[Federal Register: March 2, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 40)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Urban Networks To Increase Thriving Youth Through Violence
Prevention
Announcement Type: New.
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA 05042.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.136.
Key Dates:
Letter of Intent Deadline: April 1, 2005.
Application Deadline: May 2, 2005.
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Authority: This program is authorized under Section 391(a) of
the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 280b(a).
Background: Youth violence is a pervasive and multi-sectoral
problem. Homicide is one of the top four leading causes of death in
every age group, from ages 1 to 34; it is the second and third leading
cause of death among people ages 15-24 and 25-34, respectively.\1\
Research indicates a number of factors can predispose children to a
lifetime of violence and criminal activity, including poverty,
substance abuse, poor parenting skills, placement outside the home, and
improper peer interaction.\2\ Exposure to violence is magnified for
many youth in urban communities who have had encounters with shootings,
stabbings, and other acts of violence by early adolescence.\3\ The
disproportionate exposure to violence by urban youth often results in
increased social problems such as anxiety and depression, pronounced
grief, aggressive and delinquent behavior, a decrease in grade point
average and social withdrawal.\4\
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\1\ National Center for Health Statistics, 2000, as printed in
chart developed by NCIPC, in CDC Injury Factbook 2001-2002.
\2\ Friday JC. The psychological impact of violence in
underserved communities. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 1995;
6(4):403-9.
\3\ Newman BM, Lohman BJ, Newman PR, Myers MC, & Smith VL
(2000). Experiences of urban youth navigating the transition to
ninth grade. Youth and Society, 31(4), 387-416.
\4\ Rasmussen A, Aber MS, & Bhana A. (2004) Adolescent Coping
and Neighborhood Violence: Perceptions, Exposure, and Urban Youths'
Efforts to Deal With Danger. Am J of Community Psychology, Vol. 33.
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Research indicates youth violence is not an intractable problem.
Research and programs using public health methodologies is changing the
emphasis on and commitment to youth violence. This approach derives
from a tradition of collaboration among a broad spectrum of scientific
disciplines to prevent the first occurrence of violence. The public
health approach also highlights the potential utility of applying a
variety of scientific tools (e.g., epidemiology, medicine and
behavioral and social sciences) explicitly toward identifying effective
prevention strategies.
The public health approach to youth violence prevention maximizes
the opportunity to jointly define violence, clarifying barriers to
cooperation, and outlining key actions to foster a multidisciplinary,
collaborative approach to violence prevention. With this approach, U.S.
cities, in which exposure to violence is magnified, can develop tools
and frameworks that connect diverse groups with a common view of the
issue and provide concrete methods for prevention.
Using the public health approach to reframe the issue of youth
violence prevention is important to identify as needed resources, gain
awareness from key stakeholders, and develop a common view of the
issue. With a common vision, cities, their affiliated organizations and
others can begin to collaborate within their fields (e.g. health, law,
education) and respective networks. If cities and affiliates work
together, resources may be directed and redirected toward effective,
research based prevention strategies and programs. It emphasizes the
need to disseminate scientifically validated studies and to provide
resources and incentives for their implementation.
For the purposes of this program announcement the following
definitions apply:
Change Agents: Leaders who mark a path for others to follow. Change
agents may be inside an organization or come from an outside source.
They play a key role in sustaining the momentum and direction of a
youth violence prevention effort.
City: An incorporated municipality with a population greater than
400,000 in the United States with definite boundaries and legal powers
set forth in a charter granted by the state.
Consortium: An agreement, combination, or group formed to undertake
an enterprise beyond the resources of any one member.
Dissemination: The process of communicating information to specific
audiences for the purpose of extending knowledge and with a view to
adopting or modifying evidence-based programs, policies and practices.
This can include providing access to information and telling a wider
audience about a project and its results. Dissemination can occur
through but is not limited to seminars, newsletters, press releases and
similar methods.
Ecological Approach: The ecological model presented in the World
Report on Violence and Health \5\ identifies levels (individual,
relationship, community and societal) of influence where strategies to
address risk and protective factors can be detected.
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\5\ Krug EG, Dahlberg LL, Mercy JA, Zwi AB, Lozano R, editors.
World Report on Violence and Health. Geneva: World Health
Organization; 2002.
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Framing: The process by which person(s) or organization(s)
communicate--using language and visuals--that signals the way receivers
shape thoughts, create context or interpret and classify new
information. Framing helps receivers of a message classify and
attribute meaning to a topic, message or issue. The practice of framing
is carried out most often in the media dictating the problem, context
and responsibility for the issue.
