[Federal Register: May 14, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 94)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Enhancing State Capacity to Address Child and Adolescent Health
through Violence Prevention
Announcement Type: New.
Funding Opportunity Number: 04145.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.136.
Key Dates:
Letter of Intent Deadline: June 1, 2004.
Application Deadline: June 14, 2004.
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Authority: This program is authorized under section 317(k)
(2)(D) of the Public Health Service Act, (42 U.S.C. 247b(k)(2)(D))
as amended.
Purpose: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
announces the availability of a fiscal year (FY) 2004 cooperative
agreement. The purpose of this program is to develop capacity and
leadership in preventing the perpetration of violence toward or among
children and adolescents so it is raised as a public health priority.
Cooperative agreements will be awarded through a phased-in process. The
Planning Phase will provide assistance for the development of strategic
plans that address shared risk reduction and protective factors that
foster change in societal norms or environmental conditions that
contribute to violence. The Implementation Phase, depending on
availability of funds, will allow recipients to implement one or more
priority strategy identified in the strategic plan.
For the purpose of this RFA, the types of violence prevention to be
addressed include: self-directed (youth suicide) and interpersonal
(child maltreatment, teen dating, sexual violence, school violence,
community violence and bullying). Research suggests that these forms of
violence share risk and protective factors. The ecological model
presented in the World Report on Violence and Health (Krug et al.,
2002) identifies levels of influence (individual, relationship,
community and societal) for strategies to address risk and protective
factors. The planning and implementation phases of this project should
address the intersection of shared risk and protective factors for
these forms of violence. Efforts to prevent perpetration of violence
toward or among children and adolescents should include activities that
address the individual, relationship, community, and societal factors
of potential perpetrators, bystanders, and victims.
For the remainder of this RFA, whenever the term state health
agency appears, it also refers to federally recognized Indian tribal
governments and U.S. territories.
The specific purposes of this funding are to:
1. Provide an opportunity for health agencies to take a leadership
role in addressing violence prevention so that it is raised as a public
health priority.
2. Foster effective collaborations that respond to emerging policy
and program issues related to preventing the perpetration of violence
toward or among children and adolescents.
3. Identify and prioritize data-driven solutions that lead to the
prevention of violence perpetrated toward or among children and
adolescents.
a. Identify key data elements that provide compelling evidence on
the impact of self-directed and interpersonal violence on individuals,
families, communities, and society.
b. Identify data that characterize and measure risk and protective
factors across the ecological model's spheres of influence (i.e.
individual, relationship, community and societal factors).
c. Identify gaps in data, and work with partners to determine how
best to address these data needs.
4. Identify specific opportunities and challenges to promote
perpetration prevention strategies; propose and implement culturally
relevant perpetration prevention initiatives that address shared risk
and protective factors for the prevention of violence perpetrated
toward or among children and adolescents; and address specific
underserved populations, including racial/ethnic, gay/lesbian/
transgender, rural, urban, disabled, and other identified underserved
populations such as homeless and school dropouts.
This program addresses the ``Healthy People 2010'' focus area 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 health
agencies to address the prevention of injuries and deaths caused by the
perpetration of violence toward or among children and adolescents.
For the purposes of this program announcement the following
definitions apply:
Prevention: population-based and/or environmental/system level
strategies, policies and action that prevent violence from initially
occurring. Prevention efforts work to modify and/or entirely eliminate
the event, conditions, situations, or exposure to influences (risk
factors) that result in the initiation of violence and associated
injuries, disabilities, and deaths. Additionally, prevention efforts
seek to identify and enhance protective factors that may prevent
violence, not only in at-risk populations but also in the community at
large. Prevention efforts for violence perpetrated toward and among
children and adolescents include activities that are aimed at
addressing the individual, relationship, community, and societal
factors of potential perpetrators, bystanders, and victims.
Intervention: Services, policies and actions provided after
violence perpetrated toward or among children and adolescents have
occurred and may have the advantageous effect of preventing a re-
occurrence of violence.
