Affordable Care Act - Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program

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Affordable Care Act - Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program

 Details of the changes posted in this announcement

Modification published on 07/16/2012 Modified on 7/16: Modification to CCR information throughout the FOA. Modification to the policy requirements in Section VI.2. Administrative and National Policy Requirements. Modification published on 07/12/2012 Modified on 7/12: Modification to footnote 1 in Section I.1. Purpose; modification to the budget period start date in Section V.3. Anticipated Announcement and Award Dates and Section VI.1. Award Notices.

 

 Announcement Information

Announcement Number	HRSA-12-156
Announcement Code
CFDA Number	93.505
Provisional	No
Activity Code	D89
Competitive	Yes
Fiscal Year	2012

 

 Purpose

The purpose of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Competitive Grant program is to award Development Grants to States that currently have modest home visiting programs and want to build on existing efforts. Successful applicants will sufficiently demonstrate the capacity to expand or enhance their evidence-based home visiting programs. The funding provided will build on the formula funding already provided to States and territories to support the quality implementation of home visiting programs. Additionally, this funding opportunity will continue the program's emphasis on rigorous research by grounding the proposed work in relevant empirical literature, and by including requirements to evaluate work proposed under this grant. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2012, approximately $12,000,000 will be available to support competitive Development Grants to eligible States and jurisdictions under the MIECHV program. $125,000,000 will be awarded on a formula basis to grantees funded under HRSA-11-187 for the MIECHV program. Successful applicants will be awarded FY 2012 competitive Development Grant funds, in addition to the FY2012 MIECHV formula based funds. Priority for Serving High-Risk Populations and Programmatic Areas of Emphasis As directed in the legislation , successful applicants will give priority to providing services to the following populations: a) Eligible families who reside in communities in need of such services, as identified in the statewide needs assessment required under subsection (b)(1)(A). b) Low-income eligible families. c) Eligible families who are pregnant women who have not attained age 21. d) Eligible families that have a history of child abuse or neglect or have had interactions with child welfare services. e) Eligible families that have a history of substance abuse or need substance abuse treatment. f) Eligible families that have users of tobacco products in the home. g) Eligible families that are or have children with low student achievement. h) Eligible families with children with developmental delays or disabilities. i) Eligible families who, or that include individuals who, are serving or formerly served in the Armed Forces, including such families that have members of the Armed Forces who have had multiple deployments outside of the United States." In addition, the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) have identified the following programmatic areas of emphasis. Applicants may propose to address one or more of these areas in response to this funding opportunity announcement: o Emphasis 1: Improvements in maternal, child, and family health o Emphasis 2: Effective implementation and expansion of evidence-based home visiting programs or systems with fidelity to the evidence-based model selected o Emphasis 3: Development of statewide or multi-State home visiting programs o Emphasis 4: Development of comprehensive early childhood systems that span the prenatal-through-age-eight continuum o Emphasis 5: Outreach to high-risk and hard-to-engage populations o Emphasis 6: Development of a family-centered approach to home visiting o Emphasis 7: Outreach to families in rural or frontier areas o Emphasis 8: The development of fiscal leveraging strategies to enhance program sustainability For a more detailed description of each area of emphasis, please see Appendix A: MIECHV Programmatic Emphasis Areas.

 

 Legislative Information

Social Security Act, Title V, §511 (42 U.S.C. §711), as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, §2951 (P.L. 111-148).

 

 Application Information

Application Available	07/09/2012
Application Deadline	08/08/2012
Explanation for Deadline	N/A
Archive Date	10/07/2012
Letter of Intent	Not required
Application Package	SF424
FOA Available	Yes
Competitive Application Types Supported	New
Allow Electronic Submission	N/A
Page Limit for Application Attachments	80
Allow Multiple Applications from an Organization from Grants.gov	No
Electronic Submission Instruction	Electronic submission is/will be available in Grants.Gov

 

 General Information

Projected Award Date	09/30/2012
Estimated Project Period	N/A
Estimated Project Start Date	09/30/2012
Estimated Project End Date	09/29/2014
Estimated Amount of this Competition	$12,000,000.00
Estimated Number of Awards	8
Estimated Average Size of Awards	N/A
Cost Sharing	No
Cooperative Agreement	No

 

 Contact Information

Name	Audrey M. Yowell, PhD, MSSS
Email	ayowell@hrsa.gov
Phone Number	3014434292

 

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Document Name	Size	Date Attached	Description
HRSA-12-156 Final with Mods 7-16-12.pdf	426 kB	07/16/2012

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