Affordable Care Act - Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Expansion Grants
The purpose of this announcement is to solicit applications for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Competitive Expansion Grant program.
Expansion Grants recognize states and jurisdictions that have made significant progress towards implementing a high-quality home visiting program as part of a comprehensive, high-quality early childhood system and are ready and able to take effective programs to scale.
1 Grantees will use the funds to expand the scale and/or scope of evidence-based home visiting programs through increased enrollment and retention of families served.
Additionally, this funding opportunity will continue the programs emphasis on rigorous research by grounding the proposed work in relevant empirical literature and by including requirements to evaluate work proposed under this grant.
1 The intention here is to expand existing home visiting programs which have proven to be effective, to a larger proportion of eligible families or communities.
2 Social Security Act, Title V, Section 511(d) (4).
In Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, approximately $68,328,000 will be available to support 10 12 competitive Expansion Grants to eligible states and jurisdictions under the MIECHV program.
Successful applicants will be awarded FY 2013 competitive Expansion Grant funds, in addition to the FY2013 MIECHV formula based funds.
Priority for Serving High-Risk Populations and Programmatic Areas of Emphasis As directed in the legislation, 2successful applicants will give priority to providing services to the following populations:
a) Eligible families who reside in communities in need of such services, as identified in the statewide needs assessment required under subsection (b)(1)(A).
b) Low-income eligible families.
c) Eligible families who are pregnant women who have not attained age 2 1. d) Eligible families that have a history of child abuse or neglect or have had interactions with child welfare services.
e) Eligible families that have a history of substance abuse or need substance abuse treatment.
f) Eligible families that have users of tobacco products in the home.
g) Eligible families that are or have children with low student achievement.
h) Eligible families with children with developmental delays or disabilities.
i) Eligible families who, or that include individuals who, are serving or formerly served in the Armed Forces, including such families that have members of the Armed Forces who have had multiple deployments outside of the United States." In addition, the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) have identified the following programmatic areas of emphasis.
Applicants may propose to address one or more of these areas in response to this funding opportunity announcement:
Emphasis 1:
Improvements in maternal, child, and family health HRSA-13-215 ii Emphasis 2:
Effective implementation and expansion of evidence-based home visiting programs or systems, with fidelity to the evidence-based model selected Emphasis 3:
Development of statewide or multi-state home visiting programs Emphasis 4:
Development of comprehensive early childhood systems that span the prenatal-through-age-eight continuum Emphasis 5:
Outreach to high-risk and hard-to-engage populations Emphasis 6:
Development of a family-centered approach to home visiting Emphasis 7:
Outreach to families in rural or frontier areas Emphasis 8:
The development of fiscal leveraging strategies to enhance program sustainability Note:
Fidelity is defined as a grantees adherence to model developer requirements for implementation.
These requirements include all aspects of initiating and implementing a home visiting model, including, but not limited to:
recruiting and retaining clients, providing initial and ongoing training, supervision, and professional development for staff, establishing a management information system to track data related to fidelity and services, and establishing an integrated resource and referral network to support client needs.
For a more detailed description of each area of emphasis, please see Appendix A:
MIECHV Programmatic Emphasis Areas.
Expansion Grants recognize states and jurisdictions that have made significant progress towards implementing a high-quality home visiting program as part of a comprehensive, high-quality early childhood system and are ready and able to take effective programs to scale.
1 Grantees will use the funds to expand the scale and/or scope of evidence-based home visiting programs through increased enrollment and retention of families served.
Additionally, this funding opportunity will continue the programs emphasis on rigorous research by grounding the proposed work in relevant empirical literature and by including requirements to evaluate work proposed under this grant.
1 The intention here is to expand existing home visiting programs which have proven to be effective, to a larger proportion of eligible families or communities.
2 Social Security Act, Title V, Section 511(d) (4).
In Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, approximately $68,328,000 will be available to support 10 12 competitive Expansion Grants to eligible states and jurisdictions under the MIECHV program.
Successful applicants will be awarded FY 2013 competitive Expansion Grant funds, in addition to the FY2013 MIECHV formula based funds.
Priority for Serving High-Risk Populations and Programmatic Areas of Emphasis As directed in the legislation, 2successful applicants will give priority to providing services to the following populations:
a) Eligible families who reside in communities in need of such services, as identified in the statewide needs assessment required under subsection (b)(1)(A).
b) Low-income eligible families.
c) Eligible families who are pregnant women who have not attained age 2 1. d) Eligible families that have a history of child abuse or neglect or have had interactions with child welfare services.
e) Eligible families that have a history of substance abuse or need substance abuse treatment.
f) Eligible families that have users of tobacco products in the home.
g) Eligible families that are or have children with low student achievement.
h) Eligible families with children with developmental delays or disabilities.
i) Eligible families who, or that include individuals who, are serving or formerly served in the Armed Forces, including such families that have members of the Armed Forces who have had multiple deployments outside of the United States." In addition, the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) have identified the following programmatic areas of emphasis.
Applicants may propose to address one or more of these areas in response to this funding opportunity announcement:
Emphasis 1:
Improvements in maternal, child, and family health HRSA-13-215 ii Emphasis 2:
Effective implementation and expansion of evidence-based home visiting programs or systems, with fidelity to the evidence-based model selected Emphasis 3:
Development of statewide or multi-state home visiting programs Emphasis 4:
Development of comprehensive early childhood systems that span the prenatal-through-age-eight continuum Emphasis 5:
Outreach to high-risk and hard-to-engage populations Emphasis 6:
Development of a family-centered approach to home visiting Emphasis 7:
Outreach to families in rural or frontier areas Emphasis 8:
The development of fiscal leveraging strategies to enhance program sustainability Note:
Fidelity is defined as a grantees adherence to model developer requirements for implementation.
These requirements include all aspects of initiating and implementing a home visiting model, including, but not limited to:
recruiting and retaining clients, providing initial and ongoing training, supervision, and professional development for staff, establishing a management information system to track data related to fidelity and services, and establishing an integrated resource and referral network to support client needs.
For a more detailed description of each area of emphasis, please see Appendix A:
MIECHV Programmatic Emphasis Areas.
Related Programs
Affordable Care Act (ACA) Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program
Department of Health and Human Services
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Office: Health Resources and Services Administration
Estimated Funding: Not Available
Office: Health Resources and Services Administration
Estimated Funding: Not Available
Relevant Nonprofit Program Categories
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=2fe43159-7a0c-431f-95c3-6e3ba034a66d
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Eligibility is limited to those states and territories that received a competitive Development grant in FY11 or have not yet received a competitive MIECHV grant.
Therefore, the following MIECHV grantees are eligible to apply under this announcement: Alaba
Full Opportunity Web Address:
https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=2fe43159-7a0c-431f-95c3-6e3ba034a66d
Contact:
CallCenter@HRSA.GOVCallCenter@HRSA.GOV
Agency Email Description:
Contact HRSA Call Center at 877-Go4-HRSA/877-464-4772 or email CallCenter@HRSA.GOV
Agency Email:
CallCenter@HRSA.GOV
Date Posted:
2013-05-31
Application Due Date:
2013-07-01
Archive Date:
2013-08-30
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