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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services

Administration

Availability of Funds Announced in the

HRSA Preview

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services

Administration, DHHS.

ACTION: General notice

SUMMARY: HRSA announces the

availability of funds in the HRSA

Preview for Summer 2000. This edition

of the HRSA Preview is a

comprehensive review of HRSA’s Fiscal

Year 2001 competitive grant programs.

The purpose of the HRSA Preview is

to provide the general public with a

single source of program and

application information related to the

Agency’s competitive grant offerings.

The HRSA Preview is designed to

replace the multiple Federal Register

notices which traditionally advertised

the availability of HRSA’s discretionary

funds for its various programs. In this

edition of the HRSA Preview, HRSA’s

programs which provide funding for

outpatient Hansen’s Disease medical

services and special projects for schools

of public health have been included in

the section ‘‘Other HRSA Programs.’’ It

should be noted that additional program

initiatives responsive to new or

emerging issues in the health care area

and unanticipated at the time of

publication of the HRSA Preview may

be announced through the Federal

Register from time to time.

Requirements appearing elsewhere in

the Federal Register are not changed by

this notice.

This notice contains nearly all of the

content of the HRSA Preview. The

HRSA Preview contains a description of

competitive and other grant programs

scheduled for awards in Fiscal Year

2001, and includes instructions on how

to contact the Agency for information

and receive application kits for all

programs. Specifically, the following

information is included in the HRSA

Preview: (1) program title; (2) legislative

authority; (3) purpose; (4) eligibility; (5)

funding priorities and/or preferences;

(6) estimated dollar amount of

competition; (7) estimated number of

awards; (8) estimated project period; (9)

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

(CFDA) identification number; (10)

application availability date; (11) letter

of intent deadline (if any); (12)

application deadline; (13) projected

award date; and (14) programmatic

contact, with telephone and e-mail

addresses. Certain other information,

including how to obtain and use the

HRSA Preview and grant terminology

can also be found in the HRSA Preview.

This issue of the HRSA Preview

describes funding for the following

HRSA discretionary authorities and

programs (receipt deadlines are in

parentheses):

Health Professions Programs

Model State-Supported Area Health

Education Centers (12/18/00)

Basic/Core Area Health Education

Centers (12/18/00)

Preventive Medicine Residency

Programs (09/18/00)

Centers of Excellence (12/01/00)

Podiatric Residency Training in Primary

Care (10/27/00)

Allied Health Projects (01/16/01)

Advanced Education Nursing Grants

(01/29/01)

Partnerships for Developing Public

Health Nursing Leadership (11/17/

01)

Residencies in the Practice of Pediatric

Dentistry and Residencies and

Advanced Education in the Practice

of General Dentistry (09/08/00)

Public Health Training Centers Grant

Program (12/11/00)

Advanced Education Nursing

Traineeship Grants (11/01/00)

Basic Nurse Education and Practice

Grants (02/22/01)

Advanced Education Nursing—Nurse

Anesthetist Traineeship Grant

Program (11/01/00)

Geriatric Nursing Knowledge and

Experiences in Long Term Care

Facilities for Baccalaureate Nursing

Students (09/08/00)

Health Careers Opportunity Program

(01/10/01)

Residency Training in Primary Care

(Family Medicine, General Internal

Medicine/General Pediatrics) (10/

02/00)

Physician Assistant Training in Primary

Care (01/12/01)

Academic Administrative Units in

Primary Care (Family Medicine,

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics) (12/08/00)

Faculty Development Training in

Primary Care (Family Medicine,

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics) (10/06/00)

Predoctoral Training in Primary Care

(Family Medicine, General Internal

Medicine/General Pediatrics) (11/

03/00)

Faculty Loan Repayment Program (05/

31/01)

Scholarships for Disadvantaged

Students (12/15/00)

Geriatric Education Centers (01/04/01)

Primary Health Care Programs

National Primary Care Technical

Assistance Grants and Cooperative

Agreements (03/01/01 and 05/01/

01)

National Health Service Corps Student/

Resident Experiences and Rotations

in Community Health (SEARCH)

(05/01/01)

Health Care for the Homeless (deadline

varies)

Grants to States for Loan Repayment

Programs (05/15/01)

New Delivery Sites and New Starts in

Programs Funded Under the Health

Centers Consolidation Act (11/30/

00; 2/28/01; and 5/15/01)

Community and Migrant Health Centers

(deadline varies)

Nursing Education Loan Repayment

Program (06/30/01)

HIV/AIDS Programs

Ryan White IV: Existing Geographic

Areas (04/02/01)

Ryan White IV: New Geographic Areas

(04/02/01)

Ryan White IV for Adolescent Services

(04/02/01)

Funding for Early Intervention Services

Grants: Existing Geographic Areas

(10/02/00)

Funding for Early Intervention Services

Grants: New Geographic Areas (07/

16/01)

Funding for Early Intervention Services

Planning Grants (06/01/00)

Maternal and Child Health Programs

Genetic Services, Improving Health of

Children:

Implementation of the State Grants for

the Integration of Programs and

their Information Systems (02/28/

01)

Genetic Services, Developing Models for

the Use of New and Evolving

Technology within Newborn

Screening Programs (02/28/01)

Genetic Services, State Development

Grants for Newborn Screening

Efforts and Infrastructure

Development (02/28/01)

Nationwide Blood Lead and Erythrocyte

Protoporphyrin (EP) Proficiency

Testing Program (09/15/00)

Integrated Health and Behavioral Health

Care for Children, Adolescents, and

their Families (01/31/01)

Innovative Models to Analyze and

Address Racial, Ethnic, and

Geographic Disparities in Maternal

and Child Health Outcomes (02/05/

01)

Integrated Comprehensive Women’s

Health Services in State MCH

Programs (03/23/01)

Assuring Adequate Health Insurance for

Children with Special Health Care

Needs (02/02/01)

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Healthy and Ready to Work (HRTW)

Services for Children and Youth

with Special Health Needs

(CYSHN) (02/23/01)

Integrated Services (01/22/01)

Medical Home Development Grants (10/

16/00)

Partnership for Information and

Communication (PIC) (01/02/01)

MCH Cooperative Agreements (01/02/

01)

Breastfeeding Promotion in

Pediatrician’s Office Practices (05/

01/01)

Partners in Program Planning for

Adolescent Health (04/20/01)

Maternal and Child Health Research

Program (08/01/00 and 03/01/00)

Health Care Information and Education

for Families of Children with

Special Health Care Needs (12/01/

00)

Graduate Medical Education in

Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatrics

and Family Practice in Historically/

Predominately Black Medical

Schools (02/01/01)

Public Health Training in Maternal and

Child Health (12/15/00)

Long Term Training in Leadership

Education in Neurodevelopmental

and Related Disabilities (LEND) (10/

12/00)

Continuing Education and Development

(01/12/01)

Public Policy Analysis and Education

Center for Infant and Early

Childhood Health (03/26/01)

Public Policy Analysis and Education

Center for Middle Childhood and

Adolescent Health (03/26/01)

Continuing Education and Development

Cooperative Agreement to Advance

Education and Public Policy

Development in Maternal and Child

Health (02/01/01)

Continuing Education/Distance

Learning (01/12/01)

Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for

Children (10/02/00)

Healthy Tomorrows Partnership

Cooperative Agreement (06/01/01)

State Systems Development Initiative

(SSDI), MCH Services Federal SetAside Program (07/13/01)

EMSC Implementation (11/01/00)

EMSC Partnerships (11/01/00)

EMSC Targeted Issue (11/01/00)

Pediatric Injury Surveillance System

(04/02/01)

Clinical practice Guidelines for

Emergency Care of Children (06/01/

01)

A Color-coded System for Equipment

and Medication for Pediatric

Resuscitation (03/01/01)

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), State

Implementation Grants (12/01/01)

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), State

Planning Grants (12/01/01)

State Mortality Review Support Program

(01/29/01)

Perinatal Systems and Women’s Health

National Resource Center (02/23/

01)

Healthy Start Initiative—Eliminating

Disparities in Perinatal Health (02/

06/01)

Interconception Care for High Risk

Women and their Infants (02/16/01)

Improving Women’s Health through

Screening and Intervention for

Depression during or around the

Time of Pregnancy (12/21/00)

Healthy Start Initiative—State

Infrastructure Initiatives (12/08/00)

Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal

Health—Border Health (02/06/01)

Office of the Administrator

Community Access Program (06/01/00)

National Conference of State

Legislatures (NCSL) (TBA)

Association of State and Territorial

Health Officials (ASTHO) (TBA)

Public Health Foundation (PHF) (TBA)

National Association of County and City

Health Officials (NACCHO) (05/30/

00)

Pacific Islands Health Officers

Association (06/01/00)

Rural Health Programs

Rural Health Roundtable, George Mason

University (07/31/00)

State Rural Hospital Flexibility Program

(05/25/01)

Rural Health Outreach Grant (10/16/00)

Rural Health Network Development (10/

23/00)

Special Programs

Extramural Support Program for Projects

to Increase Organ and Tissue

Donations (05/01/01)

Other HRSA Programs

Outpatient Hansen’s Disease Medical

Services (09/01/00)

Special Projects for Schools of Public

Health (TBA)

Lawton Chiles Foundation (N/A)

Individuals may obtain the HRSA

Preview by calling the toll free number

at 1–877–477–2123 (1–877–HRSA123).

The HRSA Preview may also be

accessed on HRSA’s World Wide Web

Home Page at http://www.hrsa.gov/

grantsf.htm.

Dated: June 28, 2000.

Claude Earl Fox,

Administrator.

How To Use and Obtain Copies of the

HRSA Preview

It is recommended that you read the

introductory materials, terminology

section, and individual program

category descriptions before contacting

the toll-free number 1–877–477–2123

(1–877–HRSA–123). Likewise, we urge

applicants to fully assess their eligibility

for grants before requesting kits. As a

general rule, no more than one kit per

category will be mailed to applicants.

To Obtain a Copy of HRSA Preview

To have your name and address

added to or deleted from the HRSA

Preview mailing list, call the toll free

number above or send a message by email to hrsagac@hrsa.gov.

To Obtain an Application Kit

Applications kits differ depending on

the grant program. Determine which

kit(s) you wish to receive and call 1–

877–477–2123 to be placed on the

mailing list. Be sure to provide the

information specialist with both the

CFDA number and the title of the grant

program. You may also request

application kits using the e-mail address

above. Application kits are generally

available 60 days prior to application

deadline. If kits are available earlier,

they will be mailed immediately. The

guidance contained in the various kits

contains detailed instructions,

background on the grant program, and

other essential information, such as the

applicability of Executive Order 12372

and 45 CFR Part 100, and additional

inforamtion pertinent to the

intergovernmental review process, as

appropriate.

World Wide Web Access

The HRSA Preview is available on the

HRSA Homepage via the World Wide

Web at: www.hrsa.gov/grantsf.htm. You

can download this issue in Adobe

Acrobat format.

Application materials are also

available for downloading for some

HRSA programs. HRSA’s goal is to post

application forms and materials for all

programs in future cycles.

You can register on-line to be sent

grant application materials by following

the instructions on the web page. Your

mailing information will be added to

our database and materials will be sent

to you as they become available.

Grant Terminology

Application Deadlines

Applications will be considered on

time if they are received on or before the

established deadline, or postmarked on

or before the deadline given in the

program announcement or in the

application kit materials. Applications

sent to any address other than that

specified in the application guidance

are subject to being returned.

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Authorization

The citation of the law authorizing the

various grant programs is provided

immediately following the title of the

programs.

CFDA Number

The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance (CFDA) is a Governmentwide compendium of Federal programs,

projects, services, and activities which

provide assistance. Programs listed

therein are given a CFDA Number. Be

sure to use both the CFDA number and

the title of the grant program when

requesting an application kit. Note that

CFDA numbers with alpha suffixes have

different titles than the same CFDA

numbers without suffixes.

Cooperative Agreement

A financial assistance mechanism

(grant) used when substantial Federal

programmatic involvement with the

recipient is anticipated by the funding

agency during performance of the

project. The nature of that involvement

will always be specified in the offering

or application guidance materials.

Eligibility

The status an entity must possess to

be considered for a grant. Authorizing

legislation and programmatic

regulations specify eligibility for

individual grant programs, and

eligibility may be further restricted for

programmatic reasons. In general,

assistance is provided to nonprofit

organizations and institutions, State and

local governments and their agencies,

and occasionally to individuals. Forprofit organizations are eligible to

receive awards under financial

assistance programs unless specifically

excluded by legislation.

Estimated Amount of Competition

The funding level listed is provided

only as an estimate, and is subject to the

availability of funds, Congressional

action, and changing program priorities.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences

Funding preferences, priorities, and

special considerations may come from

legislation, regulations, or HRSA

program leadership decisions. They are

not the same as review criteria. Funding

preferences are any objective factors that

would be used to place a grant

application ahead of others without the

preference on a list of applicants

recommended for funding by a review

committee. Some programs give

preference to organizations which have

specific capabilities such as

telemedicine networking, or have

established relationships with managed

care organizations. Funding priorities

are factors that cause a grant application

to receive a fixed amount of extra rating

points—which may similarly affect the

order of applicants on a funding list.

Special considerations are other factors

considered in making funding decisions

that are neither review criteria,

preferences, or priorities, e.g., ensuring

that there is an equitable geographic

distribution of grant recipients, or

meeting requirements for urban and

rural proportions.

Key Offices

The Grants Management Office serves

as the focal point for questions

concerning business matters. In the

HRSA Preview, a ‘‘key’’ symbol

indicates the appropriate grants

management office for each program

area and the main telephone number for

the office.

Letter of Intent

To help in planning the application

review process, many HRSA programs

request a letter of intent from the

applicant in advance of the application

deadline. Letters of intent are neither

binding nor mandatory. Details on

where to send letters can be found in

the guidance materials contained in the

application kit.

Matching Requirements

Several HRSA programs require a

matching amount, or percentage of the

total project support, to come from

sources other than Federal funds.

Matching requirements are generally

mandated in the authorizing legislation

for specific categories. Also, matching or

other cost-sharing requirements may be

administratively required by the

awarding office. Such requirements are

set forth in the application kit.

Project Period

The total time for which support of a

discretionary project has been

programmatically approved. The project

period usually consists of a series of

budget periods of one-year duration.

Once approved through initial review,

continuation of each successive budget

period is subject to satisfactory

performance, availability of funds, and

program priorities.

Review Criteria

The following are generic review

criteria applicable to HRSA programs:

• That the estimated costs to the

Government of the project are

reasonable considering the level and

complexity of activity and the

anticipated results.

• That project personnel or

prospective fellows are well qualified by

training and/or experience for the

support sought, and the applicant

organization or the organization to

provide training to a fellow have

adequate facilities and manpower.

• That, insofar as practical, the

proposed activities (scientific or other),

if well executed, are capable of attaining

project objectives.

• That the project objectives are

capable of achieving the specific

program objectives defined in the

program announcement and the

proposed results are measurable.

• That the method for evaluating

proposed results includes criteria for

determining the extent to which the

program has achieved its stated

objectives and the extent to which the

accomplishment of objectives can be

attributed to the program.

• That, in so far as practical, the

proposed activities, when

accomplished, are replicable, national

in scope and include plans for broad

dissemination.

The specific review criteria used to

review and rank applications are

included in the individual guidance

material provided with the application

kits. Applicants should pay strict

attention to addressing these criteria, as

they are the basis upon which their

applications will be judged by the

reviewers.

Technical Assistance

A contact person is listed for each

program and his/her e-mail address and

telephone number provided. Some

programs have scheduled workshops

and conference calls as indicated by the

‘‘magnifying glass’’ in the HRSA

Preview. If you have questions

concerning individual programs or the

availability of technical assistance,

please contact the person listed. Also

check your application materials and

the HRSA web site at http://

www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/ for the latest

technical assistance information.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Where do I submit grant

applications?

The address for submitting your grant

application will be shown in the

guidance document included in the

application kit.

2. How do I learn more about a

particular grant program?

If you want to know more about a

program before you request an

application kit, an e-mail/telephone

contact is listed. This contact person

can provide information concerning the

specific program’s purpose, scope and

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goals, and eligibility criteria. Usually,

you will be encouraged to request the

application kit so that you will have

clear, comprehensive, and accurate

information available to you. When

requesting application materials, you

must state the CFDA Number and title

of the program. The application kit lists

telephone numbers for a program expert

and a grants management specialist who

will provide information about your

program of interest if you are unable to

find the information within the written

materials provided.

In general, the program contact person

provides information about the specific

grant offering and its purpose, and the

grants management specialist provides

information about the grant mechanism

and business matters, though there is

often overlap of their responsibilities.

Information specialists at the toll-free

number provide only basic information

and administer mailings.

3. The dates listed in the HRSA

Preview and the dates in the application

kit do not agree. How do I know which

is correct?

HRSA Preview dates for application

kit availability and application receipt

deadlines are based upon the best

known information at the time of

publication, often nine months in

advance of the competitive cycle.

Occasionally, the grant cycle does not

begin as projected and dates must be

adjusted. The deadline date stated in

your application kit is generally correct.

If the application kit has been made

available and subsequently the date

changes, notification of the change will

be mailed to known recipients of the

application kit, and also posted on the

HRSA home page.

4. Are programs announced in the

HRSA Preview ever canceled?

Infrequently, announced programs

may be withdrawn from competition. If

this occurs, a cancellation notice will be

provided through the HRSA Preview at

the HRSA Homepage at http://

www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/. If practicable, an

attempt will be made to notify by mail

those who have requested a kit for the

canceled program.

If you have unanswered questions,

please contact John Gallicchio of the

Grants Policy Branch at 301–443–6507

(jgallicchio@hrsa.gov).

Bureau of Health Professions

Kids Into Health Careers Initiative

The Bureau of Health Professions

announces a new initiative to increase

diversity and cultural competency of the

health professions workforce. The Kids

Into Health Careers initiative is

designed to expand the pool of qualified

and interested applicants from minority

and disadvantaged populations. The

Bureau will give Special Consideration

to qualified applicants to appropriate

grant programs who participate in the

Kids Into Health Careers initiative by

working with primary and secondary

schools that have a high percentage of

minority and disadvantaged students.

To receive this Special Consideration,

applicants must establish linkages with

one or more elementary, middle or high

schools with a high percentage of

minority and disadvantaged students to:

(1) inform students and parents about

health careers and financial aid to

encourage interest in health careers; (2)

promote rigorous academic course work

to prepare for health professions

training; or (3) provide support services

such as mentoring, tutoring, counseling,

after school programs, summer

enrichment, and college visits.

Further information on the Kids Into

Health Careers Initiative can be obtained

on the Bureau of Health Professions

website at http://www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

The programs with this Special

Consideration include: Model Statesupported Area Health Education

Centers, Preventive Medicine Residency

Programs, Centers of Excellence,

Podiatric Residency Training in Primary

Care, Allied Health Projects,

Residencies in the Practice of Pediatric

Dentistry * * * Public Health Training

Grant Program, Health Careers

Opportunity Program, Faculty

Development Training in Primary Care,

Residency Training in Primary Care,

Predoctoral Training in Primary Care,

Physician Assistant Training in Primary

Care, Basic/Core Area Health Education

Centers, Geriatric Education Centers,

Advanced Education Nursing Grants,

Basic Nurse Education and Practice

Grants, Academic Administrative Units

in Primary Care, and Partnerships for

Developing Public Health Nursing

Leadership.

All recipients of Bureau of Health

Professions grants will receive a packet

of information and guidance materials

that can be used in working with local

school systems.

Model State-Supported Area Health

Education Centers 93.107

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, section 751, 42

U.S.C. 294a.

Purpose: The program assists schools

to improve the distribution, supply, and

quality of health personnel in the health

services delivery system by encouraging

the regionalization of health professions

schools. Emphasis is placed on

community-based training of primary

care oriented students, residents, and

providers. The Area Health Education

Centers (AHEC) program assists schools

in the development and operation of

AHECs to implement educational

system incentives to attract and retain

health care personnel in scarcity areas.

By linking the academic resources of the

university health science center with

local planning, educational and clinical

resources, the AHEC program

establishes a network of health-related

institutions to provide educational

services to students, faculty and

practitioners and ultimately to improve

the delivery of health care in the service

area. These programs are collaborative

partnerships which address current

health workforce needs within a region

of a State or in an entire State.

Eligibility: The types of entities

eligible to apply for this program

include public or private nonprofit

accredited schools of medicine and

osteopathic medicine and incorporated

consortia made up of such schools, or

the parent institutions of such schools.

Applicants must also have previously

received funds, but are no longer

receiving funds under Section 751(a)(1)

of the Public Health Service Act, and are

operating an AHEC program.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: As

provided in Section 791(a) of the Public

Health Service Act, preference will be

given to any qualified applicant that: (A)

has a high rate for placing graduates in

practice settings having the principal

focus of serving residents of medically

underserved communities or (B) during

the two-year period preceding the fiscal

year for which an award is sought, has

achieved a significant increase in the

rate of placing graduates in such

settings. This statutory general

preference will only be applied to

applications that rank above the 20th

percentile of applications recommended

for approval by the peer review group.

Funds shall be awarded to approved

applicants in the following order: (1)

competing continuations, (2) new starts

in States with no AHEC program, (3)

other new starts, and (4) competing

supplementals.

Special Consideration: A Special

Consideration will be given to qualified

applicants who support the Kids Into

Health Careers initiative by establishing

linkages with one or more elementary,

middle or high schools with a high

percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

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school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Matching Requirements: Awardees

shall make available (directly or through

contributions from State, county or

municipal governments, or the private

sector) recurring non-Federal

contributions in cash in an amount not

less than 50 percent of the operating

costs of the Model State-Supported

AHEC Program.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $5,500,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 13.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.107.

Application Availability Date: 10/02/

00.

Letter of Intent Deadline: None.

Application Deadline: 12/18/00.

Projected Award Date: 05/01/01.

Program Contact Person: Louis D.

Coccodrilli, MPH.

Phone Number: 301/443–6950.

e-mail address: lcoccodrilli@hrsa.gov

Basic/Core Area Health Education

Centers 93.824

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, section 751, 42

U.S.C. 294a

Purpose: Cooperative Agreements are

awarded to assist schools to improve the

distribution, supply and quality of

health personnel in the health services

delivery system by encouraging the

regionalization of health professions

schools. Emphasis is placed on

community-based training of primary

care oriented students, residents, and

providers. The Area Health Education

Centers (AHEC) program assists schools

in the planning, development and

operation of AHECs to initiate education

system incentives to attract and retain

health care personnel in scarcity areas.

By linking the academic resources of the

university health sciences center with

local planning, educational and clinical

resources, the AHEC program

establishes a network of communitybased training sites to provide

educational services to students, faculty

and practitioners in underserved areas

and ultimately, to improve the delivery

of health care in the service area. The

program embraces the goal of increasing

the number of health professions

graduates who ultimately will practice

in underserved areas.

Eligibility: The types of entities

eligible to apply for this program

include public or private nonprofit

accredited schools of medicine and

osteopathic medicine and incorporated

consortia made up of such schools, or

the parent institutions of such schools.

Also, in States in which no AHEC

program is in operation, an accredited

school of nursing is an eligible

applicant.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: As

provided in section 791(a) of the Public

Health Service Act, preference will be

given to any qualified applicant that: (A)

has a high rate for placing graduates in

practice settings having the principal

focus of serving residents of medically

underserved communities or (B) during

the two-year period preceding the fiscal

year for which an award is sought, has

achieved a significant increase in the

rate of placing graduates in such

settings. This statutory general

preference will only be applied to

applications that rank above the 20th

percentile of applications recommended

for approval by the peer review group.

Funds shall be awarded to approved

applications in the following order: (1)

competing continuations; (2) new starts

in States with no AHEC program; (3)

other new starts; and (4) competing

supplementals.

Special Consideration: A Special

Consideration will be given to qualified

applicants who support the Kids Into

Health Careers initiative by establishing

linkages with one or more elementary,

middle or high schools with a high

percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Matching Requirements: Awardees

shall make available (directly or through

contributions from State, county or

municipal governments, or the private

sector) non-Federal contributions in

cash in an amount not less than 50

percent of the operating costs of the

AHEC Program except that the Secretary

may grant a waiver for up to 75 percent

of the amount required in the first three

years in which an awardee receives

funds under Section 751(a)(1) of the

Public Health Service Act.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $4,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 5.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.824.

Application Availability Date:

October 2, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: None.

Application Deadline: December 18,

2000.

Projected Award Date: May 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Louis D.

Coccodrilli, MPH.

