsuccessful applicants will receive notification of the results of 
the application review by mail.

VI.2. Administrative and National Policy Requirements

45 CFR Part 74 and Part 92
    For more information on the Code of Federal Regulations, see the 
National Archives and Records Administration at the following Internet 
address: https://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html.
    An additional Certifications form from the PHS5161-1 application 
needs to be included in your Grants.gov electronic submission only. 
Refer to https://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/PHS5161-1-Certificates.pdf. 
Once the form is filled out attach it to your Grants.gov submission as 
Other Attachments Form.
    The following additional requirements apply to this project:
     AR-10 Smoke-Free Workplace Requirements.
     AR-11 Healthy People 2010.
     AR-12 Lobbying Restrictions.
     AR-13 Prohibition on Use of CDC Funds for Certain Gun 
Control Activities.
     AR-15 Proof of Non-Profit Status.
     AR-16 Security Clearance Requirement.
     AR-25 Release and Sharing of Data.
    Additional information on these requirements can be found on the 
CDC Web site at the following Internet address: https://www.cdc.gov/od/
pgo/funding/ARs.htm.

VI.3. Reporting Requirements

    You must provide CDC with an original, plus two hard copies of the 
following reports:
    1. Interim progress report, due no less than 90 days before the end 
of the budget period. The progress report will serve as your non-
competing continuation application, and must contain the following 
elements:
    a. Current Budget Period Activities Objectives (for first six 
months of budget period)
    b. Current Budget Period Financial Progress.
    c. New Budget Period Program Proposed Activity Objectives (provides 
updated logic models and narratives).
    d. Budget.
    e. Measures of Effectiveness.
    f. Additional Requested Information.
    2. Annual progress report, due 90 days after the end of the budget 
period.
    a. Current Budget Period Activities Objectives (for second six 
months of budget period).
    b. New Budget Period Program Proposed Activity Objectives (provides 
updated logic models and narratives).
    c. Measures of Effectiveness.
    d. Additional Requested Information.
    3. Financial status report, due no more than 90 days after the end 
of the budget period.
    4. Final financial and performance reports, no more than 90 days 
after the end of the project period.
    These reports must be mailed to the Grants Management or Contract 
Specialist listed in the ``Agency Contacts'' section of this 
announcement.

VII. Agency Contacts

    We encourage inquiries concerning this announcement.
    For general questions, contact: Technical Information Management 
Section, CDC Procurement and Grants Office, 2920 Brandywine Road, 
Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone: 770-488-2700.
    For program technical assistance, contact: Pamela J. Cox, Project 
Officer, CDC, NCIPC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE., Mailstop K60, Atlanta, 
GA 30341, Telephone: 770-488-1206, Fax Number: 770-488-1360, Email: 
pcox@cdc.gov.
    For financial, grants management, or budget assistance, contact: 
Angie Tuttle, Grants Management (Specialist, CDC Procurement and Grants 
Office), 2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone: 770/488-
2719, E-mail: Aen4@cdc.gov.

VIII. Other Information

    This and other CDC funding opportunity announcements can be

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found on the CDC Web site, Internet address: https://www.cdc.gov. Click 
on ``Funding'' then ``Grants and Cooperative Agreements.''

    Dated: February 18, 2005.
Alan A. Kotch,
Acting Deputy Director, Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
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