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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
Announcement of Requirements and
Registration for The REACH Lark
Galloway-Gilliam Award for Advancing
Health Equity Challenge (REACH Lark
Award Challenge)
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), located
within the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS), announces the
2024 Racial and Ethnic Approaches to
Community Health (REACH) Lark
Galloway-Gilliam for Advancing Health
Equity Award Challenge (REACH Lark
Award Challenge). This biennial
challenge was established in 2019 to
recognize extraordinary individuals,
organizations, or community coalitions
associated with the REACH program
whose work has contributed to the
implementation of culturally tailored
interventions that advance health
equity, reduce health disparities, and
increase community engagement to
address preventable risk behaviors (e.g.,
tobacco use, poor nutrition, and
physical inactivity).
DATES: The Challenge will accept
applications from April 29, 2024,
through June 21, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stormie Israel, National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy., NE,
Mailstop S107–5, Atlanta, GA 30341,
Telephone: 770–488–2964, Email:
dnpaopolicy@cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Racial and
ethnic disparities in health remain
pervasive across the United States. CDC
administers REACH, a national program
that provides funding to State and local
health departments, tribes, universities,
and community-based organizations.
Since REACH was established in 1999,
the program has demonstrated success
in addressing these disparities and
advancing health equity by engaging
with diverse communities and
implementing culturally tailored
interventions. For more information
about the REACH program, visit https://
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/statelocal-programs/reach/index.htm.
The intent of this challenge is to
recognize individuals, organizations, or
community coalitions associated with
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the REACH program that meaningfully
assisted with and carried out culturally
tailored interventions that advance
health equity, reduce health disparities,
and increase community engagement to
address preventable risk behaviors (e.g.,
tobacco use, poor nutrition, physical
inactivity, and inadequate access to
clinical services) in populations/groups
disproportionately affected by chronic
disease; including, African American/
Black, American Indian or Alaska
Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, and
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific
Islander persons. To support the science
and practice of improving health equity,
this challenge can help further the goals
of the REACH program by documenting
and further disseminating the
innovative or unique interventions
employed by individuals, organizations,
or community coalitions applying or
nominated for this award.
Subject of Challenge Competition:
The CDC’s National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion is conducting this Challenge
under the America Creating
Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote
Excellence in Technology, Education,
and Science (COMPETES)
Reauthorization Act of 2010, as
amended (15 U.S.C. 3719).
The ‘‘applicant’’ refers to each
individual, organization, or community
coalition that submits an application or
nomination. The ‘‘nominee’’ refers to
each individual or organization/
community coalition who is nominated,
whether self-nominated or nominated
by a separate individual or organization.
Applicants will be asked to respond
to a series of questions related to how
the nominee assisted with and carried
out culturally tailored interventions to
advance health equity, reduce health
disparities, and increase community
engagement to address preventable risk
behaviors (e.g., tobacco use, poor
nutrition, physical inactivity, and
inadequate access to clinical services) in
populations or groups
disproportionately affected by chronic
disease, including African American/
Black, American Indian or Alaska
Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, and
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific
Islander persons.
Award Approving Official: Mandy K.
Cohen, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, and
Administrator, Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry.
Eligibility Rules for Participating in the
Challenge
The REACH Lark Award Challenge is
open to the public. To be eligible for
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this award, nominees must meet the
following eligibility requirements:
(1) Shall have completed the
application (for self-nominees) or have
had an application submitted on their
behalf (for those nominated by others)
for the competition under the rules
promulgated by HHS/CDC;
(2) Shall have complied with all the
requirements under this section and
satisfy one of the following
requirements:
a. Be a currently or previously funded
CDC REACH recipient that has not
previously received the REACH Lark
Award in any year; or
b. Be a technical assistance provider
to a former or current REACH recipient
(current and past REACH recipients can
be found at: https://www.cdc.gov/
nccdphp/dnpao/state-local-programs/
reach/index.htm); or
c. Be a partner organization, part of a
partner network, or coalition members
that collaborated on REACH-related
work with a current or previously
funded REACH recipient;
(3) Shall not have been a REACH Lark
Award Challenge recipient in any
previous year;
(4) Shall be either:
a. A U.S. citizen or legal permanent
resident, eighteen years of age or older,
if the nominee is an individual or group
of individuals; or
b. Incorporated in and maintain a
primary place of business in the United
States, if the nominee is an entity;
where the United States means a State,
the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any
other territory or possession of the
United States;
(5) Shall not be a federal entity or
federal employee acting within the
scope of their employment;
(6) Shall not be an employee of or
contractor of CDC;
(7) Shall not use federal funds from a
grant or cooperative agreement to
develop COMPETES Act challenge
applications for this challenge, if the
applicant is a federal grantee;
(8) Shall not use federal funds from a
contract to develop COMPETES Act
challenge applications or to fund efforts
in support of a COMPETES Act
challenge submission, if the applicant is
a federal contractor;
(9) Shall not be deemed ineligible
because an individual or team applicant
or nominee used federal facilities or
consulted with federal employees
during a competition if the facilities and
employees are made available to all
individuals and entities participating in
the competition on an equitable basis.