Phone Number: 301 443–6950

E-Mail: lcoccodrilli@hrsa.gov

Preventive Medicine Residency

Programs 93.117

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, section 768, 42

U.S.C. 295c

Purpose: The Secretary may make

grants to and enter into contracts with

accredited schools of medicine,

osteopathic medicine, and public health

to meet the cost to: (1) plan and develop

new residency training programs and to

maintain or improve existing residency

programs in preventive medicine, and

(2) to provide financial assistance to

residency trainees enrolled in such

program.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants are

schools of medicine, osteopathic

medicine and public health. An

applicant must demonstrate to the

Secretary that it has or will have

available full-time faculty members with

training and experience in the fields of

preventive medicine and support from

other faculty members trained in public

health and other relevant specialties and

disciplines.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

Under section 765 of the Public Health

Service Act, a preference will be applied

for applicants: (1) serving individuals

who are from disadvantaged

backgrounds (including

underrepresented racial and ethnic

minorities) and (2) graduating large

proportions of individuals who serve in

underserved communities. For

established programs (who have

graduated three or more classes),

supporting information will be

requested to determine qualification for

the Preference.

For new programs (those having

graduated three or fewer classes),

applicant proposals will be evaluated by

the criteria in the Public Health Service

Act used to define a ‘‘new program’’ and

must meet at least four of the following

criteria to qualify for the funding

preference:

(A) The mission statement of the

program identifies a specific purpose of

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the program as being the preparation of

health professionals to serve

underserved populations.

(B) The curriculum of the program

includes content which will help to

prepare practitioners to serve

underserved populations.

(C) Substantial clinical training

experience is required under the

program in medically underserved

communities.

(D) A minimum of 20 percent of the

clinical faculty of the program spend at

least 50 percent of their time providing

or supervising care in medically

underserved communities.

(E) The entire program or a substantial

portion of the program is physically

located in a medically underserved

community.

(F) Student assistance that is linked to

service in medically underserved

communities following graduation is

available to the students in the program.

(G) The program provides a placement

mechanism for deploying graduates to

medically underserved communities.

A priority will be applied for any

applicant who: (1) requests funding for

a ‘‘new program’’, as defined under

Section 791[295j] of the Public Health

Service Act as a program that has

graduated less than three classes; or (2)

meets the matching option of providing

non-Federal matching funds obtained

from public or private entities as set

forth under Section 798 [295o] of the

Public Health Service Act.

Special Consideration: A Special

Consideration will be given to qualified

applicants who support the Kids Into

Health Careers initiative by establishing

linkages with one or more elementary,

middle or high schools with a high

percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: 1.8 million dollars.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: Approximately 10–15 awards.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.117.

Application Availability Date: July 1,

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: September 18,

2000.

Projected Award Date: April 15, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Lee Norman

Muecke, MD, MPH.

Phone Number: 301–443–0582.

E-mail: LMUECKE@HRSA.GOV

Centers of Excellence 93.157

Legislative Authority: Section 736 of

The Public Health Service Act, 42

U.S.C. 293

Purpose: The goal of this program is

to assist eligible schools in supporting

programs of excellence in health

professions education for underrepresented minority individuals. The

grantee is required to use the funds

awarded: (1) To develop a large

competitive applicant pool through

linkages with institutions of higher

education, local school districts, and

other community-based entities and

establish an education pipeline for

health professions careers; (2) to

establish, strengthen, or expand

programs to enhance the academic

performance of under-represented

minority students attending the school;

(3) to improve the capacity of such

school to train, recruit, and retain

under-represented minority faculty

including the payment of stipends and

fellowships; (4) to carry out activities to

improve the information resources,

clinical education, curricula and

cultural competence of the graduates of

the schools as it relates to minority

health issues; (5) to facilitate faculty and

student research on health issues

particularly affecting under-represented

minority groups, including research on

issues relating to the delivery of health

care; (6) to carry out a program to train

students of the school in providing

health services to a significant number

of under-represented minority

individuals through training provided to

such students at community-based

health facilities that provide such health

services and are located at a site remote

from the main site of the teaching

facilities of the school; and (7) to

provide stipends as appropriate.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants are

accredited schools of allopathic

medicine, osteopathic medicine,

dentistry, pharmacy, graduate programs

in behavioral or mental health, or other

public and private nonprofit health or

educational entities. Historically Black

Colleges and Universities as described

in section 736(c)(2)(A) and which

received a contract under section 788B

of the Public Health Service Act

(Advanced Financial Distress

Assistance) for fiscal year 1987 may

apply for Centers of Excellence (COE)

grants under section 736 of the Act.

Funding Preferences: NA.

Special Consideration: Special

Consideration will be given to qualified

applicants who support the Kids Into

Health Careers initiative by establishing

linkages with one or more elementary,

middle or high schools with a high

percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) Inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $7 million.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 12.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.157.

Application Availability Date: 07/01/

00.

Letter of Intent Deadline: NA.

Application Deadline: 12/01/00.

Project Award Date: 06/30/01.

Program Contact Person: Capt.

Richard C. Valse, Jr.

Phone Number: 301–443–2100.

E-mail: Rvause@hrsa.gov

Podiatric Residency Training in Primary

Care 93.181

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, Section 755, 42

U.S.C. 293k

Purpose: Grants are awarded to plan

and implement projects in preventive

and primary care training for podiatric

physicians in approved or provisionally

approved residency programs that shall

provide financial assistance in the form

of traineeships to residents who

participate in such projects and who

plan to specialize in primary care.

Eligibility: Schools of podiatric

medicine or public or private nonprofit

hospitals or other public or private

nonprofit entities are eligible to apply.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: As

provided in Section 791(a) of the Public

Health Service Act, preference will be

given to any qualified applicant that: (A)

Has a high rate for placing graduates in

practice settings having the principal

focus of serving residents of medically

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underserved communities or (B) during

the two-year period preceding the fiscal

year for which such an award is sought,

has achieved a significant increase in

the rate of placing graduates in such

settings. This statutory general

preference will only be applied to

applications that rank above the 20th

percentile of applications recommended

for approval by the peer review group.

Special Consideration: A Special

Consideration will be given to qualified

applicants who support the Kids Into

Health Careers initiative by establishing

linkages with one or more elementary,

middle or high schools with a high

percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $492,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 4.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.181.

Application Availability Date: July 1,

2000.

Application Deadline: October 27,

2000.

Projected Award Date: June 29, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Eleanor

Crocker.

Phone Number: 301–443–1467.

E-mail: ecrocker@hrsa.gov

Allied Health Projects 93.191

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, section 755, 42

U.S.C. 294e.

Purpose: Grants are awarded to assist

eligible entities in meeting the costs

associated with expanding or

establishing programs that will: (1)

expand enrollments in allied health

disciplines that are in short supply or

whose services are most needed by the

elderly; (2) provide rapid transition

training programs in allied health fields

to individuals who have baccalaureate

degrees in health-related sciences; (3)

establish community-based training

programs that link academic centers to

rural clinical settings; (4) provide career

advancement training for practicing

allied health professionals; (5) expand

or establish clinical training sites for

allied health professionals in medically

underserved or rural communities in

order to increase the number of

individuals trained; (6) develop

curriculum that will emphasize

knowledge and practice in the areas of

prevention and health promotion,

geriatrics, long-term care, home health

and hospice care, and ethics; (7) expand

or establish interdisciplinary training

programs that promote the effectiveness

of allied health practitioners in geriatric

assessment and the rehabilitation of the

elderly; (8) expand or establish

demonstration centers to emphasize

innovative models to link allied health,

clinical practice, education, and

research; and (9) meet the costs of

projects to plan, develop, and operate or

maintain graduate programs in

behavioral and mental health practice.

Eligibility: Eligible entities are health

professions schools, academic health

centers, State or local governments or

other public or private nonprofit

entities. Eligible academic institutions

shall also be required to use funds in

collaboration with two or more

disciplines.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: As

provided in section 791(a) of the Public

Health Service Act, preference will be

given to any qualified applicant that: (A)

has a high rate for placing graduates in

practice settings having the focus of

serving residents of medically

underserved communities or (B) during

the two-year period preceding the fiscal

year for which such an award is sought,

has achieved a significant increase in

the rate of placing graduates in such

settings. This statutory general

preference will only be applied to

applications that rank above the 20th

percentile of applications recommended

for approval by the peer review group.

A preference will be given to those

new programs that meet at least four of

the criteria described in section

791(c)(3) of the Public Health Service

Act concerning medically underserved

communities and populations so that

new applicants may also compete

equitably. A funding priority will be

given to qualified applicants who

provide community-based training

experiences designed to improve access

to health care services in underserved

areas. This will include being

responsive to population groups

addressed in the President’s Executive

Orders 12876, 12900, 13021, and 13125.

These will include such applicants as

Asian-American and Pacific Islander

Serving Institutions, Hispanic Serving

Institutions, Historically Black Colleges

and Universities, Tribal Colleges and

Universities serving American Indians

and Alaska Natives.

Special Consideration: A Special

Consideration will be given to qualified

applicants who support the Kids Into

Health Careers initiative by establishing

linkages with one or more elementary,

middle or high schools with a high

percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $1,200,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 10–12.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.191.

Application Availability Date: 07/31/

00.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: 01/16/01.

Projected Award Date: 09/30/01.

Program Contact Person(s): Captain

Norman L. Clark; Lt. Commander Young

Song.

Phone Number: (301) 443–1346 or

(301) 443–3353

E-mail address: nclark@hrsa.gov or

ysong@hrsa.gov.

Partnerships for Developing Public

Health Nursing Leadership 93.247A

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII and Title VIII, 42

U.S.C.; Sections 765 and 811.

Purpose: The purpose of this program

is to improve State and local public

health infrastructure by enhancing the

production and distribution of a highly

qualified, diverse public health nurse

workforce. A school of nursing and a

school of public health are expected to

collaborate in developing a program for

public health nurse leaders. These

cooperative agreements are expected to

enhance master’s educational programs

(such as MSN and MPH) that prepare

nurses for leadership in public health

nursing with an emphasis on

interdisciplinary practice in State and

local public health agencies.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants are

public and nonprofit private accredited

collegiate schools of nursing and

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accredited schools of public health. The

applicant is required to document a

partnership or plan for a partnership for

cooperation between a school(s)/

college(s) of nursing and a school of

public health to meet project objectives.

If the applicant is a school of nursing

the partnership is to be with a school of

public health; and if the applicant is a

school of public health the partnership

is to be with one or more schools of

nursing.

The school of nursing, school of

public health, and joint program of

study are to include core public health

sciences and strategies for

interdisciplinary academic and practice

learning experiences. The project plan is

to address strategies for strengthening

the nursing component in appropriate

departments in the school of public

health and strengthen interdisciplinary

and population focused content offered

by the school of nursing or jointly with

the school of public health. The

graduate is expected to be awarded a

master’s degree (in nursing and/or

public health such as MPH, MHS, MSN

or dual degree options) upon successful

completion of the program of study.

Priorities or Preferences: Section 805

of the Public Health Service Act states

that the Secretary shall give preference

to applicants with projects that will

substantially benefit rural or

underserved populations, or help meet

public health nursing needs in State or

local health departments.

The Secretary will grant a preference

(as per Section 765 of the Public Health

Service Act) to entities: (1) serving

individuals who are from disadvantaged

backgrounds (including

underrepresented racial and ethnic

minorities); and (2) graduating large

proportions of individuals who serve in

underserved communities.

Special Consideration: A Special

Consideration will be given to qualified

applicants who support the Kids Into

Health Careers initiative by establishing

linkages with one or more elementary,

middle or high schools with a high

percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) Inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $800,000 for FY 2001

depending on available funds.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 4.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: $200,000 per year per grantee.

Estimated Project Period: Five (5)

years, depending on approval of

progress reports, availability of funds,

and program priorities.

CFDA Number: 93.247A.

Application Availability Date: July 1,

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: Not

required.

Application Deadline: November 17,

2000.

Projected Award Date: July 1, 2001.

Program Contact Persons: Irene

Sandvold (301–443–6333) and Jennifer

Burks (301–443–6853).

Application Availability: July 1, 2000.

Application Deadline: November 17,

2000.

Projected Award Date: July 1, 2001.

E-mail Address: jburks@hrsa.gov

Phone Numbers: 301–443–6333 and

301–443–6853.

Residencies in the Practice of Pediatric

Dentistry 93.248 and Residencies and

Advanced Education in the Practice of

General Dentistry 93.897

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, section 747(a)(6),

42 U.S.C. 293k.

Purpose: These programs shall

provide grants to assist schools in

planning, developing, or operating

programs, and to increase the number of

training opportunities and to provide

financial assistance to residents in post

doctoral general and pediatric dentistry.

These programs place particular

emphasis on support of applications

which encourage: (1) Practice in

underserved areas; (2) provision of a

broad range of pediatric and/or general

practice dental services; (3)

coordination and integration of care; (4)

meeting the needs of special

populations; and (5) recruitment and

retention of under-represented

minorities. Applicants are encouraged

to detail manners in which the

graduates of general dentistry residency

will be well trained in meeting the

treatment needs of the pediatric patient

populations. For the upcoming grant

cycle, all applications will be reviewed

together as a single group during the

peer review process.

Eligibility: To be eligible for a grant for

residency training in the practice of

pediatric or general dentistry, the

applicant shall include entities that

have programs in dental schools,

approved residency programs in the

pediatric or general practice of

dentistry, approved advanced education

programs in the pediatric or general

practice of dentistry.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

As provided in Section 791(a) of the

Public Health Service Act, preference

will be given to any qualified applicant

that: (A) Has a high rate for placing

graduates in practice settings and has

the principal focus of serving residents

of medically/dentally underserved

communities; or (B) during the two-year

period preceding the fiscal year for

which an award is sought, has achieved

a significant increase in the rate of

placing graduates in such settings. This

statutory general preference will only be

applied to applications that rank above

the 20th percentile of applications

recommended for approval by the peer

review group.

Priority shall be given to qualified

applicants that have a record of training

the greatest percentage of providers, or

that have demonstrated significant

improvements in the percentage of

providers which enter and remain in

general or pediatric dentistry.

Priority shall be given to qualified

applicants that have a record of training

individuals who are from disadvantaged

backgrounds (including racial and

ethnic minorities under-represented in

general or pediatric dentistry.)

An Administrative Priority shall be

given to new programs that have

enrollees and no graduates at the time

of application, and newly initiated

programs that have neither enrollees nor

graduates at the time of application.

Special Consideration: Special

Consideration will be given to projects

that prepare practitioners to care for

underserved populations and other high

risk groups such as the elderly,

individuals with HIV/AIDS, substance

abusers, homeless, and victims of

domestic violence.

A Special Consideration will be given

to qualified applicants who support the

Kids Into Health Careers initiative by

establishing linkages with one or more

elementary, middle or high schools with

a high percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) Inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

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Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $1,500,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 12.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 Years.

CFDA Numbers:

General Dentistry: 93.897.

Pediatric Dentistry: 93.248.

Application Availability Date: July 1,

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: September 8,

2000.

Projected Award Date: April 30, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Susan

Goodman, DDS; Stan Bastacky, DMD,

MHSA.

Phone Number: 301 443–6326.

E-mail: sgoodman@hrsa.gov and

sbaskacky@hrsa.gov.

Public Health Training Centers Grant

Program 93.249.

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, Section 766, 42

U.S.C. 295a.

Purpose: The goal of the Public Health

Training Centers Grant Program is to

improve the Nation’s public health

system by strengthening the technical,

scientific, managerial and leadership

competencies and capabilities of the

current and future public health

workforce. Emphasis is placed on

developing the existing public health

workforce as a foundation for improving

the infrastructure of the public health

system and helping achieve the Healthy

People 2010 Objectives. With respect to

a public health training center,

applicants must agree to: (1) Specifically

designate a geographic area, including

medically underserved populations,

e.g., elderly, immigrants/refugees,

disadvantaged, to be served by the

Center that shall be in a location

removed from the main location of the

teaching facility of the school

participating in the program with such

Center; (2) assess the public health

personnel needs of the area to be served

by the Center and assist in the planning

and development of training programs

to meet such needs; (3) establish or

strengthen field placements for students

in public or nonprofit private public

health agencies or organizations; and (4)

involve faculty members and students

in collaborative projects to enhance

public health services to medically

underserved communities.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants include

accredited schools of public health or

other public or nonprofit private

institutions accredited for the provision

of graduate or specialized training in

public health.

Funding Priorities And/or

Preferences: In awarding grants or

contracts under this authority, the

Secretary shall give preference to

accredited schools of public health.

Special Consideration: A Special

Consideration will be given to qualified

applicants who support the ‘‘Kids Into

Health Careers’’ initiative by

establishing linkages with one or more

elementary, middle or high schools with

a high percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) Inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $5,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 10–12.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 5 Years.

Application Deadline: 12/11/00.

CFDA Number: 93.249.

E-mail: jkress@hrsa.gov and

rmerrill@hrsa.gov

Health Careers Opportunity Program

93.822.

Legislative Authority: Section 739 of

the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C.

293c

Purpose: The goal of the Health

Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP) is

to assist individuals from disadvantaged

backgrounds to undertake education to

enter a health profession. The HCOP

program works to build diversity in the

health fields by providing students from

disadvantaged backgrounds an

opportunity to develop the skills needed

to successfully compete, enter, and

graduate from health professions

schools. The legislative purposes for

which HCOP funds may be awarded are:

(1) identifying, recruiting, and selecting

individuals from disadvantaged

backgrounds for education and training

in a health profession; (2) facilitating the

entry of such individuals into such a

school; (3) providing counseling,

mentoring, or other services designed to

assist such individuals to complete

successfully their education at such a

school; (4) providing, for a period prior

to the entry of such individuals into the

regular course of education of such a

school, preliminary education and

health research training designed to

assist them to complete successfully

such regular course of education at such

a school, or referring such individuals to

institutions providing such preliminary

education; (5) publicizing existing

sources of financial aid available to

students in the education program of

such a school or who are undertaking

training necessary to qualify them to

enroll in such a program; (6) paying

scholarships, as the Secretary may

determine, for such individuals for any

period of health professions education

at a health professions school; (7)

paying such stipends for such

individuals for any period of education

in student-enhancement programs

(other than regular courses), except that

such a stipend may not be provided to

an individual for more than 12 months;

(8) carrying out programs under which

such individuals gain experience

regarding a career in a field of primary

health care through working at facilities

of public or private nonprofit

community-based providers of primary

health services; and (9) conducting

activities to develop a larger and more

competitive applicant pool through

partnerships with institutions of higher

education, school districts, and other

community-based entities.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants include

schools of medicine, osteopathic

medicine, public health, dentistry,

veterinary medicine, optometry,

pharmacy, allied health, chiropractic,

podiatric medicine, public or nonprofit

private schools that offer graduate

programs in behavioral and mental

health, programs for the training of

physician assistants, and other public or

private nonprofit health or educational

entities.

Funding Preferences or Priorities: A

funding preference will be given to

approved applications for programs that

involve a comprehensive approach by

several public or nonprofit private

health or educational entities to

establish, enhance and expand

educational programs that will result in

the development of a competitive

applicant pool of individuals from

disadvantaged backgrounds who desire

to pursue health professions careers. A

comprehensive approach means a

network of entities which are formally

linked programmatically. The network

must include a minimum of four

entities: a health professions school, an

undergraduate institution, a school

district, and a community-based entity.

Special Consideration: A Special

Consideration will be given to qualified

applicants who support the Kids Into

Health Careers initiative by establishing

linkages with one or more elementary,

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middle or high schools with a high

percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Up to one third of available

competitive funds will be reserved for

applicants with approved proposals

who have not received funding under

this authority during the previous three

years.

Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $9,000,000.00.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 23.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years and

up to five years for approved

applications that rank in the upper

twentieth percentile.

CDFA Number: 93.822.

Application Availability Date: 07/01/

00.

Letter of Intent/Pre-application

Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: 01/10/01.

Projected Award Date: 08/01/01.

Contact Person: Capt. Richard C.

Valse Jr.

Phone Number: 301–443–2100.

E-mail address: Rvause@hrsa.gov

Faculty Development Training in

Primary Care (Family Medicine, General

Internal Medicine/General Pediatrics)

93.895

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, Section 747,42

U.S.C. 293k.

Purpose: Grants are awarded to plan,

develop and operate a program for the

training of physicians who plan to teach

in family medicine (including

geriatrics), general internal medicine,

general pediatrics, and to provide

financial assistance (in the form of

traineeships and fellowships) to

physicians who are participating in any

such program.

Eligibility: Accredited schools of

medicine or osteopathic medicine,

public or private nonprofit hospitals, or

other public or private nonprofit entities

are eligible to apply.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: As

provided in Section 791(a) of the Public

Health Service Act, preference will be

given to any qualified applicant that: (A)

has a high rate for placing graduates in

practice settings having the principal

focus of serving residents of medically

underserved communities or (B) during

the two-year period preceding the fiscal

year for which such an award is sought,

has achieved a significant increase in

the rate of placing graduates in such

settings. This statutory general

preference will only be applied to

applications that rank above the 20th

percentile of applications recommended

for approval by the peer review group.

Special Consideration: Special

consideration will be given to projects

which prepare practitioners to care for

underserved populations and other high

risk groups such as the elderly,

individuals with HIV/AIDS, substance

abusers, homeless, and victims of

domestic violence.

A Special Consideration will be given

to qualified applicants who support the

Kids Into Health Careers initiative by

establishing linkages with one or more

elementary, middle or high schools with

a high percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition:

Family Medicine: $4,435,366.

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: $3,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made:

Family Medicine: 31.

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: 19.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period:

Family Medicine: 3 years.

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.895.

Application Availability Date: July 1,

2000.

Application Deadline: October 6,

2000.

Projected Award Date: June 29, 2001.

Program Contact Person:

Family Medicine: Elsie Quinones.

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: Elsie Quinones.

Phone Number: 301 443–1467.

E-mail:

Family Medicine: equinones@hrsa.gov

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: equinones@hrsa.gov

Residency Training in Primary Care

(Family Medicine, General Internal

Medicine/General Pediatrics) 93.884.

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, Section 747, 42

U.S.C. 293k.

Purpose: Grants are awarded to assist

graduate training programs in family

medicine, general internal medicine and

general pediatrics to expand and

improve the quality of residency

training programs that prepare graduates

to enter primary care practice.

Residency training programs should

emphasize national innovations aimed

at primary care residency education

across disciplines.

Eligibility: Applicant must be an

accredited public or private nonprofit

school of allopathic medicine or

osteopathic medicine or a public or

private nonprofit hospital or other

public or private nonprofit entity. Each

allopathic program must be fully or

provisionally accredited by the

Accreditation Council for Graduate

Medical Education. Each osteopathic

program must be approved by the

American Osteopathic Association.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: As

provided in Section 791(a) of the Public

Health Service Act, preference will be

given to any qualified applicant that: (A)

has a high rate for placing graduates in

practice settings having the principal

focus of serving residents of medically

underserved communities or (B) during

the two-year period preceding the fiscal

year for which such an award is sought,

has achieved a significant increase in

the rate of placing graduates in such

settings. This statutory general

preference will only be applied to

applications that rank above the 20th

percentile of applications recommended

for approval by the peer review group.

A funding priority will be made

available for applicants that can

demonstrate training the greatest

percentage of providers or

demonstrating significant improvements

in the percentage of providers which

enter and remain in primary care

practice. A second priority will be

offered to applicants who can

demonstrate a record of training

individuals from disadvantaged

backgrounds (including racial/ethnic

minorities, under-represented in

primary care practice).

Special Consideration: Special

consideration will be given to projects

that prepare practitioners to care for

underserved populations and other high

risk groups (i.e., elderly, HIV/ AIDS,

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substance abusers, homeless and

victims of domestic violence).

A Special Consideration will be given

to qualified applicants who support the

Kids Into Health Careers initiative by

establishing linkages with one or more

elementary, middle or high schools with

a high percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition:

Family Medicine: $4,621,600

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: $3,102,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made:

Family Medicine: 28.

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: 32.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period:

Family Medicine: 3 years.

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.884.

Application Availability Date: July 1,

2000.

Application Deadline: October 2,

2000.

Projected Award Date: June 29, 2001.

Program Contact Persons:

Family Medicine: Ed Spirer

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: Eleanor Crocker.

Phone Number: 301 443–1467.

E-Mail:

Family Medicine: espirer@hrsa.gov

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: ecrocker@hrsa.gov

Predoctoral Training in Primary Care

(Family Medicine, General Internal

Medicine/General Pediatrics) 93.896

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, Section 747, 42

U.S.C. 293k.

Purpose: Grants are awarded to assist

schools of medicine or osteopathic

medicine to promote predoctoral

training. The program assists schools in

meeting the costs of projects to plan,

develop and operate or participate in an

approved predoctoral training program

in the field of family medicine, general

internal medicine, and general

pediatrics. Proposed projects should

seek to expand and enhance the quality

of predoctoral initiatives: (1) Innovation,

(2) Comprehensive Models, and (3)

Establishment and Expansion of

Required Clerkships.