Intervention: Services, policies and actions provided after
violence perpetrated toward or among youth have occurred and may have
the advantageous effect of preventing a re-occurrence of violence.
Prevention Campaign: The total planned, coordinated effort on
behalf of the awardee to research, assess, develop, coordinate, and
evaluate frame(s), tools, training, and products that lead to the
adoption of evidence based youth violence prevention principles,
practices, and concepts. This includes established goals, time
parameters and performance measurements.
Primary 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
youth include activities that are aimed at addressing the individual,
relationship, community and societal factors of potential perpetrators,
bystanders and victims.
Public Health Approach: The public health approach has four basic
steps:
1. Defining the problem: Collecting information and data about the
problem.
2. Identifying risk and protective factors: Knowing those factors
which place people at a greater potential risk for violence and
recognizing which factors seem to protect them from violent behavior.
3. Developing and testing prevention strategies: Before
implementing programs, it is important to first carefully design and
evaluate interventions. While this may take more time and effort than
other approaches, it is important to ensure that programs are safe,
practical and ethical.
4. Ensuring widespread adoption: Strategies and action steps must
be specifically defined for the needs of stakeholders. Interventions
should be realistic, measurable and easy to replicate for
sustainability.
Stakeholders: Includes everyone with a potential interest in youth
violence prevention, practices, concepts and research.
Youth Violence: Youth violence involves persons between the ages of
10 and 24 who intentionally use physical force or power threatened or
actual, against another person, or against a group or community, that
either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury,
death, psychological harm, mal-development or deprivation.\6\
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\6\ Krug EG, Dahlberg LL, Mercy JA, Zwi AB, Lozano R, editors.
World Report on Violence and Health. Geneva: World Health
Organization; 2002.
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Purpose: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
announces the availability of fiscal year (FY) 2005 funds for a
cooperative agreement to build capacity within U.S. cities to
collaborate, plan, and implement youth violence prevention principles,
practices, and concepts. This includes building a national consortium
of key stakeholders representing the viewpoints of United States cities
that can inform and support reframing the public discourse about youth
violence prevention. This also includes developing tools, strategies,
and messages to build infrastructure and a broad base of support for
youth violence prevention and develop a national strategy to direct
urban planning and action to prevent youth violence.
This program addresses the ``Healthy People 2010'' focus area of
injury and violence prevention, as well as related goals in the CDC
Futures Initiative:
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Health promotion and prevention of disease, injury and
disability: All people, especially those at higher risk due to health
disparities, will achieve their optimal lifespan with the best possible
quality of health in every stage of life.
Leadership for the nation's health system. CDC will assume
greater leadership to strengthen the health impact of the state and
local public health systems.
Measurable outcomes of the program will be in alignment with the
following performance goal for the National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control (NCIPC): to increase the capacity of injury
prevention and control programs to address the prevention of injuries
and violence.
Activities
Awardee activities are designed to integrate youth violence
prevention practices and concepts into a national effort to address
youth violence within U.S. cities and assist key stakeholders, policy
leaders, and practitioners in adopting sustainable youth violence
prevention efforts. It is anticipated that the project will be
completed in two phases.
Phase I involves identifying key stakeholders, convening a
consortium and developing a frame to build support for and address the
prevention of youth violence within U.S. cities.
Phase II involves developing and disseminating a National Youth
Violence Prevention Strategic Plan, utilizing the national frame and
outlining specific steps for addressing youth violence prevention.
These projects will use proven and potentially promising coalition
building, framing, and public health advocacy and information
dissemination methodologies to promote youth violence prevention. All
program components shall foster cooperation, collaboration and
communication between public and private organizations, government
agencies, state and city health departments, NCIPC partners and
grantees and others in their efforts to prevent youth violence and
reduce violence-related injuries.
Phase I: Assessment and Framing
Awardee activities for this phase are as follows:
1. Establish a national youth violence prevention consortium.
a. Conduct a national assessment of organizations to determine key
stakeholders for urban youth violence prevention efforts including
those involved in youth violence prevention, youth development,
violence prevention, public health, community development and other
relevant groups. Examples may include but are not limited to the
National League of Cities, National Association of City and County
Health Officials, The Association of State and Territorial Health
Officers, National Civic League, U.S. Conference of Mayors and the
National Association of Cities.
