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Purpose: The Health Care for the

Homeless (HCH) program is designed to

increase the homeless populations

access to cost-effective, case managed,

and integrated primary care and

substance abuse services provided by

existing community-based programs/

providers. Assuming the availability of

sufficient appropriated funds in FY

1998, it is the intent of HRSA to

continue to support health services to

the homeless populations in these areas/

locations given the continued need for

cost-effective, community-based

primary care services for these

medically underserved populations

within these geographic areas. Nine

HCH grantees will reach the end of their

project periods during FY 1998.

Deadline: Current grant expiration

dates vary by area throughout FY 1998.

Applications for competing

continuation grants are normally due

120 days prior to the expiration of the

current grant award. The nine service

areas listed are for projects with an

application deadline on or before

January 31, 1998.

Limited Competition: Applicants are

limited to currently funded programs

whose project periods expire in FY 1998

and new organizations proposing to

serve the same populations currently

being served by these existing programs.

Field Office

Communication with Field Office

staff is essential for interested parties in

deciding whether to pursue Federal

funding as an HCH. Detailed

information about each service area,

such as census tracts, can be obtained

by contacting the appropriate HRSA

Field Office listed below:

State City Project

end date

HRSA FIELD OFFICE II (212) 264–2664

NY ..... New York ..................... 10/31/97

HRSA FIELD OFFICE IV (404) 331–0250

FL ...... Miami ........................... 10/31/97

HRSA FIELD OFFICE V (312) 353–1715

OH .... Columbus ..................... 01/31/98

HRSA FIELD OFFICE VI (214) 767–3872

OK Tulsa ............................ 12/1/97

HRSA FIELD OFFICE VII (816) 426–5296

NE ..... Omaha ......................... 10/1/97

HRSA FIELD OFFICE VIII (303) 844–3203

SD ..... Rapid City .................... 01/31/98

State City Project

end date

WY .... Cheyenne .................... 10/31/97

HRSA FIELD OFFICE IX (415) 437–8090

NV ..... Las Vegas .................... 12/31/97

HRSA FIELD OFFICE X (206) 615–2491

WA .... Seattle .......................... 10/31/97

Additional HRSA Program Notes

Loan Repayment Program

HRSA is soliciting applications from

individuals for the Nursing Education

Loan Repayment program for Fiscal (FY)

1997. Under section 846 of the Public

Health Service (PHS) Act,

approximately $2,197,000 will be

available and the HRSA estimates that

approximately 195 loan repayment

awards may be made. The program will

repay up to 85 percent of the nursing

education loans of registered nurses

who agree to serve for not less than 2

years as nurse employees in certain

health facilities. Additional information

and application materials with a list of

counties (parishes) with the greatest

shortage of nurses may be obtained by

calling or writing to: Sharley Chen, 4350

East-West Highway, 10th Floor,

Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 594–4400,

(301) 594–4981 (FAX).

The 24-hour toll-free phone number is

1–800–435–6464.

Health Professions Programs

Competitive cycles for Fiscal Year FY

1998 are not anticipated for the

following Health Professions Programs:

CFDA 93.884—Residency Training in

General Internal Medicine and/or

General Pediatrics

CFDA 93.884—Predoctoral Training in

General Internal Medicine and/or

General Pediatrics

CFDA 93.900—Faculty Development in

General Internal Medicine and/or

General Pediatrics

Maternal and Child Health Programs

Girl Neighborhood Power is a

Secretarial Initiative designed to help

encourage and empower 9–14 year old

girls. For information, contact Samuel

Kessel, MD, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Parklawn Bldg, Room 18A55, Rockville,

MD 20857. Telephone (301) 443–2340

or e-mail at wkessel@hrsa.dhhs.gov.

BETWEEN ISSUES—DON’T FORGET

TO CHECK THE FEDERAL REGISTER

FOR GRANT ANNOUNCEMENTS

THAT MAY APPEAR AFTER THE

HRSA PREVIEW IS ISSUED.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services

Administration

Federal Set-Aside Program; Special

Projects of Regional and National

Significance; Girl Neighborhood Power

Cooperative Agreements

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA).

ACTION: Notice of availability of funds.

SUMMARY: The HRSA announces that

approximately $1.0 million in fiscal

year (FY) 1997 funds is available for five

cooperative agreements: one National

Consortium of Girl Neighborhood Power

Partners and four Community-Based

Girl Neighborhood Power Partners

Programs. All awards will be made

under the program authority of section

502(a) of the Social Security Act, the

MCH Federal Set-Aside Program. The

Girl Neighborhood Power (GNP)

Program will be administered through

HHS intra-agency agreements as a

Maternal and Child Health (MCH)

Special Project of Regional and National

Significance (SPRANS) initiative.

