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Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems:Building Health Through Integration

For online technical assistance in responding to this opportunity, please visit: http://www.hrsa.gov/grants/apply/index.html.

Most Recent Update:

04/29/2013 02:37:16 PM

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Summary:

Funding Opportunity Number:

HRSA-13-177

Forecast ID Number:

HRSA-2013-FCAST-0054

Fiscal Year:

2013

Funding Opportunity Title:

Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems:Building Health Through Integration

CFDA Number:

93.110

Funding Activity Category:

Health (HL)

CFDA Number Description:

Education and Training
Health Services Planning and Technical Assistance
Maternity, Infants, and Children
Specialized Health Research and Training

Funding Instrument Type Code(s):

Grant

Cost Sharing / Matching Requirement:

Recovery Act:

Affordable Care Act (ACA):

Estimated Funding Information:

** Estimated Funding:

$7,410,000

** Expected Number of Awards:

Estimated Award Ceiling:

Estimated Award Floor:

Estimated Milestone Dates:

Estimated Post Date:

03/01/2013

Estimated Application Due Date:

04/26/2013

Estimated Award Date:

06/01/2013

Estimated Start Date:

08/01/2013

Eligibility:

** Eligibility Category:

State governments

County governments
City or township governments
Special district governments
Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Additional Eligibility Information:

As cited in 42 CFR Part 51a.3(a), any public or private entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal organization (as those terms are defined at 25 U.S.C. 450b) is eligible. Faith-based and community-based organizations are also eligible. All applicant

** Description:

This announcement solicits applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2013 Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems: Building Health Through Integration. The purpose of this grant program is to improve the healthy physical, social, and emotional development during infancy and early childhood (birth to three years of age); to eliminate disparities; and to increase access to needed early childhood services by engaging in systems development, integration activities and utilizing a collective impact approach to strengthen communities for families and young children and to improve the quality and availability of early childhood services at both the state and local levels. This program broadens and enhances the efforts of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) programs authorized by section 511 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 711), focusing attention on the needs of our youngest citizens, infants and young children. Applicants have the option to plan, if necessary, and implement one of three strategies: 1) Mitigation of toxic stress and trauma in infancy and early childhood. This strategy should be broadly focused across multiple systems in communities, and coordinated with medical homes, trauma prevention activities, and collective impact approaches; or 2) Coordination of the expansion of developmental screening activities in early care and education settings statewide by connecting pediatric and other child health leaders with child care health consultants to link training and referrals among medical homes, early intervention services, child care programs and families; or 3) Improvement of state infant/toddler child care quality initiatives (State licensing standards/Quality Rating and Improvement Systems [QRIS] and/or professional development) by incorporating 10 or more Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards; Guidelines for Early Care and Education Programs , 3rd ed. (CFOC3) standards focused specially on the infant/toddler age group (see Appendix A). Note: ¿early care and education¿ is inclusive of child care, day care, pre-school, pre-K, kindergarten, Early Head Start, and Head Start programs. For more information on ¿child care health consultants,¿ see http://cfoc.nrckids.org/StandardView/1.6.0.1. This new emphasis on infancy and early childhood builds upon the goals and objectives of earlier Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) initiatives and recent scientific evidence regarding the relationship between early experience, brain development, and long-term health and developmental outcomes. Lifespan trajectories for health, educational achievement and social-emotional sturdiness have their foundations in the earliest experiences, intimately and individually, beginning within the prenatal environment and building through the first months of caregiver-infant interactions. The vision for the future of child health care and the development of comprehensive early childhood systems requires intentional focus on infants and young children assuring health and developmental trajectories by fostering safe and nurturing relationships, and mitigating toxic stress that would otherwise compromise future capacity. All applicants are required to partner with an early childhood state team to include, as appropriate, representatives from programs, projects and professional organizations including but not limited to: health (e.g., Title V, local public health, community health centers, Medicaid, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and their Building Bridges Among Health & Early Childhood Systems Project women¿s health, infant mortality, Healthy Start, Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies); mental and behavioral health (e.g., children¿s mental health, Project LAUNCH, Administration for Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) trauma infor

Federal Agency Contact Information:

Federal Agency:

Department of Health and Human Services

Name:

dena green

Email Address:

dgreen@hrsa.gov

Phone:

(301) 443-9768

OpDiv:

Health Resources & Services Administration

Sub OpDiv:

Maternal and Child Health Bureau

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