Activities
Planning Phase activities for this program are as follows:
1. Develop, expand, and/or maintain a Child and Adolescent Violence
Prevention Work Group that will:
a. Represent a cross-section of agencies and organizations
committed to using a public health approach; work group members should
have expertise and experience working to prevent the perpetration of
violence toward and among children and adolescents.
b. Assist in identifying child and adolescent violence prevention
programs, policies, research and data sources.
c. Obtain additional support and seek resources to sustain
implementation of recommendations detailed in the strategic plan.
d. Assist in developing strategies to disseminate, promote and
encourage adoption of the strategic plan as a blueprint for state and
local stakeholders.
2. Prepare a state report card on risk and protective factors
associated with the prevention of violence perpetrated toward or among
children and adolescents:
a. Conduct a statewide inventory of programs working to prevent the
perpetration of violence toward or among children and adolescents (at
minimum, the inventory should include the number of prevention
programs, intended audience, content, and resources devoted to the
programs).
b. Conduct an assessment of policies focused on preventing the
perpetration of violence toward or among children and adolescents.
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c. Conduct an assessment of state-level data sources that identify
violent incidents perpetrated toward or among children and adolescents,
including non-traditional data sources such as surveys, stakeholder
interviews, and focus groups.
d. Conduct an assessment to determine the level of commitment,
interest and readiness to fully engage in efforts to prevent the
perpetration of violence toward or among children and adolescents.
3. Identify issues and strategies that will facilitate support for
sustaining and enhancing perpetration prevention activities by
addressing the following:
a. Ongoing collaboration and community involvement.
b. Ongoing commitment.
c. Ongoing communication.
d. Evaluation.
4. Produce and publish a strategic plan that delineates shared risk
and protective factors, and identifies strategies that address
ecological factors that influence and prevent violence. Specifically,
the plan must provide strategies that address individual, relationship,
community and societal factors. In addition, the strategic plan should
include a logic model and time-phased implementation strategies.
5. Collaborate with CDC and other awardees on an ongoing basis
through conference calls and traveling to required awardee meetings.
6. Submit required reports to CDC as scheduled.
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:
1. Provide updated information related to the purposes of this
program announcement.
2. Provide technical assistance and consultation in the
development, dissemination, and promotion of the strategic plan to
prevent the perpetration of violence toward or among children and
adolescents.
3. Coordinate information sharing among relevant CDC awardees and
partners.
4. Provide consultation to assist in implementing data-driven
planning strategies.
5. Compile and disseminate lessons learned to assist with future
efforts to prevent the perpetration of violence.
II. Award Information
Type of Award: Cooperative Agreement.
CDC involvement in this program is listed in the Activities Section
above.
Fiscal Year Funds: 2004
Approximate Total Funding: $600,000.
Approximate Number of Awards: 6-12 awards.
Approximate Average Award: $75,000.
Floor of Award Range: $50,000.
Ceiling of Award Range: $100,000.
Anticipated Award Date: August 15, 2004.
Budget Period Length: 12 months.
Project Period Length: Two 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 recipient (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
Eligible applicants will be state health departments, including the
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin
Islands, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa,
Guam, Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall
Islands, the Republic of Palau, and federally recognized Indian tribal
governments.
Eligible applicants are strongly encouraged to collaborate with
other state agencies, injury/violence prevention coalitions and other
stakeholders to develop and submit one application per state. The
program will fund only one application per state. Applications from
federally recognized Indian tribal governments will be considered
separately.
III.2. Cost Sharing or Matching
Matching funds are not required for this program.
III.3. Other Eligibility Requirements
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 in the review process.
If your application is incomplete or non-responsive to the
requirements listed below, it will not be entered into the review
process. You will be notified that your application did not meet the
submission requirements.
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. Forms are available on the CDC Web site, at the following
Internet address: http://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.
IV.2. Content and Form of Submission
Letter of Intent (LOI)
Your LOI must be written in the following format:
Maximum number of pages: Two.
Font size: 12-point unreduced.
Paper size: 8.5 by 11 inches.
Single spaced.
Page margin size: One inch.
Printed only on one side of page.
Written in plain language, avoid jargon.
Your LOI must contain the following information:
Number and title of this Program Announcement (PA 04145).
Partners within the state health agency that will
collaborate to develop this application.
Application: You must include a project narrative with your
application forms. Your 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 of the application, which are
within the page limit, 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. (e.g. do not use staples).