Eligibility: Any accredited public or

nonprofit private school of allopathic

medicine or osteopathic medicine is

eligible to apply.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: As

provided in Section 791(a) of the Public

Health Service Act, preference will be

given to any qualified applicant that: (A)

has a high rate for placing graduates in

practice settings having the principal

focus of serving residents of medically

underserved communities or (B) during

the two-year period preceding the fiscal

year for which such an award is sought,

has achieved a significant increase in

the rate of placing graduates in such

settings. This statutory general

preference will only be applied to

applications that rank above the 20th

percentile of applications recommended

for approval by the peer review group.

Special Consideration: Special

consideration will be given to projects

which prepare practitioners to care for

underserved populations and other high

risk groups such as the elderly,

individuals with HIV/AIDS, substance

abusers, homeless, and victims of

domestic violence.

A Special Consideration will be given

to qualified applicants who support the

Kids Into Health Careers initiative by

establishing linkages with one or more

elementary, middle or high schools with

a high percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition:

Family Medicine: $4,500,200.

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: $750,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 

Family Medicine: 28.

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: 5.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period:

Family Medicine: 3 years.

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.896.

Application Availability Date: July 1,

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: September

4, 2000.

Application Deadline: November 3,

2000.

Projected Award Date: June 29, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Brenda

Williamson.

Phone Number: 301 443–1467.

E-mail: bwilliamson@hrsa.gov 

Physician Assistant Training in Primary

Care. 93.886

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, Section 747, 42

U.S.C. 293k.

Purpose: Grants are awarded for

projects for the training of physician

assistants, and for the training of

individuals who will teach in programs

to provide such training. The program

assists schools to meet the costs of

projects to plan, develop and operate or

maintain such programs.

Eligibility: Accredited schools of

medicine, osteopathic medicine or other

public or private nonprofit entities are

eligible to apply. Eligible physician

assistant programs are those which are

either accredited by the American

Medical Association’s Committee on

Allied Health Education and

Accreditation (AMA–CAHEA) or its

successor organization, the Commission

on Accreditation of Allied Health

Education Programs (CAAHEP).

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

As provided in Section 791(a) of the

Public Health Service Act, preference

will be given to any qualified applicant

that: (A) has a high rate for placing

graduates in practice settings having the

principal focus of serving residents of

medically underserved communities; or

(B) during the two-year period

preceding the fiscal year for which such

an award is sought, has achieved a

significant increase in the rate of placing

graduates in such settings. This

statutory general preference will only be

applied to applications that rank above

the 20th percentile of applications

recommended for approval by the peer

review group.

A priority will be offered to

applicants that can demonstrate a record

of training individuals from

disadvantaged backgrounds (including

racial/ethnic minorities underrepresented in primary care practice).

Special Consideration: Special

Consideration will be given in awarding

grants to projects which prepare

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practitioners to care for underserved

populations and other high risk groups

such as the elderly, individuals with

HIV/AIDS, substance abusers, homeless,

and victims of domestic violence.

A Special Consideration will be given

to qualified applicants who support the

Kids Into Health Careers initiative by

establishing linkages with one or more

elementary, middle or high schools with

a high percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) Inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $2,353,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 15.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.886.

Application Availability Date: July 1,

2000.

Application Deadline: January 12,

2001.

Projected Award Date: June 29, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Ellie Grant.

Phone Number: 301 443–1467.

E-mail: egrant@hrsa.gov

Academic Administrative Units in

Primary Care (Family Medicine, General

Internal Medicine/General Pediatrics)

93.984

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, section 747, 42

U.S.C. 293k

Purpose: Title VII authorizes funds to

establish or expand teaching capacity in

family medicine, general internal

medicine and general pediatrics. Grant

support is awarded to meet the costs of

projects to establish, maintain or

improve academic administrative units

(which may be departments, divisions,

or other units) to provide clinical

instruction in family medicine, general

internal medicine, or general pediatrics.

An academic unit in family medicine

means a department or division of a

school. Applications are being solicited

for projects to address one or more of

the following program purposes: (1)

establishment of an academic unit, (2)

expansion of an academic unit, and (3)

research infrastructure development

within the academic unit.

Eligibility: Public or private nonprofit

accredited schools of allopathic

medicine or osteopathic medicine are

eligible to apply.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

As provided in Section 791(a) of the

Public Health Service Act, preference

will be given to any qualified applicant

that: (A) has a high rate for placing

graduates in practice settings having the

principal focus of serving residents of

medically underserved communities or

(B) during the two-year period

preceding the fiscal year for which such

an award is sought, has achieved a

significant increase in the rate of placing

graduates in such settings. This

statutory general preference will only be

applied to applications that rank above

the 20th percentile of applications

recommended for approval by the peer

review group.

A second preference is offered to

qualified applicants for the

establishment or the substantive

expansion of an academic unit.

A priority will be available to those

applicants that present collaborative

projects between departments of

primary care. The collaboration should

involve the academic units of any two

disciplines of family medicine, general

internal medicine, and general

pediatrics. There is a second priority

(administrative) for establishment or

expansion of research infrastructure

proposals.

Special Consideration: Special

consideration will be given to projects

which prepare practitioners to care for

underserved populations and other high

risk groups such as the elderly,

individuals with HIV/AIDS, substance

abusers, homeless, and victims of

domestic violence.

A Special Consideration will be given

to qualified applicants who support the

Kids Into Health Careers initiative by

establishing linkages with one or more

elementary, middle or high schools with

a high percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Estimated Amount of this

Competition:

Family Medicine: $4,587,292.

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: $1,300,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

made:

Family Medicine: 29.

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: 9.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period:

Family Medicine: 3 years.

General Internal Medicine/General

Pediatrics: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.984.

Application Availability Date: July 1,

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: October 15,

2000.

Application Deadline: December 8,

2000.

Projected Award Date: June 29, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Lafayette

Gilchrist.

Phone Number: 301 443–1467.

E-mail lgilchrist@hrsa.gov.

Faculty Loan Repayment

Program 93.923

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, section 738(a), 42

U.S.C. 293b.

Purpose: The Faculty Loan

Repayment Program (FLRP) encourages

expansion of disadvantaged

representation in health professions

faculty positions. The program provides

loan repayment, in amounts not to

exceed $20,000 for each year of service,

for individuals from disadvantaged

backgrounds who agree to serve as

members of the faculties of eligible

health professions and nursing schools.

Each recipient of loan repayment must

agree to serve as a faculty member for

at least two years.

Eligibility: Schools of medicine,

osteopathic medicine, dentistry,

veterinary medicine, optometry,

podiatric medicine, pharmacy, public

health, allied health, nursing and

graduate programs in behavioral and

mental health are eligible to apply.

An individual is eligible to compete

for participation in the FLRP if the

individual is from a disadvantaged

background and: (1) has a degree in

medicine, osteopathic medicine,

dentistry, nursing, or another health

profession; (2) is enrolled in an

approved graduate training program in

one of the health professions listed

above; or (3) is enrolled as a full-time

student in an accredited (as determined

by the Secretary) school listed above

and is in the final year of training

leading to a degree from an eligible

school.

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Funding Priorities or Preferences:

Special consideration will be given to

first-time applicants, applicants with a

commitment from the employing

institution to match the FLRP award,

and to applicants who contribute to an

even distribution of program

participants with respect to geography

and health care discipline.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $800,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 25.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: Not less

than two years.

CFDA Number: 93.923.

Application Availability Date: 01/03/

2001.

Letter of Intent Deadline (if

applicable): N/A.

Application Deadline: 05/31/2001.

Projected Award Date: 9/01/2001.

Program Contact Persons: Jeff Potts,

Barry Dubrow, Lorraine Evans.

Phone Numbers: 301–443–4240; 301–

443–4021; 301–443–0785.

E-mail address: flrpinfo@hrsa.gov

Internet address: http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/dsa/flrp

Scholarships for Disadvantaged

Students 93.925.

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, Section 737, 42

U.S.C. 293a.

Purpose: The Scholarships for

Disadvantaged Students (SDS) program

contributes to the diversity of the health

professions student and practitioner

populations. The program provides

funding to eligible health professions

and nursing schools to be used for

scholarships to students from

disadvantaged backgrounds who have

financial need for scholarships and are

enrolled, or accepted for enrollment, as

full-time students at the eligible schools.

Eligibility: (1) Schools of allopathic

medicine, osteopathic medicine,

dentistry, optometry, pharmacy,

podiatric medicine, veterinary

medicine, public health, nursing,

chiropractic, or allied health, graduate

programs in behavioral and mental

health practice, or an entity providing

programs for the training of physician

assistants are eligible to apply and (2)

Schools with a program for recruiting

and retaining students from

disadvantaged backgrounds, including

students who are members of racial and

ethnic minority groups.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: An

applicant must provide assurances that

preference in providing scholarships

will be given to students for whom the

costs of attending the schools would

constitute a severe financial hardship

and to former recipients of Exceptional

Financial Need and Financial

Assistance for Disadvantaged Health

Professions Students Scholarships.

A priority will be given to eligible

entities that are health professions and

nursing schools based on the proportion

of graduating students going into

primary care, the proportion of

underrepresented minority students,

and the proportion of graduates working

in medically underserved communities.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $38,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 500.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 1 Year.

CFDA Number: 93.925.

Application Availability Date: 11/01/

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: 12/15/2000.

Projected Award Date: 03/31/2001.

Program Contact Person: Angie Lacy

or Andrea Castle.

Phone Numbers: 301–443–5353; 301–

443–1701.

E-mail address: dpolicy@hrsa.gov.

Geriatric Education Centers 93.969

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VII, section 753(a), 42

U.S.C. 294c.

Purpose: Grants are given to support

the development of collaborative

arrangements involving several health

professions schools and health care

facilities. These arrangements, called

Geriatric Education Centers (GECs),

facilitate training of health professional

faculty, students, and practitioners in

the diagnosis, treatment, prevention of

disease, disability, and other health

problems of the aged. Projects supported

under these grants must offer training

involving four or more health

professions, one of which must be

allopathic or osteopathic medicine.

These projects must address one or

more of the following statutory

purposes: (a) improve the training of

health professionals in geriatrics,

including geriatric residencies,

traineeships or fellowships; (b) develop

and disseminate curricula relating to the

treatment of the health problems of

elderly individuals; (c) support the

training and retraining of faculty to

provide instruction in geriatrics; (d)

support continuing education of health

professionals who provide geriatric care;

and (e) provide students with clinical

training in geriatrics in nursing homes,

chronic and acute disease hospitals,

ambulatory care centers, and senior

centers.

Eligibility: Grants may be made to

accredited health professions schools as

defined by section 799B(1) of the PHS

Act, which include schools of medicine,

schools of dentistry, schools of

osteopathic medicine, schools of

pharmacy, schools of optometry,

schools of podiatric medicine, schools

of veterinary medicine, schools of

public health, and schools of

chiropractic; programs for the training

of physician assistants as defined by

section 799(B)(3), or schools of allied

health as defined by section 799B(4), or

schools of nursing as defined by section

801(2).

Applicants must be located in the

United States, the District of Columbia,

the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam,

American Samoa, or the Trust Territory

of the Pacific Islands.

As provided in section 791(a) of the

Public Health Service Act, preference

will be given to any qualified applicant

that: (A) has a high rate for placing

graduates in practice settings having the

focus of serving residents of medically

underserved communities or (B) during

the two-year period preceding the fiscal

year for which such an award is sought,

has achieved a significant increase in

the rate of placing graduates in such

settings. This statutory general

preference will only be applied to

applications that rank above the 20th

percentile of applications recommended

for approval by the peer review group.

So that new applicants may compete

equitably, a preference will be given to

those new programs that meet at least

four of the criteria described in section

791(c)(3) of the Public Health Service

Act concerning medically underserved

communities and populations.

A funding priority will be given to

qualified applicants who provide

community-based training experiences

designed to improve access to health

care services in underserved areas. This

will include being responsive to

population groups addressed in the

President’s Executive Orders 12876,

12900, and 13021. These will include

such applicants as Hispanic Serving

Institutions, Historically Black Colleges

and Universities, and Tribal Colleges

and Universities serving Native

Americans.

Special Consideration: A Special

Consideration will be given to qualified

applicants who support the ‘‘Kids Into

Health Careers’’ initiative by

establishing linkages with one or more

elementary, middle or high schools with

a high percentage of minority and

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disadvantaged students to: (1) inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $2,500,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 14–18.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 5 years.

CFDA Number: 93.969.

Application Availability Date: 07/01/

00.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: 01/04/01.

Projected Award Date: 06/01/01.

Program Contact Person: Diane

Hanner.

Phone Number: 1–301–443–6887.

e-mail address: dhanner@hrsa.gov.

Geriatric Nursing Knowledge and

Experiences in Long Term Care

Facilities for Baccalaureate Nursing

Students 93.359A

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VIII, Section 831, 42

U.S.C. 296p.

Purpose: The purpose of this request

for applications is to provide seed

money (up to $25,000 per grant) to assist

eligible entities to strengthen the

geriatric nursing didactic content and

clinical components of the

baccalaureate nursing program. Funds

will be used to assist the applicant to

plan, implement, and evaluate a

geriatric nursing experience that will

expose senior nursing students to: (1)

increased course content in geriatric

nursing and concepts of age sensitive

care; (2) application of this content to

geriatric patients with chronic illness

residing in long term care facilities; and

(3) use of assessment skills in the setting

selected in order to accurately complete

appropriate assessments using

standardized tools such as the

Minimum Data Set (MDS) required by

Medicare regulations. This project

should be implemented through a

planned partnership with a geriatric

long-term care facility.

Eligibility: Schools of nursing.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: As

provided in Section 805 of the Public

Health Service Act, preference will be

given to applicants with projects that

will substantially benefit rural or

underserved populations, or help meet

public health nursing needs in State or

local health departments.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $250,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 10.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 1 Year.

CFDA Number: 93.359A.

Application Availability Date: July 1,

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: NA.

Application Deadline: September 8,

2000.

Projected Award Date: March 30,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Madeline

Turkeltaub, PhD, CRNP, RN.

Phone Number: (301) 443–6193.

E-mail: mturkeltaub@hrsa.gov.

Advanced Education Nursing Grants

93.247

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VIII, Section 811, 42

U.S.C. 296j.

Purpose: Grants are awarded to

eligible institutions for projects that

support the enhancement of advanced

nursing education and practice. For the

purpose of this section, advanced

education nurses means individuals

trained in advanced degree programs

including individuals in combined RN

to Master’s degree programs, postnursing Master’s certificate programs, or

in the case of nurse midwives, in

certificate programs in existence on

November 12, 1998, to serve as nurse

practitioners, clinical nurse specialists,

nurse midwives, nurse anesthetists,

nurse educators, nurse administrators or

public health nurses.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants are

schools of nursing, academic health

centers, and other appropriate public or

private nonprofit entities.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: As

provided in Section 805 of the Public

Health Service Act, preference shall be

given to applicants with projects that

will substantially benefit rural or

underserved populations or help meet

public health nursing needs in State or

local health departments.

Special Consideration: A Special

Consideration will be given to qualified

applicants who support the Kids Into

Health Careers initiative by establishing

linkages with one or more elementary,

middle or high schools with a high

percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $13,500,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 61.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.247.

Application Availability: 07/01/2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: 01/29/2001.

Projected Award Date: 06/30/2001.

Program Contact Person: Joan Weiss,

PhD, CRNP, RN.

Phone Number: 301–443–5486.

E-mail: jweiss@hrsa.gov

Advanced Education Nursing

Traineeship Grants 93.358

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VIII, Section 811, 42

U.S.C. 296j.

Purpose: Grants are awarded to

eligible institutions to meet the cost of

traineeships for individuals in advanced

nursing education programs.

Traineeships are awarded to individuals

by participating educational institutions

offering Master’s and doctoral degree

programs, combined RN to Master’s

degree programs, post-nursing Master’s

certificate programs, or in the case of

nurse midwives, certificate programs in

existence on November 12, 1998 to

serve as nurse practitioners, clinical

nurse specialists, nurse midwives, nurse

anesthetists, nurse educators, nurse

administrators or public health nurses.

The traineeship program is a formula

program and all eligible schools will

receive awards.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants are

schools of nursing, academic health

centers, and other appropriate public or

private nonprofit entities.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: As

provided in Section 805 of the Public

Health Service Act, preference shall be

given to applicants with projects that

will substantially benefit rural or

underserved populations, or help meet

public health nursing needs in State or

local health departments.

Special Consideration: Traineeships

for individuals in advanced education

programs are provided under Section

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811(a)(2) of the Public Health Service

(PHS) Act. A statutory special

consideration, as provided for in

Section 811(f)(3) of the PHS Act, will be

given to an eligible entity that agrees to

expend the award to train advanced

education nurses who will practice in

health professional shortage areas

designated under Section 332 of the

PHS Act.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $15,813,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 300.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 1 Year.

CFDA Number: 93.358.

Application Availability Date: July 1,

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: NA.

Application Deadline: November 1,

2000.

Projected Award Date: April 30, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Marjorie

Hamilton.

Phone Number: 301–443–6193.

e-mail address: mhamilton@hrsa.gov

Basic Nurse Education and Practice

Grants 93.359

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VIII, Section 831, 42

U.S.C. 296p.

Purpose: Grants are awarded to

enhance the educational mix and

utilization of the basic nursing

workforce by strengthening programs

that provide basic nurse education, such

as through: (1) Establishing or

expanding nursing practice

arrangements in noninstitutional

settings to demonstrate methods to

improve access to primary health care in

medically underserved communities; (2)

providing care for underserved

populations and other high-risk groups

such as the elderly, individuals with

HIV–AIDS, substance abusers, the

homeless, and victims of domestic

violence; (3) providing managed care,

quality improvement, and other skills

needed to practice in existing and

emerging organized health care systems;

(4) developing cultural competencies

among nurses; (5) expanding the

enrollment in baccalaureate nursing

programs; (6) promoting career mobility

for nursing personnel in a variety of

training settings and cross-training or

specialty training among diverse

population groups; or (7) providing

education for informatics, including

distance learning methodologies.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants for

purposes one and five are schools of

nursing. Eligible applicants for purposes

two, three, four, six, and seven are

schools of nursing, nursing centers,

academic health centers, State or local

governments, and other appropriate

public or private nonprofit entities.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: As

provided in Section 805 of the Public

Health Service Act, preference shall be

given to applicants with projects that

will substantially benefit rural or

underserved populations, or help meet

public health nursing needs in State or

local health departments.

Special Consideration: A Special

Consideration will be given to qualified

applicants who support the Kids Into

Health Careers initiative by establishing

linkages with one or more elementary,

middle or high schools with a high

percentage of minority and

disadvantaged students to: (1) Inform

students and parents about health

careers and financial aid to encourage

interest in health careers; (2) promote

rigorous academic course work to

prepare for health professions training;

or (3) provide support services such as

mentoring, tutoring, counseling, after

school programs, summer enrichment,

and college visits. Further information

on the Kids Into Health Careers

Initiative can be obtained on the Bureau

of Health Professions website at http://

www.hrsa.gov/bhpr/.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $4,300,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 20.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.359.

Application Availability Date: July 1,

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: February 22,

2001.

Projected Award Date: 06/30/2001.

Program Contact Person: Madeline

Turkeltaub, PhD, CRNP, NP.

Phone Number: 1–301–443–6193.

e-mail address:

mturkeltaub@hrsa.gov.

Advanced Education Nursing—Nurse

Anesthetist Traineeship 93.124

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title VIII, Section 811, 42

U.S.C. 296j.

Purpose: Grants are awarded to

eligible institutions for projects that

support traineeships for licensed

registered nurses enrolled as full-time

students beyond the twelfth month of

study in a Master’s nurse anesthesia

program. The traineeship program is a

formula program and all eligible entities

will receive awards.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants are

schools of nursing, academic health

centers, and other public and private

nonprofit institutions which provide

registered nurses with full-time nurse

anesthetist education and have evidence

of earned pre-accreditation or

accreditation status from the American

Association of Nurse Anesthetists

(AANA) Council on Accreditation of

Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: As

provided in Section 805 of the Public

Health Service Act, preference shall be

given to applicants with projects that

will substantially benefit rural or

underserved populations or help meet

public health nursing needs in State or

local health departments.

Special Considerations: Traineeships

for individuals in advanced education

programs are provided under Section

811(a)(2) of the Public Health Service

(PHS) Act. A statutory special

consideration, as provided for in

Section 811(f)(3) of the PHS Act, will be

given to an eligible entity that agrees to

expend the award to train advanced

education nurses who will practice in

health professional shortage areas

designated under Section 332 of the

PHS Act.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $1,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 70.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 1 Year.

CFDA Number: 93.124.

Application Availability Date: July 1,

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: November 1,

2000.

Projected Award Date: April 30, 2001.

Program Contact Person:Marcia

Starbecker, MSN, RN.

Phone Number: 301 443–6193.

e-mail address: mstarbecker@hrsa.gov

Bureau of Primary Health Care

Community and Migrant Health Centers

93.224, 93.246

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title III, Section 330, 42

U.S.C. 254b and 254b(g).

Purpose: The Community Health

Center and Migrant Health Center (C/

MHC) programs are designed to promote

the development and operation of

community-based primary health care

service systems in medically

underserved areas for medically

underserved populations. It is the intent

of HRSA to continue to support health

services in these areas, given the unmet

need inherent in their provision of

services to medically underserved

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populations. HRSA is committed to 100

percent access to primary care services

with zero percent health disparities for

the underserved. HRSA will open

competition for awards under Section

330 of the Public Health Service Act

(U.S.C. 254b for CHCs and U.S.C.

254b(g) for MHCs) to support health

services in the areas served by these

grants. Two hundred fifty-five C/MHC

grantees will reach the end of their

project period during FY 2001.

Applications are due 120 days before

the expiration date.

Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement: See the application

guidance.

Eligibility: Applicants are limited to

currently funded programs whose

project periods expire during FY 2001

and new organizations proposing to

serve the same areas or populations

currently being served by these existing

programs.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Special Considerations:

Communication with Field Office staff

is essential for interested parties in

deciding whether to pursue Federal

funding as a C/MHC. Technical

assistance and detailed information

about each service area, such as census

tracts, can be obtained by contacting the

HRSA Field Office.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $254,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 255.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: $1,000,000.

Estimated Project Period: 1–5 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.224 & 93.246.

Application Availability Date:

Continuous.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: Varies.

Projected Award Date: Varies.

Program Contact Person: 93.224

Cephas Goldman; 93.246 George Ersek.

Phone Number: Goldman—301–594–

4300; Ersek—301–594–4301.

