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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through
Alliances (DELTA) Program
Announcement Type: New.
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA 05039.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.136.
Key Dates:
Application Deadline: April 26, 2005.
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Authority: U.S. Code Title 42 Chapter 110 Section 10418
Demonstration Grants for Community Initiatives.
Background: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): The long-term (10+
years) health impact of the Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement
and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA) Program is a reduction in the
incidence (i.e., number of new cases) of IPV in
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communities that receive DELTA funding and support. The definition of
IPV that informs the DELTA Program derives from two CDC publications
Intimate Partner Violence Surveillance: Uniform Definitions and
Recommended Data Elements (Saltzman, Fanslow, McMahon, & Shelley, 1999)
and the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 49 (2000). Specifically,
these definitions define IPV as including physical violence, sexual
violence, threats of physical or sexual violence, psychological/
emotional abuse and stalking. The types of intimate partnerships
included are current spouses, former spouses, current non-marital
partners, and former non-marital partners. There is no minimum time
requirement for a relationship to be considered an intimate partner
relationship as first dates and long-term boyfriend and girlfriend
relationships are included under the term non-marital partners.
Additionally, being an intimate partner does not require current
cohabitation or sexual activities between two individuals. Intimate
partners may also be of the same-sex or opposite sex. Many
practitioners and researchers use the term domestic violence rather
than the term intimate partner violence to refer to the same public
health problem. However, the DELTA Program uses the term intimate
partner violence to clarify that this program does not address other
public health problems that are also referred to as domestic violence
(i.e., child abuse and elder abuse by relatives other than an intimate
partner).
Research has indicated that IPV exists on a continuum from episodic
violence to battering (Johnson, 1995). Battering IPV occurs when one
partner seeks to develop and maintain power and control over the other
partner, while episodic violence occurs with less frequency and
intensity than battering IPV, and does not include one partner seeking
to develop and maintain power and control over the other partner. DELTA
seeks to address the entire continuum of IPV, not just the type of IPV
referred to as battering.
The magnitude of the public health problem of IPV in the United
States can be understood in terms of fatalities and assaults. The
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (2001) Supplemental Homicide
Reports indicate that in 1999 more than 1,600 women and men died at the
hands of an intimate partner. Of these homicides, more than 1,200 or 75
percent were women. The IPV homicides represented 10.6 percent of all
homicides in the United States, 32.1 percent of all female homicides,
and 3.6 percent of all male homicides that year. In terms of nonfatal
assaults, Tjaden and Thoennes (2000) estimate, based on data from the
National Violence Against Women Survey, 25 million women and 7 million
men have experienced an IPV assault at some point in their lives, where
IPV assault includes physical assaults, rape and stalking behavior.
Coordinated Community Responses (CCR): Initial efforts to address
IPV in the United States focused on developing stand-alone
interventions such as battered women's shelters, protective order
projects, and mandatory arrest policies (American Prosecutors Research
Institute & National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges,
1998). The lack of coordination among stand-alone projects often had
the unintended consequence of decreasing rather than increasing a
victim's safety. For instance, a pro-arrest policy by a police
department might be undermined by a lack of pro-prosecution policy by
the prosecutor's office. In this case, the perpetrator may use violence
against his partner with the knowledge that he will experience the
minor consequence of arrest and a night in jail rather than the more
severe consequence of long-term probation and/or prison as the
prosecutor will refuse to prosecute the case. Accordingly, in the late
1970s and early 1980s the CCR model, or local IPV coordinating
coalition, was developed to coordinate a community's public and private
IPV intervention resources and services. The CCR definition that
informs the DELTA Program is: an organized effort, representing diverse
service sectors (e.g., public health, victim services and law
enforcement, faith) and populations of a local community, to prevent
and intervene in IPV. CCRs work to integrate prevention and
intervention strategies and services through increased communications,
cooperation, and coordination between participating service sector and
populations. A CCR may be formally organized (i.e., operating as a
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization or as a government council) or
informally organized (i.e. operating without legal status as a group of
concerned citizens). Task forces, coordinating councils, and coalitions
operating within a defined geographical area to coordinate services
that prevent or intervene in IPV are considered to be CCRs.
Prevention: As noted above, when developed two decades ago, CCRs
were initially organized to coordinate local community IPV intervention
services. Today, they still maintain a focus on intervening in IPV or
reducing the number of re-assaults, rather than preventing IPV from
initially occurring. Thus, the DELTA Program seeks to integrate
prevention principles, concepts and practices into local CCRs that
address IPV, such that the incidence of IPV (i.e., number of new cases)
is reduced. These prevention principles, concepts and practices include
the following:
Preventing first-time perpetration and first-time
victimization,
Reducing risk-factors associated with IPV perpetration or
victimization,
Promoting protective-factors that reduce the likelihood of
IPV perpetration or victimization,
Evidence-based prevention program planning,
Use of behavior and social change theories in prevention
program planning,
Addressing all levels of the social ecology (i.e.
individual, relationship, community, and society) in prevention program
planning and evaluation,
Evaluating prevention programs and activities and using
results to inform future prevention plans, programs and activities.