The narrative should address activities to be conducted over the
two-year project period, and must include the following items in the
order listed:
Abstract (one-page summary of the application, does not
count towards page limit).
Work Plan, Goals, and Objectives.
Relevant Experience.
Capacity and Staffing.
Collaboration.
Dissemination Plan.
Evaluation.
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Measures of Effectiveness.
Proposed Budget and Justification (does not count towards
page limit).
Additional information may be included in the application
appendices. The appendices will not be counted toward the narrative
page limit. This additional information includes:
Curriculum Vitaes.
Job Descriptions.
Resumes.
Organizational Charts.
Letters of Support, etc.
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 http://www.dunandbradstreet.com or call 1-866-705-5711.
For more information, see the CDC Web site at: http://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
LOI Deadline Date: June 1, 2004.
CDC requests that you send a LOI if you intend to apply for this
program. Although the LOI is not required, not binding, and does not
enter into the review of your subsequent application, the LOI will be
used to gauge the level of interest in this program, and to allow CDC
to plan the application review.
Application Deadline Date: June 14, 2004.
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 send your application by the United States Postal Service
or commercial delivery service, you must ensure that the carrier will
be able to guarantee delivery of the application by the closing date
and time. If CDC receives your application 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 carriers guarantee. If the documentation
verifies a carrier problem, CDC will consider the application as having
been received by the deadline.
This program announcement is the definitive guide on application
submission address and deadline. It supersedes information provided in
the application instructions. If your application 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.
CDC will not notify you upon receipt of your application. If you
have a question about the receipt of your 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 application deadline. This will allow time for applications 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: cooperative agreement funds for this project
cannot be used for construction, renovation, the lease of passenger
vehicles, the development of major software applications, or
supplanting current applicant expenditures.
If you are requesting indirect costs in your budget, you must
include a copy of your indirect cost rate agreement. If your indirect
cost rate is a provisional rate, the agreement must be less than 12
months of age.
Guidance for completing your budget can be found on the CDC Web
site, at the following Internet address: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/budgetguide.htm
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IV.6. Other Submission Requirements
LOI Submission Address: Submit your LOI by express mail, delivery
service, fax, or E-mail to: Neil Rainford, Project Officer, 2939
Flowers Road South, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone: 770-488-1122, Fax:
770-488-1360, E-mail: Nrainford@cdc.gov.
Application Submission Address: Submit the original and two hard
copies of your application by mail or express delivery service to:
Technical Information Management-PA 04145, CDC Procurement and Grants
Office, 2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA 30341.
Applications may not be submitted electronically at this time.
V. Application Review Information
V.1. Criteria
You 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 goals stated in the ``Purpose'' section of this
announcement. Measures must be objective and quantitative, and must
measure the intended outcome. These measures of effectiveness must be
submitted with the application and will be an element of evaluation.
Your application will be evaluated against the following criteria:
1. Work Plan, Goals and Objectives (25 Points)
a. Does the applicant include a detailed work plan, including a
time-line?
b. Does the work plan include goals and objectives that are
specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-phased?
c. Does the applicant provide details about how the inventory of
prevention programs will be achieved? Does the applicant include how
the assessment of relevant state policies and data sources will be
compiled? Does the applicant describe how the inventory and assessment
will be integrated into the state report card?
d. Does the applicant provide a description of how the state
strategic plan will be produced and published?
2. Relevant Experience (20 Points)
a. Does the applicant demonstrate experience coordinating,
collaborating and providing leadership on a state level with regard to
preventing violence perpetrated toward or among children and
adolescents?
b. Does the applicant demonstrate experience in collecting and
analyzing violence related data?
c. Does the applicant demonstrate experience developing violence
prevention strategic plans?
d. Does the applicant demonstrate experience in establishing and
managing state advisory boards or working groups focused on a violence
prevention topic?
e. Does the applicant demonstrate experience in compiling,
synthesizing and disseminating statewide strategic plans and evaluation
findings through a variety of mediums to key stakeholders,
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including policy makers, public health officials and/or community-based
organizations?
f. Does the applicant demonstrate experience identifying and
prioritizing data-driven solutions that lead to the prevention of
violence?
g. Does the applicant demonstrate a commitment to inclusiveness and
diversity?
