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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services

Administration

Ryan White Title IV; Grants for

Coordinated HIV Services and Access

to Research for Children, Youth,

Women, and Families

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA), PHS.

ACTION: Notice of availability of funds.

SUMMARY: The Maternal and Child

Health Bureau (MCHB), HRSA,

announces that fiscal year (FY) 1995

funds are available for grants for

projects that develop and support the

provision of coordinated comprehensive

services and enhance access to clinical

research trials and other research

activities for children, youth, women

and families infected/affected by the

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

Projects will be funded to implement

innovative models of family-centered,

community-based coordinated care and

research for children, youth, women,

and families infected/affected by HIV, or

those at risk for developing infection.

Funds were appropriated for this

purpose under Section 2671 of the

Public Health Service Act [as enacted by

Title IV of the Ryan White

Comprehensive AIDS Resource

Emergency (CARE) Act of 1990, Public

Law 101–381 (42 U.S.C. 300ff–11 et

seq.)].

The PHS is committed to achieving

the health promotion and disease

prevention objectives of Healthy People

2000, a PHS national activity for setting

priority areas. Title IV directly

addresses the Healthy People 2000

objectives related to the priority area of

HIV infection. Potential applicants may

obtain a copy of Healthy People 2000

(Full Report; Stock Number 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, D.C. 20402–9325

(telephone 202 783–3238).

The PHS strongly encourages all grant

recipients to provide a smoke-free

workplace and promote the non-use of

all tobacco products. This is consistent

with the PHS mission to protect and

advance the physical and mental health

of the American people.

ADDRESSES: Grant applications for the

HIV Program for Children, Youth,

Women, and Families (PHS form #5161–

1, approved under OMB #0937–0189)

must be obtained from and submitted to:

Chief, Grants Management Branch,

Office of Program Support, Maternal

and Child Health Bureau, Health

Resources and Services Administration,

Room 18–12, Parklawn Building, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland

20857, (301) 443–1440.

DATES: The application deadline date is

April 7, 1995. Competing applications

will be considered to be on time if they

are:

(1) Received on or before the deadline

date, or

(2) Postmarked on or before the

deadline date and received in time for

orderly processing.

As proof of timely mailing, applicants

should obtain a legibly dated receipt

from the commercial carrier or the U.S.

Postal Service; private metered

postmarks will not be accepted as proof

of timely mailing.

Late applications not accepted for

processing or those sent to an address

other than specified in the ADDRESSES

section will be returned to the

applicant.

Applicants will be notified of grant

awards in July 1995. The starting dates

for projects will be specified in the

program guidance.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Additional information regarding

technical and program issues may be

obtained from: Beth D. Roy, Division of

Services for Children with Special

Health Needs, Maternal and Child

Health Bureau, Health Resources and

Services Administration, Room 18A–19,

Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, Maryland 20857, telephone

(301) 443–9051. Requests for

information concerning business

management issues should be directed

to: Dorothy Kelley, Acting Grants

Management Officer (GMO), Maternal

and Child Health Bureau, at the address

specified in the ADDRESSES section.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Program Background and Objectives

The Pediatric AIDS Program was

initiated in 1988. The program grew

from 13 projects funded at $4.4 million

to a total of 48 projects funded at $22

million in 1994. Since 1988, the

program has evolved from a primary

focus on the coordination of services for

the management and care of infected

children and their families to also

address the broader prevention and care

needs of youth and women infected/

affected by HIV. In FY 1994, Congress

funded the Pediatric AIDS Program

under section 2671 of the Public Health

Service Act (Title IV of the Ryan White

Comprehensive AIDS Resource

Emergency (CARE) Act of 1990, Public

Law 101–381). As a result of

authorization under Title IV, the focus

of the program was expanded to include

the development of innovative models

linking systems of comprehensive

primary/community-based medical and

social services with the National

Institutes of Health (NIH) and other

clinical research trials. Funds

authorized under Title IV may be used

to develop and support the provision of

coordinated comprehensive services

and enhance access to clinical research

trials and other research activities, for

children, youth, women, and families

infected/affected by HIV.

