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opportunity announcement (FOA), is to
expand access to care for the maternal
and child health (MCH) populations
through the following program focus
areas: (1) Ensuring continuity of
coverage and care for pregnant women
and children; (2) improving systems of
care for children with special health
care needs; and (3) promoting the use of
Bright Futures Guidelines for all
children. The program expansion
supplement will provide funds to the
Association of State and Territorial State
Health Officials (ASTHO), the
cooperative agreement awardee, during
the budget period of September 30,
2015, through September 29, 2016, to
provide targeted technical assistance to
two States at risk for rapid transmission
of HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
through injection drug use, to build
capacity and expand access to care,
document and share best practices with
other State Health Officials also seeking
to prevent HIV and HCV infection
through injection drug use.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Intended
Recipient of the Award: The Association
of State and Territorial Health Officials
Amount of the Non-Competitive Award:
$100,000
CFDA Number: 93.110
Current Project Period: 9/30/2014–9/29/
2017
Period of Supplemental Funding: 9/30/
2015–9/29/2016
Authority: Social Security Act, Title V,
§ 501(a)(2) (42 U.S.C. 701(a)(2)).
Justification: On April 24, 2015, the
Governor of Indiana declared a public
health disaster emergency in Scott
County, Indiana, attributable to the HIV
epidemic in that county. On the same
day, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention issued a Health Alert
Network Advisory to inform other
public health departments and
healthcare providers of the possibility of
HIV outbreaks among persons who
inject drugs and to provide guidance to
assist in the identification and
prevention of such outbreaks. As of
August 28, 2015, the Indiana outbreak is
now 181 (177 confirmed and 4
presumptive positive) adult and
adolescent HIV infections, including a
small number of pregnant women.
Though there are HIV prevention best
practices to inform States, additional
innovative practices are needed to reach
women of child-bearing age,
adolescents, and young adults within
high risk counties, which do not
routinely access health care.
As stated in the FOA, the Alliance for
Innovation on Maternal and Child
Health (AIM) is a Maternal and Child
Health Bureau (MCHB) collaborative
program of awardee organizations for
the purpose of expanding access to care
for the maternal and child health (MCH)
populations. Per the FOA, AIM
Collaborative Engagement awardees are
responsible for engaging key State
agencies and offices (i.e., Public Health
and Medicaid) in AIM activities and
raising awareness of best practices.
In 2014, following objective review of
its application, HRSA awarded the
Association of State and Territorial
Health Officials (ASTHO) cooperative
agreement funding as an AIM
Collaborative Engagement program. If
approved, this would be the first
program expansion supplement for this
cooperative agreement.
ASTHO is the national nonprofit
organization representing public health
agencies in the United States, the U.S.
Territories, the District of Columbia, and
over 100,000 public health professionals
these agencies employ. As part of its
AIM cooperative agreement, ASTHO
identifies and disseminates best
practices to meet the needs of MCH
populations. At the time of the FOA and
application, expanding access to care
among high risk populations to prevent
HIV infection through injection drug use
was not yet identified as a need of MCH
populations. As such, the FOA and
application did not address it.
To meet this emerging need, ASTHO
submitted a prior approval request to
expand the scope of its AIM cooperative
agreement award to work with States at
risk for rapid transmission of HIV and
HCV through injection drug use.
ASTHO, working with MCHB, would
provide targeted technical assistance to
two states to build capacity and expand
access to care among high risk
populations to prevent HIV and HCV
infection through injection drug use.
ASTHO would also document and share
best practices and other technical
assistance resources from the two
targeted states to its network of State
Health Officials.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sylvia Sosa, MSc, Office of Policy and
Planning, Maternal and Child Health
Bureau, Health Resources and Services
Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Room 18W25D, Rockville, Maryland
20857; ssosa@hrsa.gov.
Grantee/organization name
Grant number
State
FY 2015
Authorized
funding level
FY 2015
Estimated
supplemental
funding
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials ........
UC4MC28036 .........................
VA .................
$350,000
$100,000
Dated: September 11, 2015.
James Macrae,
Acting Administrator.
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HUMAN SERVICES
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Centers of Excellence in Maternal and
Child Health in Education, Science,
and Practice Program
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of Single-Case Deviation
from Competition Requirements for
Program Expansion Supplement
Request for Centers of Excellence in
Maternal and Child Health in
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Education, Science, and Practice
program Award to the University of
Washington, Grant Number
T76MC00011.