(10) By participating, the applicant
represents, warrants, and agrees that the
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entry contains accurate information. If
an applicant is nominating another
individual, organization, community
coalition (e.g., not self-nominating), the
applicant must provide
acknowledgement in writing that the
nominee consents to being nominated.
(11) Applicants and nominees must
agree to be recognized if selected as a
winner and agree to participate in an
interview with CDC staff to provide
information that may be used by CDC
staff to write a success story that
describes the intervention(s) that
advanced health equity. Winners and
their intervention(s) may be recognized,
and the success story may be made
public, including but not limited to
press releases, the challenge website,
and Division of Nutrition, Physical
Activity, and Obesity and CDC
Resources, and other publicly available
platforms (e.g., social media, CDC
website, etc.).
(12) By participating in this challenge,
applicants agree to assume any and all
risks related to participating in the
challenge. Applicants also agree to
waive claims against the federal
government and its related entities,
except in the case of willful misconduct,
when participating in the challenge,
including claims for injury; death;
damage; or loss of property, money, or
profits; and including those risks caused
by negligence or other causes.
Applicants and nominees who are not
selected for the award may be asked for
permission for CDC to share information
about successful interventions that
promoted health equity on CDC’s
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity,
and Obesity website, the CDC website,
social media, or other platform generally
with appropriate attribution to the
applicant or nominee.
Registration Process for Participants
To participate and submit an
application, interested parties should go
to https://www.challenge.gov. The
application requires responses to
questions related to eligibility, followed
by three questions related to the
nominee’s work; the answer to each of
the three questions should be no longer
than 300 words. Applicants can also
submit supplemental materials that
demonstrate the nominee’s work and/or
impact. Supplemental materials are not
to exceed 10 total pages. Examples of
supplementary materials include PDF of
online content and other forms of
written materials (e.g., news articles,
evaluation reports, or success stories).
Amount of the Prize
No cash prize will be awarded. A
maximum of two applicants (one
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individual and one organization/
community coalition) associated with
the REACH program will be a recipient
of the 2024 REACH Lark Award.
Recipients of the REACH Lark Award
will receive a plaque (‘‘Winner’’). While
the winners may be invited to meetings
by CDC, attendance at such events is not
required as a condition of accepting the
award.
Basis Upon Which Winners Will Be
Selected
CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical
Activity, and Obesity’s (DNPAO’s)
Office of Policy Partnerships and
Communication (OPPC) will select three
to five judges based on their knowledge
of the REACH program, the science and
practice of achieving health equity, and
the elimination of health disparities at
the national, state, or local levels. Judges
may include REACH program senior
advisors, other CDC employees, or
nonfederal individuals from outside the
agency. Participating as a previous
REACH Lark Award judge does not
disqualify an individual or organization
from being an award recipient for the
2024 challenge. Conflict of interest
issues related to Judges will be handled,
per the COMPETES Act (15 U.S.C.
3719(k)(2)).
Judges will review the applications
and select up to two award recipients
(one individual and one organization or
community coalition) from all eligible
entries based on:
(1) Community Context and
Challenge(s)—The following questions
address the challenges of the
community in which the nominee
works/worked. (10 points)
(a) Describe the priority population
with whom the nominee worked. (5
points)
Scoring will be based on the extent to
which the nominee worked to address
chronic disease risk factors among
priority populations experiencing health
disparities for chronic diseases
including the following: Black or
African American people, American
Indian/Alaska Native people, Hispanic
or Latino people, Asian people, and/or
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander
people.