Last year, published results from a

NIH clinical trial (ACTG 076)

demonstrated the potential for reducing

perinatal transmission by two-thirds

when pregnant HIV-infected women

were given AZT during pregnancy and

at delivery, and the infants received

AZT in the first weeks of life. In FY
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1995 in response to these findings, the

program will further emphasize

prevention and early intervention for

women and the integration of HIV

prevention and treatment into broader

systems of primary care, including care

systems supported under the Maternal

and Child Health (MCH) Services Block

Grant.

Purpose

The purpose of Title IV funding is to

improve and expand the coordination of

a system of comprehensive care for

children, youth, women, and families

who are infected/affected by HIV and to

link comprehensive care systems with

clinical research and other research

activities. Funds will be used to

demonstrate potentially replicable

models 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 barriers to

comprehensive care experienced by

children, youth, women, and families

infected/affected by HIV.

While children, youth, and women

represent the most recently impacted

and rapidly growing population groups

affected by HIV, they also represent the

groups facing the greatest barriers in

accessing care and research. These

groups are disproportionately members

of communities of color with limited

economic resources. Given these

realities, children, youth, and women

affected by HIV are confronted with a

complex array of economic and social

issues that increase their need for

comprehensive services and increase

the cost and intensity of care. Existing

systems of care are often not prepared

to respond to these needs and require

targeted resources and interventions in

order to develop infrastructures and

provider capacities that would allow

them to provide quality care to these

populations.

Given these unmet needs, activities

under these grants should address the

following goals:

—Foster the development and support

of comprehensive care infrastructures,

including primary care, that increase

access to culturally competent,

family-centered, community-based,

coordinated care.

—Emphasize prevention within the

comprehensive care system in order

to reduce the spread of the HIV

infection to vulnerable populations.

—Link comprehensive systems of care

with HIV/AIDS clinical research trials

and other research activities, resulting

in increased access for children,

youth, women, and their families.

Funding Category

Applications which do not fall within

this category will not be considered for

funding.

The HIV Program for Children, Youth,

Women, and Families develops and

supports innovative models that

coordinate systems of comprehensive

HIV care and that foster collaboration

between clinical research institutions

and family-centered primary/

community-based medical and social

service programs for children, youth,

women and their families. Projects will

focus on local capacity-building, making

maximum use of all available public

and private resources for reaching and

providing health care and supportive

services to the target population.

Projects should strengthen existing

comprehensive care infrastructures by:

(1) broadening the coalition of agencies,

providers, community organizations and

families which participate in the

identification of needs, services

planning, the coordination and delivery

of services, and the financing of services

for HIV affected populations; and (2)

identifying and addressing systemic

issues that affect provider collaboration

and impact the provision of coordinated

high quality comprehensive care.

Preference for funding in this category

will be given to projects which

demonstrate an established model of a

comprehensive and coordinated system

of care that is culturally competent,

family-centered, and community-based.

This means that these projects will be

funded ahead of new groups of

applications in this category.

Availability of Funds

Approximately $4.8 million will be

available for competitive grants. It is

anticipated that a total of 13 grants will

be awarded. Award amounts may range

from $225,000 to $1 million, depending

on need and scope of the project. Project

periods for these grants will be three

years.

Special Concerns

The HIV Program for Children, Youth,

Women, and Families grantees

supported by HRSA should coordinate

their projects with other Federal, State,

and local programs concerned with HIV

and/or serving the target population of

children, youth, women and families

affected by or at risk for HIV,

particularly: Title V Maternal and Child

Health programs; Ryan White Titles I, II

and III programs; providers funded by

the Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Services Administration; the Health

Resources and Services Administration,

the Centers for Disease Control

prevention efforts; and clinical trials

funded by NIH or other sources.