HRSA announces the award
of a program expansion supplement in
the amount of $40,000 for the Centers of
Excellence in Maternal and Child
Health (MCH) in Education, Science,
and Practice grant. The purpose of the
Centers of Excellence in MCH program
is for the training of graduate and postgraduate public health professionals in
an interdisciplinary MCH setting. The
purpose of this notice is to award
supplemental funds to conduct a
rigorous evaluation of the Pediatric
SUMMARY:
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Obesity Collaborative Improvement and
Innovation Network (CoIIN) to spread
evidence-based practices, and to
translate knowledge into practice by the
University of Washington, the awardee
who serves as the Centers of Excellence
in MCH, during the budget period of
June 1, 2015, through May 31, 2016.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Intended Recipient of the Award:
University of Washington
Amount of Each Non-Competitive
Award: $40,000
Period of Supplemental Funding: 6/1/
2015—5/31/2016
CFDA Number: 93.110
Authority: Social Security Act as
amended, Title V, Section 501(a)(2) (42
U.S.C. 701(a)(2))
Justification: The purpose of the
Centers of Excellence in MCH program
is for the training of graduate and postgraduate public health professionals in
an interdisciplinary MCH setting. The
Centers of Excellence in MCH program
supports HRSA’s Maternal and Child
Health Bureau’s (MCHB) mission to
provide national leadership and to
work, in partnership with states,
communities, public-private partners,
and families to strengthen the MCH
infrastructure and build the knowledge
and human resources in order to assure
continued improvement in the health,
safety, and well-being of the MCH
population, which includes all U.S.
women, infants, children, youth and
their families, including fathers and
children with special health care needs
(CSHCN). It does so by training current
and future workforce in applied
research and state-of-the-art public
health management, planning, and
leadership principles to promote
healthier children, families, and
communities and in the identification
and solution of current MCH problems
while anticipating the challenges of the
future. It assures a prominent focus on
MCH content and competencies such as
inter-professional practice, systems
integration, and quality improvement
within schools of public health.
In the summer of 2014, MCHB
initiated a CoIIN on Pediatric Obesity in
collaboration with the University of
Washington and the Association of State
Public Health Nutritionists (ASPHN).
The work on this project (by the
University of Washington) was funded
through an administrative supplement
in fiscal year (FY) 2014 to a previous
grant, and the amount provided only
allowed the grantee and its
subcontractor to engage a limited
number of steps in the CoIIN process.
This supplement will allow the
University of Washington, in
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collaboration with ASPHN, to complete
the final phases of the evaluation
component for the previously initiated
Pediatric Obesity CoIIN. The goal of this
CoIIN project is to apply quality
improvement methodologies through a
CoIIN framework to support state Title
V agencies and others leverage for state
MCH program capacity to reduce
childhood obesity rates on a population
level. Specifically, state teams are
working to affect systems changes
through the adoption of policies and
practices in early care and education
settings that support healthy weight
behaviors and are using the CoIIN
model to gather best practices, promote
evidence-based strategies, and increase
nutrition resources provided to young
children and their families. A rigorous
evaluation of this CoIIN is a critical and
essential component in order to spread
evidence-based practices—including
qualitative and quantitative process and
outcome measures—and translate
knowledge into practice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Denise Sofka, RD, MPH, Division of
Maternal and Child Health Workforce
Development, Maternal and Child
Health Bureau, Health Resources and
Services Administration, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Room 18W55, Rockville,
Maryland 20857; DSofka@hrsa.gov.
Grantee/organization name
Grant number
State
FY 2015
authorized
funding level
FY 2015
estimated
supplemental
funding
University of Washington ........................
T76MC00011 .........................................
WA .........................
$350,000
$40,000
Dated: September 11, 2015.
James Macrae,
Acting Administrator.
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opportunity for the Bridging the Word
Gap Incentive Prize Challenge.
MCHB is sponsoring the Word Gap
Challenge (Challenge) to spur
innovative solutions to promote the
early language environment and address
the ‘‘word gap,’’ the large difference in
exposure to language for children from
low-income families as compared to
children from higher-income families.
This Challenge will reward the
development and testing of scalable
innovations that drive behavior change
among parents and caregivers.
The goal of the Challenge is to
develop a low-cost, scalable
technologically-based intervention that
drives parents and caregivers to talk and
engage in more back-and-forth
interactions with their young children
(ages 0–4).
This Challenge, structured in three
phases, with a narrowing of applicants
through each phase to result in one final
winner, will reach a diverse population
of innovators and solvers, including
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coders, public health experts,
individuals affiliated with academic
institutions, research and development
communities in the private sector, and
others.
