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Click on ‘‘Funding’’ then ‘‘Grants and

Cooperative Agreements.’’

If you have questions after reviewing

the contents of all the documents,

business management technical

assistance may be obtained from:

Virginia Hall-Broadnax, Grants

Management Specialist Grants

Management Branch, Procurement and

Grants Office Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention 2920

Brandywine Road, Suite 3000, Mailstop

E–13 Atlanta, GA 30341–4146

Telephone number: (770) 488–2700 Email address: vdh2@cdc.gov.

Technical assistance may be obtained

from: William A. Paradies, Birth Defects

and Pediatric Genetics Branch, National

Center for Environmental Health,

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, N.E.

Atlanta, GA 30341–3724, Telephone

number: (770) 488–4704, E-mail

address: wep2@cdc.gov.

Dated: May 02, 2001.

John L. Williams,

Director, Procurement and Grants Office,

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

(CDC).

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Prevention

[Program Announcement 01069]

Cooperative Agreement for Suicide

Prevention Research Center; Notice of

Availability of Funds

A. Purpose

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) announces the

availability of fiscal year (FY) 2001

funds for a cooperative agreement

program for a Suicide Prevention

Research Center (SPRC). This program

addresses the ‘‘Healthy People 2010’’

focus area of Violent and Abusive

Behavior and Unintentional Injuries.

The purpose of this cooperative

agreement is to support existing

activities of an SPRC that target at-risk

populations including American Indian/

Alaskan Natives, African-American

males, young adolescents and the

elderly. SPRC activities include both

research-related projects and efforts to

facilitate and/or coordinate suicide

prevention efforts for a geographically

defined area. Examples of these

activities include, but are not limited to:

(1) Behavioral research of populations

at-risk for suicide, and the (2)

development and evaluation of a suicide

surveillance system that includes

information collected from multiple

data sources.

B. Eligible Applicants

Applications may be submitted by

public and private nonprofit

organizations and by governments and

their agencies; that is, universities,

colleges, research institutions, hospitals,

other public and private nonprofit

organizations, State and local

governments or their bona fide agents,

including the District of Columbia, the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the

Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of

the Northern Mariana Islands, American

Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of

Micronesia, the Republic of the

Marshall Islands, and the Republic of

Palau, federally recognized Indian tribal

governments, Indian tribes, or Indian

tribal organizations.

To be eligible, applicants must

provide the following:

1. Acceptable documentation, at a

minimum, includes a letter from the

director of the agency authorizing access

to the records delineating what records/

data are available for use and by whom,

the time of availability of records and

the specific calendar years, the

availability of unique identifiers, how

the records/data can be used, etc.;

2. How the records/data are to be

linked, the existence of a unified

database, and existing infrastructure to

conduct the suicide prevention

research;

3. Evidence of existing staff and

resources to carry out the activities; and

4) evidence of existing partnerships

with national, state, and local suicide

prevention agencies that includes letters

from all agencies from the director of

the agency, documenting the nature of

the partnership, the length of the

relationship, what role and/or resources

provided, etc.

The documentation to fulfill the

eligibility requirement must appear

immediately following the face sheet of

the application. All documentation

must appear on agency letterhead.

Applications that fail to submit

evidence of the above will be

considered non-responsive and will be

returned without review.

Note: Title 2 of the United States Code,

chapter 26, section 1611 states that an

organization described in section 501(c)(4) of

the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that

engages in lobbying activities is not eligible

to receive Federal funds constituting an

award, grant, cooperative agreement,

contract, loan, or any other form.

C. Availability of Funds

Approximately $400,000 is available

in fiscal year (FY) 2001 to fund one

award. It is expected that the award will

begin on or about September 1, 2001,

and will be made for a 12-month budget

period within a project period of up to

three years. Funding estimates may

change.

Continuation awards within an

approved project period will be made

on the basis of satisfactory progress as

evidenced by required reports and the

availability of funds.