Awards will be made for 5-year periods.

Funds for GNP cooperative agreements

are appropriated by Public Law 104–

208. Within the HRSA, SPRANS awards

are administered by the Maternal and

Child Health Bureau (MCHB).

The Public Health Service (PHS) is

committed to achieving the health

promotion and disease prevention

objectives of Healthy People 2000, a

PHS-led national activity for setting

priority areas. The MCH Block Grant

Federal Set-Aside Program addresses

issues related to the Healthy People

2000 objectives of improving maternal,

infant, child and adolescent health and

developing service systems for children

with special health care needs. Potential

applicants may obtain a copy of Healthy

People 2000 (Full Report: Stock No.

017–001–00474–0) or Healthy People

2000 (Summary Report: Stock No. 017–

001–00473–1) through the

Superintendent of Documents,

Government Printing Office,

Washington, DC 20402–9325

(telephone: 202–512–1800).

The PHS strongly encourages all grant

recipients to provide a smoke-free

workplace and promote the non-use of

all tobacco products. In addition, Public

Law 103–227, the Pro-Children Act of

1994, prohibits smoking in certain

facilities (or in some cases, any portion
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of a facility) in which regular or routine

education, library, day care, health care

or early childhood development

services are provided to children.

ADDRESSES: Federal Register notices

and application guidance for MCHB

programs are available on the World

Wide Web via the Internet at address:

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

Click on the file name you want to

download to your computer. It will be

saved as a self-extracting (Macintosh or

WordPerfect 5.1) file.

To decompress the file once it is

downloaded, type in the file name

followed by a <return>. The file will

expand to a WordPerfect 5.1 file.

For applicants for GNP cooperative

agreements who are unable to access

application materials electronically, a

hard copy (Revised PHS form 5161–1,

approved under OMB clearance number

0937–0189) may be obtained from the

HRSA Grants Application Center.

Requests should specify the category or

categories of activities for which an

application is requested so that the

appropriate forms, information and

materials may be provided. The Center

may be contacted by: Telephone

Number: 1–888–300–HRSA, FAX

Number: 301–309–0579, E-mail

Address: HRSA.GAC@ix.netcom.com.

Completed applications should be

returned to: Grants Management Officer

(CFDA #93.110X), HRSA Grants

Application Center, 40 West Gude

Drive, Suite 100, Rockville, Maryland

20850.

DATES: The application deadline date is

August 26, 1997. Applications will be

considered to have met the deadline if

they are either: (1) Received on or before

the deadline date, or (2) postmarked on

or before the deadline date and received

in time for orderly processing.

Applicants should request a legibly

dated receipt from a commercial carrier

or the U.S. Postal Service, or obtain a

legibly dated U.S. Postal Service

postmark. Private metered postmarks

will not be accepted as proof of timely

mailing. Late applications will be

returned to the applicant.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for technical or programmatic

information should be directed to: Trina

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

and Child Health Bureau, HRSA,

Parklawn Building, Room 18A–39, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857,

telephone: 301–443–5599. Requests for

information concerning business

management issues should be directed

to: Sandra Perry, Grants Management

Officer (GMO), Maternal and Child

Health Bureau, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Room 18–12, Rockville, Maryland

20857, telephone: 301–443–1440.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Program Background and Objectives

Girl Neighborhood Power!: Building

Bright Futures for Success is a

collaborative, multi-phase, effort by the

Department of Health and Human

Services (HHS) and America’s

communities to help encourage and

empower 9 to 14 year-old girls to make

the most of their lives. As part of the

Secretary’s Girl Power Campaign and

the Administration’s strategy to prevent

teen pregnancy, and as a response to the

President’s charge to promote

volunteerism and forge coalitions for

America’s children, the Secretary of

HHS is challenging America’s

communities to become active partners

in assisting 9 to 14 year-old girls to

successfully navigate adolescence by:

Rejecting tobacco, alcohol, and illicit

drugs; and embracing physical activity,

nutrition, abstinence, education, mental

health, social development, and strong

futures. Major objectives of GNP

include: To give girls the information

and clear messages they need to stay

away from risky behaviors, to avoid teen

pregnancy and to make responsible

decisions about their lives; help support

and guide parents, peers, siblings,

neighbors, and other adults involved

with the lives of America’s girls; and

teach skills that build confidence for

girls and help them develop and sustain

a broad range of interests in academics,

arts, sports, music, volunteerism, and

other positive activities that help build

healthy girls and communities.