E-mail: gersek@hrsa.gov

City State Expiration

date

HRSA Boston Field Office—(617) 565–1482

Providence ............ RI 11/30/2000

Hope Valley .......... RI 11/30/2000

Boston .................. MA 12/31/2000

Willimantic ............ CT 12/31/2000

Pawtucket ............. RI 12/31/2000

Lubec .................... ME 12/31/2000

Woonsocket .......... RI 1/31/2001

Roxbury ................ MA (2) 1/31/2001

Truro ..................... MA 1/31/2001

Lynn ...................... MA 1/31/2001

City State Expiration

date

Holyoke ................. MA 1/31/2001

Dorchester ............ MA 3/31/2001

Augusta ................ ME 3/31/2001

Bucksport .............. ME 3/31/2001

Lowell ................... MA 3/31/2001

Boston .................. MA 3/31/2001

St. Johnsbury ....... VT 3/31/2001

Eagle Lake ........... ME 3/31/2001

Worcester ............. MA 3/31/2001

Salem ................... MA 3/31/2001

Parsonfield ............ ME 5/31/2001

Newmarket ........... NH 5/31/2001

Waterville .............. ME 5/31/2001

HRSA New York Field Office—(212) 264–

2664

Ponce ................... PR 11/30/2000

Cortland ................ NY 11/30/2000

Newark ................. NJ 11/30/2000

Brooklyn ................ NY 11/30/2000

New York .............. NY 11/30/2000

Paterson ............... NJ 12/31/2000

Ossining ................ NY 12/31/2000

Rochester ............. NY (2) 12/31/2000

Florida ................... PR 12/31/2000

Pulaski .................. NY 12/31/2000

Buffalo .................. NY 12/31/2000

Bridgeton .............. NJ 12/31/2000

Jersey City ............ NJ 11/30/2000

Peekskill ............... NY 1/31/2001

Cidra ..................... PR 1/31/2001

Hammonton .......... NJ 1/31/2001

Ciales .................... PR 1/31/2001

Brooklyn ................ NY 1/31/2001

Castaner ............... PR 3/31/2001

Patillas .................. PR 3/31/2001

Lares ..................... PR 3/31/2001

Trenton ................. NJ 3/31/2001

Rincon .................. PR 3/31/2001

Albany ................... NY 3/31/2001

New York .............. NY 3/31/2001

Syracuse ............... NY 3/31/2001

Barceloneta .......... PR 5/31/2001

Newburgh ............. NY 5/31/2001

Bronx .................... NY 5/31/2001

Plainfield ............... NJ 5/31/2001

Jersey City ............ NJ 6/30/2001

HRSA Philadelphia Field Office—(215) 861–

4422

Baltimore .............. MD 11/30/2000

Newport News ...... VA 11/30/2000

Axton .................... VA 1/31/2001

Fredericktown ....... PA 1/31/2001

Hyndman .............. PA 1/31/2001

Stony Creek .......... VA 1/31/2001

Union .................... WV 1/31/2001

Wilkes-Barre ......... PA 1/31/2001

Sharon .................. PA 1/31/2001

Philadelphia .......... PA 1/31/2001

Broad Top City ..... PA 1/31/2001

Bastian .................. VA 1/31/2001

Martinsburg ........... WV 3/31/2001

Emporia ................ VA 3/31/2001

Lancaster .............. PA 3/31/2001

Baltimore .............. MD 3/31/2001

Beckley ................. WV 3/31/2001

Greensboro ........... PA 3/31/2001

York ...................... PA 3/31/2001

Grantsville ............. WV 5/31/2001

Baker .................... WV 5/31/2001

City State Expiration

date

Huntington ............ WV 5/31/2001

Roanoke ............... VA 6/30/2001

Baltimore .............. MD 6/30/2001

HRSA Atlanta Field Office—(404) 562–2996

Chattanooga ......... TN 11/30/2000

Manson ................. NC 11/30/2000

Evergreen ............. AL 11/30/2000

Jackson ................ MS 11/30/2000

Louisville ............... KY 11/30/2000

Mound Bayou ....... MS 11/30/2000

Irvington ................ AL 11/30/2000

Morgantown .......... GA 11/30/2000

Raleigh ................. NC 11/30/2000

Fairfax ................... SC 11/30/2000

West Palm Beach FL 12/31/2000

Faison ................... NC 12/31/2000

Wartburg ............... TN 12/31/2000

Biloxi ..................... MS 12/31/2000

Sanford ................. FL 12/31/2000

Greenville ............. SC 1/31/2001

Lexington .............. KY 1/31/2001

Miami .................... FL(3) 1/31/2001

Pearl ..................... MS 1/31/2001

Eastover ............... SC 1/31/2001

Richland ................ GA 1/31/2001

Columbia .............. SC 1/31/2001

Wade .................... NC 1/31/2001

Apopka ................. FL 1/31/2001

Benton .................. TN 1/31/2001

Meridian ................ MS 3/31/2001

Windsor ................ NC 3/31/2001

Charlotte ............... NC 3/31/2001

Warrenton ............. GA 3/31/2001

Rogersville ............ TN 3/31/2001

Tallahassee .......... FL 3/31/2001

Tampa .................. FL 3/31/2001

McClellanville ........ SC 3/31/2001

Ashland ................. MS 3/31/2001

Conway ................. SC 3/31/2001

Byhalia .................. MS 3/31/2001

Tuskegee .............. AL 3/31/2001

Laurel .................... MS 3/31/2001

Immokalee ............ FL 3/31/2001

Ruskin ................... FL 3/31/2001

Newton Grove ...... NC 3/31/2001

Johns Island ......... SC 3/31/2001

Lexington .............. KY 3/31/2001

Atlanta .................. GA 5/31/2001

Albany ................... GA 5/31/2001

McKee .................. KY 5/31/2001

Wadesboro ........... NC 5/31/2001

Ridgeland ............. SC 5/31/2001

Scottsboro ............ AL 5/31/2001

Hartsville ............... SC 5/31/2001

Yanceyville ........... NC 5/31/2001

Swainsboro ........... GA 6/30/2001

Lexington .............. MS 6/30/2001

Wilson ................... NC 6/30/2001

Ocilla ..................... GA 6/30/2001

HRSA Chicago Field Office—(312) 353–

1715

Chicago ................ IL (2) 11/30/2000

Waukegan ............ IL 11/30/2000

Rockford ............... IL 11/30/2000

Baldwin ................. MI 11/30/2000

Oquawka .............. IL 12/31/2000

Chillicothe ............. OH 12/31/2000

Cincinnati .............. OH (3) 12/31/2000

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City State Expiration

date

Houghton Lake ..... MI 12/31/2000

Hillman .................. MI 1/31/2001

Barnesville ............ OH 1/31/2001

Piketon .................. OH 1/31/2001

Lakewood ............. WI 1/31/2001

Carterville ............. IL 3/31/2001

East Jordan .......... MI 3/31/2001

Grand Rapids ....... MI 3/31/2001

Greenville ............. OH 3/31/2001

Ironton .................. OH 5/31/2001

Cairo ..................... IL 5/31/2001

Decatur ................. IL 5/31/2001

Marshfield ............. WI 5/31/2001

Algonac ................. MI 5/31/2001

Chicago ................ IL 6/30/2001

Springfield ............. IL 6/30/2001

Matteson ............... IL 6/30/2001

Indianapolis .......... IN 6/30/2001

HRSA Dallas Field Office—(214) 767–3872

Plainview .............. TX 11/30/2000

El Paso ................. TX 11/30/2000

Dallas .................... TX 11/30/2000

Marianna ............... AR 11/30/2000

Sicily Island .......... LA 12/31/2000

Santa Fe ............... NM 12/31/2000

San Angelo ........... TX 12/31/2000

Rio Grande City .... TX 1/31/2001

Lake Charles ........ LA 1/31/2001

Natchitoches ......... LA 1/31/2001

Oklahoma City ...... OK 1/31/2001

Portales ................ NM 1/31/2001

Portland ................ AR 1/31/2001

Pleasanton ............ TX 1/31/2001

Tulsa ..................... OK 3/31/2001

Hatch .................... NM 3/31/2001

Hampton ............... AR 3/31/2001

Newton ................. TX 3/31/2001

Eagle Pass ........... TX 5/31/2001

Las Cruces ........... NM 5/31/2001

Santa Fe ............... NM 5/31/2001

Espanola ............... NM 5/31/2001

Dallas .................... TX 5/31/2001

Pine Bluff .............. AR 5/31/2001

Nacogdoches ........ TX 5/31/2001

Waco .................... TX 6/30/2001

HRSA Kansas City Field Office—(816) 426–

5296

Des Moines .......... IA 1/31/2001

Davenport ............. IA 1/31/2001

Mound City ........... MO 1/31/2001

Waterloo ............... IA 1/31/2001

Kansas City .......... MO(2) 3/31/2001

Pineville ................ MO 6/30/2001

Columbia .............. MO 6/30/2001

HRSA Denver Field Office—(303) 844–3203

Alamosa ................ CO 11/30/2000

Howard ................. SD 11/30/2000

Rapid City ............. SD 12/31/2000

Sioux Falls ............ SD 12/31/2000

Colorado Springs .. CO 12/31/2000

Denver .................. CO 12/31/2000

Billings .................. MT 1/31/2001

Lafayette ............... CO 1/31/2001

Billings .................. MT 3/31/2001

Pueblo .................. CO 5/31/2001

Green River .......... UT 5/31/2001

Black Hawk ........... CO 5/31/2001

City State Expiration

date

HRSA San Francisco Field Office—(415)

437–8090

Surprise ................ AZ 11/30/2000

Parlier ................... CA 11/30/2000

Stockton ................ CA 11/30/2000

Los Angeles .......... CA 11/30/2000

Tucson .................. AZ 12/31/2000

Marana ................. AZ 12/31/2000

San Diego ............. CA 12/31/2000

San Ysidro ............ CA 12/31/2000

Waianae ............... HI 1/31/2001

Los Angeles .......... CA (2) 1/31/2001

Ventura ................. CA 3/31/2001

Lamont .................. CA 3/31/2001

Buttonwillow .......... CA 3/31/2001

Merced .................. CA 3/31/2001

Oakland ................ CA (2) 3/31/2001

Los Angeles .......... CA 3/31/2001

Laytonville ............. CA 5/31/2001

Casa Grande ........ AZ 5/31/2001

Hilo ....................... HI 6/30/2001

Gualala ................. CA 6/30/2001

San Pablo ............. CA 6/30/2001

Maui ...................... HI 6/30/2001

Honolulu ............... HI 6/30/2001

HRSA Seattle Field Office—(206) 615–2491

Othello .................. WA 11/30/2000

Portland ................ OR 11/30/2000

Salem ................... OR 11/30/2000

Klamath Falls ........ OR 12/31/2000

Toppenish ............. WA 1/31/2001

Seattle .................. WA (4) 1/31/2001

Chewelah .............. WA 1/31/2001

Payette ................. ID 1/31/2001

Nampa .................. ID 3/31/2001

Okanogan ............. WA 3/31/2001

Pasco .................... WA 5/31/2001

Tacoma ................. WA 5/31/2001

Roseburg .............. OR 6/30/2001

Sitka ...................... AK 6/30/2001

Talkeetna .............. AK 6/30/2001

Spokane ............... WA 6/30/2001

Health Care for the Homeless 93.151

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title III, Section 330(H), 42

U.S.C. 254B(H).

Purpose: The Health Care for the

Homeless (HCH) program is designed to

increase the access of homeless

populations to cost-effective, case

managed, and integrated primary care

and substance abuse services provided

by existing community-based programs/

providers. It is the intent of HRSA to

continue to support health services to

the homeless people in these areas/

locations given the continued need for

cost-effective, community-based

primary care services. Eighty-five HCH

grantees will reach the end of their

project period during FY 2001.

Applications are due 120 days before

the expiration date. Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement: See the application

guidance. Eligibility: Applicants are limited to

currently funded programs whose

project periods expire during FY 2001

and new organizations proposing to

serve the same areas or populations

currently being served by these existing

programs.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Special Considerations:

Communication with Field Office staff

is essential for interested parties in

deciding whether to pursue Federal

funding as a HCH. Technical assistance

and detailed information about each

service area, such as census tracts, can

be obtained by contacting the HRSA

Field Office.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $37,995,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 85.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: $447,000.

Estimated Project Period: 1–5 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.151.

Application Availability Date:

Continuous.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: Varies.

Projected Award Date: Varies.

Program Contact Person: Monica

Toomer.

Phone Number: 301–594–4430.

E-mail: mtoomerz@hrsa.gov

City State Expiration

date

HRSA Boston Field Office—(617) 565–1482

Boston .................. MA 10/31/2000

Providence ............ RI 10/31/2000

Springfield ............. MA 10/31/2000

Portland ................ ME 10/31/2000

Manchester ........... NH 10/31/2000

Worcester ............. MA 10/31/2000

Willimantic ............ CT 12/31/2000

Woonsocket .......... RI 1/31/2001

HRSA New York Field Office—(212) 264–

2664

New York .............. NY 10/31/2000

Santurce ............... PR 10/31/2000

New York .............. NY (5) 10/31/2000

Newark ................. NJ 10/31/2000

Peekskill ............... NY 1/31/2001

Trenton ................. NJ 3/31/2001

Jersey City ............ NJ 3/31/2001

HRSA Philadelphia Field Office—(215) 861–

4422

Richmond ............. VA 10/31/2000

Philadelphia .......... PA 10/31/2000

Baltimore .............. MD 10/31/2000

Newport News ...... VA 11/30/2000

Wilkes-Barre ......... PA 1/31/2001

Hunington ............. WV 5/31/2001

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City State Expiration

date

HRSA Atlanta Field Office—(404) 562–2996

Clearwater ............ FL 10/31/2000

Nashville ............... TN 10/31/2000

Atlanta .................. GA 10/31/2000

Birmingham .......... AL 10/31/2000

Chattanooga ......... TN 10/31/2000

Ft. Lauderdale ...... FL 10/31/2000

Charleston ............ SC 10/31/2000

Raleigh ................. NC 11/30/2000

Louisville ............... KY 11/30/2000

Jackson ................ MS 11/30/2000

Lexington .............. KY 1/31/2001

Eastover ............... SC 1/31/2001

Tampa .................. FL 3/31/2001

HRSA Chicago Field Office—(312) 353–

1715

Green Bay ............ WI 10/31/2000

Dayton .................. OH 10/31/2000

Cleveland .............. OH 10/31/2000

Chicago ................ IL 10/31/2000

Lansing ................. MI 10/31/2000

Milwaukee ............. WI 10/31/2000

Minneapolis .......... MN 10/31/2000

Rockford ............... IL 11/30/2000

Cincinnati .............. OH 12/31/2000

Ironton .................. OH 5/31/2001

Algonac ................. MI 5/31/2001

HRSA Dallas Field Office—(214) 767–3872

Albuquerque ......... NM 10/31/2000

New Orleans ......... LA 10/31/2000

Dallas .................... TX 10/31/2000

Houston ................ TX 10/31/2000

Plainview .............. TX 11/30/2000

Oklahoma City ...... OK 1/31/2001

Tulsa ..................... OK 3/31/2001

HRSA Kansas City Field Office—(816) 426–

5296

Waterloo ............... IA 1/31/2001

Davenport ............. IA 1/31/2001

Kansas City .......... MO 3/31/2001

HRSA Denver Field Office—(303) 844–3203

Denver .................. CO 10/31/2000

Casper .................. WY 10/31/2000

Colorado Springs .. CO 12/31/2000

Rapid City ............. SD 12/31/2000

Billings .................. MT 3/31/2001

Pueblo .................. CO 5/31/2001

HRSA San Francisco Field Office—(415)

437–8090

Sacramento .......... CA 10/31/2000

Honolulu ............... HI 10/31/2000

Oakland ................ CA (2) 10/31/2000

Santa Cruz ........... CA 10/31/2000

Santa Barbara ...... CA 10/31/2000

San Francisco ...... CA 10/31/2000

Martinez ................ CA 10/31/2000

Tucson .................. AZ 12/31/2000

San Diego ............. CA 12/31/2000

Merced .................. CA 3/31/2001

Lamont .................. CA 3/31/2001

City State Expiration

date

Carson City ........... NV 5/31/2001

HRSA Seattle Field Office—(206) 615–2491

Eugene ................. OR 10/31/2000

Tacoma ................. WA 10/31/2000

Salem ................... OR 11/30/2000

Portland ................ OR 11/30/2000

Anchorage ............ AK 11/30/2000

Nampa .................. ID 3/31/2001

Spokane ............... WA 6/30/2001

Grants to States for Loan Repayment

Programs 93.165

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title III, Section 338I, 42

U.S.C. 254Q–1.

Purpose: The purpose of these grant

funds is to assist States in operating

programs for the repayment of

educational loans of health

professionals in return for their practice

in federally-designated Health

Professional Shortage Areas to increase

the availability of primary health

services in health professional shortage

areas. Of the estimated 38 awards, 9 are

project period renewals. Further

information about these activities can be

obtained from the contact person.

Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement: States seeking support

must provide adequate assurances that,

with respect to the costs of making loan

repayments under contracts with health

professionals, the State will make

available (directly or through donations

from public or private entities) nonFederal contributions in cash in an

amount equal to not less than $1 for $1

of Federal funds provided in the grant.

In determining the amount of nonFederal contributions in cash that a

State has to provide, no Federal funds

may be used in the State’s match.

Eligibility: Any State is eligible to

apply for funding.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Special Considerations: See

‘‘Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement’’ above.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $3,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 15.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: $200,000.

Estimated Project Period: 3 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.165.

Application Availability Date: 3/1/

2001.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: 5/15/2001.

Projected Award Date: 8/31/2001.

Program Contact Person: Susan Salter.

Phone Number: 301–594–4400.

E-mail: ssalter@hrsa.gov

National Primary Care Technical

Assistance Grants and Cooperative

Agreements 93.129A, 93.129B,

93.130A, 93.224

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title III, Section 330 and

Section 333, 42 U.S.C. 254B(K).

Purpose: The health center and

National Health Service Corps (NHSC)

programs deliver cost effective, high

quality primary health care services to

over 10 million underserved,

vulnerable, low income, and minority

populations. For more than twenty five

years, these programs have been

working toward ensuring the

availability and accessibility of essential

primary health services to the people in

this country who have the most limited

access to services. HRSA supports

technical and non-financial assistance

to federally-funded health centers and

NHSC sites. It is the intent of HRSA to

continue to support technical assistance

for health center and NHSC site

development and operations in the areas

of increasing access to preventive and

primary care, reduction of disparities of

health outcomes, and improving the

environmental/ occupational health of

migrant and seasonal farmworkers.

HRSA will open competition for

awards under Sections 330 and 333 of

the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C.

254B(k) to support national primary

care technical assistance grants and

cooperative agreements which will

address access to health services,

reductions in health disparities, and

improvements in environmental/

occupational health for migrant and

seasonal farmworkers. In addition to the

application guidance, information about

the activities associated with these

opportunities can be obtained from the

contact person listed below.

Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement: N/A.

Eligibility: Public and private

nonprofit entities are eligible to apply.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Special Considerations: None.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $10,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 15.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: $665,000.

Estimated Project Period: 1–5 Years.

CFDA Numbers: 93.129A, 93.129B,

93.130A, 93.224.

Application Availability Date:

December 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: There will be

two or more competitions under this

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announcement. March 1, 2001 is the

receipt deadline for the competition for

projects to assist Migrant Health Centers

and programs, and May 1, 2001 is the

deadline for one or more other

competitions for specific types of

assistance to health centers. Application

materials will contain separate

guidances for each competition. Each

guidance will indicate the applicable

deadline as well as other relevant

information.

Projected Award Date: Varies.

Program Contact Person: Lynn

Specter.

Phone Number: 301–594–4488.

E-mail: lspector@hrsa.gov

Nursing Education Loan Repayment

Program 93.908

Legislative Authority: Section 846(h)

of the Public Health Service Act, 42

U.S.C. 297

Purpose: Under the Nursing

Education Loan Repayment Program

(NELRP), registered nurses are offered

the opportunity to enter into a

contractual agreement with the

Secretary, under which the Public

Health Service agrees to repay up to 85

percent of the nurse’s indebtedness for

nursing education loans. In exchange,

the nurse agrees to serve for a specified

period of time in certain types of health

facilities identified in statute.

Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement: N/A

Eligibility: Applicants must have

completed all of their training

requirements for registered nursing and

be licensed prior to beginning service.

Individuals eligible to participate must:

(a) have received, prior to the start of

service, a baccalaureate or associate

degree in nursing; (b) have unpaid

education loans obtained for nurse

training; (c) be a citizen or National of

the U.S.; (d) have a current unrestricted

license in the State in which they intend

to practice; and (e) agree to be employed

for not less than two years in a full-time

clinical capacity in: (1) an Indian Health

Service Health Center; (2) a Native

Hawaiian Health Center; (3) a public

hospital (operated by a State, county, or

local government); (4) a health center

funded under Section 330 of the Public

Health Service Act (including migrant,

homeless, and public housing centers);

(5) a rural health clinic (Section 1861

(aa)(2) of the Social Security Act); or (6)

a public or nonprofit private health

facility determined by the Secretary to

have a critical shortage of nurses.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Special Considerations: None.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $2,279,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 200.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: $11,400.

Estimated Project Period: N/A.

CFDA Number: 93.908.

Application Availability Date: 10/1/

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: 6/30/2001.

Projected Award Date: 9/30/2001.

Program Contact Person: Ms. Freddie

Lapp.

Phone Number: 1–800–435–6464.

E-mail: flapp@hrsa.gov

National Health Service Corps Student/

Resident Experiences and Rotations in

Community Health (SEARCH) 93.130B

Legislative Authority: PHS Act,

Subpart II, Sect.331[254d](a)(1).

Purpose: The purpose of the Student

Resident Experiences and Rotations in

Community Health (SEARCH) program

is to assist States in increasing the

availability of primary health care in

urban and rural Federally designated

health professional shortage areas by

assisting public or non-profit

community organizations to facilitate

and strengthen community-academic

linkages, and to increase the recruitment

and retention of health care

professionals in health professional

shortage areas and medically

underserved areas by expanding the

number of high quality service-linked

training opportunities available in these

communities.

Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement: States seeking support are

strongly encouraged to promote and

seek outside funding to support other

aspects of service-linked training

opportunities such as leadership

development. Such sources may include

insurance companies, civic

organizations, State and local

governments, foundations, and network

members.

Eligibility: Any State is eligible to

apply for funding.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

Funds awarded under the National

Health Service Corps SEARCH program

are to be used to develop/support

community-oriented practices which

will offer service-linked training

opportunities available in underserved

communities for primary care students

and residents.

Special Considerations: None.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $3,300,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 24.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: $140,000.

Estimated Project Period: 3 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.130B.

Application Availability Date: 10/1/

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: 5/1/2001.

Projected Award Date: 9/1/2001.

Program Contact Person: Jannette

O’Neill-Gonzalez.

Phone Number: 301–594–4161.

E-mail: JOneill-Gonzalez@hrsa.gov.

New Delivery Sites and New Starts in

Programs Funded Under the Health

Centers Consolidation Act of 1996

93.224, 93.246, 93.151

Legislative Authority: Section 330 of

the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C.

254b and 254b(h).

Purpose: The HRSA anticipates

supporting the establishment of new

service delivery sites for existing centers

and/or new health centers in the

Community and Migrant Health Centers

and Health Care for the Homeless

programs. The purpose of the

Community/Migrant Health Centers

program is to extend preventive and

primary health services to populations

currently without such services and to

improve the health status of medically

underserved individuals by supporting

the establishment of new points of

access to care. The Health Care for the

Homeless program is designed to

increase the homeless populations’

access to cost-effective communitybased programs/providers.

Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement: Communities seeking

support are strongly encouraged to

promote and seek outside funding and

are required to maximize third party

revenue to establish and maintain new

service delivery sites.

Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit entities are eligible to apply.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

Final priorities and/or preferences are

included in the application materials.

Special Considerations: None.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $10,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 20–25.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: $200,000–450,000.

Estimated Project Period: 2 years or

consistent with existing project period

for currently funded organizations.

CFDA Numbers: 93.224, 93.246,

93.151.

Application Availability Date: 7/2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: Ongoing.

Letters of intent are encouraged for

organizations seeking funding for a new

delivery site. Letters of intent will be

accepted beginning July 31, 2000. The

submission of a letter of intent is

recommended but not required in order

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to submit an application to compete for

funds in FY 2001. Information

requirements to be included in the letter

of intent submissions will be available

in the application guidance.

Application Deadlines: Applications

will be accepted beginning October 1,

2000. Applications received by

November 30, 2000, will be reviewed

with funding decisions announced by

March 31, 2001. Applications received

by February 28, 2001, will be reviewed

with funding decisions announced by

June 30, 2001. Applications received by

May 15, 2001, will be reviewed with

funding decisions announced by

September 15, 2001. Applications

received after May 15, 2001 will be

considered for funding in FY 2002,

depending on the availability of funds.

Projected Award Date: See above.

Program Contact Person: 93.224:

Cephas Goldman 93.246: George Ersek

93.151: Jean Hochron.

Phone Numbers: 301–594–4300

Goldman; 301–594–4301 Ersek; 301–

594–4437 Hochron.

E-mail: cgoldman@hrsa.gov,

gersek@hrsa.gov, jhochron@hrsa.gov.

HIV/AIDS Bureau

Funding for Early Intervention Services

Grants: Existing Geographic Areas

93.918A

Legislative Authority: PHS Act, Public

Law 104–146, Ryan White

Comprehensive AIDS Resources

Emergency Act Amendments of 1996.

Purpose: The purpose of Title III

funding is to provide, on an outpatient

basis, high quality early intervention

services/primary care to individuals

with HIV infection. This is

accomplished by increasing the present

capacity and capability of eligible

ambulatory health service entities.

These expanded services become a part

of a continuum of HIV prevention and

care for individuals who are at risk for

HIV infection or are HIV infected. All

Title III programs must provide: HIV

counseling and testing; counseling and

education on living with HIV;

appropriate medical evaluation and

clinical care; and other essential

services such as oral health care,

outpatient mental health services and

nutritional services, and appropriate

referrals for specialty services.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants are

public or nonprofit private entities that

are 330 health centers, grantees funded

under section 1001 regarding family

planning, comprehensive hemophilia

diagnostic and treatment centers,

Federally qualified health centers, or

nonprofit private entities that provide

comprehensive primary care services to

populations at risk of HIV disease.

Limited Competition: Applicants are

limited to public or nonprofit private

entities that are currently funded Title

III programs whose project periods

expire in FY 2001 and new

organizations proposing to serve the

same populations currently being served

by these existing projects. These areas

are:

State Service area

Alabama .............................................................. Counties of Mobile and Baldwin.

Counties of Calhoun, Etowah, Tallapoosa, Talladega, Dekalb, Cherokee, Cleburne, Randolph,

St. Clair, Shelby, Blount and Chambers.

Counties of Montgomery, Autaugua, Lowndes, Butler, Dallas, Chilton, Elmore, Macon, Bullock,

Lee, Russell, Pike, Barbour, Dale, Geneva, Houston, Crenshaw, Conecuh, Coffee, Chambers, Tallapoosa, Wilcox and Monroe.

Alaska ................................................................. Anchorage County, Anchorage Borough, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Fairbanks North Star

Borough.