D. Programmatic Interest

Specific research activities of

particular interest to CDC are:

1. Evaluation of the benefits resulting

from the development of a unified

suicide surveillance system as described

above and an assessment of the barriers

encountered during the development

phase;

2. Identification of existing state and

regional suicide prevention efforts;

3. Determination of existing death

investigation protocols used by medical

examiners and coroners regarding

suicide; and the

4. Development of recommendations

for a standard protocol to aid in the

investigative process improvement of

these protocols.

E. Program Requirements

The following are applicant

requirements:

1. Demonstrate expertise in some form

of suicide behavior prevention research

as a core component of the SPRC (as

defined in the Section Background and

Definitions of the program

announcement included in the

application kit).

2. Provide a director (Principal

Investigator) who has specific authority

and responsibility to carry out the

project.

3. Provide a Program Coordinator/

Manager, with suicidal behavior

research expertise, who will be

responsible for day to day programmatic

and fiscal management, establishment

and maintenance of communication

between and among members of the

expert panel, national advisory

committee(s), community advisory

committee, and other organizations and

agencies, including CDC.

F. Cooperative Agreement Activities

In conducting activities to achieve the

purpose of this program, the recipient

will be responsible for the activities

under 1. (Recipient Activities), and CDC

will be responsible for the activities

listed under 2. (CDC Activities).

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1. Recipients Activities

a. Conduct epidemiologic research

regarding suicide and suicidal behavior.

Such research should provide

information about potentially

modifiable risk and protective factors

that can be used as a basis to develop

prevention programs or identify avenues

for intervention.

b. Collaborate with outside agencies

and other entities which will allow for

implementation of any proposed

intervention activities. At least one of

the agencies must be a national

organization that has suicide prevention

as its major objective and whose

members are actively engaged in suicide

prevention activities. Provide evidence

of established relationships,

demonstrated by letters of commitment,

with suicide prevention programs being

carried out in the State or region in

which the SPRC is located. Cooperation

with private-sector programs is

encouraged.

c. Collaborate with specialists or

experts in medicine, epidemiology,

behavioral and social sciences, and/or

public health as needed to complete the

plans of the SPRC. These are considered

the disciplines and fields for the SPRC.

d. Establish a community advisory

board composed of representatives from

public health, mental health, social

services, community-based

organizations and suicide survivors

(family members, friends, etc., who have

experienced the loss of a loved one due

to suicide) who have an interest in

suicide prevention.

e. Coordinate geographic efforts

within the state and region to be served

by the SPRC.

f. Facilitate and/or coordinate suicide

prevention efforts to address the

elimination of health disparities among

minority populations with

disproportionate burdens of adverse

health outcomes.

g. Publicize and disseminate the

findings.

2. CDC Activities

a. Assist in the development of a

research protocol for Institutional

Review Board (IRB) review. The CDC

IRB will review and approve the

protocol initially and on at least an

annual basis until the research is

completed.

b. Provide technical assistance, as

needed, to the SPRC.

c. Assist in the publicizing and

dissemination of the findings.

G. Application Content

Use the information in the Program

Requirements, Other Requirements, and

Evaluation Criteria sections to develop

the application content. Your

application will be evaluated on the

criteria listed, so it is important to

follow them in laying out your program

plan.

H. Submission and Deadline

Submit the original and five copies of

PHS–398 (OMB Number 0925–0001)

[(adhere to the instructions on the Errata

Instruction Sheet for PHS 398)]. Forms

are available at the following Internet

address: www.cdc.gov./od/pgo/

forminfo.htm or in the application kit.

On or before July 9, 2001, submit the

application to the Grants Management

Specialist identified in the ‘‘Where to

Obtain Additional Information’’ section

of this announcement.

Deadline: Applications shall be

considered as meeting the deadline if

they are either:

(a) Received on or before the deadline

date; or

(b) Sent on or before the deadline date

and received in time for submission to

the independent review group.

(Applicants must request a legibly dated

U.S. Postal Service postmark or obtain

a legibly dated receipt from a

commercial carrier or U.S. Postal

Service. Private metered postmarks shall

not be acceptable as proof of timely

mailing.)

Late Applications: Applications

which do not meet the criteria in (a) or

(b) above are considered late

applications, will not be considered,

and will be returned to the applicant.