2. Convene and coordinate the activities of the consortium.
At a minimum these activities should include the following:
a. The establishment of operating and administrative guidelines and
principles (e.g. defining membership, by-laws, goals and objectives,
etc)
b. A review of existing assessments and recommendations to address
gaps in youth violence prevention within U.S. cities. The areas of
assessment to be considered should include but are not limited to:
i. Evidence of level of commitment, interest and readiness at the
city level to fully engage in efforts to prevent the perpetration of
violence toward or among youth.
ii. Existing inventories of city programs that work directly or
indirectly to prevent the perpetration of violence toward or among
youth (at minimum, this should include the number of prevention
programs, intended audience, content and resources devoted to the
programs).
iii. Existing assessments of city and relevant national policies
focused on preventing the perpetration of violence toward or among
youth.
iv. Existing assessments of city and relevant national data sources
that identify violent incidents perpetrated toward and among youth,
including non-traditional data sources such as linked health-outcomes.
3. Prepare a report that summarizes the findings. This report
should identify gaps, needs, and highlight recommendations from the
consortium based on this review.
4. Develop a national frame for prevention of youth violence in U.S
cities:
a. The frame should address environmental, relational, community
and societal risk and protective factors for youth violence and assist
in conveying that violence is a preventable public health issue.
b. The awardee should consult the youth violence prevention
consortium and additional key stakeholders in youth violence prevention
including national, state, and city leaders, professional
organizations, public health officials and other relevant parties.
c. The frame should be established using proven framing
methodologies and practices.
d. The frame should assure the delivery of credible, science-based
information in understandable and effective formats consistent with the
needs of key stakeholders and target audiences.
5. Develop a national youth violence prevention campaign that is a
planned, coordinated effort on behalf of the awardee to research,
assess, develop, coordinate, and evaluate frame(s), tools, training,
and products that lead to the adoption of youth violence prevention
principles, practices, and concepts.
a. The prevention campaign should build a broad base of support for
youth violence prevention by creating tools, training and products that
lead to the adoption of evidence based youth violence prevention
principles, practices and concepts.
b. The prevention campaign should include a tool kit that
highlights strategies and tactics for framing youth violence
prevention. This should include research briefs, an explanation of the
frame(s) with suggestions specific to each message or topic idea (i.e.
messengers, metaphors, context, etc.), and applicable examples
including demo press releases, publications and publicity ideas. The
toolkit should have an evaluation to determine its usability and
effectiveness in promoting the adoption of evidence based strategies.
c. Evaluate the frame and prevention campaign using assessments
that measure the influence and within U.S. cities. Items should include
but are not limited to:
i. Key stakeholders awareness of the youth violence prevention
frame, messages, tools and strategies.
ii. City and stakeholder collaboration--Number of cities and
affiliated groups using the youth violence prevention frame, messages,
tools and strategies.
iii. Changes in youth violence programs, policies, and practices of
cities and their affiliated organizations--How much and what kind of
stimulus does the youth violence prevention frame, messages, tools and
strategies have in influencing cities to plan and implement youth
violence prevention programs, policies?
iv. Frequency and number of alternative activities generated by
cities and their affiliated organizations to decrease risk factors and
increase protective factors for youth violence prevention.
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Phase II: Development and dissemination of a National Youth Violence
Prevention Strategic Plan
Awardee activities for this phase are as follows:
1. Develop a National Youth Violence Prevention Strategic Plan. At
a minimum this program should:
a. Specify steps and directions for cities to address youth
violence prevention.
b. Include a logic model and time-line outlining implementation
c. Delineate priorities for addressing youth violence prevention
with practical implications and immediate relevance for those working
to advance evidence based youth violence prevention principles,
practices, concepts and research.
d. Utilize the youth violence prevention campaign by providing
effective frames for addressing youth violence prevention including
methods and messages that engage cities throughout the nation.
e. Include communication processes to ensure effective dialog and
consensus across and among the youth violence prevention stakeholders.
f. Adopt and outline sustainable strategies for cities to address
youth violence prevention in alignment with ecological approach.
g. Include short-term, intermediate and long-term SMART (specific,
measurable, attainable, realistic and time-phased) goals and
objectives.
h. Reinforce and support previously established youth violence
prevention infrastructures, such as the National Youth Violence
Prevention Resource Center, including outlining partnerships that will
enhance youth violence prevention efforts within U.S. cities.