Arkansas ............................................................. Counties of Jefferson, Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Lincoln and Pulaski.

Arizona ................................................................ Counties of Maricopa, Yavapai, Gila and Pinal.

Counties of Santa Cruz, Greenlee, Cochise and Yuma.

Pima County.

California ............................................................. Counties of Santa Cruz and Monterey.

Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial and Sacramento.

City of San Francisco.

Alameda County.

Kern County.

Los Angeles County.

Orange County.

San Diego County.

Santa Clara County.

Ventura County.

Connecticut ......................................................... Fairfield County.

New Haven County.

District of Columbia ............................................ District of Columbia.

Florida ................................................................. Counties of Collier, Hendry and Glades.

Broward County.

Dade County.

Monroe County.

St. Lucie County.

Georgia ............................................................... Counties of Chatham, Effingham, Liberty, Bryan and Glynn.

Counties of Fulton and Dekalb.

Counties of Dougherty, Calhoun, Baker, Lee, Mitchell, Worth, Terrell, Colquitt, Thomas, Grady,

Seminole, Miller, Early and Decatur.

Counties of Ware, Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Toombs, Tattnall, Jeff Davis, Appling, Wayne, Coffee, Bacon, Pierce, Brantley, Atkinson, Charlton and Clinch.

Fulton County.

Richmond County.

Idaho ................................................................... Counties of Ada, Boise, Elmore, Valley, Owyhee, Canyon, Gem, Payette, Washington, Adams,

Butte, Bingham, Power, Bannock, Caribou, Oneida, Franklin and Bear Lake.

Illinois .................................................................. Counties of Winnebago, Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Whiteside, Lee, Ogle, Boone, McHenry,

Dekalb.

Cook County.

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State Service area

Indiana ................................................................ Marion County.

Iowa .................................................................... Counties of Polk, Dallas, Story and Warren.

Counties of Appanoose, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson,

Keokuk, Lee, Louisa, Mahaska, Monroe, Muscatine, Poweshiek, Scott, Van Buren, Wapello

and Washington.

Johnson County.

Woodbury County.

Kansas ................................................................ Sedgwick County.

Kentucky ............................................................. Counties of McCracken and Pike.

Louisiana ............................................................. Parishes of Calcasieu, Cameron, Beauregard, Allen, Jefferson and Davis.

Parishes of Orleans, East Baton Rouge, St. Tammany, Washington, Iberville, St. Bernard,

Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Beuregard, Calcasieu, Concordia, East Feliciana, Iberia,

Jackson and Lafayette.

Massachusetts .................................................... Counties of Bristol and Plymouth.

Counties of Essex and Middlesex.

Counties of Hampden and Franklin.

Barnstable County.

Norfolk County.

Suffolk County.

Worcester County.

Michigan .............................................................. Counties of Oakland, Macomb, Lapeer, St. Clair and Monroe.

Wayne County.

Mississippi ........................................................... Counties of Quitman, Coahoma, Tate, Tallahatchie, Leflore, Lowndes, Bolivar, Tunica, Panola,

Desoto and Marshall.

Missouri ............................................................... Counties of Greene, Vernon, Barton, Jasper, Newton, McDonald, Cedar, St. Clair, Dade, Lawrence, Barry, Hickory, Polk, Christian, Stone, Taney, Dallas, Webster, Douglas, Ozark,

Laclede, Wright, Pulaski, Texas, Howell, Phelps, Dent, Shannon and Oregon.

Jackson County.

Montana .............................................................. Counties of Yellowstone, Beaverhead, Big Horn, Blaine, Broadwater, Carbon, Carter, Cascade, Chouteau, Custer, Daniels, Dawson, Deer Lodge, Fallon, Fergus, Flathead, Gallatin,

Garfield, Glacier, Golden Valley, Granite, Hill, Judith Basin, Lake, Lewis & Clark, Liberty,

Lincoln, McCone, Madison, Meagher, Mineral, Missoula, Musseshell, Park, Petroleum, Phillips, Pondera, Powell, Prairie, Ravalli, Roosevelt, Rosebud, Sanders, Silver Bow, Stillwater,

Sweet Grass, Teton, Tool, Treasure, Valley, Wheatland, Wibaux and Yellowstone National

Park.

New Jersey ......................................................... Counties of Middlesex, Union, Monmouth, Mercer and Somerset.

Bergen County.

Essex County.

Passaic County.

New Mexico ........................................................ Bernalillo.

Nevada ................................................................ Washoe.

New York ............................................................ Albany County.

Bronx County.

Erie County.

Kings County.

Monroe County.

New York City/County.

Onandaga County.

Peekskill County.

Queens County.

North Carolina ..................................................... Counties of Durham, Wake, Orange, Granville, and Vance.

Ohio .................................................................... Hamilton County.

Oklahoma ............................................................ Oklahoma County.

Pennsylvania ....................................................... City of Philadelphia.

Lehigh County.

Allegheny County.

York County.

Puerto Rico ......................................................... Humacao.

Lares and Quebradillas Health Region.

Gurabo and Caguas Health Region.

Western Region-Anasco, Cabo Rojo, Guanica, Hormigueros, Isabela, Lajas, Las Marias,

Maricao, Mayaguez, Moco, Sabana Grande, San German and San Sebastian.

Rhode Island ....................................................... Counties of Providence, Bristol, Kent, Newport and Washington.

South Carolina .................................................... Fairfield County.

Richland County.

Sumter County.

Texas .................................................................. Bexar County.

Dallas County.

Houston County.

Tarrant County.

Travis County.

Utah .................................................................... Salt Lake County.

Vermont .............................................................. Chittenden County.

Virginia ................................................................ Charlottesville County.

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State Service area

Washington ......................................................... King County.

Yakima County.

Wisconsin ............................................................ Counties of Adams, Calumet, Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Grant, Green, Green

Lake, Iowa, Jefferson, Juneau, Lafayette, Marquette, Richland, Rock, Sauk, Sheboygan,

Waupaca, Waushara and Winnebago, Milwaukee County.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

Preference for funding will be given to

projects that offer comprehensive

primary care and support services to

underserved people living with HIV and

AIDS.

Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $80,030,226.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 108.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.918A.

Application Availability Date: June

19, 2000.

Letter of Intent: N/A.

Application Deadline: October 2,

2000.

Projected Award Date: January 1, 2001

and July 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Lois Eldred.

Phone Number: 301 443–3327.

E-mail: leldred@hrsa.gov

Funding for Early Intervention Services

Grants: New Geographic Areas

93.918B.

Legislative Authority: PHS Act, Public

Law 104–146, Ryan White

Comprehensive AIDS Resources

Emergency Act Amendments of 1996.

Purpose: The purpose of Title III

funding is to provide, on an outpatient

basis, high quality early intervention

services/primary care to individuals

with HIV infection. This is

accomplished by increasing the present

capacity and capability of eligible

ambulatory health service entities.

These expanded services become a part

of a continuum of HIV prevention and

care for individuals who are at risk for

HIV infection or are HIV infected. All

Title III programs must provide: HIV

counseling and testing; counseling and

education on living with HIV;

appropriate medical evaluation and

clinical care; and other essential

services such as oral health care,

outpatient mental health services and

nutritional services, and appropriate

referrals for specialty services.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants are

public or nonprofit private entities that

are 330 health centers, grantees funded

under section 1001 regarding family

planning, comprehensive hemophilia

diagnostic and treatment centers,

Federally qualified health centers, or

nonprofit private entities that provide

comprehensive primary care services to

populations at risk of HIV disease.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: In

awarding these grants, preference will

be given to approved/ unfunded

applicants who submitted an

application for funding in FY 2000 and

to applicants who previously received

Title III planning grants. Preference for

funding may also be given to applicants

which help to achieve an equitable

geographic distribution of programs

across all States and Territories,

especially programs that provide

services in rural or underserved

communities where the HIV/AIDS

epidemic is increasing.

Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $26,100,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 87.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.918B

Application Availability Date: April

16, 2001.

Letter of Intent: N/A.

Application Deadline: July 16, 2001.

Projected Award Date: September 28,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Lois Eldred.

Phone Number: 301 443–0735.

E-Mail Address: leldred@hrsa.gov

Funding for Early Intervention Services

Planning Grants 93.918C

Legislative Authority: PHS Act, Public

Law 104–146, Ryan White

Comprehensive AIDS Resources

Emergency Act Amendments of 1996.

Purpose: The purpose of this grant

program is to support communities and

health care service entities in their

planning efforts to develop a high

quality and broad scope of primary

health care services for people in their

service areas who are living with HIV or

at risk of infection. Applications must

propose planning activities which will

lead to the establishment of

comprehensive outpatient HIV primary

care services. This grant program

supports activities of the planning

process and does not fund any service

delivery or patient care.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants must be

public or nonprofit private entities that

are, or intend to become, eligible to

apply for the Title III Early Intervention

Services grant. Applicants for these

funds cannot be current Ryan White

Title III Early Intervention Service

Program grant recipients and must be

located in rural or underserved

communities where HIV primary health

care resources remain insufficient to

meet the need for services or plan for

such services.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

In awarding these grants, preference

will be given to applicants located in

rural or underserved areas where

emerging or ongoing HIV primary health

care needs have not been adequately

met.

Estimated Amount of this

Competiton: $1,700,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 34.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 1 year.

CFDA Number: 93.918C.

Application Availability Date:

February 5, 2001.

Letter of Intent Deadine: N/A.

Application Deadline: June 1, 2000.

Projected Award Date: September 30,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Andrew

Kruzich.

Phone Number: 301 443–0759.

E-Mail: akruzich@hrsa.gov

Funding for Early Intervention Services

Planning Grants (CBC) 93.918D

Legislative Authority: PHS Act, Public

Law 104–146, Ryan White

Comprehensive AIDS Resources

Emergency Act Amendments of 1996.

Purpose: The purpose of this grant

program is to support communities and

health care service entities in their

planning efforts to develop a high

quality and broad scope of primary

health care services for people in their

service areas who are living with HIV or

at risk of infection. Applications must

propose planning activities which will

lead to the establishment of

comprehensive outpatient HIV primary

care services. This grant program

supports activities of the planning

process and does not fund any service

delivery or patient care.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants must be

public or nonprofit private entities that

are, or intend to become, eligible to

apply for the Title III Early Intervention

Services grant. Applicants for these

funds cannot be current Ryan White

Title III Early Intervention Service

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Program grant recipients unless they are

propose to open a new site in their

current service area or in a new service

area to serve communities of color

highly impacted by HIV/AIDS.

Applicants must also be organizations

indigenous to the community of color

which is defined as ‘‘a communitybased or public organization local to

and supported by the community of

color population proposed to be

served.’’

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

In awarding these grants, preference

will be given to applicants located in

rural or underserved areas where there

are many HIV+ community of color

populations and ongoing HIV primary

health care needs have not been

adequately met. As indicated above,

preference will also be given to

applicants that are not currently Ryan

White Title III Early Intervention

Service Program grant recipients.

Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $3,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made:60.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: One year

with possibility of second year

transition grant.

CFDA Number: 93.918D.

Application Availability Date:

February 5, 2001.

Letter of Intent: N/A.

Application Deadline: June 1, 2001.

Projected Award Date: September 30,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Andrew

Kruzich.

Phone Number: 301 443–0759.

E-Mail: akruzich@hrsa.gov

Ryan White Title IV: Existing

Geographic Areas 93.153A

Legislative Authority: Section 2671 of

the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C.

300FF–51—330FF–67.

Purpose: The purpose of the Title IV

funding is to improve access to primary

medical care, research, and support

services for children, youth, women and

families infected with HIV. Funded

projects will link clinical research and

other research with comprehensive care

systems, and improve and expand the

coordination of a system of

comprehensive care for women, infants,

children and youth who are infected/

affected by HIV. Funds will be used to

support programs that: (1) Cross

established systems of care to

coordinate service delivery, HIV

prevention efforts, and clinical research

and other research activities; and (2)

address the intensity of service needs,

high costs, and other complex barriers

to comprehensive care and research

experienced by underserved at-risk and

limited populations. Activities under

these grants should address the goals of

enrolling and maintaining clients in HIV

primary care; increasing client access to

research by linking development and

support of comprehensive, communitybased and family centered care

infrastructures, and emphasizing

prevention within the care system

particularly the prevention of perinatal

HIV transmission.

Eligibility: Eligible organizations are

public or private non-profit entities that

provide or arrange for primary care.

Applicants are limited to currently

funded Title IV programs whose project

periods expire in FY 2001 and new

organizations proposing to serve the

same populations currently being served

by these existing projects. These areas

are:

State Areas

AZ ................. Phoenix.

CA ................ Los Angeles.

CO ................ Denver.

FL ................. Jacksonville.

Tampa.

GA ................ Atlanta.

MO ............... St. Louis.

NY ................ New York City (except Northern Manhattan).

Albany.

Bronx.

Brooklyn.

NV ................ Las Vegas.

NC ................ Washington.

TN ................ Memphis.

TX ................. Dallas.

WI ................. Milwaukee.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

Preference for funding will be given to

projects that support a comprehensive,

coordinated system of HIV care serving

children, youth, women and families

and are linked with or have initiated

activities to link with clinical trials or

other research.

Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $12,149,255.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 16.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.153A.

Application Availability Date:

December 18, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: April 2, 2001.

Projected Award Date: August 1,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Lydia SotoTorres, MD.

Phone Number: 301 443–9051.

E-Mail: lsoto-torres@hrsa.gov

Ryan White Title IV: New Geographic

Areas 93.153B

Legislative Authority: Section 2671 of

the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C.

300FF–51—330FF–67.

Purpose: Organizations should be able

to demonstrate expertise in the

coordination or provision of

comprehensive medical and social

services to children, youth, women and

families. The purpose of the Title IV

funding is to improve access to primary

medical care, research and support

services for children, youth, women and

families infected with HIV. Funded

projects will link clinical research and

other research with comprehensive care

systems, and improve and expand the

coordination of a system of

comprehensive care for women, infants,

children and youth who are infected/

affected by HIV. Funds will be used to

support programs that: (1) cross

established systems of care to

coordinate service delivery, HIV

prevention efforts, and clinical research

and other research activities; and (2)

address the intensity of service needs,

high costs, and other complex barriers

to comprehensive care and research

experienced by underserved, at-risk and

limited populations. Activities under

these grants should address the goals of:

enrolling and maintaining clients in HIV

primary care; increasing client access to

research by linking HIV/AIDS clinical

research trials and activities with

comprehensive care; fostering the

development and support of

comprehensive, community-based and

family centered care infrastructures; and

emphasizing prevention within the care

system particularly the prevention of

perinatal HIV transmission

Eligibility: Eligible organizations are

public or private nonprofit entities that

provide or arrange for primary care.

Applicants are limited to applicants in

geographic areas where the HIV/AIDS

epidemic is increasing among women,

children and adolescents and where

other resources targeted to these

populations are limited or non-existent.

Applications to serve the geographic

areas listed below are NOT eligible for

funding:

State Areas

AL ................. Birmingham.

AK ................ Pine Bluff.

CA ................ Oakland.

Fresno.

San Diego.

San Francisco.

CT ................ Bridgeport, New Haven,

Stamford, Hartford.

DC ................ Statewide.

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State Areas

FL ................. Orlando.

Ft Lauderdale.

Miami.

Palm Beach.

IL .................. Chicago.

LA ................. New Orleans.

Baton Rouge.

MA ................ Boston.

Brockton, New Bedford,

Springfield, Worcester.

MD ................ Statewide.

MI ................. Detroit.

NH ................ Statewide.

NJ ................. Statewide.

NY ................ Queens/Elmhurst.

New York City/Northern Manhattan.

New York City/Lower Manhattan & Staten Island.

Stonybrook/Suffolk.

NC ................ Charlotte.

Asheville.

OH ................ Columbus.

PA ................ Philadelphia.

PR ................ San Juan.

RI .................. Statewide.

SC ................ Columbia.

TX ................. Ft. Worth.

Houston.

San Antonio.

WA ............... Seattle.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

Preference for funding may be given to

applicants which help to achieve an

equitable geographical distribution of

programs across all States and

Territories, especially programs that

provide services in rural or underserved

communities where the HIV/AIDS

epidemic is increasing.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $1,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 5.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.153B.

Application Availability Date: 12/18/

00.

Letter of Intent Deadline: Not

applicable.

Application Deadline: April 2, 2001.

Projected Award Date: August 1,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Lydia SotoTorres, MD.

Phone Number: (301) 443–9051.

E-Mail: lsoto-torres@hrsa.gov.

Ryan White Title IV for Adolescent

Services 93.153C

Legislative Authority: Section 2671 of

the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C.

300FF–51—330FF–67.

Purpose: The purpose of this initiative

is to foster and expand systems of health

care and social support services for

youth (age 13–24) at risk for or infected

with HIV in order to identify infected

youth and enroll them in HIV primary

care. Grantees will identify additional

HIV infected youth and develop,

coordinate and provide support services

to enroll and maintain them in primary

medical care. Adolescent clients should

be enrolled into care early in the

spectrum of disease and managed

throughout the infection. In partnership

with other Ryan White funded programs

or other agencies, applicants will

integrate youth services into existing

systems of care to provide access to

comprehensive, coordinated primary

care, research and social support

services.

Eligibility: Eligible organizations are

public or private nonprofit entities that

provide or arrange for primary care.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

Priority will be given to applicants with

a history of working with youth,

especially youth infected with HIV.

Priority will be given to projects

proposed in geographic areas where

epidemiologic data demonstrate high

numbers of infected youth. Preference

will be given to currently funded

adolescent programs that have enrolled

significant numbers of HIV infected

youth into a primary care system during

the previous project period.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $1,973,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 5.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

CFDA Number: 93.153C.

Application Availability Date: 12/18/

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: not

applicable.

Application Deadline: 04/02/01.

Projected Award Date: 08/01/01.

Program Contact Person: Lydia SotoTorres, MD.

Phone Number: 301 443–9051.

E-Mail: lsoto-torres@hrsa.gov.

Maternal and Child Health Bureau

Genetic Services, Improving Health Of

Children: Implementation of the State

Grants for the Integration of Programs

and their Information Systems

93.110A

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: The purpose of this grant

activity is to provide support for

implementation activities to grantees

who participated in the FY 1999 Genetic

Services Branch’s (GSB) ‘‘Planning

Grants for State Newborn Screening

Efforts and Infrastructure

Development.’’ Specifically, these grants

will fund the implementation of State

Plans for integrated state information

systems around newborn genetic

screening developed under those

planning grants. The ultimate purpose is

to allow States to be able to provide

preventive health data for public health

functions and individual providers for

improved clinical decision-making at

the point of service delivery. States

funded by this initiative must build on

their planning grant activity and address

the technical obstacles, legal barriers,

partnerships required for the initiative,

sustainability of the projects beyond

Federal funding, and a plan for program

evaluation.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preference:

State health agencies with a previous

GSB grant under, ‘‘Planning Grants for

State Newborn Screening Efforts and

Infrastructure Development.’’

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $1,500,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 5 to 7

States.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110A.

Application Availability Date:

December 15, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: January 15,

2001.

Application Deadline: February 28,

2001.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Michele A.

Lloyd-Puryear, M.D., Ph.D.

Phone Number: 301 443–1080.

E-Mail: Cdiener@hrsa.gov

Genetic Services—Developing Models

for the Use of New and Evolving

Technology Within Newborn Screening

Programs 93.110A

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: The purpose of this grant

activity is to fund two projects that will

address issues confronting newborn

genetic screening programs that have

emerged from the use of new and

evolving technologies such as DNAbased and tandem mass technology

within these newborn screening

programs. One project will identify

models and materials for addressing the

financial, ethical, legal and social issues

surrounding the use of this new

technology. The other project will

identify models and materials for

addressing the clinical validity and

utility of this new technology within

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newborn screening programs. All

projects must also address the assurance

of informed consent, patient privacy

rights, and protection against

discrimination. It is proposed that the

projects utilize the recommendations

developed by the Newborn Screening

Task Force, Serving the Family: From

Birth to the Medical Home, Newborn

Screening: A Blueprint for the Future:

Recommendations from the Newborn

Screening Task Force. It is expected that

the projects will develop models and

materials for the MCHB and for State

newborn genetic screening programs.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preference:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $600,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 2

States.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110A.

Application Availability Date:

December 15, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: January 15,

2001.

Application Deadline: February 28,

2001.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Michele A.

Lloyd-Puryear, M.D., Ph.D.

Phone Number: 301 443–1080.

E-Mail: Cdiener@hrsa.gov

Genetic Services, State Development

Grants for Newborn Screening Efforts

and Infrastructure Development

93.110A

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: The purpose of these

development grants is to facilitate

collaborative efforts and the

development of integrated state

information systems around newborn

genetic screening. The grant activity

would support the development of

plans for: (1) The integration of the

newborn genetic screening program

with other points of early identification

of children with genetic conditions and

special health needs, (2) the integration

of those systems of early identification

with systems of early intervention, (3)

the retrieval of information from State

newborn genetic screening programs by

private sector primary care providers, (if

allowed by legislation), and (4) the

facilitation of collaborative efforts

among public health agency entities and

between public health agencies and the

private sector around newborn genetic

screening.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preference:

Community/State agency partnerships

in coalition with public and private

community-based providers.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $1,250,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 15

States.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 2 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110A.

Application Availability Date:

December 15, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: January 15,

2001.

Application Deadline: February 28,

2001.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Michele A.

Lloyd-Puryear, M.D., Ph.D.

Phone Number: 301 443–1080.

E-Mail: Cdiener@hrsa.gov

Nationwide Blood Lead and Erythrocyte

Protoporphyrin (EP) Proficiency Testing

Program 93.110AA

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: The purpose of this program

is to improve nationwide the

performance of laboratories which

provide erythrocyte protoporphyrin (EP)

screening tests and blood lead

determinations for childhood lead

poisoning prevention programs and, on

request provide technical assistance and

consultation to health care programs

and providers responsible for the

treatment and management of children

and adults with elevated blood lead

levels (EBBL). Accurate, timely EP and

blood lead testing are critical to the

prevention, diagnosis, treatment and

management of children and adults with

EBBL. The applicant organization must

demonstrate: (1) The capacity to

prepare, distribute and process

proficiency testing samples for more

than 400 participating laboratories, (2)

the ability to remain current and

knowledgeable in response to

advancements in blood lead collection

and testing technology, and (3)

competence in the provision, as

requested, of consultation and technical

assistance nationwide to laboratories,

programs and providers responsible for

the delivery of health and health-related

services to at-risk populations.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $250,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 1.

Estimated Project Period: 1 year.

CFDA Number: 93.110AA.

Application Availability Date: July 14,

2000.

Application Deadline: September 15,

2000.

Projected Award Date: January 1,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Stuart

Swayze.

Phone Number: 301 443–2917.

E-Mail: sswayze@hrsa.gov

Integrated Health and Behavioral Health

Care for Children, Adolescents, and

Their Families 93.110AF

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: These two-year planning

grants are designed to initiate and

formalize a working relationship among

community resources, in order to detail

arrangements for establishing an

integrated program of health service

delivery for children, adolescents and

their families, in a targeted area with a

total population of 100,000 to 250,000.

The combined services are to include

physical and psychosocial primary

health care, comprehensive mental

health services and substance abuse

prevention and treatment services. The

plan that is produced is to include

attention to organizational structure,

staffing, facilities, information systems

including protection of confidentiality

and fiscal arrangements.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $200,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 4.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 2 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110AF.

Application Availability: November

29, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: December

21, 2000.

Application Deadline: January 31,

2001.

Projected Award Date: May 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Sue

Martone.

Phone Number: 301 443–4996.

E-Mail: smartone@hrsa.gov

Innovative Models to Analyze and

Address Racial, Ethnic, and Geographic

Disparities in Maternal and Child

Health Outcomes 93.110AJ

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: Racial, ethnic, and

geographic disparities in maternal and

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child health outcomes continue to exist.

The Maternal and Child Health Bureau

is committed to identifying strategies for

reducing the disparities. These two-year

grants are designed to develop

innovative models in the States to

analyze and then address these

disparities. The grants would cover both

the analysis of data, and the

development of a model program for

addressing disparities. The collection,

analysis, and presentation of data

should serve as the basis for the

implementation of a model program.

Emphasis should be placed on

innovative models both in terms of

analysis and program implementation.

Examples of grant activities could

include: (1) Conducting trend analyses

on maternal and child health outcomes

for the purposes of needs assessments;

(2) using data linkages and data sharing

to obtain and analyze new information

on disparities for the purposes of

program development; or (3) innovative

uses of geographic information systems

for targeting vulnerable populations

with plans for initiatives to reduce

disparities.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities or Preferences: Any

State or Jurisdiction or their designees.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $325,000 annually for two

years.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 4–6.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 2 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110AJ.

Application Availability Date:

December 4, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: January 2,

2001.

Application Deadline: February 5,

2001.

Projected Award Date: May 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Dr. Michael

Kogan.