Recognizing the growing impact of

HIV on women and communities of

color, MCHB places special emphasis on

improving service delivery to women,

children and youth from communities

with limited access to comprehensive

care. Furthermore, in order to assure

access and cultural competence, it is

expected that projects will involve

individuals from the populations to be

served in the planning and

implementation of the project. The

Bureau’s intent is to ensure that project

interventions are responsive to the

cultural and linguistic needs of special

populations, that services are accessible

to consumers, and that the broadest

possible representation of culturally

distinct and historically

underrepresented groups is supported

through programs and projects

sponsored by the MCHB.

Applications will be reviewed with

particular attention to inclusion of

women and persons from culturally

distinct populations. Funding will be

provided to those which, in the

Department’s view, best meet the

statutory purposes of the HIV Program

for Children, Youth, Women, and

Families and address achievement of

the Healthy People 2000 objectives

related to HIV infection.

Review Criteria

Applications for grants will be

reviewed and rated by objective review

panels according to the following

criteria:

—Adequacy of needs assessment

documenting:

(1) The impact of HIV on children,

youth, women, and families in the

service area;

(2) Key socio-demographic factors of

the Title IV targeted populations;

(3) Barriers to care experienced by the

targeted populations;

(4) Strengths and weaknesses of the

existing care systems (MCH, primary

care, and HIV care), and the impact of

these weaknesses on the provision of

comprehensive HIV care;

(5) The capacity of local HIV

programs to provide comprehensive

care to the targeted populations; and

(6) Collaboration with existing local,

State, or Federal efforts to document the

HIV needs of the service area.

—Adequacy of efforts to incorporate

within governing bodies, policy, and

program committees the substantive

involvement of persons receiving

services; adequacy of efforts to obtain

input and involve consumers in

program needs assessments, and the

definition of program policy.
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—Ability to demonstrate the capacity to

coordinate and support a

comprehensive system of familycentered, community-based,

coordinated care by documenting:

(1) service linkages to agencies/

organizations providing primary care,

HIV care, MCH programs, and tertiary

care;

(2) the ability to establish linkages

with planning bodies and community

coalitions involved in the provision of

HIV services and women’s health care

services within the proposed catchment

area (e.g., State Title V agencies, other

Ryan White Programs, and Healthy Start

agencies);

(3) expertise in providing family

centered, coordinated care and the

ability to support other providers in the

provision of such care; and

(4) the organizational structure and

staffing necessary to implement

proposed goals and objectives.

—Adequacy of efforts to identify and

address the needs unique to the

racial/ethnic minority populations

infected/affected with HIV within the

proposed project area, by

documenting:

(1) the social and cultural issues

unique to the racial/ethnic minority

populations infected/affected with HIV

within the proposed project area, that

impact outreach, prevention, and the

receipt of care;

(2) the existing provider capacity for

conducting outreach and prevention

activities, and to provide services in a

manner that acknowledges the social

and cultural issues that impact the

provision and receipt of care to these

populations;

(3) a plan to conduct outreach and

prevention and provide HIV services

that: enhances racial/ethnic minority

access to care; acknowledges the social

and cultural issues that impact the

provision of care; and supports the

receipt of ongoing care.

—Adequacy of efforts to develop

linkages which facilitate access to

clinical trials and other research

activities.

—Consistency of the plan with the goals

of the Title IV program and the extent

to which the plan addresses issues

identified in the needs assessment;

clearly defined, time framed goals and

objectives for the grant period.

—Adequacy of the strategy and

proposed steps to utilize and report

data and evaluation for program

planning and management, as well as

for measuring the efficacy and

effectiveness of the program.

—Adequacy of the proposed budget;

budget justification based on project

methodology and required resources.

—The extent to which the application is

responsive to the special concerns

and program priorities specified in

this notice.

—Demonstration of an organized,

comprehensive system of care, and for

competing renewal applicants,

progress in meeting the goals of the

current project period will be

assessed.

Eligible Applicants

Grants may be awarded to public or

nonprofit private entities that provide or

arrange for primary health care. Eligible

entities may include, but are not limited

to, State or local health departments,

university medical centers, public or

nonprofit private hospitals, community

health centers (as defined in section

330(a) of the Act), hemophilia treatment

centers, drug abuse treatment agencies,

tribal health programs, school based

clinics and institutions of higher

education.