3. Capacity and Staffing (15 Points)
a. Does the applicant demonstrate an existing capacity and
infrastructure to carry out the required activities in the cooperative
agreement?
b. Does the applicant describe the responsibilities of individual
staff members, levels of effort and allocation of time?
c. Does the applicant clearly describe project staff and their
relevant skills/expertise for their assigned position?
d. Does the applicant include an organizational chart?
4. Collaboration (15 Points)
a. Does the applicant demonstrate a willingness to collaborate with
other CDC awardees and partners?
b. Does the applicant demonstrate a successful history of
collaborating effectively with organizations at the local, state and
national levels?
c. Does the applicant include letters of support and/or memoranda
of agreement from national and state child and adolescent violence
prevention organizations, research and/or academic experts/
institutions, and other relevant agencies and organizations, including
public health agencies and organizations that work to prevent the
perpetration of violence toward or among children and adolescents?
d. Does the applicant demonstrate that this project will be a
collaborative effort that includes other state level entities (e.g.,
State Department of Education, other divisions of the state health
agency, not-for-profit organizations, and academic institutions)?
e. Does the applicant provide a clear description of the
composition, role and degree of involvement of the work group? Does the
applicant indicate plans to identify work group members that represent
a broad range of disciplines, as well as organizations that target
diverse populations?
5. Dissemination Plan (15 Points)
a. Does the applicant provide a plan to disseminate the strategic
plan?
b. Does the applicant provide details about strategies to obtain
support for the strategic plan from key stakeholders and public
officials?
c. Does the applicant describe how the state strategic plan will be
utilized?
6. Evaluation (10 Points)
Does the applicant provide a detailed description of the methods to
be used to evaluate the Planning Phase?
7. Measures of Effectiveness (Not Scored)
Does the applicant provide objective/quantifiable measures
regarding the intended outcomes that will demonstrate the
accomplishment of the various identified objectives of the cooperative
agreement?
8. Proposed Budget and Justification (Not Scored)
Does the applicant provide a detailed budget with complete line-
item justification of all proposed costs consistent with the stated
activities in the program announcement? Details must include a
breakdown in the categories of personnel (with time allocations for
each), staff travel, communications and postage, equipment, supplies,
and any other costs? Does the budget projection include a narrative
justification for all requested costs? Any sources of additional
funding beyond the amount stipulated in this cooperative agreement
should be indicated, including donated time or services. For each
expense category, the budget should indicate CDC share, the applicant
share and any other support. These funds should not be used to supplant
existing efforts.
V.2. Review and Selection Process
Applications will be reviewed for completeness by the Procurement
and Grants Office (PGO) staff, and for responsiveness by NCIPC.
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 your application according
to the criteria listed in the ``V.1. Criteria'' section above.
V.3. Anticipated Announcement Award Date
September 30, 2004.
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 recipient and CDC. The NGA
will be signed by an authorized Grants Management Officer, and mailed
to the recipient 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: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html.
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.
Additional information on these requirements can be found on the
CDC web site at the following Internet address: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/ARs.htm
.
Projects that involve the collection of information from ten or
more individuals and funded by cooperative agreement will be subject to
review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork
Reduction Act.
VI.3. Reporting Requirements
You must provide CDC with an original, plus two hard copies of the
following reports:
1. Interim progress report, 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.
b. Current Budget Period Financial Progress.
c. New Budget Period Program Proposed Activity Objectives.
d. Detailed Line-Item Budget and Justification.
e. Additional Requested Information.
f. Measures of Effectiveness.
2. Financial status report, no more than 90 days after the end of
the budget period.
3. 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
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Specialist listed in the ``Agency Contacts'' section of this
announcement.
VII. Agency Contacts
For general questions about this announcement, 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: Neil Rainford, Project
Officer, 4770 Buford Hwy., NE., MS-K60, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724,
Telephone: 770-488-1122, E-mail: NRainford@cdc.gov.
For financial, grants management, or budget assistance, contact:
Nancy Pillar, Grants Management Specialist, CDC Procurement and Grants
Office, 2920 Brandywine Road, Suite 3000, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone:
770-488-2721, E-mail: NPillar@cdc.gov.
Dated: May 10, 2004.
William P. Nichols,
Acting Director, Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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