DELTA Structure: To develop the DELTA Program structure, the
research literature on community coalitions and CCRs was reviewed.
Specifically, Florin, Mitchell and Stevenson (1993) note that when
there are multiple local coalitions addressing the same health issue
within the same state, an organization, known as an intermediary
organization, is needed. An organization with statewide reach and
influence is needed to provide these local coalitions with training,
individualized technical assistance, and funding in order to support
their development and adoption of state-of-the-field practices. In the
case of DELTA, an intermediary organization is needed to provide
training, technical assistance and funding to CCRs to support their
adoption of state-of-the-field IPV prevention principles, concepts and
practices. Thus, the DELTA Program seeks to fund one nonprofit
organization per state to provide prevention-focused training,
technical assistance, and funding to local CCRs throughout its state.
As CDC's environmental scan of CCRs operating in 14 states revealed
that most CCRs are not formally organized, a local nonprofit
organization in each community will act as the fiscal agent to receive
local DELTA funding that will support the local CCR's adoption of
prevention practices, concepts and practices. In order to receive DELTA
funding, cooperative agreement applicants must have at least 18 months
experience in providing prevention focused training and technical
assistance to, and at least 12 months monitoring and funding of local
CCRs,
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as this RFA is not intended to support initial capacity building in
these areas. Local fiscal agents and their respective CCRs are required
to have at least 12 months of prevention program planning experience,
as this RFA is not intended to support initial prevention program
planning capacity-building efforts at the local level.
The structure of the DELTA Program requires applicants to contract
with an evaluator. This evaluator will be expected to cooperate with
the CDC's cross-site evaluator, adhere to the steps and terminology in
the CDC's publication ``Framework for Program Evaluation in Public
Health,'' and work from an ``empowerment evaluation'' framework to:
Assist in the development of the state-level Intimate
Partner Progress Report and Prevention Plan.
Assist local fiscal agents and their CCRs in their
development of an Intimate Partner Violence Progress Report and
Prevention Plan.
Increase state and local capacity regarding evidence-based
planning, use of behavior change and social change theories, and
evaluation by teaching and supporting DELTA participants in the use of
these concepts as they develop their Intimate Partner Violence Progress
Report and Prevention Plan.
Leave an infrastructure of training materials, databases,
report templates, data collection protocols, etc. such that state and
local levels are poised to update their Intimate Partner Violence
Progress Report and Prevention Plan on a bi-annual basis.
Purpose: The purpose of the DELTA program is to integrate
prevention principles, concepts and practices into local CCRs that
address IPV, such that the incidence of IPV (i.e., number of new cases)
is reduced. This program addresses the ``Healthy People 2010'' focus
area(s) 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 injury
prevention and control programs to address prevention of injuries and
violence.
This announcement is only for non-research activities supported by
CDC/ATSDR. If research is proposed, the application will not be
reviewed. For the definition of research, please see the CDC Web site
at the following Internet address: http://www.cdc.gov/od/ads/opspoll1.htm
.
Activities:
Awardee activities for this program are as follows:
Activities to build capacity in local CCRs:
Provide prevention-focused training, technical assistance
and funding to local CCRs and their fiscal agents. Prevention-focused
training and technical assistance may be provided to local CCRs and
other local programs that are not direct beneficiaries of DELTA Program
funding, but this training and technical assistance should not divert
resources from full support of CCRs and their fiscal agents that
receive DELTA support. Prevention-focused training and technical
assistance should meet the definition of prevention principles,
concepts and practices listed in Section I.
Provide training and technical assistance to local CCRs
and their fiscal agents on the topics of community organization, CCR
development and maintenance, and strategic planning. This type of
training and technical assistance may be provided to local CCRs and
other local programs that are not direct beneficiaries of DELTA Program
funding, but this training and technical assistance should not divert
resources from the full support of CCRs and fiscal agents that receive
DELTA support.
Contract with an in-state evaluator to support local CCRs
and their fiscal agents in the development of their Intimate Partner
Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan.
Assist and monitor local DELTA CCRs and their fiscal
agents in the development and publication of an Intimate Partner
Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan by March 30, 2008. The
development of this publication is a requirement for local fiscal
agents and local CCRs that receive DELTA Program funding. Local CCRs
and their fiscal agents should be poised to update and revise this
publication on a bi-annual basis as this activity is intended to
increase the local CCR's capacity and continued use of prevention
principles, concepts and practices, especially evidence-based planning,
behavior change theories, and evaluation.
Assist local fiscal agents in institutionalizing
prevention principles, concepts and practices within their own agencies
beyond the knowledge and skills of the staff member(s) responsible for
the local implementation of the DELTA Program.
Activities to build capacity within Applicant's Organization:
Participate in training and technical assistance
activities and opportunities directly related to the DELTA Program
provided by CDC and training and technical assistance activities and
opportunities indirectly related to the DELTA Program (i.e., UNC
PREVENT) where appropriate and feasible.