I. Evaluation Criteria

Each application will be evaluated

individually against the following

criteria by an independent review group

appointed by CDC.

Applicants will be evaluated

according to the following criteria

(Maximum of 100 total points):

1. Core Faculty, Staff, and

Organizational Capacity (30 points)

a. Core faculty: Qualifications,

experience, and/or ability of core faculty

in conducting research relevant to

suicide prevention. Faculty history and

experience in receiving research support

from competitive sources of funding.

b. Staffing plan: Qualifications,

adequacy, appropriateness of personnel,

level of effort devoted to the SPRC, and

ability to accomplish the proposed

activities. The director must report to an

appropriate institutional official, e.g.,

dean of a school, vice president of a

university, or commissioner of health

and devote not less than 30 percent

effort solely to this project. The Project

Coordinator or Manager must be a fulltime equivalent (1FTE) who is

responsible for managing the day to day

activities of the SPRC and responsible

for providing coordination among and

between the national, state, and local

organizations, the expert panel, and the

community advisory board.

c. Organizational capacity: Existence

and availability of organizational

resources and support for achieving

research and prevention goals.

2. Organizational Collaboration (30

points)

a. The extent to which the applicant

describes the nature of the collaborative

relationships (joint activities and access

to the collaborative organization’s

membership for promoting prevention

activities).

b. The extent to which one of the

collaborating organizations is a national

organization that has suicide prevention

as its major objective and whose

members are actively engaged in suicide

prevention activities.

c. The extent to which the applicant

documents geographic coordination of

all suicide prevention efforts within the

state and region to be served by the

SPRC to include but not limited to

surveillance efforts, involvement of

experts and national organization and

others referenced in the program

requirements, inventory of evaluated

diverse suicide prevention programs

targeting a representative mixture of

target groups, the inclusion of and

linkage of disparate data sources, etc.

3. Research and Prevention Plan (40

points)

a. The extent to which the applicant

documents a high incidence of suicide

in the state and region to be served. The

extent to which the applicant

documents the public health impact of

suicide within the state and region to be

served by the SPRC.

b. The extent to which the applicant

has the capacity to develop a research

plan that identifies and is responsive to

needed research in the area of suicide

prevention.

c. The extent to which the applicant

documents plans to develop a model

self-directed violence surveillance

system that has the capacity to link

records between disparate data bases

either within a specific geographic area

(e.g., including the state and region). At

a minimum, the applicant should

document access to uniform hospital

discharge data bases, trauma registries,

and vital statistics.

d. The extent to which the applicant

documents the ability of the

surveillance system to identify

geographic areas with a high incidence

of attempted or completed suicides.

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1Eligibility for refugee social services is limited

to persons who meet all requirements of 45 CFR

400.43 (as amended by 65 FR 1540, March 22, 2000)

including: (1) Cuban and Haitian entrants under

section 501 of the Refugee Education Assistance Act

of 1980 (Pub. L. 96–422); (2) certain Amerasians

from Vietnam who are admitted to the U.S. as

immigrants under section 584 of the Foreign

Operations, Export Financing, and Related

Programs Appropriations Act, as included in the FY

1988 Continuing Resolution (Pub. L. 100–202); and

(3) certain Amerasians from Vietnam, including

Continued

e. The extent to which the system

have the capability to identify

demographic groups at high risk, e.g.,

racial/ethnic groups, age, economic

class, etc.

f. The extent to which the applicant

documents utility of a standard protocol

for follow-back studies to aid in the

investigative process to validate or

invalidate undetermined causes of

death. Specifically, can the data

collection and analysis enhance the

follow-back study process to address the

following issues: determine the manner

of death in equivocal or undetermined

deaths, establish the decedent’s intent to

die, and establish motivations for

suicide and pathways toward suicidal

death.

g. The extent to which the applicant

describes the distribution of suicidal

behavior/correlates in a state and region,

and plans to develop and pilot test

suicide questions for future use in state

level surveys.

h. The extent to which the applicant

can identify existing instate and interregion suicide prevention programs, in

existence for a minimum of five years

and have been evaluated, that target a

representative mixture of target groups,

specifically African-American males

and Native American/Alaska Natives,

and young adolescents and the elderly.