(b) Describe the preventable risk
factors associated with chronic diseases
(hypertension, heart disease, type 2
diabetes, and/or obesity) that the
nominee addressed. (5 points)
Scoring will be based on the extent to
which the risk factor(s) addressed align
with the REACH program’s goals of
advancing health equity. Information
about past REACH programs can be
found here: https://www.cdc.gov/
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reach/past_programs/index.htm.
Examples of risk factors that align with
the goals of the REACH program include
poor nutrition, physical inactivity,
inadequate access to clinical services,
and tobacco use.
(c) Describe any relevant additional
community characteristics/challenges
that will help the judges understand the
context of the community in which the
nominee worked. (Not scored).
(2) Strategies—The following
questions pertain to strategies used by
the nominee to address the challenge(s)
discussed above. (30 points)
(a) Describe the strategies that the
nominee used to address challenges and
how the nominee’s work aligns with the
CDC REACH program’s goals of
advancing health equity. (15 points)
Scoring will be based on the extent to
which the nominee’s work contributed
to developing, implementing, and/or
evaluating strategies that were:
(1) Evidence-based or practice-based (5
points)
(2) Culturally tailored and designed to
reduce health inequities (5 points)
(3) Supportive of policy, systems, and/
or environmental change (5 points)
(b) Describe how the nominee’s work
actively and effectively engaged
members of the community and partners
across different sectors, such as, but not
limited to transportation, healthcare,
agriculture, emergency food systems,
and faith-based and community-based
organizations. (15 points)
Scoring will be based on the extent to
which the nominee engaged members of
the community and partners across
different sectors in identifying and
implementing strategies.
(3) Impact—The following questions
pertain to the impact of the nominee’s
work on addressing preventable risk
factors in a population(s)/group(s)
disproportionately affected by chronic
diseases. (20 points)
(a) Describe the impact of the
nominee’s work on addressing
preventable risk factors in populations/
groups disproportionately affected by
chronic diseases. (20 points)
(i) To the extent possible, provide
quantitative data that support impact
statements (e.g., number of people
served by a strategy, number of people
reporting a behavior change, health
outcome data if available, etc.).
(ii) Provide qualitative data from
community members, partners, coworkers, etc., (e.g., success stories,
testimonials, etc.) that provide insight
into the impact of nominee’s work.
Scoring will be based on the extent to
which the nominee’s work resulted in
progress toward addressing preventable
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risk factors in the population(s)/group(s)
identified in Section 1. While
quantitative data is not required,
nominations that include quantitative
and qualitative data are more likely to
paint a more complete picture of the
nominee’s contributions and their
impact on the community.
Judges will use the point system
outlined in the judging criteria above to
select the winner(s).
Additional Information
Information about the winners, such
as the name and location of the
individual, organization, or community
coalition, priority population served,
and health outcomes addressed may be
shared through press releases, the
challenge website, and Division of
Nutrition, Physical Activity, and
Obesity and CDC Resources, and other
publicly available platforms (e.g., social
media, CDC website, etc.) Details
regarding the winners and their
applications may be shared with the
public as part of recognition efforts.
The award is named in honor of Lark
Galloway-Gilliam, the founding
Executive Director of Community
Health Councils, Inc. (CHC). CHC began
in 1992 to support planning, resource
development, and policy education in
response to the growing health crisis in
the South Los Angeles area and other
under-resourced and marginalized
communities throughout Los Angeles
County. Lark led the CHC team to
engage communities and strengthen the
connections among organizations to
improve health, eliminate disparities,
and advance health equity. Lark also
served in several leadership roles,
including the first president of the
National REACH Coalition, the MLK
Medical Center Advisory Board, and the
Institute for People, Place, and
Possibility (IP3) Board of Directors for
Community Commons.
Compliance with Rules and Contacting
Challenge Winners
Applicants, nominees, and the
REACH Lark Award Challenge winners
must comply with all terms and
conditions of these Official Rules and
winning is contingent upon fulfilling all
requirements herein. The winners will
be notified by email, telephone, or mail
after the date of the judging.
Privacy
If applicants choose to provide HHS/
CDC with personal information by
registering or filling out the application
form through the Challenge.gov website,
that information will only be used to
respond to contestants in matters
regarding their submission,
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announcements of entrants, finalists,
and winners of the contest. Information
is not collected for commercial
marketing. Winners are permitted to cite
that they won this contest.