Institutionalize prevention principles, concepts and
practices within applicant's own organization beyond the knowledge and
skills of the DELTA Program staff member.
Monitor progress of local CCRs and their fiscal agents
receiving DELTA Program funding.
Attend and participate in technical assistance and
planning meetings coordinated by CDC for all DELTA Program cooperative
agreement applicants.
Compile and disseminate DELTA Program results within their
state.
Activities to Build Capacity Across Applicant's State:
Organize and facilitate a DELTA Steering Committee to
develop and publish a state-level Intimate Partner Violence Progress
Report and Prevention Plan by June 30, 2008. The Steering committee
should be representative of the racial, ethnic and gender diversity
within the state. As prevention of perpetration of IPV by men is a
priority area for the Division of Violence Prevention due to research
indicating that the majority of IPV is perpetrated by men, the Steering
Committee should include individuals who can inform the development and
implementation of prevention activities and programs directed at men
and boys. CDC considers the participation of state health department
staff who oversee violence against women programs in the Steering
Committee and in the development of this report as paramount.
Contract with an in-state evaluator to support the DELTA
Steering Committee in the development of the state-level Intimate
Partner Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan.
Activities to build capacity across the nation:
Collaborate with the CDC, other DELTA cooperative
agreement applicants, and the CDC-selected evaluation/training
contractors in establishing mutually-agreed upon goals and objectives;
the development and implementation of the cross-site evaluation and the
translation of prevention practices; concepts, and principles for use
by local CCRs and local fiscal agents.
Disseminate DELTA prevention principles, concepts and
practices and lessons learned by presenting at a minimum of one state-
wide conference that addresses IPV in other non-DELTA states in Program
Periods two or three.
Disseminate DELTA prevention principles, concepts and
practices and
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lessons learned by presenting at a minimum of one national conference
that addresses IPV in Program Periods two or three.
Attend and participate in the National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control Conference in Washington, DC in 2007.
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:
Participate in the translation and/or identification of
prevention principles, concepts, practices, and measures into
prevention-focused evidenced-based planning, activities, strategies,
policies and evaluation practices that can be integrated into the CCR
model.
Provide guidance on how to hire an evaluation contractor
and approving the hire of applicant's evaluation contractor.
Approve the staff and contractors funded through the DELTA
Program.
Contract with a third-party to conduct a cross-site
evaluation.
Coordinate capacity-building prevention-focused training
and technical assistance for DELTA grantees by contracting with a
third-party(ies).
Provide assistance in the management and technical
performance of the implementation of prevention principles, concepts,
practices, leadership, activities, strategies and policies at the state
and local level.
Arrange for information sharing among DELTA grantees.
Analyze cross-site evaluation/research information for
presentation and publication.
II. Award Information
Type of Award: Cooperative Agreement.
CDC anticipates funding this Program Announcement in two cycles
depending on availability of funds.
Cycle 1: Fiscal Year Funds: 2005.
Approximate Total Funding: $1.6 million. (This amount is an
estimate, and is subject to availability of funds.)
Approximate Number of Awards: 9.
Approximate Average Award: $187,000. (This amount is for the first
12-month budget period, and includes both direct and indirect costs.)
Floor of Award Range: $125,000. (CDC will not make an award smaller
than the floor amount.)
Ceiling of Award Range: $220,000. (This ceiling is for the first
12-month budget period. CDC will not make an award for larger than the
ceiling amount.)
Cycle 2: Fiscal Year Funds: 2006.
Approximate Total Funding: $1,070,000. (This amount is an estimate,
and is subject to availability of funds.)
Approximate Number of Awards: 5.
Approximate Average Award: $214,000. (This amount is for the first
12-month budget period, and includes both direct and indirect costs.)
Floor of Award Range: $168,000. (CDC will not make an award smaller
than the floor amount.)
Ceiling of Award Range: $255,000. (This ceiling is for the first
12-month budget period. CDC will not make an award for larger than the
ceiling amount.)
Anticipated Award Date(s): September 30, 2005 (Cycle 1) and January
30, 2006 (Cycle 2).
Budget Period Length: 12 months.
Project Period Length: Three 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 applicant (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
Applications may be submitted by nonprofit private organizations
that are current recipients of the Domestic Violence Prevention
Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA) Program, funding
opportunity number 02122. The authorizing statute, 42 U.S.C. 10418,
requires that funding shall only be awarded to nonprofit private
organizations organized for the purpose of coordinating community
projects for the intervention and prevention of domestic violence. Only
one application per state will be awarded.
The competition for this cooperative agreement is being limited to
current DELTA Program recipients for the following reasons:
1. The three-year program period of the DELTA Program, funding
opportunity number 02122, was a planning period where CDC, DELTA
grantees, local fiscal agents and CCRs developed the prevention
framework that is to be integrated into the coordinated community
response model.
2. The three year program period for this current DELTA cooperative
agreement will be an implementation and evaluation period where DELTA
grantees, local fiscal agents and CCRs start implementing the
prevention framework and evaluating their results.