Phone Number: 301 443–8041.

E-Mail: mkogan@hrsa.gov

Integrated Comprehensive Women’s

Health Services in State MCH Programs

93.110AK

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701

Purpose: The purpose of this program

is to expand capacity in State MCH

programs to improve women’s health by

providing a focal point for women’s

health and establishing linkages and

building partnerships with communitybased organizations, academic

institutions, and federal agencies. This

focal point will also identify gaps and

establish an infrastructure for women’s

health services. Linkages will be

established across programs, e.g., family

planning, breast and cervical cancer,

domestic violence, chronic disease,

perinatal health, mental health, etc. The

resulting integrated and coordinated

system of care will provide

comprehensive and continuous health

services to women of reproductive age

in general, as well as to those women

who are pregnant or who have recently

delivered to improve the overall health

of women, their infants and families.

Eligibility: Any public or private

entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal

organization (as defined at 25

U.S.C.450b) is eligible to apply.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

State/Territorial MCH Title V agencies,

tribal health agencies or their designees

(details will be given in the application

guidance). There may be only one

application per State.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $800,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 8.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110 AK.

Application Availability Date:

February 1, 2001.

Letter of Intent Deadline: February 23,

2001.

Application Deadline: March 23,

2001.

Projected Award Date: July 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Lisa King.

Phone Number: (301) 443–9739.

E-Mail: lking@hrsa.gov

Assuring Adequate Health Insurance for

Children with Special Health Care

Needs (CSHCN) 93.110C

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701

Purpose: This initiative will provide

national leadership to assure that by the

year 2010, all families of CSHCN will

have adequate private and/or public

insurance to pay for the services they

need. Three key action steps have been

identified to accomplish this objective:

(1) Expand insurance for CSHCN

without coverage; (2) assure access to

services for insured CSHCN; and (3)

strengthen the financing and

reimbursement system.

Two cooperative agreements will

engage in critical activities to achieve

and monitor this objective:

• One cooperative agreement will

focus on policy analysis of national and

state legislative proposals to expand or

improve health insurance to CSHCN;

analysis of multiple national data sets to

provide relevant policy information and

monitor access to care for CSHCN in the

public and private sector; and provide

technical support to States on Medicaid

and Child Health Improvement Program

proposals impacting CSHCN.

• The second cooperative agreement

will support the development and

dissemination of financing strategies to

assure adequate reimbursement for

managed care organizations and

providers. This includes analyzing the

impact of various reimbursement

methodologies on provider networks,

access to care and risk selection; and

developing partnerships with key

stakeholders on financing care for

CSHCN, especially in managed care.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

Public or nonprofit private entities

involved in the study of insurance

coverage and financing strategies for

children with special health care needs.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $725,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 2.

Estimated Project Period: 4 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.110C.

Application Availability Date:

December 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: January 2,

2001.

Application Deadline: February 2,

2001.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Lynda E.

Honberg.

Phone Number: 301 443–2370.

E-Mail: Lhonberg@hrsa.Gov

Healthy and Ready to Work (HRTW)

Services for Children and Youth with

Special Health Needs (CYSHN)

93.110D

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: Establish 5 State HRTW

model programs with funds targeted to

prepare: (1) Youth and adolescents; (2)

families; and (3) service systems for the

transition of CYSHN to adult health care

and related services, employment and

independence. The funded models must

assure that services go beyond medical

rehabilitation to include engaged

dialogue and counseling with CYSHN

and their families that supports the

setting of future goals and achieving

ambitions for education, employment

and independence. This should be

provided developmentally from early

childhood through age 25, with

discussions and goal setting appropriate

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to the child/adolescent/youth’s age and

maturity level and in a culturally

competent context and setting. States

will be required to confront the

duplication of effort and lack of

coordination that currently exists among

state agencies serving this population.

Services should include, but not be

limited to: long-term health and

disability management; access to

independent living and personal

assistance services (when not paid for

by Medicaid); pre-vocational counseling

and training; oral health; preparation of

families for a changing role as CYSHN

transition; and capacity building and

training of the adult health care

provider system to receive transitioning

CYSHN.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

State Title V Children with Special

Health Care Needs programs or their

designees (details will be given in the

application guidance).

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $1,500,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 5.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 4 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110D.

Application Availability Date:

December 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: January 2,

2001.

Application Deadline: February 23,

2001.

Projected Award Date: June 30, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Thomas L.

Gloss.

Phone Number: 301 443–2370.

E-Mail: tgloss@hrsa.gov

Integrated Services 93.110F

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701

Purpose: This initiative will support

grants to states in partnership with

communities to establish community

integrated service systems for children

with special health care needs (CSHCN),

birth-8, and their families. States will be

required to document coordination of

effort among at least three of the six

agencies of the State Interagency

Coordinating Council (SICC) providing

services to children. This must include

common eligibility/enrollment

application materials, shared data

systems, blended funding, and a single

coordinator with whom a family

communicates. Applications must

include documentation of partnerships

with at least five communities which

will model the community integrated

service systems developed through this

project.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $700,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 4–6.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 4 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110F.

Application Availability Date:

November 15, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: December

15, 2000.

Application Deadline: January 22,

2001.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Irene

Forsman, M.S., R.N.

Phone Number: 301 443–2370.

E-Mail: iforsman@hrsa.gov

Medical Home Development Grants

93.110F

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701

Purpose: This initiative will support 3

year grants to develop a model of

statewide medical home

implementation for children with

special health care needs (CSHCN) and

their families. These models will serve

as mentors for other States in the

national delivery of comprehensive

health care to children with special

health care needs and their families.

Projects will provide for coordination

with the Title V needs assessment

activities related to medical home, and

project outcomes and evaluation will be

incorporated into ongoing activities of

the State Title V Block Grant.

Eligibility: 42 CFR 51a.3.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

Projects that can demonstrate statewide

provision of medical homes for children

with special health care needs.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $888,371.

Estimated Number of Awards: 6.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.110F.

Application Availability Date: August

15, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: September

15, 2000.

Application Deadline: October 16,

2000.

Projected Award Date: March 31,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Tom

Castonguay.

Phone Number: 301 443–2370.

E-mail: tcastonguay@hrsa.gov.

Health Care Information and Education

for Families of Children with Special

Health Care Needs 93.110S

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: The purpose of this

competition is to support activities

which will assist families and states

with the implementation of a national

network of State based centers

comprised of families and professionals

that will provide:

a. Health care information and

education to families of children with

special health care needs; and

b. Information that will assist the

Division of Services for Children with

Special Health Needs (DSCSHN )

integrate these activities/outcomes into

the Division’s 2010 Strategic Planning

activities.

Applicants must address the broad

population of children with special

health care needs by MCHB.

One Cooperative Agreement for a

national organizational structure which

will provide technical assistance,

coordinate data collection nationwide,

provide national training, related

materials and other support as deemed

necessary to all current state-based

information centers and assist other

states in planning for or implementing

new state-based information centers. In

addition, the Cooperative Agreement

will be responsible for providing

requested data concerning these statebased centers to DSCSHN for program

planning purposes.

Funding is contingent upon the

availability of funds.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

Nationally recognized family

organizations with clearly demonstrated

national expertise and capacity in

addressing health issues related to

CSHCN and their families.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $500,000 per year.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 1.

Estimated Project Period: 4 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.110S.

Application Availability Date:

September 11, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: October 16,

2000.

Application Deadline: December 1,

2000.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Diana

Denboba.

Phone Number: 301 443–2370.

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E-mail: Ddenboba@HRSA.gov.

Partnership for Information and

Communication (PIC) MCH Cooperative

Agreements 93.110G

Purpose: To provide cooperative

agreements with governmental,

professional and private organizations

represented by leaders concerned with

issues related to maternal and child

health and involved in sustaining

systems of care and/or providing family

support to persons affected by severe

illness or injury. Specifically, this

program is designed to facilitate the

dissemination of new information in a

format that will be most useful to them

when developing MCH policies and

programs in the private and public

sectors at local state and national levels,

and provides those individuals and

organizations with a means of

communicating issues directly to the

Maternal and Child Health program and

to each other. Organizations currently

receiving support as part of this

cooperative agreement represent State

governors and their staffs; State and

territorial health officials, nonprofit

and/or for-profit managed care

organizations and coalitions of

organizations promoting the health of

mothers and infants, national

membership organizations representing

survivors of traumatic brain injury

(TBI), providers of emergency medical

care for children and representing State

Emergency Medical Services programs..

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3. To

ensure continuity, membership for the

organizations participating in PIC is

rotated so that not all project periods

coincide. For this year, only national

membership organizations representing

the following groups will be considered

for funding: County health

policymakers, municipal health

policymakers, and State Head Injury

Program Directors.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

N/A.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $800,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 3.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 5 years.

Application Availability Date:

November 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: December 1,

2000.

Application Deadline: January 2,

2001.

Projected Award Date: April 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Sue

Martone.

Phone Number: 301–443–4996.

E-mail: smartone@hrsa.gov.

Breastfeeding Promotion in

Pediatrician’s Office Practices 93.110H.

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: This grant program is

designed to: (1) facilitate preparation of

providers of obstetrical and pediatric

health care in office settings to

effectively promote and manage

breastfeeding with the goal to move

breastfeeding initiation and duration

rates toward the Healthy People 2010

national health objectives; (2)

implement strategies to enroll health

care providers working with

underserved population in breastfeeding

promotion, support, and technical

assistance programs; and (3) encourage

collaborations between obstetrical,

pediatric, and primary health care

providers at the local, state, and regional

levels.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

This competition is limited to:

• Nationally recognized organizations

with clearly demonstrated national

expertise and capacity for addressing

breastfeeding promotion, support, and

technical assistance issues related to

providers of obstetrical and pediatric

medical care to consumers and their

families; and

• Applicants building upon current

breastfeeding promotion and support

partnerships with professional

organizations and federal agencies.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $200,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 1.

Estimated Project Period: 3 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.110H.

Application Availability Date: January

3, 2001.

Letter of Intent Deadline: March 1,

2001.

Application Deadline: May 1, 2001.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Carolyn

Sharbaugh.

Phone Number: 301 443–9709.

E-mail: csharbaugh@hrsa.gov

Partners in Program Planning for

Adolescent Health 93.110N

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: The goal of this partnership

with a group of national, membership

organizations is to promote an

adolescent health agenda among key

professional disciplines likely to have

encounters with adolescents and their

families. It promotes the development of

organizational infrastructure at national

and state levels that can effectively

address adolescent health issues;

enhances intra- and inter-disciplinary

communication, education and training

needs relevant to adolescent health; and

encourages the growth of collaborative

effort across disciplines and

professional organizations on behalf of

adolescent health and well-being. In

particular, member organizations will be

expected to use the twenty critical

adolescent health objectives contained

in Healthy People 2010 as a framework

for addressing selected adolescent

health issues, based on the disciplinary

expertise of the organization, and to

contribute to States’ efforts to improve

the health status of adolescents. The

organizational collaborative will

approach its efforts from the perspective

of positive youth development.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

National membership organizations

representing the following disciplines:

Health Education, Law, Medicine,

Nutrition/Dietetics, Oral Health,

Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Work,

and Youth Services. Organizations

representing a coalition of professional

membership organizations affiliated

with the specific discipline.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $500,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 5.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 5 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110N.

Application Availability Date: January

22, 2001.

Letter of Intent Deadline: February 23,

2001.

Application Deadline: April 20, 2001.

Projected Award Date: August 1,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Trina

Menden Anglin, M.D., Ph.D.

Phone Number: 301 443–4291.

E-mail: Tanglin@HRSA.GOV

Maternal and Child Health Research

Program 93.110RS

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: The purpose of this program

is to support applied research relating to

maternal and child health services,

which show promise of substantial

contribution in knowledge, that when

used in States and communities will

result in health and health services

improvements.

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Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preference:

Fifteen priority issues/questions

selected from 11 broadly demarcated

areas of program concern, and keyed to

goals and objectives of the Bureau and

HRSA strategic plans, will be given

special consideration for funding. The

special consideration consists of a 0.5

point adjustment to the priority score

assigned to an application when

recommended for support by the MCH

Research Review Committee. Priority

scores range from 1.0 to 5.0, with 1.0

representing the best score, and 5.0, the

poorest. The 15 issues/questions

selected from the 11 broadly demarcated

areas of program concern are detailed in

the guidance material contained in the

application kit.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $1,900,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 10.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 to 5 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110RS.

Application Availability Date:

Continuously.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: August 1, 2000

& March 1, 2001.

Projected Award Date: January 1, 2001

& July 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Gontran

Lamberty, Dr.P.H.

Phone Number: 301 443–2190.

E-Mail: glamberty@hrsa.gov

Graduate Medical Education in

Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatrics and

Family Practice in Historically/

Predominately Black Medical Schools

93.110TD

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, Section 502, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: The primary purpose of this

program is to enhance the education

and training of residents in obstetrics,

adolescent gynecology, family practice,

and/or pediatrics in order to help them

provide effective primary care for atrisk, underserved populations in

community-based settings, reduce racial

and cultural disparities in the health

status of these populations, and address

the special needs of children,

adolescents, and families of AfricanAmerican and Hispanic-American

descent. These grants are also intended

to stimulate the interest of high school

and undergraduate students from

traditionally underserved populations

in careers in MCH-related health

professions by improving the mentoring

skills of residents in these education

and training programs. This program is

part of a longstanding Health Resources

and Services Administration (HRSA)

Initiative that is coordinated with other

HRSA Bureaus and with HRSA’s Office

of Minority Health.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preference:

Preference will be given to Departments

of OB/GYN, Pediatrics and Family

Medicine in Historically/Predominantly

Black medical schools.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $685,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 4.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 5 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110TD.

Application Availability Dated:

November 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: December 1,

2000.

Application Deadline: February 1,

2001.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Aaron

Favors, Ph.D.

Phone Number: 301 443–0392.

E-Mail: afavors@hrsa.gov

Public Health Training in Maternal and

Child Health 93.110TK

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, Section 502, 42 U.S.C. 702.

Purpose: The purpose of the Public

Health Training in Maternal and Child

Health program is to strengthen the

Nation’s maternal and child health

public health system by broadening the

leadership base of the current and future

MCH workforce. Emphasis will be

placed on developing the public health

workforce through innovative strategies

that address the special educational

needs of health professionals who: live

in isolated geographic communities;

need to enhance or advance their skills

while continuing to meet their daily on

site work and family responsibilities; or

are from underserved or

underrepresented populations.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

Accredited schools of public health or

other public or nonprofit private

institutions accredited for the provision

of graduate or specialized training in

public health which are not currently

receiving a grant under the MCH

Training in Schools of Public Health

grant program.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $324,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 2.

Estimated Project Period: 3 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.110TK.

Application Availability Date:

September 15, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: October 16,

2000.

Application Deadline: December 15,

2000.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Nanette

Pepper, BSRN, M. Ed.

Phone Number: 301 443–2190.

E-Mail: npepper@hrsa.gov

Long Term Training in Leadership

Education in Neurodevelopmental and

Related Disabilities (Lend) 93.110TM

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: The purpose of the Maternal

and Child Health Interdisciplinary

Leadership Education in

Neurodevelopmental and Related

Disabilities (LEND) program is to

improve the health status of infants,

children, and adolescents with, or at

risk for, neurodevelopmental and

related disabilities, including mental

retardation, neurodegenerative and

acquired neurological disorders, and

multiple handicaps. The educational

curricula emphasize the integration of

services supported by State, local

agencies, organizations, private

providers and communities. The LEND

programs will prepare health

professionals to assist children and their

families to achieve their developmental

potentials by forging a communitybased partnership of health resources

and community leadership.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

Universities with an accredited medical

school which have defined working

departments providing graduate training

in all requisite core disciplines

identified in the program elements and

requirements for MCH Interdisciplinary

Leadership Education for Children with

Neurodevelopmental and Related

Disabilities. Such agreements may be

either with components of the applicant

institution or with one or more other

institutions of higher learning through

formal affiliation agreements. Although

multiple institutions and programs may,

and are encouraged to participate, the

application must be submitted by the

university at which the major medical

and other health professions schools or

departments are located. Programs must

already be established in the

specialization area for which

application is made with documented

graduates.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

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Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $10,300,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 17 to

19.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 5 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110TM.

Application Availability Date: July 7,

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: August 7,

2000.

Application Deadline: October 12,

2000.

Projected Award Date: July 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Denise

Sofka, M.P.H.

Phone Number: 301 443–0344.

E-Mail: dsofka@hrsa.gov

Continuing Education and Development

93.110TO

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, Section 502, 42 U.S.C. 702.

Purpose: Continuing Education and

Development (CED) focuses on

increasing leadership skills of MCH

professionals; facilitating timely transfer

and application of new information,

research findings and technology related

to MCH; and updating and improving

the knowledge and skills of health and

related professionals in programs

serving mothers and children. CED

programs will support conduct of shortterm, non-degree related courses,

workshops, conferences, symposia,

institutes, and distance learning

strategies and/or development of

curricula, guidelines, standards of

practice, and educational tools/

strategies intended to assure quality

health care for the MCH population.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $300,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 8–10.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 1–3 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.110TO.

Application Availability Date:

November 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: December 1,

2000.

Application Deadline: January 12,

2001.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Diana L.

Rule, M.P.H.

Phone Number: 301 443–2190.

E-Mail: drule@hrsa.gov

Continuing Education and Development

Cooperative Agreement to Advance

Education and Program/Policy

Development in Maternal and Child

Health 93.110TP.

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: The purpose of the

cooperative agreement(s) is to support a

national program of continuing

education and development (CED)

focusing on education, information, and

public health policy & programs in

maternal and child health. This project

will serve as an information/education

resource that supports efforts in Title V

data collection and analysis to assist in

policy and program development and

evaluation. Further, this project will

provide continuing education and

program/policy development efforts to

improve standards/guidelines (i.e.,

Bright Futures); to improve practices/

delivery of health care such as nutrition,

oral health and mental health services

for the MCH population; and support

additional MCH program activities

through workshops, institutes, seminars,

and distance learning ventures.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: Up to $4,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: Up to 2.

Estimated Project Period: 5 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110TP.

Application Availability Date:

November 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: December 1,

2000.

Application Deadline: February 1,

2001.

Projected Award Date: July 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Carol Galaty.

Phone Number: 301 443–2778.

E-Mail Address: cgalaty@hrsa.gov

Public Policy Analysis and Education

Center for Infant and Early Childhood

Health 93.110TP.

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: The purpose of this Center is

to analyze the effects of public policies,

regulations, and practices at the

community, State, and Federal levels on

the health and well-being of infants and

young children and their families. The

Center’s efforts will enhance the

knowledge and inform the practices of

practitioners and policy and decisionmakers regarding the short and longterm consequences of public policies on

the health, behavior and well-being of

infants and young children. The

Center’s work will include the

development of conceptual models for

health and related services as well as

analysis of the utility of various

indicators of health status and well

being for these age groups.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application.

Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $250,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 1.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110TP.

Application Availability Date: January

22, 2001.

Letter of Intent Deadline: February 19,

2001.

Application Deadline: March 26,

2001.

Projected Award Date: August 1,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Phyllis E.

Stubbs-Wynn, M.D.

Phone Number: (301) 443–4489.

E-Mail: pstubbs@hrsa.gov.

Public Policy Analysis and Education

Center for Middle Childhood and

Adolescent Health 93.110TP

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: The purpose of this Center is

to analyze the effects of public policies,

regulations and practices at the

community, State and Federal levels on

the health, safety and well-being of

school-aged children, adolescents and

their families. As part of its analytical

effort, the Center will use the framework

of the twenty critical adolescent health

objectives contained in Healthy People

2010 as it considers the effects of States’

policies on adolescent health status. It

will examine the following domains of

health and related services for these age

groups: content, organization, financing,

quality, and accountability. The Center’s

efforts will enhance the knowledge and

inform the practices of practitioners and

policy and decision-makers regarding

the short and long-term consequences of

public policies on the health, behavior

and well-being of different populations

of school-aged children and adolescents.

The Center’s work will include the

development of conceptual models for

health and related services as well as

analysis of the utility of various

indicators of health status and wellbeing for these age groups. Given the

importance of adolescence to the

shaping of adult behavior and health,

the Center will include a focus on

developmental and institutional

transitions between childhood and

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adolescence and between adolescence

and adulthood.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $250,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 1.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110TP.

Application Availability Date: January

22, 2001.

Letter of Intent Deadline: February 19,

2001.

Application Deadline: March 26,

2001.

Projected Award Date: August 1,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Trina

Menden Anglin, M.D., Ph.D.

Phone Number: 301 443–4291.

E-Mail: Tanglin@HRSA.GOV.

Continuing Education/Distance

Learning 93.110TQ.

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: Alternative education

methodologies provide effective and

efficient means by which maternal and

child health (MCH) professionals can

enhance and advance their managerial,

analytical, administrative and clinical

skills while continuing to meet their

daily on-site responsibilities. These

functions include assessing need;

utilizing data; developing policies and

programs; addressing and resolving

problems; monitoring progress and

evaluating performance. This grant

program supports the development,

implementation, creative utilization,

application and evaluation of distance

education opportunities for MCH health

professionals. Projects will work

collaboratively with each other and the

MCH Bureau to provide technical

assistance in distance education and

technology to the MCH community.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Preferences and/or Priorities:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of Competition:

$713,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 3–4.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110TQ.

Application Availability Date:

November 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: December 1,

2000.

Application Deadline: January 12,

2001.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Aaron

Favors, Ph.D.

Phone Number: 301 443–0392.

E-Mail: afavors@hrsa.gov

Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for

Children 93.110V

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: The purpose of this program

is to support projects for mothers and

children that improve access to health

services and utilize preventive

strategies. The initiative encourages

additional support for the private sector

and from foundations to form

community-based partnerships to

coordinate health resources for pregnant

women, infants and children.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Matching Requirement: The applicant

must demonstrate the capability to meet

cost participation goals by securing

matching funds for the second through

fifth years of the project. The specific

requirements are detailed in the

application materials.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

In the interest of equitable geographic

distribution, special consideration for

funding will be given to projects from

States without a currently funded

project in this category. These States

are: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut,

Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii,

Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana,

Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,

Nevada, New Hampshire, North

Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina,

Texas, Virginia, West Virginia,

Wisconsin, Wyoming, American Samoa,

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

Islands, Federated States of Micronesia,

Guam, Puerto Rico, Republic of Palau,

Republic of the Marshall Islands, and

the Virgin Islands.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $450,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: Up to 9.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 5 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.110V.

Application Availability Date: August

1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: September

1, 2000.

Application Deadline: October 2,

2000.

Projected Award Date: March 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Maurice

Bryant.

Phone Number: 301 443–2340.

E-Mail: mbryant@hrsa.gov.

Healthy Tomorrows Partnership

Cooperative Agreement 93.110VA

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, 42 U.S.C. 701.

Purpose: To support activities which

improve access and delivery of maternal

and child health services through

governmental and professional

partnerships. Specifically, the program

is designed to promote problem-solving

approaches which enhance community

and provider participation. This

provider partnership will encourage

private sector and other support for

improved coordination of and access to

health resources at the community-level

for pregnant women, infants and

children. Any national membership

organization able to demonstrate that it

represents a significant group(s) of

providers of pediatric services will be

considered for funding.

Eligibility: 42 CFR Part 51a.3.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

N/A.

Specific program requirements

include:

—Analysis of obstacles (issues and

contributing factors) to provider

participation in the delivery of

maternal and child health services to

low-income pregnant women and

children, as well as involvement in

problem-solving at the community

level.

—Development of strategies to improve

maternal and child health status and

systems through collaboration with

the Maternal and Child Health Bureau

which promote problem solving at the

community level; encourage provider

participation; and encourage private

sector and other support for improved

coordination of and access to health

resources at the community level.

—Dissemination and effective

communication of concerns and

information pertaining to the issues

and strategies employed to their

members and other national

organizations.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: Up to $180,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: 1.

Estimated Project Period: Up to 5

years.

CFDA Number: 93.110VA.

Application Availability Date: April 2,

2001.

Letter of Intent Deadline: May 1, 2001.

Application Deadline: June 1, 2001.

Projected Award Date: September 30,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Maurice

Bryant.

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Phone Number: 301 443–2340.

E-Mail: mbryant@hrsa.gov.

State Systems Development Initiative

(SSDI)—MCH Services Federal SetAside Program 93.110W

Legislative Authority: Social Security

Act, Title V, Section 502(A)(1) 42 U.S.C.

701.

Purpose: The purpose of the State

Systems Development Initiative is to

assist State Agency MCH and CSHCN

programs in the building of State and

community infrastructure that results in

comprehensive, community-based

systems of care for all children and their

families. During this time of government

performance results accountability and

demand for more accurate program data,

the SSDI Program will be very focused.