General Conditions
CDC reserves the right to cancel,
suspend, and/or modify the Challenge,
or any part of it, for any reason, at CDC’s
sole discretion.
Participation in this Challenge
constitutes an applicants’ full and
unconditional agreement to abide by the
Challenge’s Official Rules found at
https://www.Challenge.gov.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719.
Noah Aleshire,
Chief Regulatory Officer, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services, Health and Human
Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing
an opportunity for the public to
comment on CMS’ intention to collect
information from the public. Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), federal agencies are required to
publish notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each proposed
extension or reinstatement of an existing
collection of information, and to allow
a second opportunity for public
comment on the notice. Interested
persons are invited to send comments
regarding the burden estimate or any
other aspect of this collection of
information, including the necessity and
utility of the proposed information
collection for the proper performance of
the agency’s functions, the accuracy of
the estimated burden, ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected, and the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
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William Parham at (410) 786–4669.
Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), federal agencies
must obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
or sponsor. The term ‘‘collection of
information’’ is defined in 44 U.S.C.
3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c) and
includes agency requests or
requirements that members of the public
submit reports, keep records, or provide
information to a third party. Section
3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)) requires federal agencies
to publish a 30-day notice in the
Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information,
including each proposed extension or
reinstatement of an existing collection
of information, before submitting the
collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, CMS is
publishing this notice that summarizes
the following proposed collection(s) of
information for public comment:
1. Type of Information Collection
Request: Extension without change of a
currently approved collection; Title of
Information Collection: State Collection
and Reporting of Dental Provider and
Benefit Package Information on the
Insure Kids Now! Website and Hotline;
Use: On the Insure Kids Now (IKN)
website, the Secretary is required to post
a current and accurate list of dentists
and providers that provide dental
services to children enrolled in the state
plan (or waiver) under Medicaid or the
state child health plan (or waiver) under
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
[Document Identifiers: CMS–10291, CMS–
10529, CMS–10722, CMS–R–148, and CMS–
10725]
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Comments on the collection(s) of
information must be received by the
OMB desk officer by May 28, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
To obtain copies of a supporting
statement and any related forms for the
proposed collection(s) summarized in
this notice, please access the CMS PRA
website by copying and pasting the
following web address into your web
browser: https://www.cms.gov/
Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/
PaperworkReductionActof1995/PRAListing
DATES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services
SUMMARY:
minimize the information collection
burden.
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CHIP. States collect the information
pertaining to their Medicaid and CHIP
dental benefits. Form Number: CMS–
10291 (OMB control number: 0938–
1065); Frequency: Yearly and quarterly;
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal
Governments; Number of Respondents:
51; Total Annual Responses: 255; Total
Annual Hours: 11,781. (For policy
questions regarding this collection
contact Andrew Snyder at 410–786–
1274.)
2. Type of Information Collection
Request: Extension without change of a
currently approved collection; Title of
Information Collection: Quarterly
Medicaid and CHIP Budget and
Expenditure Reporting for the Medical
Assistance Program, Administration and
CHIP; Use: The Medicaid and CHIP
Financial System is a financial reporting
system that produces budget estimate
statements for Forms CMS–37 and
CMS–21B. The Medicaid and CHIP
Budget and Expenditure System is a
financial reporting system that produces
expenditure statements for Forms CMS–
64 and CMS–21. All forms are to be
filed on a quarterly basis and need to be
certified by the states. Form Number:
CMS–10529 (OMB control number:
0938–1265); Frequency: Quarterly;
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal
Governments; Number of Respondents:
56; Total Annual Responses: 672; Total
Annual Hours: 18,144. (For policy
questions regarding this collection
contact Robert Lane at 410–786–2015.)
3. Type of Information Collection
Request: Revision of a currently
approved collection; Title of
Information Collection: Annual State
Report on CMS Value Based Purchasing
Arrangements (VBP) Supplemental
Rebate Agreements; Use: The reported
data is being collected to safeguard
against unnecessary utilization of such
care and services and to assure that state
payments to providers of Medicaid
services are consistent with efficiency,
economy, and quality of care. CMS will
collect this data to ensure that VBP
programs adopted by states continue to
meet these standards. Form Number:
CMS–10722 (OMB control number:
0938–1385); Frequency: Yearly; Affected
Public: State, Local, or Tribal
Governments; Number of Respondents:
51; Total Annual Responses: 51; Total
Annual Hours: 306. (For policy
questions regarding this collection
contact Abraham Weinschneider at 410–
786–5688.)