3. The evaluation for the DELTA Program, funding opportunity number
02122, is a dissemination evaluation that is assessing the development
of prevention capacity within CCRs. The valid measure of prevention
capacity building relies on local CCRs being given the opportunity to
implement and evaluate their prevention efforts. Thus, a second program
period of three years is needed in order for the evaluation to produce
reliable, valid and useful results that can inform the field.
As CDC's environmental scan of CCRs operating in 14 states revealed
that most CCRs are not formally organized, a local nonprofit
organization in each community will act as the fiscal agent to receive
local DELTA funding that will support the local CCR's adoption of
prevention practices, concepts and practices. In order to receive DELTA
funding, cooperative agreement applicants must have at least 18 months
experience in providing prevention focused training and technical
assistance to, and at least 12 months monitoring and funding of local
CCRs, as this RFA is not intended to support initial capacity building
in these areas. Local fiscal agents and their respective CCRs are
required to have at least 12 months of prevention program planning
experience, as this RFA is not intended to support initial prevention
program planning capacity-building efforts at the local level. These
fiscal agents shall be member agencies of their respective CCRs and
understand that the DELTA Program is to be community-owned by the CCR
and not agency-driven by the fiscal agent.
III.2. Cost Sharing or Matching
The DELTA Program project period is three years. For the third year
of this project period, DELTA cooperative agreement applicants will be
required to cost share or match 15 percent of the program's cost. This
is a fixed percentage and is non-negotiable. As cost sharing or
matching is not required until the third year of the project period,
the applicant's documentation verifying their ability to meet this
requirement is not a responsiveness criterion (i.e., applications that
do not propose matching or cost sharing as specified will not be
returned without review). Thus, an applicants' documentation verifying
their ability to meet this requirement is not included in the
evaluation criteria and applicants are not asked to provide any pre-
award documentation verifying their ability to meet this cost sharing/
matching requirement. The applicant will be expected to meet at least
half of the 15 percent cost share or match requirement through cash
contributions. In-kind contributions may provide no more than
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half of the 15 percent cost share or match requirement.
The regulatory basis for the cost share or matching is 45 CFR parts
74 and 92 as interpreted in the Awarding Agency Grants Administration
Manual 3.02.102-3A.1.
By requiring a 15 percent cost share or match during the final year
of the project period, CDC seeks to encourage DELTA cooperative
agreement applicants to identify community and state resources that can
sustain DELTA activities within the state once the three year DELTA
Program period ends. As CDC is only requiring a 15 percent cost share
or match, CDC believes this will not unduly burden DELTA cooperative
agreement applicants, while encouraging them to actively plan the
sustainability of the DELTA Program within their state. CDC also
believes that the DELTA Program within each state will have a greater
likelihood of success if cooperative agreement applicants contribute to
the costs of the project by obtaining state and local support.
III.3. Other
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 into the review process. You will be notified that
your application did not meet the submission requirements.
Special Requirements
If your application is incomplete or non-responsive to the special
requirements listed in this section, it will not be entered into the
review process. You will be notified that your application did not meet
submission requirements.
Late applications will be considered non-responsive. See
section ``IV.3. Submission Dates and Times'' for more information on
deadlines.
Non-profit 501 (c)(3) status--provide copy of IRS
determination letter with application.
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
5161-1.
Electronic Submission: CDC strongly encourages you to submit your
application electronically by utilizing the forms and instructions
posted for this announcement on http://www.Grants.gov, the official
Federal agency wide E-grant Web site. Only applicants who apply online
are permitted to forego paper copy submission of all application forms.
Paper Submission: Application forms and instructions 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.
Program Technical Assistance Conference Call
There will be a Program Technical Assistance Conference Call on
Thursday, March 3, 2005 from 3-4:30 p.m. EST. Please e-mail Pam Cox at
pcox@cdc.gov by February 28, 2005 to request the conference call number
and code. The conference call number and code will be provided via e-
mail.
IV.2. Content and Form of Submission Application
Electronic Submission: You may submit your application
electronically at: http://www.grants.gov. Applications completed online
through Grants.gov are considered formally submitted when the applicant
organization's Authorizing Official electronically submits the
application to http://www.grants.gov. Electronic applications will be
considered as having met the deadline if the application has been
submitted electronically by the applicant organization's Authorizing
Official to Grants.gov on or before the deadline date and time.
It is strongly recommended that you submit your grant application
using Microsoft Office products (e.g., Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel,
etc.). If you do not have access to Microsoft Office products, you may
submit a PDF file. Directions for creating PDF files can be found on
the Grants.gov Web site. Use of file formats other than Microsoft
Office or PDF may result in your file being unreadable by our staff.
CDC recommends that you submit your application to Grants.gov early
enough to resolve any unanticipated difficulties prior to the deadline.