FY 01 applications must concentrate on

Title V Block Grant needs assessment,

performance and outcome measures,

and the core Health Status Indicator #8

regarding Data Capacity. HRSA’s

strategic goal is ‘‘Assure 100% access to

health care and zero health disparities

for all Americans.’’ As part of their

ongoing needs assessment activities,

states will be expected to make vigorous

and determined efforts to identify and

eliminate health disparities. States will

be expected to focus SSDI resources on

establishing or improving the data

linkages between birth records and (1)

infant death certificates, (2) Medicaid

eligibility or paid claims files, (3) WIC

eligibility files, and (4) newborn

screening files; and establishing or

improving access to (1) hospital

discharge surveys, (2) a birth defects

surveillance system, (3) survey of recent

mothers at least every two years, and (4)

survey of adolescent health and

behaviors at least every two years.

Eligibility: 42 CFR 51a.3. Competition

is limited to competing renewal

applications from the 59 State Title V

agencies.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

N/A.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $5,300,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 59.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 2 years.

CFDA Number: 93.110W.

Application Availability Date:

February 13, 2001.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: July 13, 2001.

Projected Award Date: September 30,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Jerry Hood,

M.A.

Phone Number: 301–443–0870.

E-Mail: jhood@hrsa.gov.

EMSC Implementation 93.127A

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act Title XIX, Section 1910, 42

U.S.C. 300W–9.

Purpose: This implementation grant

will improve the capacity of a State’s

EMS program to address the particular

needs of children. The implementation

grant is used to assist States in

integrating research-based knowledge

and state-of-the-art systems

development approaches into the

existing State EMS, MCH, and CSHCN

systems, using the experience and

products of previous EMSC grantees.

The applicant is encouraged to consider

activities that: (1) address identified

needs within their State EMS system

and that lay the groundwork for

permanent changes in that system; (2)

develop or monitor pediatric EMS

capacity; and (3) will be

institutionalized within the State EMS

system.

Eligibility: States and accredited

schools of medicine are eligible

applicants.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $250,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 1.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.127A.

Application Availability Date:

September 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: October 2,

2000.

Application Deadline: November 1,

2000.

Projected Award Date: March 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Maria T.

Baldi.

Phone Number: 301–443–6192.

E-Mail: mbaldi@hrsa.gov.

EMSC Partnerships 93.127C

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title XIX, Section 1910, 42

U.S.C. 300W–9.

Purpose: State partnership grants will

fund activities that represent the next

logical step or steps to take to

institutionalize EMSC within EMS and

to continue to improve and refine

EMSC. Proposed activities should be

consistent with documented needs in

the State and should reflect a logical

progression in enhancing pediatric

capabilities. For example, funding might

be used to address problems identified

in the course of a previous

implementation grant; to increase the

involvement of families in EMSC; to

improve linkages between local,

regional, or State agencies; to

promulgate standards developed for one

region of the State under previous

funding to include the entire State; to

devise a plan for coordinating and

funding poison control centers; or to

assure effective field triage of the child

in physical or emotional crisis to

appropriate facilities and/or other

resources.

Eligibility: States and accredited

schools of medicine are eligible

applicants.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $700,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 7.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.127C.

Application Availability Date:

September 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: October 2,

2000.

Application Deadline: November 1,

2000.

Projected Award Date: March 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Maria T.

Baldi.

Phone Number: 301 443–6192.

E-Mail: mbaldi@hrsa.gov

EMSC Targeted Issue 93.127D

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title XIX, Section 1910, 42

U.S.C. 300W–9.

Purpose: Targeted issue grants are

intended to address specific, focused

issues related to the development of

EMSC knowledge and capacity with the

intent of advancing the state-of-the-art,

and creating tools or knowledge that

will be helpful nationally. Proposals

must have well-conceived methodology

for analysis and evaluation. Targeted

issue priorities have been identified

based on the EMSC Five Year Plan. The

targeted issue priorities are: cost-benefit

analysis related to EMSC, implications

of managed care for EMSC, evaluations

of EMSC components, models for

improving the care of culturally distinct

populations, evaluation of systems for

provision of emergency health care

within day care and/or school settings,

and evaluation of family-centered care

models. Proposals may be submitted on

emerging issues that are not included in

the identified priorities. However, any

such proposal must demonstrate

relevance to the Plan and must make a

persuasive argument that the issue is

particularly critical.

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Eligibility: States and accredited

schools of medicine are eligible

applicants.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $1,200,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 8.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 2–3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.127D.

Application Availability Date:

September 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: October 2,

2000.

Application Deadline: November 1,

2000.

Projected Award Date: March 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Cindy Doyle.

Phone Number: 301 443–3888.

E-Mail: cdoyle@hrsa.gov.

Pediatric Injury Surveillance System

93.127J

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title XIX, Section 1910, 42

U.S.C. 300W–9.

Purpose: To develop an infrastructure

for the purpose of collecting and

analyzing information on pediatric

injuries to develop effective prevention

and treatment strategies. Data collection

sites included in the sampling frame

will be dispersed throughout the U.S.,

providing a mechanism to generate

national estimates of childhood injury.

Data elements contained within the

database will be map-able to elements in

other national injury registries, allowing

large databases to be easily

consolidated. A subset of the

surveillance data points will include

both prehospital and short-term

functional status data collected at

hospital discharge. Data will be linked

to vital statistics records, extending the

data collection window and facilitating

research questions associated with the

continuum of care among injured

children.

Eligibility: States and accredited

schools of medicine.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $500,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 1.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.127J.

Application Availability Date:

February 1, 2001.

Letter of Intent Deadline: March 1,

2001.

Application Deadline: April 2, 2001.

Projected Award Date: July 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Cindy Doyle.

Phone Number: 301 443–3888.

E-Mail: Cdoyle@hrsa.gov

Clinical Practice Guidelines for

Emergency Care of Children 93.127i

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title XIX, Section 1910, 42

U.S.C. 300W–9.

Purpose: To develop a set of clinical

practice guidelines applicable to all

medical personnel who are responsible

for treating children’s emergency

conditions (e.g., pediatricians, family

practitioners, nurse practitioners,

emergency department physicians,

physician associates). The purpose of

these guidelines will be to improve care

for common problems that children

present in emergency departments and

doctors’ offices. These guidelines will

be based on an assessment of published

research and will permit accumulating

valid summary statistics.

Eligibility: States and accredited

schools of medicine are eligible

applicants.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $500,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 1.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.127i.

Application Availability Date: April 2,

2001.

Letter of Intent Deadline: May 1, 2001.

Application Deadline: June 1, 2001.

Projected Award Date: September 1,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Cindy Doyle.

Phone Number: 301 443–3888.

E-Mail: cdoyle@hrsa.gov

A Color-Coded System for Equipment

and Medication for Pediatric

Resuscitation 93.127H

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title XIX, Section 1910, 42

U.S.C. 300W–9.

Purpose: To demonstrate the

effectiveness of a color-coded system,

which allows access to accurate

precalculated medication doses and

equipment sizes, and emergency

treatments for critically ill and injured

children. The effectiveness of

implementing a color-coding system in

the clinical setting will be appropriately

evaluated using scientifically based data

collection and analysis techniques.

Eligibility: Accredited Schools of

Medicine and States.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $250,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 1.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.127H.

Application Availability Date: January

2, 2001.

Letter of Intent Deadline: February 1,

2001.

Application Deadline: March 1, 2001.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Cindy Doyle.

Phone Number: 301–443–3888.

E-Mail: Cdoyle@hrsa.gov

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)—State

Implementation Grants 93.234A

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title XII, Section 1242, 42

U.S.C. 300d–42.

Purpose: The purpose of this grant

program is to improve health and other

services for people who have sustained

a traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Implementation grants provide funding

to assist States in moving toward

statewide systems that assure access to

comprehensive and coordinated TBI

services.

Eligibility: State governments.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Matching Requirement: The State is

required to contribute, in cash, not less

than $1 for each $2 of Federal funds

provided under the grant.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $1,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 5.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.234A.

Application Availability Date:

September 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: November 1,

2000.

Application Deadline: December 1,

2000.

Projected Award Date: April 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Betty

Hastings, MSW.

Phone Number: 301 443–5599.

E-Mail: bhastings@hrsa.gov

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)—State

Planning Grants 93.234B

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title XII, Section 1242, 42

U.S.C. 300d–42.

Purpose: The purpose of this grant

program is to improve health and other

services for people who have sustained

a traumatic brain injury (TBI).

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Implementation grants provide funding

to assist States in moving toward

statewide systems that assure access to

comprehensive and coordinated TBI

services.

Eligibility: State governments.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Matching Requirement: The State is

required to contribute, in cash, not less

than $1 for each $2 of Federal funds

provided under the grant.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $375,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 5.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 2 years.

CFDA Number: 93.234B.

Application Availability Date:

September 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: November 1,

2000.

Application Deadline: December 1,

2000.

Projected Award Date: April 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Betty

Hastings, MSW.

Phone Number: 301 443–5599.

E-Mail: bhastings@hrsa.gov

State Mortality Review Support Program

93.926C

Legislative Authority: Section 301,

Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C.

241.

Purpose: The purpose of this program

is to enable State Maternal and Child

Health programs to stimulate, promote,

coordinate, and sustain mortality and

morbidity review programs at state and

local levels. The findings and

recommendations from these review

programs are used to build MCH

capacity by enhancing needs

assessment, policy development, and

quality improvement efforts. The intent

of this program is two-fold: (1) use local

findings at State MCH level for capacity

building, and (2) improve coordination

between two or more types of review

processes that co-exist in the State. In

particular, these programs will assist

states in improving the health of

mothers and children through MCH

programming and infrastructure

building. Fetal and Infant Mortality

Review (FIMR), maternal mortality

review, and child fatality review are

priorities for the focus of this program.

Eligibility: Any public or private

entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal

organization (as defined at 25 U.S.C.

450b) is eligible to apply. There may be

only one application per state (details

will be given in the application

guidance).

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

State/Territorial MCH Title V agencies,

tribal health agencies or their designees,

or state/territorial programs that have

not previously been awarded a state

Mortality/Morbidity Review Support

Program grant and where at least two or

more review processes co-exist and

multiple review committees exist for a

given process within the State.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: Up to $600,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 4.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.926C.

Application Availability Date:

November 20, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: December

18, 2000.

Application Deadline: January 29,

2001.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Brenda Lisi.

Phone Number: 301 443–9991.

E-Mail: Blisi@hrsa.gov

The Perinatal Systems and Women’s

Health National Resource Center

93.926D

Legislative Authority: Section 301 of

the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C.

241.

Purpose: The Division of Perinatal

Systems and Women’s Health provides

national leadership in coordinating and

disseminating resources developed

through innovative national programs

that focus on perinatal and women’s

health. These resources contribute to

reduction in disparities in perinatal

health and improvement of the quality

and comprehensiveness of systems of

perinatal and women’s health care. The

National Resource Center will serve

communities and community-based

organizations; professional, academic,

and provider organizations; and the

general public. The resource center will

focus on the following functions: library

and resource development,

dissemination, communication and

continuing education.

Eligibility: Any public or private

entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal

organization (as defined at 25 U.S.C.

450b) is eligible to apply.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

N/A.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: Up to $800,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 1.

Estimated Project Period: 2 years.

CFDA Number: 93.926D.

Application Availability Date:

December 21, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: January 29,

2001.

Application Deadline: February 23,

2001.

Projected Award Date: July 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Beverly

Wright.

Phone Number: 301–443–8427.

E-Mail: bwright@hrsa.gov

Healthy Start Initiative—Eliminating

Disparities in Perinatal Health 93.926E

Legislative Authority: Section 301,

Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C.

241.

Purpose: The purpose of this program

is to address significant disparities in

perinatal health indicators including

disparities among Hispanics, American

Indians, African Americans, Alaska

Natives, Asian/Pacific Islanders,

immigrant populations, or differences

occurring by education, income,

disability, or living in rural/isolated

areas by enhancing a community’s

service system. To address these

indicators, it is anticipated that the

proposed scope of project services will

cover preconceptional, pregnancy, and

interconceptional phases for women

and infants residing in the proposed

project area. To promote longer

interconceptional periods and prevent

relapses of unhealthy risk behaviors,

services are to be given to both mother

and infant through the infant’s second

year of life. Funding would be made

available to community-based projects

which have: (1) significant disparities in

perinatal indicators which contribute to

high infant mortality rates, among one

or more subpopulations; (2) an existing

active consortia of stakeholders which

have underway a perinatal disparity

reduction initiative for at least one year;

and, (3) a feasible plan to reduce

barriers, improve the local perinatal

system of care, and work towards

eliminating existing disparities in

perinatal health. These sites must have

or plan to implement/adapt Healthy

Start strategies of consortium, case

management, and outreach services in a

culturally and linguistically sensitive

manner. In addition, they must

demonstrate existing/planned

collaborations with key State and local

services and resource systems. Such key

State and local resources include Title

V, Title X, Title XIX, Title XXI, WIC,

Enterprise Communities/ Empowerment

Zones, federally funded Community and

Migrant Health Centers, federally

funded Health Care for the Homeless

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projects, and Indian/Tribal Health

Services.

Eligibility: Any public or private

entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal

organization (as defined at 25 U.S.C.

450b) is eligible to apply.

Funding Preferences/Priorities:

Communities in States and Territories

which will not have a federally-funded

Healthy Start project after July 1, 2001

(details will be given in the application

guidance).

Special Considerations: National

geographic distribution as well as

urban/rural.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of this

Competition: Up to $59,840,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: Up to 59.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 4 years.

CFDA Number: 93.926E.

Application Availability Date:

December 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: January 5,

2001.

Application Deadline: February 6,

2001.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Maribeth

Badura.

Phone Number: 301–443–8283.

E-Mail: mbadura@hrsa.gov

Interconception Care for High-Risk

Women and Their Infants 93.926K

Legislative Authority: Section 301,

Public Health Service Act.

Purpose: The purpose of this program

is to improve the health of high-risk

women and their infants and to avoid

future adverse pregnancy outcomes.

This initiative will support

communities to enroll high-risk women

at the time of delivery in the hospital

and follow these high-risk women and

their infants for two years or through the

next pregnancy, ensuring they are

enrolled in the health care system for

appropriate care and follow-up.

Proposals must target postpartum

women who delivered a live infant or

who sustained a fetal loss without

receipt of prenatal care. Funded

programs must demonstrate a significant

need in their population and may be

statewide or focused on a smaller

geographic area. Required project

activities include early identification of

these high-risk women and increasing

the sustained participation of these

women and infants in existing health

and related services beyond the

postpartum period. All proposed

activities must be provided in a

culturally and linguistically sensitive

manner.

Eligibility: Any public or private

entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal

organization (as defined at 25 U.S.C.

450b) is eligible to apply.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

None.

Special Considerations: National

geographic distribution.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: Up to $7,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: Up to 25.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 4 years.

CFDA Number: 93.926K.

Application Availability Date:

December 8, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: January 12,

2001.

Application Deadline: February 16,

2001.

Projected Award Date: July 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Brenda Lisi.

Phone Number: 301–443–9991.

E-Mail: blisi@hrsa.gov

Improving Women’s Health Through

Screening and Intervention for

Depression During or Around the Time

of Pregnancy 93.926L

Legislative Authority: Section 301,

Public Health Service Act.

Purpose: The purpose of this program

is to promote systems of care that

address gaps in routine screening and

skilled assessment for depression during

or around the time of pregnancy and to

enhance linkages to community-based

intervention services for depression that

are age and culturally specific for

women of reproductive age. Proposals

must target pregnant and postpartum

women but may also target women

contemplating pregnancy (e.g., preconceptional). Funded programs may be

statewide or target a geographic area

within a particular state. Activities

considered for funding include but are

not limited to statewide or community

needs assessment, system planning and

program implementation based on

needs assessment findings and other

data (e.g. evidence-based), outreach,

provider training, consumer education,

program evaluation and an

infrastructure building network of

community prenatal and family

planning providers and mental health

service providers that will lead to early

identification and increased capacity to

effectively screen, perform skilled

assessment and successfully engage

pregnant, postpartum and preconceptional women who are

experiencing depression and other

disorders in appropriate mental health

services. The result of these activities

will be improved health outcomes for

women and their families.

Eligibility: Any public or private

entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal

organization (as defined at 25 U.S.C.

450b) is eligible to apply.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

State/Territorial Title V agencies, tribal

health agencies or their designees

(details will be given in the application

guidance). Only one application will be

accepted per State/Territory.

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: Up to $2,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: Up to 10.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 4 years.

CFDA Number: 93.926L.

Application Availability Date:

October 18, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: November

17, 2000.

Application Deadline: December 21,

2000.

Projected Award Date: April 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Karen

Hench.

Phone Number: 301–443–9708.

E-Mail: khench@hrsa.gov

Healthy Start Initiative—State

Infrastructure Initiatives 93.926M

Legislative Authority: Section 301,

Public Health Service Act.

Purpose: This grant is intended to

facilitate State infrastructure/capacity

development to address and support

local communities funded under federal

Healthy Start, disparities in perinatal

health, including disparities among

Hispanics, American Indians, African

Americans, Alaska Natives, Asian/

Pacific Islanders, immigrant

populations, or differences occurring by

education, income, disability or living

in rural/isolated areas. Activities may

include: technical assistance to

communities in particular those

communities with Healthy Start

programs; integration of existing State

service systems to support

comprehensive perinatal and women’s

health systems in communities;

consortium/council development;

dissemination of best practices

developed nationally and within the

state; professional and paraprofessional

development; increased data capacity;

and enhanced capacity for communitybased planning.

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Eligibility: Any public or private

entity, including an Indian Tribe or

Tribal Organization (as defined at 25

U.S.C. 450b) is eligible to apply.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

State/Territorial MCH Title V agencies,

tribal health agencies or their designees

(details will be given in the application

guidance).

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $7,500,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 59.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 4 years.

CFDA Number: 93.926M.

Application Availability Date:

October 6, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: November 9,

2000.

Application Deadline: December 8,

2000.

Projected Award Date: May 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Angela

Hayes-Toliver.

Phone Number: (301) 443–5136.

E-Mail Address: ahayes@hrsa.gov

Healthy Start Initiative (HSI)—

Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal

Health—Border Health 93.926N

Legislative Authority: Section 301,

Public Health Service Act.

Purpose: To enhance a border

community’s perinatal service system to

address significant disparities and

deficiencies in perinatal health which

contribute to infant mortality. To

address these indicators, it is

anticipated that the proposed scope of

project services will cover

preconceptional, pregnancy, and

interconceptional phases for women

and infants residing in the proposed

project area. Services are to be given to

both mother and infant through the

infant’s second year of life to promote

longer interconceptional periods and

lower recidivism/prevent relapses of

unhealthy risk behaviors. The selected

communities must be within 62 miles of

the US-Mexican border, have high

incidence of poor perinatal indicators,

have an active consortia of stakeholders

and consumers, and plan to implement

or adapt Healthy Start methods of

intervention in a culturally and

linguistically sensitive manner.

Eligibility: Any public or private

entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal

organization (as defined at 25 U.S.C.

450b) that directly serves the target

population in the communities within

62 miles of the US-Mexican border and

who meet the established HSI Border

Health criteria is eligible to apply.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

Communities meeting the established

HSI Border Health criteria in States

which will not have a federally-funded

Healthy Start border project after July 1,

2001 (details will be given in the

application guidance).

Review Criteria: Final criteria are

included in the application kit.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: Up to $1,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to be

Made: Up to 2 projects.

Estimated Project Period: 4 years.

CFDA Number: 93.926N.

Application Availability Date:

December 1, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: January 5,

2001.

Application Deadline: February 6,

2001.

Projected Award Date: June 1, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Donna

Hutten.

Phone Number: 301–443–8427.

E-Mail Address: dhutten@hrsa.gov

Office of the Administrator

Community Access Program 93.252

Legislative Authority: PHS Act,

Section 301 [A legislative proposal for

program-specific authority has been

submitted to Congress by the

Administration. If program authority is

not enacted this year, the program

would continue to operate under the

demonstration authority in Section 301.]

Purpose: To assist communities and

consortia of health care providers to

develop the infrastructure necessary to

fully develop or strengthen integrated

health systems of care that coordinate

health services for the uninsured.

Eligibility: Applications may be

submitted by public or non-profit

entities who demonstrate a commitment

to and experience with providing a

continuum of care to uninsured

individuals. Each applicant must

represent a community-wide coalition

that includes local health care providers

who have traditionally provided care to

the community’s uninsured and

underinsured regardless of ability to

pay. The consortium may include

private sector health care providers and

organizations.

Funding Priorities and/or Preference:

None.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $100 million.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 100 new awards.

Estimated Project Period: 1 year.

CFDA Number: 93.252.

Application Availability Date:

December 1, 2000 (Approximate).

Letter of Intent Deadline: January 15,

2001 (Approximate).

Application Deadline: June 1

(Approximate).

Projected Award Date: September 1

(Approximate).

Program Contact Person: Julia

Tillman.

Phone Number: 301–443–0536.

E-Mail Address: jtillman@hrsa.gov

Association of State and Territorial

Health Officials (ASTHO) 93.000

Legislative Authority: Section 301 of

the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C.

241], as amended.

Purpose: The purpose of this project

is to address the health care needs of the

underserved and vulnerable

populations, the needs of health care

providers who serve vulnerable

populations, and related public health

issues. The cooperative agreement will

support HRSA’s mission by assisting the

Association of State and Territorial

Health Officials (ASTHO) in developing

and convening State and territorial

policy forums and provide educational

and resource materials emanating from

these forums for State and territorial

policymakers on the above areas.

Eligibility: Assistance will be

provided only to the ASTHO. No other

applications are solicited. There is no

ongoing group that can convene the

high-ranking decision-makers

representing State and Territorial health

officials’ interests around an issue of

importance to HRSA. This group will

facilitate communication on current and

emerging strategies addressing common

priorities, and will enable HRSA to

better leverage limited resources by

improving planning and program design

to complement other public and private

sector initiatives serving the needs of

the same populations.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $100,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 1.

Estimated Project Period: In

anticipation of Fiscal Year (FY) 2001

funding, HRSA announces its intention

to award a cooperative agreement which

will begin on or after October 1, 2000,

and will be for a 12-month budget

period with a project period of 5 years.

Funding estimates may vary and are

subject to change.

CFDA Number: 93.000.

Application Availability Date: (To be

determined).

Application Deadline: (To be

determined).

Projected Award Date: On or after

October 1, 2000.

Program Contact Person: Diane

Rodill, Ph.D.

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Phone Number: 301 443–4034.

E-Mail: drodill@hrsa.gov

National Association of County and City

Health Officials (NACCHO) 93.000

Legislative Authority: Section 301 of

the Public Health Service Act (2 U.S.C.

241), as amended.

Purpose: The purpose of this project

is to address the health care needs of the

underserved and vulnerable

populations, the needs of health care

providers who serve vulnerable

populations, and related public health

issues; and support HRSA’s mission by

assisting NACCHO in developing and

convening county and city policy

forums and provide educational and

resource materials emanating from these

forums for county and city policymakers

on the above areas.

Eligibility: Assistance will be

provided only to the National

Association of County and City Health

Officials. No other applications are

solicited. There is no other ongoing

group that can convene the high-ranking

decision-makers representing county

and city health officials’ interests

around an issue of importance to HRSA.

This group will facilitate

communication on current and

emerging strategies addressing common

priorities, and will enable HRSA to

better leverage limited resources by

improving planning and program design

to complement other public and private

sector initiatives serving the needs of

the same populations.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

N/A.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $100,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to Be

Made: 1.

Estimated Project Period: In

anticipation of Fiscal Year (FY) 2001

funding, HRSA announces its intention

to award a cooperative agreement which

will begin on or after October 1, 2000,

and will be for a 12-month budget

period with a project period of 5 years.

Funding estimates may vary and are

subject to change.

CFDA Number: 93.000.

Application Availability Date: (To be

determined).

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: May 30, 2000.

Projected Award Date: On or after

October 1, 2000.

Program Contact Person: Diane

Rodill, Ph.D.

Phone Number: 301 443–4034.

E-Mail: drodill@hrsa.gov

National Conference of State

Legislatures (NCSL) 93.000

Legislative Authority: Section 301 of

the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C.

241], as amended.

Purpose: The purpose of this project

is to address the health care needs of the

underserved and vulnerable

populations, the needs of health care

providers who serve vulnerable

populations, and related public health

issues. The cooperative agreement with

NCSL will support HRSA’s mission in

developing and convening State

Legislative policy forums and provide

educational and resource materials

emanating from these forums for State

Legislature policymakers on the above

areas.

Eligibility: Assistance will be

provided only to the National

Conference of State Legislatures. No

other applications are solicited. There is

no ongoing group that can convene the

high-ranking decision-makers

representing State Legislatures’ interests

around an issue of importance to HRSA.

This group will facilitate

communication on current and

emerging strategies addressing common

priorities, and will enable HRSA to

better leverage limited resources by

improving planning and program design

to complement other public and private

sector initiatives serving the needs of

the same populations.

