The Cancer Screening and Early Detection is seeking applications for eligible projects up to 5 years in duration that will deliver evidence-based clinical services in cancer screening for breast, cervical, colorectal, liver, and lung cancers.
Donor Name: Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas
State: Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/30/2023
Size of the Grant: $1.5 million
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
This award mechanism seeks to support the delivery of evidence-based clinical services to screen for cancer and pre-cancer in underserved populations who do not have adequate access to cancer early detection interventions and health care, bringing together networks of public health and community partners to carry out programs tailored for their communities. Projects should identify cancers that cause the most burden in the community, have nationally recommended screening methods, and use evidence-based methods to screen for these cancers.
Goals
The ultimate goals of the CPRIT Prevention Program are to reduce overall cancer incidence and mortality and to improve the lives of individuals who have survived or are living with cancer. The ability to reduce cancer death rates depends in part on the application of currently available evidence-based technologies and strategies. CPRIT fosters the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of cancer in Texas by providing financial support for a wide variety of evidence based risk reduction, early detection, and survivorship interventions.
Project Objectives
CPRIT seeks to fund projects that will do the following:
- Deliver comprehensive projects comprising all of the following: public and/or professional education, outreach, delivery of clinical services, follow-up navigation to diagnosis and into cancer treatment, and system and/or policy improvements
- Offer effective and efficient systems of delivery of screening services based on the existing body of knowledge about and evidence in ways that far exceed current performance in a given service area
- Implement policy changes and/or system improvements that are sustainable over time (eg, decrease wait times between positive screen and diagnostic tests and treatment through improved navigation, reminder systems)
- Provide tailored, culturally appropriate outreach and accurate information on early detection and prevention to the public and health care professionals that results in a health impact that can be measured.
Prevention Program Priorities
Legislation from the 83rd Texas Legislature requires that CPRIT’s Oversight Committee establish program priorities on an annual basis. The priorities are intended to provide transparency in how the Oversight Committee directs the orientation of the agency’s funding portfolio. The Prevention Program’s principles and priorities will also guide CPRIT staff and the Prevention Review Council (PRC) on the development and issuance of program-specific Requests for Applications (RFAs) and the evaluation of applications submitted in response to those RFAs.
- Established Principles:
- Fund evidence-based interventions and their dissemination
- Support the prevention continuum of primary, secondary, and tertiary (includes survivorship) prevention interventions
- CPRIT’s Cross-Program Priorities:
- Prevention Program Priorities
- Prioritize populations disproportionately affected by cancer incidence, mortality, or cancer risk prevalence
- Prioritize geographic areas of the state disproportionately affected by cancer incidence, mortality, or cancer risk prevalence
- Prioritize populations with obstacles to cancer prevention, detection, diagnostic testing, treatment, and survivorship services
- Assess CPRIT Prevention Program to identify best practices, use as a quality improvement tool, and guide future program direction.
Funding Information
The total amount of funding that applicants may request is dependent on the project type. Use the table below to determine the maximum amount of funding and the maximum number of years that may be requested.
- New Project
- Maximum Amount of Total Funding: $1.5 million
- Maximum Duration: 3 years
- Initial Expansion Project
- Maximum Amount of Total Funding: $2 million
- Maximum Duration: 3 years
- Maintenance Expansion Project
- Maximum Amount of Total Funding: $2.5 million
- Maximum Duration: 5 years
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be a Texas-based entity, such as a community-based organization, health institution, government organization, public or private company, college or university, or academic health institution
- The applicant is eligible solely for the grant mechanism specified by the RFA under which the grant application was submitted. The designated PD will be responsible for the overall performance of the funded project. The PD must have relevant education and management experience and must reside in Texas during the project performance time
- The evaluation of the project must be headed by a professional who has demonstrated expertise in the field and who resides in Texas during the time that the project is conducted
- The applicant may submit more than 1 application, but each application must be for distinctly different services without overlap in the services provided. Applicants who do not meet this criterion will have all applications administratively withdrawn without peer review
- If an organization has a current CPRIT grant that is the same or similar to the prevention intervention being proposed, the applicant must explain how the projects are non-duplicative or complementary. Duplicative applications will be administratively withdrawn
- If the applicant or a partner is an existing Department of State Health Services contractor, CPRIT funds may not be used as a match, and the application must explain how this grant complements or leverages existing state and federal funds
- Collaborations are permitted and encouraged, and collaborators may or may not reside in Texas. However, collaborators who do not reside in Texas are not eligible to receive CPRIT funds. Subcontracting and collaborating organizations may include public, not for-profit, and for-profit entities. Such entities may be located outside of the State of Texas, but non-Texas-based organizations are not eligible to receive CPRIT funds
- An applicant is not eligible to receive a CPRIT grant award if the applicant PD, any Senior member or key personnel listed on the grant application, or any officer or director of the grant applicant’s organization or institution is related to a CPRIT Oversight Committee member
- An applicant organization is eligible to receive a grant award only if the applicant Certifies that the applicant organization, including the PD, any senior member or key personnel listed on the grant application, or any officer or director of the grant applicant’s organization (or any person related to 1 or more of these individuals within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity), has not made and will not make a contribution to CPRIT or to any foundation created to benefit CPRIT
- The applicant must report whether the applicant organization, the PD, or other individuals who contribute to the execution of the proposed project in a substantive, measurable way, (whether slated to receive salary or compensation under the grant award or not), are currently ineligible to receive federal grant funds because of scientific misconduct or fraud or have had a grant terminated for cause within 5 years prior to the submission date of the grant application
- CPRIT grants will be awarded by contract to successful applicants. CPRIT grants are funded on a reimbursement-only basis. Certain contractual requirements are mandated by Texas law or by administrative rules. Although applicants need not demonstrate the ability to comply with these contractual requirements at the time the application is submitted, applicants should make themselves aware of these standards before submitting a grant application
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