You may also submit a back-up paper submission of your application. Any
such paper submission must be received in accordance with the
requirements for timely submission detailed in Section IV.3. of the
grant announcement. The paper submission must be clearly marked:
``BACK-UP FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION.'' The paper submission must
conform with all requirements for non-electronic submissions. If both
electronic and back-up paper submissions are received by the deadline,
the electronic version will be considered the official submission.
Paper Submission: If you plan to submit your application by hard
copy, submit the original and two hard copies of your application by
mail or express delivery service. Refer to section IV.6. Other
Submission Requirements for submission address.
You must submit a project narrative with your application forms.
The 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 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.
Your narrative should address activities to be conducted over the
entire three year project period, and must include the following items
in the order listed:
Abstract (no more than one page).
Organization history and description (no more than one
page).
Organization's agreement to use the definition of IPV
provided in this RFA as the basis for DELTA Program activities and
implementation.
Experience (minimum of 18 months) in providing prevention-
focused training and technical assistance to CCRs and local fiscal
agents (no more than two pages).
Experience (minimum of 12 months) in funding and
monitoring local fiscal agents and their CCRs regarding their
implementation of prevention principles, concepts and practices (no
more than two pages).
Implementation Plan for DELTA Program: Local level.
Provide a logic model and narrative of no more than four pages
describing the applicant's plans to build capacity in local CCRs in
accordance with the Activities section of this program announcement.
For assistance on how to design a logic model, access CDC's Web site:
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/physical/handbook/step2.htm. In regard
to outcomes for the logic model and narrative, due to the DELTA Program
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project period being three years, applicants should only include short-
term and intermediate outcomes (i.e., capacity building) in their logic
model and not long-term outcomes (i.e., a reduction in IPV incidence
and prevalence). The logic model should list only one objective and a
quantitative performance measure of effectiveness for that objective
that will be used to measure the intended short-term and intermediate
outcomes over the program period. Measures of effectiveness must relate
to the performance goals stated in the ``Purpose'' section of this
announcement: Increase the capacity of injury prevention and control
programs to address the prevention of injuries and violence. Measures
must be objective and quantitative, and must measure the intended
outcome. The narratives that accompany the logic models should
elaborate and clarify the timelines, inputs, activities, outputs,
outcomes, and performance measures of effectiveness listed in the logic
model diagram.
Implementation Plan for DELTA Program: State level.
Provide a logic model and narrative of no more than four pages
describing the applicant's plans to build capacity at the state level
in accordance with the Activities section of this program announcement.
In regard to outcomes for the logic model and narrative, due to the
DELTA Program project period being three years, applicants should only
include short-term and intermediate outcomes (i.e., capacity-building)
in their logic model and not long-term outcomes (i.e., a reduction in
IPV incidence and prevalence). The logic model should list only one
objective and a quantitative performance measure of effectiveness for
that objective that will be used to measure the intended short-term and
intermediate outcomes over the program period. Measures of
effectiveness must relate to the performance goals stated in the
``Purpose'' section of this announcement: Increase the capacity of
injury prevention and control programs to address the prevention of
injuries and violence. Measures must be objective and quantitative, and
must measure the intended outcome. The narratives that accompany the
logic models should elaborate and clarify the timelines, inputs,
activities, outputs, outcomes, and performance measures of
effectiveness listed in the logic model diagram.
Implementation Plan for DELTA Program: Organizational
level. Provide a logic model and narrative of no more than four pages
describing the applicant's plans to build capacity within its own
organization in accordance with the Activities section of this program
announcement. In regard to outcomes for the logic model and narrative,
due to the DELTA Program project period being three years, applicants
should only include short-term and intermediate outcomes (i.e.,
capacity building) in their logic models and not long-term outcomes
(i.e., reduction in IPV incidence and prevalence). The logic model
should list only one objective and a quantitative performance measure
of effectiveness for the objective that will be sued to measure the
intended short-term and intermediate outcomes over the program period.
Measures of effectiveness must relate to the performance goals stated
in the ``Purpose'' section of this announcement: Increase the capacity
of injury prevention and control programs to address prevention of
injuries and violence. Measures must be objective and quantitative, and
must measure the intended outcome. The narratives that accompany the
logic models should elaborate and clarify the timelines, inputs,
activities, outputs, outcomes and performance measures of effectiveness
listed in the logic model diagram.
Implementation Plan for DELTA Program: National level.
Provide a logic model and narrative of no more than four pages
describing the applicant's plans to build capacity within its own
organization in accordance with the Activities section of this program
announcement. In regard to outcomes for the logic model and narrative,
due to the DELTA Program project period being three years, applicants
should only include short-term and intermediate outcomes in their logic
models (i.e., capacity building) and not long-term outcomes (i.e.,
reduction in IPV incidence and prevalence). The logic model should list
only one objective and a quantitative performance measure of
effectiveness for the objective that will be sued to measure the
intended short-term and intermediate outcomes over the program period.
Measures of effectiveness must relate to the performance goals stated
in the ``Purpose'' section of this announcement: Increase the capacity
of injury prevention and control programs to address prevention of
injuries and violence. Measures must be objective and quantitative, and
must measure the intended outcome. The narratives that accompany the
logic models should elaborate and clarify the timelines, inputs,
activities, outputs, outcomes and performance measures of effectiveness
listed in the logic model diagram.