4. Type of Information Collection
Request: Extension without change of a
currently approved collection; Title of
Information Collection: Limitations on
Provider Related Donations and Health
Care Related Taxes, Medicaid and
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Announcement of Requirements and Registration for The REACH Lark
Galloway-Gilliam Award for Advancing Health Equity Challenge (REACH
Lark Award Challenge)
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), located
within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announces the
2024 Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Lark
Galloway-Gilliam for Advancing Health Equity Award Challenge (REACH
Lark Award Challenge). This biennial challenge was established in 2019
to recognize extraordinary individuals, organizations, or community
coalitions associated with the REACH program whose work has contributed
to the implementation of culturally tailored interventions that advance
health equity, reduce health disparities, and increase community
engagement to address preventable risk behaviors (e.g., tobacco use,
poor nutrition, and physical inactivity).
DATES: The Challenge will accept applications from April 29, 2024,
through June 21, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stormie Israel, National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy., NE, Mailstop S107-5, Atlanta,
GA 30341, Telephone: 770-488-2964, Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Racial and ethnic disparities in health
remain pervasive across the United States. CDC administers REACH, a
national program that provides funding to State and local health
departments, tribes, universities, and community-based organizations.
Since REACH was established in 1999, the program has demonstrated
success in addressing these disparities and advancing health equity by
engaging with diverse communities and implementing culturally tailored
interventions. For more information about the REACH program, visit
https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/state-local-programs/reach/index.htm.
The intent of this challenge is to recognize individuals,
organizations, or community coalitions associated with
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the REACH program that meaningfully assisted with and carried out
culturally tailored interventions that advance health equity, reduce
health disparities, and increase community engagement to address
preventable risk behaviors (e.g., tobacco use, poor nutrition, physical
inactivity, and inadequate access to clinical services) in populations/
groups disproportionately affected by chronic disease; including,
African American/Black, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian,
Hispanic or Latino, and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
persons. To support the science and practice of improving health
equity, this challenge can help further the goals of the REACH program
by documenting and further disseminating the innovative or unique
interventions employed by individuals, organizations, or community
coalitions applying or nominated for this award.
Subject of Challenge Competition: The CDC's National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion is conducting this
Challenge under the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully
Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science (COMPETES)
Reauthorization Act of 2010, as amended (15 U.S.C. 3719).
The ``applicant'' refers to each individual, organization, or
community coalition that submits an application or nomination. The
``nominee'' refers to each individual or organization/community
coalition who is nominated, whether self-nominated or nominated by a
separate individual or organization.
Applicants will be asked to respond to a series of questions
related to how the nominee assisted with and carried out culturally
tailored interventions to advance health equity, reduce health
disparities, and increase community engagement to address preventable
risk behaviors (e.g., tobacco use, poor nutrition, physical inactivity,
and inadequate access to clinical services) in populations or groups
disproportionately affected by chronic disease, including African
American/Black, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or
Latino, and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander persons.
Award Approving Official: Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, Director,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Administrator, Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Eligibility Rules for Participating in the Challenge
The REACH Lark Award Challenge is open to the public. To be
eligible for this award, nominees must meet the following eligibility
requirements:
(1) Shall have completed the application (for self-nominees) or
have had an application submitted on their behalf (for those nominated
by others) for the competition under the rules promulgated by HHS/CDC;
(2) Shall have complied with all the requirements under this
section and satisfy one of the following requirements:
a. Be a currently or previously funded CDC REACH recipient that has
not previously received the REACH Lark Award in any year; or
b. Be a technical assistance provider to a former or current REACH
recipient (current and past REACH recipients can be found at: https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/state-local-programs/reach/index.htm); or
c. Be a partner organization, part of a partner network, or
coalition members that collaborated on REACH-related work with a
current or previously funded REACH recipient;
(3) Shall not have been a REACH Lark Award Challenge recipient in
any previous year;
(4) Shall be either:
a. A U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident, eighteen years of
age or older, if the nominee is an individual or group of individuals;
or
b. Incorporated in and maintain a primary place of business in the
United States, if the nominee is an entity; where the United States
means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico, and any other territory or possession of the United States;
(5) Shall not be a federal entity or federal employee acting within
the scope of their employment;
(6) Shall not be an employee of or contractor of CDC;
(7) Shall not use federal funds from a grant or cooperative
agreement to develop COMPETES Act challenge applications for this
challenge, if the applicant is a federal grantee;
(8) Shall not use federal funds from a contract to develop COMPETES
Act challenge applications or to fund efforts in support of a COMPETES
Act challenge submission, if the applicant is a federal contractor;
(9) Shall not be deemed ineligible because an individual or team
applicant or nominee used federal facilities or consulted with federal
employees during a competition if the facilities and employees are made
available to all individuals and entities participating in the
competition on an equitable basis.