i. Include an evaluation component that has outcome and impact
measures assessing how much and what kind of stimulus the National
Youth Violence Prevention Strategic Plan creates. Items should include
but are not limited to:
i. Process evaluation for planning and implementation--Assessment
of the planning process used to prepare the National Youth Violence
Prevention Strategic Plan goals and the action plan and follow-through
on National Youth Violence Prevention Strategic Plan activities.
ii. Leadership--Participation by key sectors representing U.S.
cities and ascertaining the diversity of committee membership as well
as assessment of cities' perceptions of the strength and competence of
the National Youth Violence Prevention Strategic Plan's leadership.
iii. Progress and Outcome--Success in generating resources for
youth violence prevention and progress in meeting the strategic plan's
specific objectives.
2. Disseminate the National Youth Violence Prevention Strategic
Plan
a. Dissemination should include strategies to implement evidence
based youth violence prevention principles, practices and concepts, and
build a broad base of support to effectively address youth violence
prevention.
b. Work with key stakeholders and the National Youth Violence
Prevention Resource Center to provide training and technical assistance
in the areas of communication, advocacy and health education strategies
(e.g., social marketing, health and risk communications and media
relations) in the support of the strategic plan.
c. Network with private foundations, media, policy makers, public
health entities and other organizations to identify, promote and
distribute the national strategic plan for youth violence prevention.
d. Include promotional and educational materials, media strategies,
outreach efforts and public relations strategies to disseminate the
plan.
e. Include evaluation measures or tools to assess the extent to
which the strategic plan has been implemented. The measures/tools
should be of value to cities in collecting baseline and follow-up data
on youth violence prevention programs, the dissemination of evidence
based principles, practices, and concepts and youth violence related
health impacts; and should include process and impact measures and
quantitative and qualitative measures that monitor the implementation
of proposed activities.
3. Collaborate with CDC and other partners on an ongoing basis.
4. 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:
As appropriate, coordinate opportunities for funded
applicants and partners to network with other NCIPC funded national
organizations.
Provide consultation and technical assistance in planning,
implementing and evaluating activities. CDC may provide consultation
both directly and indirectly through other partners.
Provide up-to-date scientific information on youth
violence surveillance, risk and protective factors and effective
programs, as well as findings from formative research.
Assist in the design and implementation of program
evaluation activities.
Facilitate the transfer of successful program models and
``lessons learned'' through convening meetings of grantees and
communication between project officers.
Monitor the recipient's performance of program activities
and compliance with requirements.
Involve the recipient in other NCIPC related youth
violence prevention activities and efforts.
II. Award Information
Type of Award: Cooperative Agreement. CDC involvement in this
program is listed in the Activities Section above.
Fiscal Year Funds: 2005.
Approximate Total Funding: $300,000 (** Awards in Yrs. 3-5 funding
levels may increase to up to $500,000 for related activities).
Approximate Number of Awards: One.
Approximate Average Award: $300,000 (This amount is for the first
12-month budget period, and includes both direct and indirect costs.)
Floor of Award Range: $250,000.
Ceiling of Award Range: $300,000 (This ceiling is for the first 12-
month budget period.)
Anticipated Award Date: September 1, 2005.
Budget Period Length: 12 months.
Project Period Length: Two years with a possibility for five years
total. (An initial two-year project period is specified with the
anticipation of an additional three years with years 3, 4, and 5
contingent on the accomplishment of very specific outcomes in years 1
and 2)
Milestones and success necessary to continue into Years 3, 4, and 5
The awardee has identified key stakeholders and has
established a national youth violence prevention consortium.
The awardee is supporting the activities of a consortium
including establishment of operating and administrative guidelines and
principles (e. g. by-laws, goals and objectives, etc).
The awardee has completed, in conjunction with the
consortium, a review of existing city assessments and has facilitated
making recommendations for steps to address gaps in youth violence
prevention,
The awardee has prepared a report summarizing the
findings, identifying gaps and needs and highlighting recommendations
from the consortium.
The awardee has developed a frame, using methodologically
valid
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approaches approved by CDC, to build support for and to address youth
violence prevention within U.S. cities.
The awardee has developed an evaluation plan that collects
the baseline and follow-up data necessary to assess the impact of the
frame.
Throughout the project period, CDC's commitment to continuation of
awards will also be conditioned on the availability of funds, 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 public and private organizations
that have the expertise, experience and capacity to develop and
implement programs to prevent youth violence at the national level.