Summary (no more than one page).
Budget Justification (not counted within stated page
limit).
Additional required information should be included in the
application appendices. The appendices will not be counted toward the
narrative page limit. The additional required information is:
Appendix A: Two letters of support from local CCR members,
each representing a different CCR, describing the prevention-focused
training and technical assistance provided by the applicant over the
past 18 months.
Appendix B: Copy of the application used by the applicant
to award funds to local fiscal agents and CCRs to implement prevention
principles, concepts and practices.
Appendix C: Copy of IRS determination letter.
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
Application Deadline Date: April 26, 2005.
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 submit your application by the United States Postal
Service or commercial delivery service, you must ensure that the
carrier will be able to guarantee delivery by the closing date and
time. If CDC receives your submission 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 carrier's guarantee. If the documentation
verifies a carrier problem, CDC will consider the
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submission as having been received by the deadline.
This announcement is the definitive guide on application content,
submission address, and deadline. It supersedes information provided in
the application instructions. If your submission 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.
Electronic Submission: If you submit your application
electronically with Grants.gov, your application will be electronically
time/date stamped which will serve as receipt of submission. In turn,
you will receive an e-mail notice of receipt when CDC receives the
application. All electronic applications must be submitted by 4 p.m.
Eastern Time on the application due date.
Paper Submission: CDC will not notify you upon receipt of your
paper submission. If you have a question about the receipt of your LOI
or 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 submission deadline. This will
allow time for submissions 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:
Funds may not be used for research.
Reimbursement of pre-award costs is not allowed.
Budgets for each budget period should include travel costs
for three staff: DELTA Project Coordinator, the applicant's evaluation
contractor, and the applicant's executive director, to attend three 3-
day planning and training meetings in Atlanta, Georgia with CDC staff,
other cooperative agreement applicants, and the CDC-selected evaluation
contractor. The applicant should also budget for extensive state-wide
travel for the evaluation contractor to visit local fiscal agents and
their CCRs in order to gain knowledge of their prevention programs and
activities and train and provide technical assistance regarding
evaluation and the development of the Intimate Partner Violence
Progress Report and Prevention Plan. The applicant should also budget
for travel for the evaluation contractor to support the DELTA Steering
Committee in the development of the state-level Intimate Partner
Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan.
For the first budget period, applicants shall contract
with private nonprofit organizations (i.e., local fiscal agents) to
maintain the continuity of the DELTA Program in CCRs that address IPV
in local communities. Applicants shall request only the amount of
funding these local fiscal agents will expend during the first budget
period. These private nonprofit organizations shall be member agencies
of these CCRs and understand that the DELTA Program is to be community-
owned by the CCR and not agency-driven by the private nonprofit
organization.
During the first budget period, applicants shall designate
between $50,000-$75,000 of the first year budget period's award to
contract with an evaluator, approved by CDC, to assist with the
development of the state and local versions of the Intimate Partner
Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan.
Local fiscal agents are required to devote the equivalent
of a seventy-five percent FTE to the implementation and evaluation of
the DELTA Program at the local level.
Applicants are required, at a minimum, to have the
equivalent of one FTE assigned to DELTA Program programmatic
activities.
Funding may not be used for construction.
Funding may be used to purchase computer equipment and
software, and Internet connection equipment and software.
Funding may not be used to provide direct services to
victims or perpetrators of IPV.
No more than 10 percent of local fiscal agent funding may
be used to coordinate intervention services.
Funding may not be used for intervention-oriented media or
awareness campaigns that promote awareness of the problem of IPV or
awareness of where to receive services.
Funding may be used for prevention-oriented media or
awareness campaigns that promote the protective factors at each level
of the social ecology.
DELTA Program funds may be used by local fiscal agents and
their CCRs to adapt, develop, and produce prevention-focused
educational materials, media campaigns, or curricula. It is required
that the adaptation, development and production of such materials are
based on the best available evidence input from representatives from
the community for which the materials are developed. The
representatives must be active participants in the adaptation,
development, production, implementation and evaluation processes. It
will be the applicant's responsibility to monitor this funding
restriction.
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
.
IV.6. Other Submission Requirements
Application Submission Address:
Electronic Submission: CDC strongly encourages applicants to submit
electronically at: http://www.Grants.gov You will be able to download a copy of the application package from http://www.Grants.gov., complete
it offline, and then upload and submit the application via the
Grants.gov site. E-mail submissions will not be accepted. If you are
having technical difficulties in Grants.gov they can be reached by E-
mail at http://www.support@grants.gov">www.support@grants.gov or by phone at 1-800-518-4726 (1-800-
518-GRANTS). The Customer Support Center is open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.
Paper Submission: If you chose to submit a paper application,
submit the original and two hard copies of your application by mail or
express delivery service to:
Technical Information Management--RFA 05039, CDC Procurement and
Grants Office, 2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA 30341.