Funding Priorities and/or Preference:

NA.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $100,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to Be

Made: 1.

Estimated Project Period: In

anticipation of Fiscal Year (FY) 2001

funding, HRSA announces its intention

to award a cooperative agreement which

will begin on or after October 1, 2000,

and will be for a 12-month budget

period with a project period of 5 years.

Funding estimates may vary and are

subject to change.

CFDA Number: 93.000.

Application Availability Date: (To be

determined).

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: (To be

determined).

Projected Award Date: On or after

October 1, 2000.

Program Contact Person: Diane

Rodill, Ph.D.

Phone Number: 301 443–4034.

E-Mail: drodill@hrsa.gov

Public Health Foundation (PHF) 93.000

Legislative Authority: Section 301 of

the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C.

241], as amended.

Purpose: The purpose of this project

is to support HRSA’s mission by

assisting the Public Health Foundation

(PHF) in clearinghouse and

infrastructure activities, including but

not limited to: Expanding and

maintaining a workforce development

clearinghouse for use by health agencies

and other community health system

organizations on issues that relate to

health care access for underserved and

vulnerable populations, to include the

prevention, early detection, and control

of disease, and strengthening the public

health infrastructure in the health

agencies and other community health

system organizations; developing,

printing, and distributing articles,

reports, tools, or other documents

relating to health care access, unmet

population needs, provider capacity, the

uses of existing data systems to address

health care needs, other infrastructure

issues, and private sector populationbased initiatives.

Eligibility: Assistance will be

provided only to the PHF. No other

applications are solicited. PHF is the

only national, non-profit, and nonmembership organization that serves as

a public health ‘‘think tank’’ around

public health infrastructure issues, and

is also dedicated to supporting and

advancing efforts of local, state, and

Federal public health agencies and

health systems to promote and protect

the health of people within their

respective jurisdictions.

Funding Priorities and/or Preference:

NA.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $50,000.

Estimated Number of Awards to Be

Made: 1.

Estimated Project Period: In

anticipation of Fiscal Year (FY) 2001

funding, HRSA announces its intention

to award a cooperative agreement which

will begin on or after October 1, 2000,

and will be for a 12-month budget

period with a project period of 5 years.

Funding estimates may vary and are

subject to change.

CFDA Number: 93.000.

Application Availability Date: (To be

determined).

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: (To be

determined).

Projected Award Date: On or after

October 1, 2000.

Program Contact Person: Diane

Rodill, Ph.D.

Phone Number: 301 443–4034.

E-Mail: drodill@hrsa.gov

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Pacific Islands Health Officers

Association 93.000

Legislative Authority: Sections 301,

330(A), 330(k), 761(b), 767 of the Public

Health Service Act, as amended, and

Sections 509 and 711 of the Social

Security Act, as amended.

Purpose: This is a grant program for

the Research Corporation of the

University of Hawaii Special Projects

program to support the Pacific Islands

Health Officers Association (PIHOA),

which serves as a regional health policy

body for the six Pacific Basin

jurisdictions. PIHOA was established in

1986 as a formal mechanism to discuss

common health interests, problems and

concerns, and to promote and enhance

a regional approach for cost-effective

sharing of resources, information, and

human expertise to advance health care

improvements in the Pacific Basin. The

U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) has

used PIHOA to coordinate PHS

agencies’ programs and the provision of

technical assistance to the Pacific Basin.

Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement: None.

Eligibility: Assistance will be

provided only to PIHOA through the

Research Corporation of the University

of Hawaii Special Projects program,

which serves as the Executive

Directorate for PIHOA. No other

applications are solicited.

PIHOA is the only Pacific Basin

health policy organization that

represents the six jurisdictions, which

include, the U.S. flag territories of

American Samoa, Guam, and the

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

Islands, and the three U.S.-associated

jurisdictions of the Federated States of

Micronesia, the Republic of the

Marshall Islands, and the Republic of

Palau. It is the only regional conduit for

the governments to communicate with

each other to share ideas and resources.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

None.

Special Considerations: None.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $100,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 1.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: $100,000.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.000.

Application Availability Date: June 1,

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: June 1, 2000.

Projected Award Date: October 1,

2000.

Program Contact Person: Lynnette S.

Araki.

Phone Number: 301 443–6204.

E-Mail: LAraki@hrsa.gov

Office of Rural Health Policy

State Rural Hospital Flexibility Program

93.241

Legislative Authority: Section 1820 of

the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.

1395I–4) as amended in Public Law

105–33 sec. 4201.

Purpose: The purpose of this grant

program is to help states work with

rural communities and hospitals to

develop and implement a rural health

plan, develop integrated networks of

care, improve emergency medical

services, designate critical access

hospitals and improve quality.

Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement: None.

Eligibility: 50 States.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

Most programs have none—enter only

approved priorities or preferences that

will be applied beyond the review

criteria.

Special Considerations: These are

grants to States and only one

application will be accepted from each

eligible state.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $1,500,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 3.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: $470,000.

Estimated Project Period: 2 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.241.

Application Availability Date:

February 1, 2001.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: May 25, 2001.

Projected Award Date: August 31,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Forrest

Calico.

Phone Number: 301 443–0835.

E-Mail: fcalico@hrsa.gov

Rural Health Network Development

93.912B

Legislative Authority: Section 330a of

the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C.

254c.

Purpose: The purpose of this program

is to support the planning and

development of integrated health care

networks in rural areas. Networks must

be composed of three different types of

providers. The emphasis of the program

is on projects to develop the

organizational capabilities of these

networks. The network is a tool for

overcoming the fragmentation of health

care delivery services in rural areas. As

such, the network provides a range of

possibilities for structuring local

delivery systems to meet health care

needs of rural communities.

Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement: None.

Eligibility: Rural public or nonprofit

private organization that is or represents

a network which includes three or more

health care providers or other entities

that provide or support the delivery of

health care services. The administrative

headquarters of the organization must

be located in a rural county or in a rural

census tract of an urban county, or an

organization constituted exclusively to

provide services to migrant and seasonal

farm workers in rural areas and

supported under Section 330(g) of the

Public Health Service Act. The last type

of organization is eligible regardless of

the urban or rural location of the

administrative headquarters.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

Funding preference may be given to

applicant networks that include: (1) a

majority of the health care providers

serving in the area or region to be served

by the network; (2) any federally

qualified health centers, rural health

clinics, and local public health

departments serving in the area or

region; (3) outpatient mental health

providers serving in the area or region;

or (4) appropriate social service

providers, such as agencies on aging,

school systems, and providers under the

women, infants, and children program

(WIC), to improve access to and

coordination of health care services.

Special Considerations: Applicant

Organization’s Central Headquarters

Must Be Located in a Rural Area. (List

of Eligible Rural Areas is Included in

Application Packet.)

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $1,908,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 12.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: $159,000.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.912B.

Application Availability Date: July 17,

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: October 23,

2000.

Projected Award Date: May 01, 2001.

Program Contact Person: Lilly

Smetana.

Phone Number: 301 443–0835.

E-Mail: lsmetana@hrsa.gov

Rural Health Outreach Grant 93.912A

Legislative Authority: Section 330a of

the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C.

254c.

Purpose: The purpose of this grant

program is to expand access to, improve

coordination of, restrain the cost of, and

improve the quality of essential health

care services, including preventive and

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emergency services, through the

development of integrated health care

delivery systems or networks in rural

areas and regions. Funds are available

for projects to support the direct

delivery of health care and related

services, to expand existing services, or

to enhance health service delivery

through education, promotion, and

prevention programs. The emphasis is

on the actual delivery of specific

services rather than the development of

organizational capabilities. Projects may

be carried out by networks of the same

providers (e.g. all hospitals) or more

diversified networks.

Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement: None.

Eligibility: Rural public or nonprofit

private organization that is part of a

network of at least three entities that

provide or support the delivery of

health care services and will work

together to complete the proposed

project. The administrative headquarters

of the organization must be located in a

rural county or in a rural census tract of

an urban county, or an organization

constituted exclusively to provide

services to migrant and seasonal farm

workers in rural areas and supported

under Section 330(g) of the Public

Health Service Act. This last type of

organization is eligible regardless of the

urban or rural location of the

administrative headquarters.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

Funding preference may be given to

applicant networks that include: (1) a

majority of the health care providers

serving in the area or region to be served

by the network; (2) any federally

qualified health centers, rural health

clinics, and local public health

departments serving in the area or

region; (3) outpatient mental health

providers serving in the area or region;

or (4) appropriate social service

providers, such as agencies on aging,

school systems, and providers under the

women, infants, and children program

(WIC), to improve access to and

coordination of health care services.

Special Considerations: Applicant

Organization’s Central Headquarters

Must Be Located in a Rural Area. (List

of Eligible Rural Areas is Included in

Application Packet.).

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $5,642,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 31.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: $182,000.

Estimated Project Period: 3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.912A.

Application Availability Date: July 17,

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: 10/16/00.

Projected Award Date: 05/01/01.

Program Contact Person: Lilly

Smetana.

Phone Number: 301 443–0835.

E-Mail: lsmetana@hrsa.gov.

Rural Health Roundtable 93.223

Legislative Authority: Section 301 of

the Public Health Service Act.

Purpose: A single award will be made

to George Mason University, Center for

Health Policy, to support the Rural

Health Roundtable. The purpose of this

cooperative agreement is to increase

awareness of rural health issues among

the many associations and

organizational health interest groups in

the Washington, D.C. area through a

series of educational forums. Funds are

available to stage four educational

forums a year that focus on specific

rural health issues such as recruitment

and retention of health care providers in

rural areas, the impact of Medicare

payment policy on rural health care

providers and various other policy and

program issues that affect the rural

health care delivery system. Funds can

also be used to provide background

papers and supporting documents for

the individual educational forums.

These materials can also be

disseminated through the World Wide

Web and Rural Health Roundtable

Listserve.

Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement: None.

Eligibility: A single award will be

made to George Mason University’s

Center for Health Policy. The Center for

Health Policy at George Mason

University is the only local entity that

focuses exclusively on rural health

issues. The Center has a proven record

of providing educational forums on

rural issues. Both its administration and

staff are experts in the rural health field

and uniquely positioned to provide a

focal point of educational programming

on rural health issues to the many

health associations and organizations

that are located in the Washington D.C.

area.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Special Considerations: N/A.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $280,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 1.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: $280,000.

Estimated Project Period: 4 years.

CFDA Number: 93.223.

Application Availability Date: June

30, 2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: July 31, 2000.

Projected Award Date: September 15,

2000.

Program Contact Person: Tom Morris.

Phone Number: 301 443–0835.

E-Mail: tmorris@hrsa.gov.

Office of Special Programs

Extramural Support Program for Projects

To Increase Organ and Tissue Donations

93.134

Legislative Authority: Section 371

(a)(3) of the Public Health Service (PHS)

Act, 42 U.S.C. 273(a)(3), as amended.

Purpose: Funds for this program will

provide financial assistance to Federally

designated OPOs and other private nonprofit entities to increase organ and

tissue donation. The program’s goal is to

assist eligible entities in the evaluation,

or implementation and evaluation, of

promising strategies that can serve as

model interventions for increasing

donation. Development of interventions

also may be supported but shall not

exceed 20 percent of project funding

and staff time. For purposes of this

program, models are defined as

interventions which are: (1) effective in

producing a verifiable and demonstrable

impact on donation; (2) replicable; (3)

transferable; and (4) feasible in practice.

All projects must have rigorous

methodology and evaluation

components capable of ascertaining the

effectiveness of the intervention(s).

Projects can employ qualitative and/or

quantitative research. Applications may

describe single-site pilot projects or

replications of interventions shown to

be effective in pilot studies.

Eligibility: Federally designated organ

procurement organizations (OPOs),

private non-profit organizations.

Funding Priorities and/or Preferences:

None.

Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $5,000,000.00.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 20–25.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: See the application guidance

materials.

Estimated Project Period: 1–3 years.

CFDA Number: 93.134.

Application Availability Date: March

15, 2001.

Letter of Intent Deadline: April 2,

2001.

Application deadline: May 1, 2001.

Projected Award Date: August 31,

2001.

Program Contact Person: Dr. Mary

Ganikos.

Phone Number: 301 443–7577.

E-mail: mganikos@hrsa.gov.

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Other Programs

Outpatient Hansen’s Disease Medical

Services 93.215

Legislative Authority: Public Health

Service Act, Title III, Section 320.

Purpose: The Outpatient Hansen’s

Disease Medical Services program is

designed to prevent disability through

early diagnosis and treatment of

Hansen’s Disease. The program supports

research into Hansen’s Disease and

outpatient health care services. Service

delivery locations are in areas of the

United States and Puerto Rico where

there are concentrations of persons with

Hansen’s Disease to assure access by

persons needing services. It is the intent

of HRSA to continue to support health

services in priority areas. Currently and

historically, services have been offered

in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois,

Massachusetts, New York, Puerto Rico,

Texas and the State of Washington.

Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement: N/A.

Eligibility: Public or private nonprofit

entities which currently are not

receiving funding directly from

Congress for Hansen’s Disease services

are eligible to apply.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

Applicants who utilize facility and

community resources for the indigent

and uninsured patients with Hansen’s

Disease in their area will be given

preference.

Special Considerations:

Communication with the Ambulatory

Care Program at the National Hansen’s

Disease Program is essential in deciding

whether to pursue funding as a grantee

under this program. Information about

specific geographic areas can be

obtained from this office.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: Up to $2 million.

Estimated Number of Awards to Be

Made: Approximately 10–12.

Estimated or Average Size of Each

Award: Applicants with 100 or more

patients will be eligible for grants

ranging from $100,000 to $400,000.

Applicants with 50 to 100 patients will

be eligible for grants from $25,000 to

$100,000.

Estimated Project Period: 1–5 Years.

CFDA Number: 93.215.

Application Availability Date: 6/15/

2000.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: 9/1/2000.

Projected Award Date: 1/1/01.

Program Contact Person: Irma E.

Guerra.

Phone Number: 1–800–642–2477.

Lawton Chiles Foundation 93.000

Legislative Authority: Publ. L. 106–

113.

Purpose: A single award will be made

to the Lawton Chiles Foundation in

Tallahassee, Florida to stimulate and

facilitate communities’ capacity to

develop comprehensive care for

children and families. In 1999, the

Health Resources and Services

Administration was directed by the U.S.

Congress in Public Law 106–113 to

make funds available to the Foundation.

Matching or Cost Sharing

Requirement: None.

Eligibility: A single award will be

made to the Lawton Chiles Foundation

of Tallahassee, Florida in accordance

with the provisions of Public Law 106–

113.

Funding Priorities or Preferences:

None.

Special Considerations: N/A.

Estimated Amount of This

Competition: $1,840,000.

Estimated Number of Awards To Be

Made: 1.

Estimated Project Period: 28 Months.

CFDA Number: 93.000.

Application Availability Date: N/A.

Letter of Intent Deadline: N/A.

Application Deadline: N/A.

Projected Award Date: July 2000.

Program Contact Person: Marylin

Stone.

Phone Number: 301 443–1433.

E-Mail: mstone@hrsa.gov.

Special Projects for Schools of Public

Health (Cooperative Agreement With

The Association of Schools of Public

Health) 93.XXX

In Fiscal Year 2001, schools of public

health may submit letters of intent to

apply for HRSA funding to support

special projects to address: health

disparities in the U.S. population;

assuring access to quality health care;

and educating the next generation of

public health leaders. A current

cooperative agreement between HRSA’s

Bureau of Health Professions and the

Association of Schools of Public Health

(ASPH) will assist in matching HRSA

interests and the expertise at schools of

public health. There is no guarantee that

funding will become available to

support any projects, and whether

projects are funded is at HRSA’s

discretion. The ASPH will provide

additional information to the schools of

public health about HRSA and its

priorities, and ASPH will receive all

letters of intent relative to this initiative.

For further information, contact Barry S.

Stern at (301) 443–6758 or

bstern@hrsa.gov.

HRSA has Exhibits at the Following

Meetings/Conferences in 2000

American Academy of Physician

Assistants’ (AAPA), 28th Annual

Physician Assistants Conference, May

27–June 1, Chicago, IL, HRSA POC:

Jan Aamodt (301) 443–0205

Association of Women’s Health,

Obstetric & Neonatal Nurses, June 4–

7, Seattle, WA, HRSA POC: Jan

Aamodt (301) 443–0205

17th Annual Meeting of the Association

for Health Services Research (AHSR),

June 25–27, Westin Bonaventure

Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, HRSA POC:

Steve Merrill (301) 443–3376

2000 National Council of La Raza

(NCLR) Conference, July 1–5, San

Diego Convention Center, San Diego,

CA, HRSA POC: Iveliesse de Ororbia

(301) 443–3228

National Conference of State

Legislatures (NCSL) 26th Annual

Meeting, July 16–20, Navy Pier,

Chicago, IL, HRSA POC: Steve Merrill

(301) 443–3376

Combined National Association of

County and City Health Officials

(NACCHO) and Association of State

and Territorial Health Officials

(ASTHO) Annual Meeting, July 19–

22, Regal Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles,

CA, HRSA POC: Steve Merrill (301)

443–3376

8th Annual National Association of

Local Boards of Health (NALBOH)

Conference, July 26–29, Sheraton

Capitol Center, Raleigh/Durham, NC,

HRSA POC: Steve Merrill (301) 443–

3376

Annual Distance Learning Conference,

August 6–10, New Orleans, LA, HRSA

POC: Steve Merrill (301) 443–3376

National Latina Institute for

Reproductive Health National

Conference, September 28–October 2,

Washington, DC, HRSA POC: Iveliesse

de Ororbia (301) 443–3228

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Annual Meeting, October 28–

November 1, Chicago Hilton &

Towers/Lakeside Center, Chicago, IL,

HRSA POC: Jan Aamodt (301) 443–

0205

Hispanic National Association of

Colleges and Universities National

Conference, November 4–7,

Albuquerque, NM, HRSA POC:

Iveliesse de Ororbia (301) 443–3228

Association of Military Surgeons of the

United States (AMSUS) 107th Annual

Meeting, November 5–10, Las Vegas

Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV,

HRSA POC: Steve Merrill (301) 443–

3376

128th Annual American Public Health

Association (APHA) Meeting,

November 12–16, Hynes Convention

Center, Boston, MA, HRSA POC:

Steve Merrill (301) 443–3376

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National Health Service Corps Exhibit

Schedule

National Rural Health Association, May

25–27, New Orleans, LA, NHSC POC:

Gretchen Jones (301) 594–4158

American Academy of Physician

Assistants, May 27–June 1, Chicago,

IL, NHSC POC: Gretchen Jones (301)

594–4158

National Conference of State

Legislatures (NCSL) 26th Annual

Meeting, July 16–20, HRSA Booth

#1430, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, NHSC

POC: Gretchen Jones (301) 594–4158

Bureau of Primary Health Care Annual

Primary Care Symposium, July 18–20,

Hyatt Bethesda Hotel, Bethesda, MD,

NHSC POC: Gretchen Jones (301)

594–4158

Combined National Association of

County and City Health Officials

(NACCHO) and Association of State

and Territorial Health Officials

(ASTHO) Annual Meeting, July 19–

22, HRSA Booth #308, Regal Biltmore

Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, NHSC POC:

Gretchen Jones (301) 594–4158

AAFP National Congress of Family

Practice Residents, August 2–6,

Kansas City, MO, NHSC POC:

Gretchen Jones (301) 594–4158

HRSA Supports Healthy People 2010

The Health Resources and Services

Administration is committed to

achieving the health promotion and

disease prevention objectives of Healthy

People 2010, a national program to

reduce morbidity and mortality and

improve the quality of life of the

American people. The programs

included in this document are

supportive of many of the Healthy

People 2010 areas of emphasis. Grantees

and potential grantees are encouraged to

be supportive of these areas as well.

Focus areas in which HRSA has a

primary interest include:

Access to Quality Health Services (#1)

Educational and Community-Based

Programs (#7)

HIV and AIDS (#13)

Maternal, Infant, and Child Health (#16)

Oral Health (#21)

Public Health Infrastructure (#23)

Volumes I and II of Healthy People

2010: Conference Edition (B0074) are for

sale at $22 per set by the ODPHP

Communication Support Center, P.O.

Box 37366, Washington, D.C. 20013–

7366. Each of the 28 chapters of Healthy

People 2010 is priced at $2 per copy.

Telephone orders can be placed to the

Center at (301) 468–5690. The center

also sells the complete Conference

Edition in CD-ROM format (B0071) for

$5.

This publication is available as well

on the Internet at www.health.gov/

healthypeople. Web site viewers should

proceed to ‘‘Publications’’.

Access and Cost Containment Relative

to Pharmaceuticals

Within available resources, HRSA is

willing to provide technical assistance

to ‘‘safety net’’ providers regarding

pharmacy affairs. HRSA’s Office of

Pharmacy Affairs (OPA), previously

known as the Office of Drug Pricing, is

responsible for administering a major

program of drug discounts, the 340B

Drug Pricing Program and its Prime

Vendor. Many HRSA grantees, as well

as some other entities, are eligible to

participate in this major program. HRSA

grantees that are eligible to participate

in the 340B Drug Pricing Program and

its Prime Vendor are subject to a notice

of grant award statement regarding an

assessment of potential savings from

doing so. OPA is aware of other drug

discount programs, and other options

for stretching funds for pharmaceuticals,

that various safety net providers may be

eligible for, and can assist entities in

accessing these resources. For further

information, OPA may be contacted by

telephone at 1–800–628–6297 or 301–

594–4353; or by mail at Room 10–1A1,

East West Towers, 4350 East-West

Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814.

Opportunity to Comment—

Simplification of Federal Grant

Programs

On November 20, 1999, the President

signed into law the Federal Financial

Assistance Management Improvement

Act (Public Law 106–107) whose

purposes are to improve the delivery of

services to the public and the

effectiveness and performance of

Federal grant programs. HRSA and other

Federal agencies are working with OMB

to: develop uniform administrative rules

and common application and reporting

systems; replace paper with electronic

processing in administration of grant

programs; and identify statutory

impediments to grant program

simplification.

Consultation with the recipient

community is an important part of the

grant program simplification effort. We

welcome ideas to make it easier for

State, local, and tribal governments and

nonprofit organizations to apply for and

report on Federal grants. Please send

your comments via email to:

PL106107@os.dhhs.gov and be sure to

include the name of the organization

you represent.

We want to know which processes in

the grants life cycle need streamlining

and/or improvement, and your

suggestions for achieving

improvements. We need to know what

is most important to you in terms of

grants simplification. Finally, we want

you to identify the specific grant

program(s) that you find to be most

burdensome, with some detail about

why they are burdensome, individually

or collectively, because we need to

focus our efforts on those programs that

are in the greatest need of review and

streamlining.

Your input is valued, and is part of

the larger process of achieving the goals

of P. L. 106–107, namely simplification

of Federal grant programs for the benefit

of our recipients. Please note there will

not be any individual response to the

input, however we intend to

periodically provide summary

information relating to implementation

of the law, under the ‘‘What’s New’’ link

in GrantsNet (www.hhs.gov/grantsnet).

Thank you for your participation.

HRSA’s Field Offices

Northeast Cluster

Philadelphia Field Office—Field

Director, Vincent C. Rogers (215) 861–

4422

Boston Field Office—Assistant Field

Director, Kenneth Brown (617) 565–

1420

New York Field Office—Assistant Field

Director, Ron Moss (212) 264–3032

Southeast Cluster

Atlanta Field Office—Field Director,

Ketty M. Gonzalez (404) 562–7972

Midwest Cluster

Chicago Field Office—Field Director,

Deborah Willis-Fillinger (312) 353–

6835

Kansas City Field Office—Assistant

Field Director, Hollis Hensley (816)

426–5226

West Central Cluster

Dallas Field Office—Field Director,

Frank Cantu (214) 767–3872

Denver Field Office—Assistant Field

Director, Jerry Wheeler (303) 844–

3203

Pacific West Cluster

San Francisco Field Office—Field

Director, Thomas Kring (415) 437–

8090

Seattle Field Office—Assistant Field

Director, Richard Rysdam (Acting)

(206) 615–2491

Related World Wide Web Addresses

HRSA Preview online

http://www.hrsa.gov/grantsf.htm

HRSA Home Page

http://www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/

DHHS Home Page

http://www.os.dhhs.gov/

Grantsnet

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http://www.hhs.gov/progorg/

grantsnet/index.html

PHS Grants Policy Statement

http://www.nih.gov/grants/policy/

gps/

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

(CFDA)

http://www.gsa.gov/fdac/

Code of Federal Regulations

http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/

cfr-table-search.html

OMB Circulars

http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/

EOP/omb

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/

grants/index.html#circulars

Federal Register

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/

aces/aces140.html

Healthfinder

http://www.healthfinder.gov/

Fedworld Information Network

http://www.fedworld.gov/

State Single Points of Contact (SPOC)

http://thomas.loc.gov/

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