The GNP program addresses the

unique needs, interests, and challenges

faced by 9 to 14 year-old girls. The

initiative takes a comprehensive

approach by looking at the many

challenges girls face and addressing

them not only with targeted health

messages about behaviors they should

avoid, but also by giving them positive

messages, meaningful opportunities,

and skills to move through adolescence

and build healthy futures. To

accomplish this, the initiative will build

strong partnerships that galvanize

parents, schools, communities, religious

organizations, media, health providers,

businesses, local governments, and

other caring adults. It will also

challenge Americans to organize both at

the national level and in local

neighborhoods.

The GNP initiative will support

challenge grants and create ‘‘power

partners’’ who will enter into

cooperative efforts with public, private

and community organizations that have

a demonstrated commitment to:

contributing to strengthening career and

family roles; providing opportunities for

community service; fostering access to

diverse communities; including

participants in the planning and

implementation of efforts; and involving

key leaders who are in a position to

make a difference in effecting positive

change.

Challenge grants will take the form of

cooperative agreements to support

special projects that: Plan and

implement innovative and cost-effective

approaches for directing resources to

promote community-defined preventive

health, educational, social, and

developmental objectives; foster and

promote cooperation among volunteers,

community organizations, individuals,

agencies, businesses, and families; and

build community and statewide

partnerships among volunteers,

professionals in health, education,

social services, government, and

business to achieve self-sustaining

programs. Within the broad scope of

improving the well-being of girls and

their families, a multitude of project foci

may be acceptable. It is expected that

the issues to be addressed as well as the

specific approaches to be used will be

selected by the applicant. However,

each grantee will be expected to support

at least four neighborhood programs for

girls.

Eligible Applicants

Any public or private entity,

including an Indian tribe or tribal

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

450(b), is eligible to apply for

cooperative agreements covered by this

announcement.

Funding

Two categories of GNP special

projects are open for competition in FY

1997: (1) One cooperative agreement for

a National Consortium of Girl

Neighborhood Power Partners; and (2)

four cooperative agreements for

Community-Based Girl Neighborhood

Power Partners projects. Awards will be

made for 5-year periods.

No first-year award in either category

requires grantee matching. In the second

through the fifth years CommunityBased Girl Neighborhood Power

Partners Project grantees will be

required to provide matching equal to

25 percent, 50 percent, 75 percent and

100 percent, respectively, of the amount

of the federal grant in order to

demonstrate sustainability of project

effort.

It is anticipated that substantial

Federal programmatic involvement will

be required in these cooperative
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agreements. This means that after

award, awarding office staff provide

technical assistance and guidance to, or

coordinate and participate in, certain

programmatic activities of award

recipients beyond their normal

stewardship responsibilities in the

administration of grants. Federal

involvement may include, but is not

limited to, planning, guidance,

coordination and participation in

programmatic activities. Periodic

meetings, conferences, and/or

communications with the award

recipient are held to review mutually

agreed upon goals and objectives and to

assess progress. Details on the scope of

Federal programmatic involvement in

cooperative agreements included in this

Notice, consistent with HRSA grants

administration policy, are included in

the application kit for each cooperative

agreement category.

Category 1: National Consortium of Girl

Neighborhood Power Partners

• Narrative Description of this

Competition: The purpose of this

cooperative agreement is to assemble

Federal, State, and local governments,

professional organizations, social and

religious institutions, schools and

universities, community groups,

foundations, media, corporate leaders,

families, and young people as an

ongoing ‘‘national neighborhood

caucus.’’ The mission of this body is to

provide overall direction and galvanize

a national commitment to the initiative.

Participants will collaborate, share

knowledge and expertise, serve as

advisors to the Community-based Girl

Neighborhood Power Partners Projects,

and secure resources sufficient to plan,

organize, implement, staff, and

otherwise support the consortium,

establish a framework for mutual

problem solving, and attain program

goals.

• Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $200,000.

• Number of Expected Awards: 1.

• Funding Priorities and/or

Preferences: Preference for funding will

be given to a single national nonprofit

organization or a coalition of

organizations with a history of service to

young people, particularly girls 9 to 14

years of age.

• Evaluation Criteria: See Criteria for

Review; applications will be reviewed,

in addition, on the basis of the extent to

which: (a) The project will contribute to

the improvement to the health,

education, and well being of 9 to 14 year

old girls; and (b) the project is

responsive to HHS policy concerns

applicable to the GNP program.