(10) By participating, the applicant represents, warrants, and
agrees that the entry contains accurate information. If an applicant is
nominating another individual, organization, community coalition (e.g.,
not self-nominating), the applicant must provide acknowledgement in
writing that the nominee consents to being nominated.
(11) Applicants and nominees must agree to be recognized if
selected as a winner and agree to participate in an interview with CDC
staff to provide information that may be used by CDC staff to write a
success story that describes the intervention(s) that advanced health
equity. Winners and their intervention(s) may be recognized, and the
success story may be made public, including but not limited to press
releases, the challenge website, and Division of Nutrition, Physical
Activity, and Obesity and CDC Resources, and other publicly available
platforms (e.g., social media, CDC website, etc.).
(12) By participating in this challenge, applicants agree to assume
any and all risks related to participating in the challenge. Applicants
also agree to waive claims against the federal government and its
related entities, except in the case of willful misconduct, when
participating in the challenge, including claims for injury; death;
damage; or loss of property, money, or profits; and including those
risks caused by negligence or other causes.
Applicants and nominees who are not selected for the award may be
asked for permission for CDC to share information about successful
interventions that promoted health equity on CDC's Division of
Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity website, the CDC website,
social media, or other platform generally with appropriate attribution
to the applicant or nominee.
Registration Process for Participants
To participate and submit an application, interested parties should
go to https://www.challenge.gov. The application requires responses to
questions related to eligibility, followed by three questions related
to the nominee's work; the answer to each of the three questions should
be no longer than 300 words. Applicants can also submit supplemental
materials that demonstrate the nominee's work and/or impact.
Supplemental materials are not to exceed 10 total pages. Examples of
supplementary materials include PDF of online content and other forms
of written materials (e.g., news articles, evaluation reports, or
success stories).
Amount of the Prize
No cash prize will be awarded. A maximum of two applicants (one
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individual and one organization/community coalition) associated with
the REACH program will be a recipient of the 2024 REACH Lark Award.
Recipients of the REACH Lark Award will receive a plaque (``Winner'').
While the winners may be invited to meetings by CDC, attendance at such
events is not required as a condition of accepting the award.
Basis Upon Which Winners Will Be Selected
CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity's
(DNPAO's) Office of Policy Partnerships and Communication (OPPC) will
select three to five judges based on their knowledge of the REACH
program, the science and practice of achieving health equity, and the
elimination of health disparities at the national, state, or local
levels. Judges may include REACH program senior advisors, other CDC
employees, or nonfederal individuals from outside the agency.
Participating as a previous REACH Lark Award judge does not disqualify
an individual or organization from being an award recipient for the
2024 challenge. Conflict of interest issues related to Judges will be
handled, per the COMPETES Act (15 U.S.C. 3719(k)(2)).
Judges will review the applications and select up to two award
recipients (one individual and one organization or community coalition)
from all eligible entries based on:
(1) Community Context and Challenge(s)--The following questions
address the challenges of the community in which the nominee works/
worked. (10 points)
(a) Describe the priority population with whom the nominee worked.
(5 points)
Scoring will be based on the extent to which the nominee worked to
address chronic disease risk factors among priority populations
experiencing health disparities for chronic diseases including the
following: Black or African American people, American Indian/Alaska
Native people, Hispanic or Latino people, Asian people, and/or Native
Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander people.