Allowable Costs

The MCHB may support reasonable

and necessary costs of HIV Project

grants within the scope of approved

projects. Allowable costs may include

salaries, equipment and supplies, travel,

contractual, consultants, and others, as

well as indirect costs. The MCHB

adheres to administrative standards

reflected in the Code of Federal

Regulation 45 CFR Part 92 and 45 CFR

Part 74. All other sources of funding to

support this project must be accurately

reflected in the applicant’s budget.

Reporting Requirements

A successful applicant under this

notice will submit reports in accordance

with the provisions of the general

regulations which apply under 45 CFR

Part 74, Subpart J, Monitoring and

Reporting of Program Performance, with

the exception of State and local

governments to which 45 CFR Part 92,

Subpart C reporting requirements will

apply. Financial reporting will be

required in accordance with 45 CFR Part

74, Subpart H, with the exception of

State and local governments, to which

45 CFR Part 92.20 will apply.

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 (SF 5161).

(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 HIV Program for Children, Youth,

Women, and Families has been

determined to be a program which is

subject to the provisions of Executive

Order 12372 concerning

intergovernmental review of Federal

programs by appropriate health

planning agencies, as implemented by

45 CFR part 100. Executive Order 12372

allows States the option of setting up a

system for reviewing applications from

within their States for assistance under

certain Federal programs. The

application packages to be made

available under this notice (Form PHS

5161–1 with revised face sheet HHS

Form 424 and with Program Narrative

and Checklist approved under OMB

0937–0189) will contain a listing of

States which have chosen to set up such

a review system and will provide a

single point of contact (SPOC) in the

States for review. Applicants (other than

federally-recognized Indian tribal

governments) should contact their State

SPOCs as early as possible to alert them

to the prospective applications and

receive any necessary instructions on

the State process. For proposed projects

serving more than one State, the

applicant is advised to contact the SPOC

of each affected State. The due date for

State process recommendations is 60

days after the application deadline for

new and competing awards. The

granting agency does not guarantee to

‘‘accommodate or explain’’ State process

recommendations it receives after that

date. (See Part 148, Intergovernmental

Review of PHS Programs under

Executive Order 12372 and 45 CFR Part
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100 for a description of the review

process and requirements.)

(The OMB Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance number for the HIV Program for

Children, Youth, Women, and Families is

93.153.)

Dated: January 5, 1995.

Ciro V. Sumaya,

Administrator.

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National Institutes of Health

National Center for Human Genome

Research; Amended Notice of Meeting

Notice is hereby given of a change in

the time of open portion of the meeting

January 30 and 31, 1995, of the National

Advisory Council for Human Genome

Research, National Center for Human

Genome Research, which was published

in the Federal Register on December 22,

1994, 59 FR 66034.

The open portion of the meeting was

to have been from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on

Monday, January 30, 1995. The open

portion will now be held at 1:00 to 5:00

p.m.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program No. 93.172, Human Genome

Research.)

Dated: January 4, 1995.

Susan K. Feldman,

Committee Management Officer, NIH.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Office of Community Planning and

Development

[Docket No. N–95–3759; FR–3662–N–02]

Announcement of Funding Awards for

the John Heinz Neighborhood

Development Program FY 1994

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Community Planning and

Development, HUD.

ACTION: Announcement of funding

awards.

SUMMARY: In accordance with section

102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of

Housing and Urban Development

Reform Act of 1989, this announcement

notifies the public of funding decisions

made by the Department in a

competition for funding under the

NOFA for the John Heinz Neighborhood

Development Program (NDP). The

announcement contains the names and

addresses of the competition winners

and the amount of the awards.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Gene Hix, Office of Community

Planning and Development, Department

of Housing and Urban Development,

451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 7218,

Washington, DC 20410. Telephone

Number (202) 708–2186; TDD Number:

(202) 708–2565. (These are not toll-free

numbers.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The John

Heinz Neighborhood Development

Program is authorized by section 123 of

the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery

Act of 1983 (42 U.S.C. 5318 note). For

Fiscal Year 1994, a total of $5 million

was appropriated for this program under

the Department of Veterans Affairs and

Housing and Urban Development and

Independent Agencies Appropriations

Act of 1994 (Pub. L. 103–124, approved

October 18, 1993).