V. Application Review Information
V.1. Criteria
Applicants 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 goal stated in the ``Purpose'' section of
this announcement: Increase the capacity of injury prevention and
control programs to address the prevention of injuries and violence.
Measures must be objective and quantitative, and must measure the
intended outcome. Applicants are expected to develop four measures of
effectiveness, one for each level of capacity-building as described in
section IV.2. Content and Form of Submission. Measures of effectiveness
will be an element of evaluation.
Your application will be evaluated against the following criteria:
a. Experience (25 points) in providing prevention-focused training
and technical assistance to local CCRs and
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local fiscal agents (no more than two pages). Does the applicant
demonstrate at least 18 months experience in providing prevention-
focused training and technical assistance to local CCRs and local
fiscal agents? Does the applicant clearly demonstrate that their
training and technical assistance was prevention-focused, and not
intervention focused? Does the applicant clearly demonstrate that their
training and technical assistance included prevention principles,
concepts and practices such as preventing first-time perpetration and
first-time victimization; decreasing risk factors, increasing
protective factors, evidence-based planning, theory, and evaluation?
Does the applicant include two letters of support from local CCR
members, each representing a different CCR, describing the prevention-
focused training and technical assistance provided to them by the
applicant over the past 18 months?
b. Experience (25 points) in funding and monitoring local fiscal
agents and their CCRs regarding their implementation of prevention
principles, concepts and practices (no more than 2 pages).
Does the applicant demonstrate at least 12 months experience in
funding and monitoring local fiscal agents and their CCRs regarding
their implementation of prevention principles, concepts and practices?
Does the applicant adequately describe their funding process (from
announcement of available funds, to review, to award)? Does the
applicant adequately describe their monitoring process (reports
required, site visits, products delivered)? Does the applicant provide
a copy of the application used by the applicant to award funds to local
fiscal agents and CCRs to implement prevention principles, concepts and
practices?
c. Implementation Plan for DELTA Program (15 points): Local level.
Does the applicant include a logic model's core elements:
Inputs.
Activities.
Outputs.
Initial outcomes.
Intermediate outcomes.
Influential factors.
One performance measure of effectiveness (replaces
traditional logic model's goal)?
Are each of these core elements adequately addressed? Does the
applicant address each of the activities to build capacity in local
CCRs:
Prevention-focused training, technical assistance and
funding.
Training and technical assistance regarding community
organization, CCR development and maintenance and strategic planning.
Assistance to and monitoring of local fiscal agents and
their CCRs in their development and publication of an Intimate Partner
Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan.
Assisting local fiscal agents in institutionalizing
prevention principles, concepts and practices within their own
agencies.
Use of evaluation contractor in the development of the
Intimate Partner Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan.
Is the applicant's implementation plan adequate to meet the short-
term and intermediate outcomes listed in the logic model? Is the
applicant's one performance measure of effectiveness objective,
quantifiable, measurable and realistic? Can the proposed activities and
outputs realistically lead to the outcomes proposed? Are the proposed
activities and timelines (as described in the narrative) feasible?
d. Implementation plan for DELTA Program (15 points): State level.
Does the applicant include a logic model's core elements:
Inputs,
Activities,
Outputs,
Initial outcomes,
Intermediate outcomes,
Influential factors and
One performance measure of effectiveness (replaces
traditional logic model's goal)?
Are each of these core elements adequately addressed? Does the
applicant address each of the activities to build capacity across
Applicant's state:
Organize and facilitate a DELTA Steering Committee to
develop and publish a state-level Intimate Partner Violence Progress
Report and Prevention Plan.
Develop a steering committee that is representative of the
racial, ethnic and gender diversity within the state.
Develop a steering committee that includes individuals who
can inform the development and implementation of prevention activities
and programs directed at men and boys.
Use of evaluation contractor in the development of the
Intimate Partner Violence Progress Report and Prevention Plan. Is the
applicant's implementation plan adequate to meet the short-term and
intermediate outcomes listed in the logic model? Is the applicant's one
performance measure of effectiveness objective, quantifiable,
measurable and realistic? Can the proposed activities and outputs
realistically lead to the outcomes proposed? Are the proposed
activities and timelines feasible?
e. Implementation plan for DELTA Program (10 points):
Organizational level. Does the applicant include a logic model's core
elements:
Inputs,
Activities,
Outputs,
Initial outcomes,
Intermediate outcomes,
Influential factors and
One performance measure of effectiveness (replaces
traditional logic model's goal)?