(b) Describe the preventable risk factors associated with chronic
diseases (hypertension, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and/or obesity)
that the nominee addressed. (5 points)
Scoring will be based on the extent to which the risk factor(s)
addressed align with the REACH program's goals of advancing health
equity. Information about past REACH programs can be found here:
https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/state-local-programs/reach/past_programs/index.htm. Examples of risk factors that align with the
goals of the REACH program include poor nutrition, physical inactivity,
inadequate access to clinical services, and tobacco use.
(c) Describe any relevant additional community characteristics/
challenges that will help the judges understand the context of the
community in which the nominee worked. (Not scored).
(2) Strategies--The following questions pertain to strategies used
by the nominee to address the challenge(s) discussed above. (30 points)
(a) Describe the strategies that the nominee used to address
challenges and how the nominee's work aligns with the CDC REACH
program's goals of advancing health equity. (15 points)
Scoring will be based on the extent to which the nominee's work
contributed to developing, implementing, and/or evaluating strategies
that were:
(1) Evidence-based or practice-based (5 points)
(2) Culturally tailored and designed to reduce health inequities (5
points)
(3) Supportive of policy, systems, and/or environmental change (5
points)
(b) Describe how the nominee's work actively and effectively
engaged members of the community and partners across different sectors,
such as, but not limited to transportation, healthcare, agriculture,
emergency food systems, and faith-based and community-based
organizations. (15 points)
Scoring will be based on the extent to which the nominee engaged
members of the community and partners across different sectors in
identifying and implementing strategies.
(3) Impact--The following questions pertain to the impact of the
nominee's work on addressing preventable risk factors in a
population(s)/group(s) disproportionately affected by chronic diseases.
(20 points)
(a) Describe the impact of the nominee's work on addressing
preventable risk factors in populations/groups disproportionately
affected by chronic diseases. (20 points)
(i) To the extent possible, provide quantitative data that support
impact statements (e.g., number of people served by a strategy, number
of people reporting a behavior change, health outcome data if
available, etc.).
(ii) Provide qualitative data from community members, partners, co-
workers, etc., (e.g., success stories, testimonials, etc.) that provide
insight into the impact of nominee's work.
Scoring will be based on the extent to which the nominee's work
resulted in progress toward addressing preventable risk factors in the
population(s)/group(s) identified in Section 1. While quantitative data
is not required, nominations that include quantitative and qualitative
data are more likely to paint a more complete picture of the nominee's
contributions and their impact on the community.
Judges will use the point system outlined in the judging criteria
above to select the winner(s).
Additional Information
Information about the winners, such as the name and location of the
individual, organization, or community coalition, priority population
served, and health outcomes addressed may be shared through press
releases, the challenge website, and Division of Nutrition, Physical
Activity, and Obesity and CDC Resources, and other publicly available
platforms (e.g., social media, CDC website, etc.) Details regarding the
winners and their applications may be shared with the public as part of
recognition efforts.
The award is named in honor of Lark Galloway-Gilliam, the founding
Executive Director of Community Health Councils, Inc. (CHC). CHC began
in 1992 to support planning, resource development, and policy education
in response to the growing health crisis in the South Los Angeles area
and other under-resourced and marginalized communities throughout Los
Angeles County. Lark led the CHC team to engage communities and
strengthen the connections among organizations to improve health,
eliminate disparities, and advance health equity. Lark also served in
several leadership roles, including the first president of the National
REACH Coalition, the MLK Medical Center Advisory Board, and the
Institute for People, Place, and Possibility (IP3) Board of Directors
for Community Commons.
Compliance with Rules and Contacting Challenge Winners
Applicants, nominees, and the REACH Lark Award Challenge winners
must comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules and
winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements herein. The
winners will be notified by email, telephone, or mail after the date of
the judging.
Privacy
If applicants choose to provide HHS/CDC with personal information
by registering or filling out the application form through the
Challenge.gov website, that information will only be used to respond to
contestants in matters regarding their submission,
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announcements of entrants, finalists, and winners of the contest.
Information is not collected for commercial marketing. Winners are
permitted to cite that they won this contest.
General Conditions
CDC reserves the right to cancel, suspend, and/or modify the
Challenge, or any part of it, for any reason, at CDC's sole discretion.
Participation in this Challenge constitutes an applicants' full and
unconditional agreement to abide by the Challenge's Official Rules
found at https://www.Challenge.gov.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719.
Noah Aleshire,
Chief Regulatory Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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