All submissions will be evaluated;
separate prizes will be awarded for each
of the three phases below.
Phase 1: Design
Phase 2: Development and Small Scale
Testing
Phase 3: Scaling
The statutory authority for this
challenge competition is Section 105 of
the America COMPETES
Reauthorization Act of 2010
(COMPETES Act, Pub. L. 111–358).
Estimated dates for each phase are as
follows:
Phase 1: Effective on September 30,
2015
Phase 1 Submission ends: December 31,
2015, 11:59 p.m. ET
Phase 1 Judging Period: January 1–
January 31, 2016
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Centers of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health in Education,
Science, and Practice Program
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of Single-Case Deviation from Competition Requirements
for Program Expansion Supplement Request for Centers of Excellence in
Maternal and Child Health in Education, Science, and Practice program
Award to the University of Washington, Grant Number T76MC00011.
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SUMMARY: HRSA announces the award of a program expansion supplement in
the amount of $40,000 for the Centers of Excellence in Maternal and
Child Health (MCH) in Education, Science, and Practice grant. The
purpose of the Centers of Excellence in MCH program is for the training
of graduate and post-graduate public health professionals in an
interdisciplinary MCH setting. The purpose of this notice is to award
supplemental funds to conduct a rigorous evaluation of the Pediatric
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Obesity Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) to
spread evidence-based practices, and to translate knowledge into
practice by the University of Washington, the awardee who serves as the
Centers of Excellence in MCH, during the budget period of June 1, 2015,
through May 31, 2016.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Intended Recipient of the Award: University of Washington
Amount of Each Non-Competitive Award: $40,000
Period of Supplemental Funding: 6/1/2015--5/31/2016
CFDA Number: 93.110
Authority: Social Security Act as amended, Title V, Section
501(a)(2) (42 U.S.C. 701(a)(2))
Justification: The purpose of the Centers of Excellence in MCH
program is for the training of graduate and post-graduate public health
professionals in an interdisciplinary MCH setting. The Centers of
Excellence in MCH program supports HRSA's Maternal and Child Health
Bureau's (MCHB) mission to provide national leadership and to work, in
partnership with states, communities, public-private partners, and
families to strengthen the MCH infrastructure and build the knowledge
and human resources in order to assure continued improvement in the
health, safety, and well-being of the MCH population, which includes
all U.S. women, infants, children, youth and their families, including
fathers and children with special health care needs (CSHCN). It does so
by training current and future workforce in applied research and state-
of-the-art public health management, planning, and leadership
principles to promote healthier children, families, and communities and
in the identification and solution of current MCH problems while
anticipating the challenges of the future. It assures a prominent focus
on MCH content and competencies such as inter-professional practice,
systems integration, and quality improvement within schools of public
health.
In the summer of 2014, MCHB initiated a CoIIN on Pediatric Obesity
in collaboration with the University of Washington and the Association
of State Public Health Nutritionists (ASPHN). The work on this project
(by the University of Washington) was funded through an administrative
supplement in fiscal year (FY) 2014 to a previous grant, and the amount
provided only allowed the grantee and its subcontractor to engage a
limited number of steps in the CoIIN process.
This supplement will allow the University of Washington, in
collaboration with ASPHN, to complete the final phases of the
evaluation component for the previously initiated Pediatric Obesity
CoIIN. The goal of this CoIIN project is to apply quality improvement
methodologies through a CoIIN framework to support state Title V
agencies and others leverage for state MCH program capacity to reduce
childhood obesity rates on a population level. Specifically, state
teams are working to affect systems changes through the adoption of
policies and practices in early care and education settings that
support healthy weight behaviors and are using the CoIIN model to
gather best practices, promote evidence-based strategies, and increase
nutrition resources provided to young children and their families. A
rigorous evaluation of this CoIIN is a critical and essential component
in order to spread evidence-based practices--including qualitative and
quantitative process and outcome measures--and translate knowledge into
practice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Denise Sofka, RD, MPH, Division of
Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development, Maternal and Child
Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, 5600
Fishers Lane, Room 18W55, Rockville, Maryland 20857; DSofka@hrsa.gov.
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FY 2015 FY 2015 estimated
Grantee/organization name Grant number State authorized supplemental
funding level funding
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University of Washington........ T76MC00011......... WA................. $350,000 $40,000
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Dated: September 11, 2015.
James Macrae,
Acting Administrator.
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