Organizations, such as:
Public nonprofit organizations.
Private nonprofit organizations.
For profit organizations.
Small, minority, women-owned businesses.
Universities.
Colleges.
Research institutions.
Hospitals.
Community-based organizations.
Faith-based organizations.
Federally recognized Indian tribal governments.
Indian tribes.
Indian tribal organizations.
State and local governments or their Bona Fide Agents
(this includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico, The Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the
Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau).
Political subdivisions of States (in consultation with
states).
A Bona Fide Agent is an agency/organization identified by the state
as eligible to submit an application under the state eligibility in
lieu of a state application. If you are applying as a bona fide agent
of a state or local government, you must provide a letter from the
state or local government as documentation of your status. Place this
documentation behind the first page of your application form.
III.2. Cost Sharing or Matching
Matching funds are not required for this program.
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.
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.
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.
Brief description of your organization including the
component(s) of youth violence prevention that your organization
addresses.
Organizational structure and reach.
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
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narrative must be submitted in the following format:
Maximum number of pages: 30 If your narrative exceeds the
page limit, only the first pages which are within the page limit will
be reviewed.
Font size: 12 point unreduced.
Spacing: 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 project period and must include the following items in the order
listed here:
Abstract (one-page summary of the application that
includes a description of applicant's plan for participating in this
cooperative agreement).
Relevant Experience (framing violence as a public health
issue, strategic planning, national level awareness campaigns and
coalition building, dissemination that has resulted in widespread
adoption of youth violence prevention principles, practices, concepts
and research).
Work plan (including time phased, measurable objectives;
methods or strategies; timelines; logic models and staffing plan).
Capacity and Staffing (a minimum of one, 100 percent,
fulltime, program director position is required).
Collaboration.
Measures of Effectiveness.
Budget 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:
Proof of eligibility.
Curriculum Vitas or Resumes.
Organizational Charts.
Letters of Support.
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: April 1, 2005.
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: May 2, 2005.
Explanation of Deadlines: LOIs and 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 LOI or 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 carriers guarantee.
If the documentation verifies a carrier problem, CDC will consider
the submission as having been received by the deadline.
This announcement is the definitive guide on LOI and 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 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.
Funds may not be used for reimbursement of pre-award
costs.
The applicant must perform a substantial portion of the
program activities and cannot serve merely as a fiduciary agent.
Applications requesting funds to support only managerial and
administrative functions will not be accepted.
Budgets for the first year should include travel costs for
two cooperative agreement staff to attend two 2-day planning meetings
in Atlanta with CDC staff and/or other cooperative agreement
recipients.
The use of program funds for the development and
production of curriculum is prohibited without explicit approval.
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 should 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.
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, CDC,
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2939 Flowers Road
South, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone Number: 770-488-1122, Fax Number:
770-488-1360, E-mail: NRainford@cdc. gov.
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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 05042, 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 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:
Work Plan (30 points)
1. Does the applicant include a detailed work plan, including a
time-line, logic model(s) and staffing plan?
2. Does the work plan include goals and objectives that are SMART
(specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-phased)?
3. Does the applicant's work plan consider and highlight a
ecological approach?
4. Does the applicant's work plan outline successful ways to
involve the youth violence prevention consortium, key stakeholders in
youth violence prevention and the National Youth Violence Prevention
Resource Center?
5. Does the applicant's work plan outline outstanding processes for
establishing an evidence based frame that assures the delivery of
credible, evidence based information in understandable and effective
formats consistent with the needs of the target audiences?
6. Does the work plan include superior methods and evidence based
strategies that meet goals and objectives as well as address how it
will engage and mobilize key stakeholders including policy makers,
public health officials and/or city affiliated organizations?
7. Does the applicant's work plan include a superior evaluation to
monitor outcomes and impact?
Relevant Experience (25 Points)
1. Does the applicant demonstrate successful experiences in
collecting and using evidence based youth violence prevention
assessment data?
2. Does the applicant have appropriate experience using relevant
data and research to determine priorities and a frame for youth
violence prevention?
3. Does the applicant demonstrate a minimum of three years
experience coordinating, collaborating, and mobilizing national and
affiliated city partners with regard to violence prevention or a
component of violence prevention?
4. Does the applicant demonstrate effective experience interacting
with key stakeholders to provide leadership, support and facilitate the
sharing of information across a network of youth violence prevention
coalitions?