Category 2: Community-Based Girl

Neighborhood Power Partners Projects

• Narrative Description of this

Competition: The purpose of these

projects is to combine public and

private resources at the community

level to implement neighborhood efforts

addressing the health, education, and

psychosocial needs of girls 9 to 14 years

of age. These local efforts will include

community service and at least two of

the following additional program

elements: mentoring; before/after school

activities; health education; and career

development. Projects are challenged to

achieve a lasting and sustained

investment by enabling communities to

use existing resources, including,

volunteers, in a collaborative and

mutually supportive way.

• Estimated Amount of this

Competition: $800,000.

• Number of Expected Awards: 4.

• Funding Priorities and/or

Preferences: Priority for funding in this

category, in the form of a 1.0 point

favorable adjustment in the priority

score in a 4.0 point range, will be given

to projects serving low income

communities. An additional 0.5 point

favorable adjustment will be given to

projects serving any federally

designated Empowerment Zone or

Enterprise Community area and

coordinating with the local

Empowerment Zone or Enterprise

Community lead entity organization. (A

list of the Empowerment Zone and

Enterprise Community sites will be

included with the program guidance.) In

addition, preference for funding will be

given to national/regional/local,

nonprofit organizations, with a

successful history of both service to

young people, particularly girls 9 to 14

years of age, and local community

presence and commitment.

• Evaluation Criteria: See Criteria for

Review; applications will be reviewed,

in addition, on the basis of the extent to

which: (a) The project will contribute to

the improvement to the health,

education, and well being of 9 to 14 year

old girls; (b) the project is responsive to

the mission of the GNP program; and (c)

the project will be integrated with the

administration of other federal

community grants in addition to the

MCH Block Grant, State primary care

plans, public health, and prevention

programs, ACF’s Community Schools

programs, the Empowerment Zone and

Enterprise Community Initiative and

other related programs in the respective

communities.

Special Concerns

HRSA places special emphasis on

improving service delivery to women,

children and youth from communities

with limited access to comprehensive

care. To assure access and cultural

competence, projects will involve

individuals from the populations to be

served in the planning and

implementation of the project. The

intent is to ensure that the broadest

possible representation of culturally

distinct and historically underrepresented groups is assured through

programs and projects sponsored by the

MCHB. This same emphasis applies to

improving service delivery to children

with special health care needs.

Evaluation Protocol

All SPRANS projects, including any

project awarded as part of the GNP

initiative, are expected to incorporate a

carefully designed protocol capable of

documenting measurable progress

toward achieving the project’s stated

goals. The protocol should be based on

a clear rationale relating the grant

activities, the project goals, and the

evaluation measures. The measurements

of progress toward goals should focus

on health outcome indicators, rather

than on intermediate measures such as

process or outputs. A project lacking a

complete and well-conceived evaluation

protocol may not be funded.

Data Reporting Requirements

All SPRANS grantees are required to

report annually to HHS (under OMB No.

0915–0169) the number of persons

served or trained (by race and ethnicity),

evaluations performed, Healthy People

2000 Objectives addressed, and related

information. Data forms for this purpose

are sent to all grantees during the first

grant year, and annually thereafter.

Project Review and Funding

The GNP special projects will be

administered as SPRANS cooperative

agreements under the MCH Block

Grant’s SPRANS authority. Program

policy, grantee selection, program

oversight, and evaluation will be carried

out by MCHB/HRSA with full

participation by the following HHS

agencies: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

(OS); Office of Public Health and

Science (OS); Office of Population

Affairs (OS); Office on Women’s Health

(OS); Administration on Children and

Families; Bureau of Primary Health Care

(HRSA); National Center for Chronic

Disease Prevention and Health

Promotion (CDC); National Institute of

Child Health and Human Development

(NIH); and the Health Care Financing

Administration.
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Criteria for Review

The criteria which follow are used, as

pertinent, to review and evaluate

applications for awarding all SPRANS

grants and cooperative agreements.

Further guidance regarding review

criteria specific to the GNP program is

supplied in application materials,

which will specify final criteria.

—The quality of the project plan or

methodology.

—The extent to which the project will

contribute to the advancement of

maternal and child health and/or

improvement of the health of children

with special health care needs.

—The extent to which the project is

responsive to policy concerns

applicable to MCH grants and to

program objectives, requirements,

priorities and/or review criteria for

specific project categories, as

published in program announcements

or guidance materials.

—The extent to which the estimated

cost to the Government of the project

is reasonable, considering the

anticipated results.

—The extent to which the project

personnel are well qualified by

training and/or experience for their

roles in the project and the applicant

organization has adequate facilities

and personnel.

—The extent to which, insofar as

practicable, the proposed activities, if

well executed, are capable of attaining

project objectives.