The inventory of existing prevention

programs, referenced above, should

represent a diversity of intervention

strategies and settings.

i. The extent to which the applicant

documents how specific activities

address minority populations with

disproportionate burdens of adverse

health outcomes.

j. The degree to which the applicant

will meet the CDC Policy requirements

regarding the inclusion of women,

ethnic, and racial groups in the

proposed research. This includes:

1. The proposed plan for the inclusion

of both sexes and racial and ethnic

minority populations appropriate

representation.

2. The proposed justification when

representation is limited or absent.

3. A statement as to whether the

design of the study is adequate to

measure differences when warranted.

4. A statement as to whether the plans

for recruitment and outreach for study

participants include the process of

establishing partnerships with

community(ies) and recognition of

mutual benefits.

4. Budget (not scored)

The extent to which the budget is

reasonable, clearly justified, and

consistent with stated objectives and

proposed activities. Soundness of the

proposed budget in terms of adequacy of

resources and their allocation.

5. Human Subjects (Not scored; however

an application can be disapproved if the

research risks are sufficiently serious

and protection against risks is so

inadequate as to make the entire

application unacceptable.) Does the

application adequately address the

requirements of Title 45 CFR 46 for the

protection of human subjects?

Yes l No l

J. Other Requirements

1. Technical Reporting Requirements

Provide CDC with original plus two

copies of

a. progress reports (semiannual);

b. financial status report, no more

than 90 days after the end of the budget

period;

c. final financial report and

performance report, no more than 90

days after the end of the project period.

Send all reports to the Grants

Management Specialist identified in the

‘‘Where to Obtain Additional

Information’’ section of this

announcement.

2. Additional Requirements

The following additional

requirements are applicable to this

program. For a complete description of

each see Attachment I of the

announcement.

AR–1 Human Subjects Requirements

AR–2 Requirements for Inclusion of

Women and Racial and Ethnic

Minorities in Research

AR–10 Smoke-Free Workplace

Requirements

AR–11 Healthy People 2010

AR–12 Lobbying Restrictions

AR–13 Prohibition of Use of CDC

Funds for Certain Gun Control

Activities

AR–21 Small Minority

AR–22 Research Integrity

K. Authority and Catalog of Federal

Domestic Assistance Number

This program is authorized under the

Public Health Service Act 301, 317, and

391–394A (42 U.S.C. section 241, 247b

and 280b–280b–3), as amended. The

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

number is 93.136.

L. Where to Obtain Additional

Information

This and other CDC announcements

can be found on the CDC homepage

Internet address—http://www.cdc.gov.

Click on ‘‘Funding’’ then ‘‘Grants and

Cooperative Agreements.’’

To receive additional written

information and to request an

application kit, call 1–888–GRANTS4

(1–888–472–6874). You will be asked to

leave your name and address and will

be instructed to identify the

Announcement number of interest.

If you have questions after reviewing

the contents of all the documents,

business management technical

assistance may be obtained from: Angie

Nation, Grants Management Specialist,

Grants Management Branch,

Procurement and Grants Office, Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention,

2920 Brandywine Road, Suite 3000,

Atlanta, GA 30341–4146, Telephone:

(770) 488–2719, E-mail address:

aen4@cdc.gov.

For program technical assistance,

contact: M. Joyce McCurdy, Deputy,

Etiology and Surveillance Branch,

National Center for Injury Prevention

and Control, Division of Violence

Prevention, Mailstop K60, 4770 Buford

Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341–3717,

Telephone number: (770) 488–4410,

Email address: jmm6@cdc.gov.

Dated: May 2, 2001.

John L. Williams,

Director, Procurement and Grants Office

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

(CDC).

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[Program Announcement No. CFDA 93.576]

ORR Standing Announcement for

Services to Recently Arrived

Refugees 1

AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement

(ORR), ACF, DHHS.

ACTION: Request for Applications for

projects to support services for recently

arrived refugees. This notice supersedes

the notice published in the Federal

Register on December 9, 1997 (62 FR

64856).

SUMMARY: This ORR standing

announcement invites submission of