5. Does the applicant demonstrate outstanding experience developing
strategic plans?
6. Does he applicant demonstrate exceptional experience in
establishing and managing advisory boards or consortiums with
participants from a variety of sectors?
7. Does the applicant demonstrate outstanding experience in
compiling, synthesizing and disseminating youth violence prevention
information and evaluation findings through a variety of mediums to key
stakeholders, including policy makers, the non-profit sector, public
health officials and/or local/city organizations?
8. Does the applicant demonstrate outstanding ability to coordinate
and disseminate youth violence prevention principles, practices,
concepts and research?
9. Has the applicant demonstrated that these dissemination efforts
resulted in the successful and widespread adoption of youth violence
prevention, practices, concepts and research?
10. Does the applicant demonstrate outstanding ability to frame
violence as a public health issue and use that frame to engage key
stakeholders including policy makers, the non-profit sector, public
health officials and/or local/city organizations?
11. Does the applicant include the establishment of a youth
violence prevention consortium?
Collaboration (25 points)
1. Does the applicant describe lucrative strategies to develop and
maintain a national youth violence prevention consortium?
2. Does the applicant successfully describe how it will avoid
duplication of other youth violence prevention efforts?
3. Does the applicant demonstrate a willingness to collaborate with
CDC, the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center and other
CDC funded organizations?
4. Does the applicant include letters of support and/or memoranda
of agreement from organizations, research and/or academic experts/
institutions and other agencies and organizations, including public
health agencies and organizations that work with youth and/or violence
prevention?
5. Does the applicant provide high-quality descriptions of the
composition, role and involvement of consortium members that represent
a broad range of disciplines and levels of influence that work in the
area of violence prevention including public health?
Capacity and Staffing (20 points)
1. Does the applicant demonstrate relevant, existing capacity and
infrastructure to carry out the required activities in the cooperative
agreement?
2. Does the applicant include and outline the role of one,
100percent, fulltime, program director with relevant experience?
3. Does the applicant clearly describe all project staff and their
relevant skills/expertise for their assigned position? Does the
applicant include an organizational chart?
4. Are the applicant's past and current training and assistance
experiences, knowledge and expertise documented, lucrative, and
relevant?
5. Does the applicant successfully demonstrate a capacity to
develop a consortium by providing training and technical assistance for
the purpose of promoting public health initiatives?
6. Does the applicant successfully demonstrate the ability and
highlight relevant connections to successfully identify, modify,
promote and distribute the youth violence prevention campaign and
strategic plan to private foundations, media, policy makers and public
health entities/organizations?
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Measures of Effectiveness (not scored)
1. Does the applicant provide lucrative objective/quantifiable
measures regarding the intended outcomes that will demonstrate the
accomplishment of the various identified objectives of the cooperative
agreement?
2. Does the evaluation demonstrate how the goals and objectives
will successfully increase the capacity of injury prevention and
control programs to address the prevention of injuries and violence?
Budget Justification (not scored)
1. 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 complete and responsive
applications according to the criteria listed in the ``V.1. Criteria''
section above.
CDC will provide justification for any decision to fund out of rank
order.
VI. Award Administration Information
VI.1. Award Notices
Successful applicants will receive a Notice of Award (NOA) from the
CDC Procurement and Grants Office. The NOA shall be the only binding,
authorizing document between the recipient and CDC. The NOA 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.
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-9 Paperwork Reduction Act Requirements
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.
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.
b. Current Budget Period Financial Progress.
c. New Budget Period Program Proposed Activity Objectives.
d. Budget.
e. Measures of Effectiveness.
f. Additional Requested Information.
2. Financial status report is due no more than 90 days after the
end of the budget period.
3. Final financial and performance reports are due no more than 90
days after the end of the project period.
These reports must be mailed to the Grants Management 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: Neil Rainford, Project
Officer, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2939
Flowers Road South, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone Number: 770-488-1122,
Fax Number: 770-488-1360, E-mail: NRainford@cdc. gov.
For financial, grants management, or budget assistance, contact:
James Masone, Grants Management Specialist, CDC Procurement and Grants
Office, 2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone: 770-488-
2736, E-mail: Zft2@cdc. gov.
VIII. Other Information
This and other CDC funding opportunity announcements can be found
on the CDC Web site, Internet address: http://www.cdc. gov. Click on
``Funding'' then ``Grants and Cooperative Agreements.''
Dated: February 23, 2005.
William P. Nichols,
Director, Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
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