—The adherence of the project’s

evaluation plans to the requirements

of the Evaluation Protocol.

—The extent to which the project will

be integrated with the administration

of the Maternal and Child Health

Services block grants, State primary

care plans, public health and

prevention programs, State and local

Medicaid agencies, and other related

programs in the respective State(s).

—The extent to which the application is

responsive to the special concerns

and program priorities specified in

this notice.

Public Health System Reporting

Requirements

This program is subject to the Public

Health System Reporting Requirements

(approved under OMB No. 0937–0195).

Under these requirements, the

community-based nongovernmental

applicant must prepare and submit a

Public Health System Impact Statement

(PHSIS). The PHSIS is intended to

provide information to State and local

health officials to keep them apprised of

proposed health services grant

applications submitted by communitybased nongovernmental organizations

within their jurisdictions.

Community-based nongovernmental

applicants are required to submit the

following information to the head of the

appropriate State and local health

agencies in the area(s) to be impacted no

later than the Federal application

receipt due date:

(a) A copy of the face page of the

application (PHS 5161–1).

(b) A summary of the project (PHSIS),

not to exceed one page, which provides:

(1) A description of the population to

be served.

(2) A summary of the services to be

provided.

(3) A description of the coordination

planned with the appropriate State and

local health agencies.

Executive Order 12372

The MCH Federal set-aside program

has been determined to be a program

which is not subject to the provisions of

Executive Order 12372 concerning

intergovernmental review of Federal

programs. The OMB Catalog of Federal

Domestic Assistance number is 93.110X.

Dated: July 22, 1997.

Claude Earl Fox,

Acting Administrator.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Services Administration

Grants to Family Resources, Inc.,

Bettendorf, Iowa, and PACE/Orchard

Place-Child Guidance, Inc., Des

Moines, Iowa

AGENCY: Center for Substance Abuse

Prevention (CSAP), Substance Abuse

and Mental Health Services

Administration (SAMHSA), DHHS.

ACTION: Planned awards to prevent

substance use among youth at risk for

gang/juvenile court involvement in

Davenport and Des Moines, Iowa.

SUMMARY: This notice is to provide

information to the public concerning

planned awards by CSAP/SAMHSA to

Family Resources, Inc., Bettendorf,

Iowa, and PACE/Orchard Place-Child

Guidance, Inc., Des Moines, Iowa, to

fund the ‘‘Iowa Youth Substance Abuse

Prevention Community-Based

Initiative.’’ This initiative is designed to

educate and enable Iowa’s youth at risk

for gang involvement and/or first

involvement in juvenile court to reject

illegal drugs as well as the underage use

of alcohol and tobacco. It is intended to

provide these youth, early in life,

positive messages, role models, and

opportunities to learn and achieve.

Upon receipt of satisfactory

applications that are recommended for

approval by an Initial Review Group

and the CSAP National Advisory

Council, up to $417,500 in Federal

funds may be awarded to each

organization for a 12-month project

period.

This is not a formal request for

applications. Grant funds will be

provided only to the two organizations

named above.

AUTHORITY/JUSTIFICATION: These grants

will be made under the authority of

Section 501(d)(5) of the Public Health

Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290aa).

The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance (CFDA) number is 93.144.

Iowa is presently serving as a national

model for coordinating Federal

substance abuse prevention funds and

activities with the Iowa Departments of

Education, Human Rights, Human

Services, Public Safety, the Iowa

Governor’s Alliance on Substance

Abuse and three State universities. It is

one of very few States with this level of

coordination. Iowa also presents unique

opportunities to exploit this Federal and

State-level coordination in relation to

substance abuse prevention service

directed at substance abuse among

youthful gang members due to the

previously established activities of two

service providers in the cities of Des

Moines and Davenport. It is believed the

experiences in these two cities in

addressing substance abuse among gang

members will serve as a relatively

confined model, not possible in larger

problem areas, of what benefits can

accrue when multi-level State

collaboration and Federal participation

merge in addressing this subgroup. It is

noted that community poverty and

delinquency are believed to be the two

strongest characteristics of youth who

join gangs and are also important to

youth involvement in substance abuse.

CSAP expects that the multi-faceted

collaborative approach in providing

innovative strategies in addressing

factors in multiple domains which is

possible in Iowa through these service

providers will provide evidence of the

utility of such approaches. CSAP

anticipates the Iowa model will become

even more useful to other States if this

juvenile gang connection to substance

abuse is further developed as a result of

the funds provided by this initiative.

Eligibility to apply for funds under

this initiative in Iowa is limited to

Family Resources, Inc., in Bettendorf,