Are each of these core elements adequately addressed? Does the
applicant address each of the activities to build capacity within
Applicant's organization:
Participate in training and technical assistance
activities and opportunities provided by CDC;
Institutionalize prevention principles, concepts and
practices within their own organization;
Monitor progress of local CCRs and their local fiscal
agents;
Attend and participate in technical assistance and
planning meetings coordinated by CDC;
Compile and disseminate DELTA Program results within their
state;
Is the applicant's implementation plan adequate to meet
the short-term and intermediate outcomes listed in the logic model? Is
the applicant's one performance measure of effectiveness objective,
quantifiable, measurable and realistic? Can the proposed activities and
outputs realistically lead to the outcomes and performance measure
proposed? Are the proposed activities and timelines (as described in
the narrative) feasible?
f. Implementation Plan for DELTA Program (5 points): National
level. Does the applicant include a logic model's core elements:
Inputs,
Activities,
Outputs,
Initial outcomes,
Intermediate outcomes,
Influential factors and
One performance measure of effectiveness (replaces
traditional logic model's goal)?
Are each of these core elements adequately addressed? Does the
applicant address each of the activities to build capacity across
Applicant's state:
Collaborate with CDC, other DELTA cooperative agreement
applicants, and the CDC-selected evaluation/training contractors.
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Disseminate DELTA prevention principles, concepts and
practices and lessons learned by presenting at a minimum of one state-
wide conference that addresses IPV in non-DELTA states in Program
Periods two and three.
Disseminate DELTA prevention principles, concepts and
practices and lessons learned by presenting at a minimum of one
national conference that addresses IPV in Program Periods two and
three.
Attend and participate in the National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control Conference in Washington, DC in 2007.
Is the applicant's implementation plan adequate to meet the short-
term and intermediate outcomes listed in the logic model? Is the
applicant's one performance measure of effectiveness objective,
quantifiable, measurable and realistic? Can the proposed activities and
outputs realistically lead to the outcomes proposed? Are the proposed
activities and timelines feasible?
g. Applicant's Agreement (5 points) to use the definition of IPV
provided in this RFA as the basis for DELTA Program activities and
implementation. Does the applicant explicitly state their agreement to
use the definition of IPV (i.e., continuum from episodic violence to
battering) provided in this RFA as the basis for DELTA Program
activities and implementation?
V.2. Review and Selection Process
Applications will be reviewed for completeness by the Procurement
and Grants Office (PGO) staff, and for responsiveness by the National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control. 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 complete and responsive
applications according to the criteria listed in the ``V.1. Criteria''
section above. Objective reviewers will be Federal employees who do not
work within NCIPC and/or external experts with no conflict of interest
regarding the outcome of the awarding process. Each complete and
responsive application will have primary, secondary and tertiary
reviewers. The objective review panel will meet to discuss and score
each application based on the reviewers' comments.
In addition, the following factors may affect the funding decision:
Maintaining geographic diversity (The authorizing statute,
42 U.S.C. 10418, requires that funding shall be awarded to
organizations that are geographically dispersed throughout the
country.)
Preference will be given to applicants who have received
funding in a previous project period.
CDC will provide justification for any decision to fund out of rank
order.
V.3. Anticipated Announcement and Award Dates
Anticipated Announcement Date: May 15, 2005.
Anticipated Award Date(s): September 30, 2005 and January 30, 2006.
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 applicant and CDC. The NGA
will be signed by an authorized Grants Management Officer, and mailed
to the applicant 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.
An additional Certifications form from the PHS5161-1 application
needs to be included in your Grants.gov electronic submission only.
Refer to http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/PHS5161-1-Certificates.pdf.
Once the form is filled out attach it to your Grants.gov submission as
Other Attachments Form.
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.
AR-16 Security Clearance Requirement.
AR-25 Release and Sharing of Data.
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
.
VI.3. Reporting Requirements
You must provide CDC with an original, plus two hard copies of the
following reports:
1. Interim progress report, due 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 (for first six
months of budget period)
b. Current Budget Period Financial Progress.
c. New Budget Period Program Proposed Activity Objectives (provides
updated logic models and narratives).
d. Budget.
e. Measures of Effectiveness.
f. Additional Requested Information.
2. Annual progress report, due 90 days after the end of the budget
period.
a. Current Budget Period Activities Objectives (for second six
months of budget period).
b. New Budget Period Program Proposed Activity Objectives (provides
updated logic models and narratives).
c. Measures of Effectiveness.
d. Additional Requested Information.
3. Financial status report, due no more than 90 days after the end
of the budget period.
4. 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
Specialist listed in the ``Agency Contacts'' section of this
announcement.
VII. Agency Contacts
We encourage inquiries concerning this announcement.
For general questions, 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: Pamela J. Cox, Project
Officer, CDC, NCIPC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE., Mailstop K60, Atlanta,
GA 30341, Telephone: 770-488-1206, Fax Number: 770-488-1360, Email:
pcox@cdc.gov.
For financial, grants management, or budget assistance, contact:
Angie Tuttle, Grants Management (Specialist, CDC Procurement and Grants
Office), 2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone: 770/488-
2719, E-mail: Aen4@cdc.gov.
VIII. Other Information
This and other CDC funding opportunity announcements can be
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found on the CDC Web site, Internet address: http://www.cdc.gov. Click
on ``Funding'' then ``Grants and Cooperative Agreements.''
Dated: February 18, 2005.
Alan A. Kotch,
Acting Deputy Director, Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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