On May 13, 1994 (59 FR 25274), HUD

published a NOFA for the John Heinz

Neighborhood Development Program.

The May 13, 1994 NOFA announced the

availability of $4.75 million in funding

for eligible neighborhood development

organizations. The NOFA stated that the

purpose of the program is to support

eligible neighborhood development

activities using cooperative efforts and

monetary contributions from local

sources. The Federal funds are incentive

funds to promote the development of

this concept and encourage

neighborhood organizations to become

more self-sufficient in their

development activities. Funds would be

used to plan and carry out specific

projects which create permanent jobs in

the neighborhood; establish or expand

businesses; develop new housing,

rehabilitate existing housing or manage

housing stock; develop essential

services; or provide neighborhood

improvement efforts.

In accordance with section

102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of

Housing and Urban Development

Reform Act of 1989, the Department is

publishing the names and addresses of

the nonprofit organizations which

received funding under this NOFA, and

the amount of funds awarded to each.

This information is provided in

Appendix A to this document.

Dated: December 12, 1994.

Andrew Cuomo,

Assistant Secretary for Community Planning

and Development.

Appendix A

The following community-based

organizations were awarded NDP grants:

JOHN HEINZ NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (NDP), NOVEMBER 22, 1994

Organization Amount

Center City Coalition Inc., Hartford, CT ................................. $75,000

Washington Park Assn.,

Bridgeport, CT ....................... 75,000

Neighborhood Development

Corp. Of Jam, Jamaica Plain,

MA ......................................... 75,000

Urban Edge Housing Corp., Jamaica Plain, MA .................... 75,000

B.C.H. of Trenton, Inc., Trenton, NJ ................................... 75,000

Mt. Holly 2000, Inc., Mount

Holly, NJ ................................ 75,000

Asian Americans For Equality,

New York, NY ....................... 75,000

Carroll Gardens Assn. Inc.,

Brooklyn, NY ......................... 75,000

Community Assn. Progressive

Dominican, New York, NY .... 75,000

Cypress Hill Local Development Corp., Brooklyn, NY ..... 37,400

Good Old Lower East Side Inc.,

New York, NY ....................... 56,667

Harlem Restoration Project,

New York, NY ....................... 75,000

Manhattan Neighborhood Renaissance Ld, New York, NY .. 75,000

Mount Hope Housing Co.,

Bronx, NY .............................. 50,000

Parkside Community Assn.,

Buffalo, NY ............................ 38,930

Marble Hill Community Development Cor, Baltimore, MD .. 75,000

Frankford Group Ministries

CDC, Philadelphia, PA .......... 75,000

Garfield Jubilee Assn., Pittsburgh, PA .............................. 75,000

Ludlow Community Association,

Philadelphia, PA .................... 75,000

Monessen Community Development Corp., Monessen, PA 75,000

Peoples Emergency Center

CDC, Philadelphia, PA .......... 75,000

All Citizens Taking Initiatives

On Need, Suffolk, VA ........... 75,000

Highland Park Restoration &

Preservat, Richmond, VA ..... 75,000

Inner City Community Task

Force, Lynchburg, VA ........... 75,000

Northwest Neighborhood

Enviro, Roanoke, VA ............ 75,000

Your Neighbors, Richmond, VA 60,000

Vine City Housing Ministry,

Inc., Atlanta, GA .................... 50,000

Belmont Community Development Corp., Charlotte, NC .... 75,000

Grier Heights Economics Foundation, Charlotte, NC ............ 75,000

Gower Neighborhood Assn.

Inc., Greenville, SC ............... 75,000

Greenville Urban League Community Dev, Greenville, SC .. 75,000

Memphis Area Neighborhood

Development, Memphis, TN . 75,000

Bethel New Life Inc., Chicago,

IL ........................................... 70,000

Bickerdike Redevelopment

Corp., Chicago, IL ................. 74,967